Listening to voices

I had a plan, well not really of course, but as I progressed things got too damn heavy.  I liked the water well enough but the rocks were beginning to look like moldy potatoes. 

I blotted out most of the paint on the rock potatoes and listened for the paint to tell me something, but I could not hear a thing.

So I started this new one.  Hard to say where this is going but it is talking to me and that is all I ask.

 

Alan fall 25-1

Well……I can sit and paint again. So here’s a little rural sketching. 

Here’s 2 5 X 7 pen and ink sketches from around the cottage that I added watercolor washes to. 

This is the shed behind the cottage along with the clothes line  

And this is the meadow behind the cottage with my neighbors garden and new outbuilding. 

Some friends saw my paintings of my granddaughters dogs and offered to pay me to paint theirs. But I didn’t feel right taking their money and Pat said I needed more practice painting dogs so I did these 9 X 12 coldpress ones. 

Time to return to Yupo. This is the beginning of a sunset at the end of my alley. We’ll see what happens. 

 

September 13, 2025 — Elaine O.

I realized I hadn't done people in a while; so, being between paintings, I opened my sketchbook and did a quick direct watercolor sketch of the newest baby in the family.

11.5" x 8"

And I finished and waxed my Sunday morning waffle memento. I'm done with the painting, not the wafflemaker. I can definitely see more waffle experiments ahead—and maybe some of them will be worthy of a painting.

6" x 6"

Ss: Noodle was a Dream 91325

Today, I painted the pet of my niece Learose, his name is Noodle!My first time to do a full body figure of a dog with his eyes asking for perfection while he sit looking up on the grass during a church picnic last Sep 7. Since this is a first time trial with an obvious waiting audience, our niece, I decided to paint the dog like an object( I do not know the breed!); so I painted the negative space surrounding his body with ultra blu and yellow to simulate the grass. I painted the dark fur with lamp black ( from my tray of no tube colors!) and green. The creamy color came from yellow ochre and raw umber. The white fur is the white of the paper. The pink dog collar is light carmine. This project was from 10 am to 1145 Saturday morning @ Truman!I am hesitant to retouch, I might overflow my energy. Learose wanted to buy it! Ah ah! Love is free! 

9"x12"

My Little Workout Book is Back

 Have never come close to mastering washes so will try to do it on my next project from a great FB photo via Pictures of Chicago. Looking at Ellen Hutson videos for guidance. 

 It's all about the texture.  Have to admit that even I got a little tired of the dit dit dit towards the end.

September 6, 2025 — Elaine O.

I made an impulse purchase from a clearance endcap and I've already recouped my $10 investment in fun—and waffles! To document my latest obsession (and my first waffle!), I started this small painting on Aquaboard. It's not finished yet, but it's a celebration of quiet Sunday morning fun.

6" x 6"

A ramshackle tree and even more ramshackle flowers.

 I lost the tenderness of the first time I posted it.  Did different treatments for different parts of the tree but I like to think that the ramshackle has some charm.

 Kind of an experiment to see what I could do with just two of my favorite go to paints, indigo and burnt yellow.  Needs a little mop up work, but I think I am on the right track.  Eager to try another two paints only painting.