Done, done, not done…

 Here’s the girl in the box. She’s not perfect but I caught her cheery face, imo. 

I think this one is finished too. I caught the faraway look on both faces…

This one I’m back to interiors…because chairs don’t say, “My hair doesn’t really look like that,  Grandma…”

trees and a prairie.

The bottom one is what it looked like when I showed it in class. I liked what I had before, above, better.  It was kind of plain and raw and who doesn't like plain and raw?

I put the tree shape in roughly with indigo and meant to blot it in an hour to see what paint would come up and what would be left, but then it wasn't till twelve hours till I got back to it and almost no paint come up so I put burnt sienna on top of it and I guess it's ok, kind of a frilly spring tree which is fine, but it's not plain and raw.

This is um, a prairie, maybe I'll put some suggestion of some trees on the horizon.  We'll see.

 

April 5, 2025 — Elaine O.

Another week where I only managed a little sketchbook play. I was trying to get back to portraits and played with the concepts of using grisaille, limited palette and layering—all while choosing pthalo blue as part of my triad. I started with this and strongly disliked it...until the next day when, suddenly, it grew on me.

8" x 5.5" approx.

So I tried it again, this time with a young face and the added challenge of keeping the youngster from looking like a 40-year old. I went in a bit heavy on the colors and missed the fresh-faced glow of youth, but there are still things about this I like.

8" x 5.5" approx.

 Oh, and the triad is: pthalo blue, yellow ochre and pyrolle orange.

Ss A Quiet Date 04.05.25

To frame the 2 Salon chairs, I painted with raw umber, then English red. I touched up the faces, more like me#, per Chris! Then my lower back, started to hurt!! I stopped!