From there, Sara begins a sweet Nora painting. Here she is in a pumpkin patch, getting ready for Halloween. Look closely at the lovely quality of light on the subject's face and under her hat. And notice her expression. This is more than a cute picture. There's a story in this.
Alan worked on his New Orleans street scene. He's adding detail and value accents to the colorful facades...
...while experimenting with his newest surface, canvas. Alan has stretched canvas on a board and prepped it to receive watercolor with two coats of gesso. Looks like it accepts paint similar to Yupo, so Alan is off to a great start.
So, he jumps in with a large canvas, mounted on stretcher bars and gessoed. He's painting a youth engrossed in a book and is enjoying the variety of effects he can achieve. In particular, he can easily re-work and remove color as you can see in the background. Here's another painting where we couldn't help but speculate about the backstory.
Elaine O. has also placed her subject in a wooden background. She's used different colors, a different surface, and a different style, but this guy definitely has a backstory, too. We love guessing the meaning of the objects around him and wonder if he's composing music or a book... maybe the book Alan's subject is reading the painting above.
Greeta has been hard at work in her "people" sketchbook. She's finished the dancing girls (they're so full of motion, aren't they?) and added another person to the page with the festival-goer. They are from different cities and different times, but they go together so well.
More people in places... and in time. These are based on screen shots of photos by David Razowski. They are taken in the Six Corners neighborhood around the 60's/70's. Again, these subjects tell a story. We want to know more about them.
Greeta was so interested in the fellow above, she painted him again. This time she added shopping bags and placed him in a background with cars, trees, street light poles and a businessman. We applaud the way Greeta only put in enough detail to frame the subject, but not compete.
You can only paint so many people before you need a break! So Greeta started this exquisite still life of flowers in a windowsill. There are tons of details to come... a cobalt vase, a small painting, etc. But it's already beautiful with the wet-in-wet beginnings.
Isa made a lot of progress on her floral painting, too. Unlike Greeta, this one features a single flower, standing proudly before layers of foliage. Isa is painting wetter than her previous iris and varying the greens. She still hasn't decided on the color of the iris, but we know it'll be great. Keep reading to see why—Isa is our featured artist in today's Masterpiece Series.
Ken doesn't need people in his place to tell a story—just look at the atmosphere he's created in this Chicago alley. Now all we need is a screenwriter with a film noir script.
Here's the same alley, but a different view. Yes, if you look closely, you'll see that Ken is painting the part of the alley below the first painting. And notice that he's including perspective lines. That's professional!
Another place, another story! Susan painted this river from New Zealand. Quite a different atmosphere than the dark alley above. Here is a sunny happy day in a majestic setting.
Masterpiece Series
And now, the latest installment in our new feature, Masterpiece Series, where we focus on one artist and a series they have done. Today, we look at Isa and her series about Windows. We begin with a painting of her house, decorated for Christmas...
... and move to other winter scenes as seen through windows. Of special note are the contrasting views of inside/outside, warmth/cold and the use of complementary colors to achieve a feeling.
And finally, it's spring! We move beyond the interior to look at an iris outdoors.
Art Exhibition
We still have work on display in the glass cases lining the halls of the Larry
McKeon Building at Truman College. You can see the displays anytime the
building
is open (it's the building with the parking garage).
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