Alan’s crazy week

 I did a portrait of Charles that enabled me to work the details of the face so that it looked more like him. Done on stretched canvas after a coat of gesso.

I also tried another self portrait but could not get rid of the sad. Maybe it’s just the model. But the subject won’t complain. 

Done in my sketchbook on 140# paper  

When I was in the hospital I had some great sunrises over the lake outside my window. I thought Yupo would be a nice surface for it. I liked the dark sepia bar on the bottom and the blending of the clouds-hard to do on Yupo. 

I cut some sacrifice sheets into strips and wove them into this I decided to make the shape more amorphous.  I may make it into a circle later.  Kinda fun

Weekly Inspirations III

 

 

36a)  Charles Burchfield, Untitled, 1918

36b)  Edvard Munch - Dark Spruce Forest, 1899

 36c)  Georgia O'Keefe, blue hills n  landscape

 

37a)  Pierre Bonnard, Le Grand-Lemps, c.1892 (oil on canvas)

37b)  Charles Burchfield, Autumn Branches, watercolor

37c)  Victoria Crowe, Beach Tree, Winter, 1975

38a)  Nathan Ford

 

38b)  Raoul Dufy

38c)  Emil Nolde, Girl with a Red Hat

39a)  Charles Burchfield, Dreaming of Christmas

39b)  Gabriele Munter

39c)  Charles Burchfield, Christmas Tree

 

 

 

 

40a)  Eyvind Earle 

40b)  he, tianjian,  rise of the brill

40c)  Fairfield Porter, Winter Clouds, 1967, oil on canvas

41a)  Marlene Dumas, Distrust

41b)  Marlene Dumas, Distrust

41c)  Marlene Dumas, Bloodshot

Elaine O—January 30, 2021

Done. It's our front door with climbing rose vines creeping up the stairs. It feels like it looked on the sunny day we finished adding the street numbers in the top light. For all the planning, fine-tuning and color matching we did before we added that final touch, though, it's not all that visible! We'll revisit when the weather gets warmer.

 

Front Door        10"x8"

 

I remember painting a similar view many years ago, so I though it might be fun to compare them. I can only find this fuzzy thumbnail. Hmm.... in the past 20 years, it seems the neighbors re-sided their house, our rose plants took off and our little plastic planter died... but I can't be sure I've gotten any better as a painter!

Our House        12"x9"

I also started a new painting, but didn't get much farther than the drawing and initial washes, so we'll wait until there's something to show. Other than that, this week, we've had snow that blew and drifted on the window screens.

approx. 4" sq.

And I experimented with an earth triad of yellow ochre, burnt sienna and indigo. I did a color wheel, then a landscape (a copy of a Gauguin)...

spread approx. 3"x6"

...before trying those colors on portraits. I am surprised at the range of colors I could achieve. Also, intrigued by the way the sedimentary colors granulate.

spread approx. 3"x6"

Sara at the window

 I’m just giving in to this whole looking out the window thing. Here are four  sketches I did of what I see...the page is 9x12. The medium is black Pilot gel pen.

I think this is done. I understand now why some artists title their paintings Study in Yellow and Blue...this is 12 x 16 on hot press. It’s watercolor with color pencil and watercolor pencil. It reminds me a bit of Edward Gorey drawings.

The last fish 3

This fellow is almost done.  I'm going to lighten the yellow and do something with the water, maybe darken the turquoise and maybe lighten the ultramarine.

 

elaine t / My COVID face / Jan30

 Jeepers it's been 10 months of isolation and it's taken a toll on me.

The Conversation in Cebu

 The Conversation painting was inspired by a visit to Cebu, an island in central Ph, which was discovered for Spain in 1521 by Portuguese explorer Magellan. The island capital city is also named Cebu. The Ph became a colony of Spain for 4 centuries until 1898. Ph became the seat of Christianity in Asia. American occupation plus Japanese invasion followed until Ph independence in

1946. Cebu, the birthplace of my late father, is a historical place, a domestic shipping port with international airport & a tourist destination known for "lechon" delicacy or roasted pig. My family toured the oldest city in the Ph with century old houses preserved as heritage sites. Our foursome visited an ancient house filled with vintage items: antique furniture, oil lamp, glass pitcher, orange colored glass creamer sugar set, the icon of Santo Nino, patron saint & a table covered by an elegant crocheted piece. The painting felt like a jigsaw puzzle of interlocking shapes & of complements of darks & lights.The tablecloth was a joy to paint, aided by masking fluid. Unlike my female relatives who could both crochet & chat with ease & abandon,  I never learned to crochet, in my youth, due to my sweaty hands. Finally, I was able to create crochet in watercolor! Happy painting, fellow artists!

Pear Old Fashioned

Had a little problem with my gallbladder last week but I finished this one that I called “The painter enjoys a cocktail.”

It’s a little cluttered but I liked the sense of it. 

 

In case you want to make one: Cheers. 

SPICED PEAR OLD FASHIONED

Ingredients:

2 oz Bourbon or Blended Whiskey

3/4 oz Pear Liqueur

4 dashes Angostura Bitters

Directions:

Stir all ingredients with ice until chilled, then strain into an Old Fashioned glass over ice. Garnish with a flamed orange slice and a cherry. 

Since my gallbladder removal, my doc advised me to give up alcohol for a couple of weeks. So I started another picture of my grandson, Charles. So I got the basic colors and shapes in and I’ll try to enhance and fine tune it. 

Greeta - Facebook Screenshots

Thinking about more color on parts of stone and why is the man’s right foot so enormous.......

The only person here who turned out looking anything like the photo is the mother. And my depiction of the father takes me back to the pictures I saw of fathers in elementary school books. 

 Photos by Wendy Fischer Hartman from Pictures of Chicago on Facebook. 

The Accountants

 Today's art work is inspired by a 5 year old photo taken in front of a shrub with white flowers in my Ph garden. My husband Tony was then in his  chubby middle age State of Illinois auditor physique. He lost recently 30 lbs from recent non covid health issues. Our granddaughter Pao was at that time 13 years old, blooming in her too short shorts. Pao is now taking accounting classes, wants to be a CPA someday & found a new love of her own generation!  This is the first time, my Saturday showtime painting matched teacher also named Pao's inspiration paintings! Hallelujah! Happy Painting fellow artists!