Autumn still life scenes are so colorful and fun to paint. Sara did this lovely painting before eating the squash (and drinking the wine).
Ken is close to finishing his view of Chicago alley on a crisp fall night. It's complete with perspective and shadows and light falling on the garages, houses and dumpsters. Come back to see it reunited with the other three quadrants of this scene.
Alan finished and sealed his painting of a tomato still life. This is on canvas and features the last of the ripe tomatoes in a beautiful bowl, set against a tablecloth background.
Back to Yupo and back to his "birdhouse" series, Alan paints the background to this painting of the Montrose Harbor Bird Sanctuary. The vertical lines aren't gridlines.... they will become a hedge of purple martin birdhouses.
As if that weren't enough, Alan paints these colorful dancers. It's on Yupo, so it looks very liquid and abstract, but watch it progress.
Another quintessentially autumnal scene... Greeta finishes her painting of Chicago Henge, as the golden light spills through the downtown canyons, illuminating the El and the city beyond.
Back to her "people" sketchbook, Greeta paints retro scenes of folks waiting for busses at Six Corners, Chicago. Especially nattily-attired is the gentleman in the suit, vest, tie and panama hat.
Elaine T. finished her iconic painting of her son, introducing his son to the magnificence of the elements.
And here's Elaine T.'s grandson, surrounded by the colorful autumn leaves. This one is going to be good!
Susan's Sonata of the Moon and Sun uses elements of prior paintings (the musicians), and positions them against the angel wings from the church sanctuary where the concert happened. The musical notes look like a stained glass window and you can see the moon and sun lending color and shadow to the notes.
Here, Susan paints women making Parols (Philippine Christmas Stars). This is a sketch, preparatory to a full painting.
Elaine O. masked out her subject so she could lay in the background on this painting of a little trick-or-treater spotlighted against a dark street. Come back to see what happens—this could be cool...or a total disaster!
Here's a look into Elaine O.'s sketchbook as she sketches an upcoming Buddha painting. She's mainly testing colors here.
Speaking of color, our newbies have done some serious color learning and they have moved on to actual paintings! Notice the grapes, Donna's model, as she paints them three ways—wet-in-wet, very dry, and a combination.
Donna must like those colors, as she painted these lovely flowers in the same palette.
Habte is painting the "giant fruit" exercise, in which a fruit is painted so large as to expand off the page. The main objective is to capture the essence of the fruit. We're including the model along with the painting, so you can see how well everyone managed to complete the exercise.
Habti also painted these two landscapes.
They're both watercolor, possibly with a touch of body color.
We included Anand's color swatches as well as the pear and the painting. Even the swatches are beautiful!
Notice how our newbies chose fruits with soft color gradations? Paula's mango painting is a beautiful example of one color smoothly grading into another.
Anna also chose an apple with color striations and, like the rest of our artists, she's captured her model's essence.
Sarah's model is on the paper. It's camouflaged against her color swatches.
More color explorations by Sarah:
Thanks to Ken and Elaine T., our paints will be wetter and our paintbrushes resting high and dry. Elaine T. gave us all pipettes and Ken provided an assortment of Ken-crafted ceramic "brush cosies". Here's one artist's haul. Cool, huh?
We'll be off next week, so we'll see you the week after that. Happy Thanksgiving!
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