We're only back three weeks and already we are experiencing the mind meld that seems to overtake us, so we all begin to paint in themes. Sure enough, we're all painting flowers, friends and facades... not to mention felines! (After all, what would the internet be without cats?) So we start with a cat—but not just any cat. Here Vivian continues to fine tune her colorful cat/sewing machine mashup. This gets better and better every week, doesn't it?
John's drawing is another mashup, full of people and stories. It also gets more detailed every week, yet John says he still has a way to go.
Ellen finishes two paintings this week. In both cases, she makes some bold choices to fill an empty quadrant of the paper. Here she starts with a group portrait and adds a rich background.
And here, she seamlessly adds a hummingbird, perfectly complementing the flowers and filling the empty space. On both of these, drybrush adds movement and life.
Susan also revisits an old painting, adding people to give a sense of scale and story to a painting of the devastation to a Philippine village the morning after a typhoon.
Susan continues with her series of flowers. Here she has a grouping of orchids....
... and a bouquet of roses.
Sara revisits her summer backyard, but this time, she mixes colors on the paper rather than the palette. This creates beautifully rich and transparent layers of color.
Hector, too, blends color wet-in-wet, producing this animated study of beach grass with a very limited palette.
Ken moves from the beach to the city center to create this exuberantly colorful cityscape.
Who would have guessed that he starts with a monochromatic underpainting?
Elaine too is continuing her limited palette exploration of a lovely church facade.
Abla is working on a large painting, too, filling her paper with color and texture. We love the way she handles the sandy mountains and the water.
Mohammed is also working large. But while his scene is as expansive as Abla's, his is cool and frosty. Another contrast is the flat graphic quality that only seems to add to the depth of the painting.
Finally, our new people are the most prolific group of painters we've seen since Susan! Here Oscar works on this third color wheel and fills the rest of the paper with an extra credit marine scene.
Bill zips through the color matching excercise....
... and does a much better job exploring complementary colors than the camera could capture here.
He even finished the famed paper towel, before moving on to the skin study below.
Madeleine's complementary color/paper towel and skin studies are elegantly simple,
...and she cleverly incorporates her color matching swatches into the exercise. These newcomers will be old masters in record time!
Artist of the week. The library table featured a wealth of riches today. Pat brought in three of her oldest art books, including Bonnard and Mary, Mother of God. They were all thin volumes, full of art plates but with little text. Ken brought a much thicker tome about Seurat and the making of the Grande Jatte.
Quote of the week. "I worship the siennas." —Ken.
(There is nothing to be gained by trying to explain this one!)
See you next week!
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