Art Sinsabaugh

 Long story.  I wanted to post this in my comments to Alan but blogger will not let me.  You will find more info if you look at Alan's post.  

Alan Summer 8

 

Took some suggestions to make this chimney sketch better. Doesn’t make up for the bad perspective on the bricks. 

Addition to my rural sketchbook of grain elevators down by Kankakee. 5X10 on hot press. 

Don’t like this at all. The basic structure is ok but the colors are all wrong. Because it’s on canvas, the paint will bleed so I’ll have to take special care to change the colors. I also need to fix the reflections and to fortify the photographers on that spit of land photographing the moon. 11 X 14 on canvas board. 

Here’s a little trading card version on Yupo that is more like what I was looking for. 

Sara Redone

 I may still tweak this. Choosing grey for shadow under face not good idea….the bearded lady syndrome. So much better than the first overworked one. She’s at that moment …facing the blank page. Happy to have painted this interesting group. 

seduced by indigo

 So I got to thinking that I love my new Q burnt colors, how could I better implement them?  Which led me to thinking about Vuillard and his dense coloration, and then I remembered I had painted from a photo a couple years ago.  

 

It hadn't turned out well, but now I thought with my new colors and new point of view I could improve on it.

Where to start?  The flowers of course, how could I render them in some unique way?

Well clearly this was not a way, but then Sara passed by and suggested that a better way was to paint the greenery that surrounded the flower first, and damn, that sounded like a good idea.

I fiddled with that and I think I was making progress but then I put down some indigo to the right and left of it.  Oh Indigo, the crackling granulation, the hard edges and the soft valleys, the blue of the dawn shading into the dark of night.  How could I ever not use you?

So this is what I ended up on small paper and I think I will do more on big paper.  What can I do when I am in love indigo?

July 27 — Elaine O.

Almost there! I went for the dark background and I like it. Now, I just have to finish her face, add some final tweaks and I'll be done. 

14" x 11"

Class Photo — Summer 2024

We're heading into summer vacation. Aren't we a lovely and talented bunch?

Summer scenes….

 

I liked this neighborhood scene so much that I did another one.

This almost qualifies as an alley scene. I really enjoyed painting both of these. It’s like I rediscovered what I like about watercolor.

Dark and Stormy 3 done

 Well you know.  It is very loosely based on the windows across the street.  Spent a long time cropping and photoshopping the photo till I got it just right, and then carefully with yardstick and rulers transferred some lines mostly just the horizontal bands, glanced at the photo but maybe ten minutes into painting I set the photo aside and never looked at it again.  

What I am interested in is shapes and colors and mainly the interactions of paints of differing colors, staining, granulating, and that peculiar thing with edges.  It's just meant to be a shiny bauble.

There was a vaguely catlike shape at the bottom of the painting and all it needed was ears to become a cat and I could not resist.  

Alan Summer 7

 I spent the week house painting ( a real house with latex enamel and stain ) so I didn’t get much watercolor painting done but I did finish the chimney. I thought some might like to see the reference photo to show what I saw. Inspiration can come from strange places. 

And here’s my sketch as the final one from my Chicago alley sketchbook. The brickwork sucks but I would do better next time.  8 X 6 on hot press. 

 

I was cruising through Southern Illinois a few weeks ago. I took some back roads so I could pull over and take some pictures. So I got pics of grain elevators that I was going to use in a rural sketchbook and lo and behold, I see Cris painting grain elevators of his own. But here it is anyway. 5 X 5 on hot press.

Chappy

 

From a FB post.  Had a lot of fun with the background. The photo inspired the colors.