She's added some seasonings, spices and fixings to the spicy fish.
Susan's also upped the contrast on her Kwek-Kwek...
... and cut the fruit into smaller pieces below.
Here, Susan's added a blue plate for emphasis.
In this flight of imagination, Susan envisions eggs as hot air balloons... being flown by chickens, no less!
But enough of food! Susan also touched up this painting of a vacation visit to Taal Volcano in the Philippines. Sadly, it is now covered in ash from the recent eruption.
Habte's church (below) is a product of his imagination, but the structure draws on many churches he's seen. He's used complementary colors to great effect to create a solid, dimensional building.
This lovely house with the red door is also from Habte's imagination. We'd love to visit. It looks so warm and welcoming. We especially love the sense of light filtering through the foliage.
Sara is all about color too. She's painted a woman using a palette from an Expressionist painting. The result feels like a Toulouse-Lautrec painting and certainly commands attention.
Taking further inspiration from a book on female Expressionists, Sara painted this little gem. We love the painterly quality of the work, the pose, and way Sara has managed to capture the sitter's sweet personality.
Elaine T. has also captured the sparkle of her sitter—the mark of a great portrait. Here's her grandson, playing among the autumn leaves. We love his smile, the way he's settled in the leaves and the grip he's got on a handful of leaves. It's exactly how a baby grabs things...and exactly how this baby interacts with his world.
Elaine O. is also painting children... but we're only saying so as a hint, in case you can't see what's happening in this very faint beginning. No, don't adjust your picture—come back next week when she gets more paint on the paper.
In the meantime, Elaine O. finished this painting of a Chinese sculpture. She's used soft complementary colors to model the form.
Another fan of complementary colors is Ken. Notice how he's balancing reds and greens as he adds the wreath in his subject's hand, as well as the field of flowers in the background. Also notice that he's left the face (particularly the eyes) for last, against his own advice.
Speaking of color, Tom has finished his advanced color wheel, with tints, tones and shades. We love the watery feel of this.
And isn't it coincidental that we've all been working in complementary colors? That's today's exercise, as you can see in Tom's work below. He works with three different pairs, then blends the orange/blue pair to achieve a spectrum of greens at the bottom.
Berivan's been exploring complements, too. You see the same violet/yellow, blue/orange and red/green pairs below, with rows of blended shades below. Aren't these lovely? And in the process, she's been able to color match the paper towel and her own skin tone!
Berivan's on a color matching spree as you can see below. She's successfully matched a range of colors from her original collage.
Upcoming Events
Where:
St. Gregory the Great Church
5545 N. Paulina
Church entrance is on the corner of Gregory and Paulina;
one block west of Ashland and one block south of Bryn Mawr
When:
Saturday, February 15
12:00–3:00pm
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