Alan Summer 2026-7

 A little plein air sketch of my backyard in my sketchbook. 

Here’s a problem for me. It never never never behaved like I thought. It’s on Yupo and you’ll have to guess what it is. I may just give up the ghost on this because it needs to be glazed and that’s hard to do on Yupo. 

Second Round

 The image is from one of those 5x7's I have been messing with redone as a 9x12

And these are 5x7s that I wasn't happy with so I changed them.

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testing new practice paper

Evanston

"Hot-pressed" failure saved by Ink

August 29, 2026 — Elaine O.

We're back in the hot sunny days of the early 70's. On my last version, I spent a lot of time layering glazes to adjust temperature. I wondered what would happen if I tried again, but with only "hot" colors. I'm trying to get a sense of the lazy heat of the day—so, the atmosphere more than the subject. Here's my start (already using many layers of arylide yellow, pyrrol orange and pthalo turquoise).

12" sq.

Board of Trade

Somehow it’s at the same time overworked and unfinished.  It did get me to experiment a little with Jeanne Dobie’s color palette for neutrals.  Hope I have the discipline to keep working on that because she does whole paintings with neutrals and they do glow.  

More of these guys

 An itch I can't stop scratching because it feels sooooo  good.

12 - Deadly Hemlock

13 - Light in August

14 - Fire in the Hold

15 Green Mansion

16 The Devil steps on a Lego

17 - Hard Candy

18 - In a Distant Land

19 - In the Garden

20 - The Dead Sea

Back to Evanston

Playing with colors