Alan Spring 2026-1

 Still have more skaters to do. On 8 1/2 X 12 Yupo it’s more like what I was going for even with some logic errors. More to do sometime. 

  

Still working on my little exercises on 140# cold press. 

January sunset. 

Chair with pillows and blankets. 

March 21, 2026 — Elaine O.

So close! I just have a few tiny tweaks left—oh, and I still have to resolve that whole lower right corner. I think this needs a person waiting for the train. Next week for sure!

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More hills

July

November

Hard to tell

March 14, 2026 — Elaine O.

I know it's a little difficult to see what's going on yet, but it's a train station in Paris. It's pretty minimal in color but I'm really drawn to the perspective lines of the tracks, platform and tiles. 

14" x 10"

Falling down a hill

Mostly working on the blue in the sky on this one, but I like the the way the hill stood up for itself.

 This guy is going to have to step out of the shadow of his big brother and I may just have a way to help him out.

Life’s a beach….

 

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I started painting in all beach activity and stuff, and then realized there was no way I could finish that….so I took most of it out. I think I’m going to paint it again, with just them. 

Here they are again. I painted this once before and was not successful and again, in the top painting, I’m not too successful: it’s too dark and blotchy, so maybe the third time is the charm. At least it’s a better start. I don’t know why I’m drawn to this image,it’s not particularly good, but there’s something that’s interesting to me. And there’s kind that weird light you get at the beach when it’s cloudy. 

O’Keefe

 Did not really get her but really love the structure of her face. 

Alan Winter 10-2026

Having watched the Olympics, I fell in love with Short Track Racing. I thought it would be perfect for Yupo-that the movement could be captured easier. I was wrong. I’m going to try looser on other skaters. 5 X  12.

Back to sketches. 

Bowl of soup. Bowl should be round and factory finished not handmade. But…..the soup was good. 

Pair of sneakers. 

Winter flowers. 

Uncle Ken's Blue Period.

This is a painting I did maybe a year ago, one of those paintings where it suddenly announces, mid brush stroke, that it is done.  I especially like that midpoint on the tree where the trunk gets mixed up with the sky.  5x7

I wanted to do a larger version of it and here it is.  I like various parts of it but to me they don't work well together.  Except for the sky which I like a lot.  9x12

These are three horizontals I did to get the feel of various blues.  I've never given blue its due, a few swatches a little water and that would do for a sky.  What I particularly liked about the sky behind the tree was the way it granulated, so I decided to try something with a lot of sky.

 

So here it is so far the sky is ok, and I think I can work with that, well, hill.  The painting and the photo I took, do not have that pink, so I am thinking the reason for the off colors is not our photos, it is Blogspot. 9x12