That little path is where the railroad tracks were supposed to be, I think. Not sure where it is going at this point.
My cousin gifted me with a potted snake plant last birthday! The first pot yielded a family of more! I painted the Capiz Corner descendant last week. This week's family of snakes on the Summerdale side of my living room faces the TV & is located beside a boxy lampshade & is in front of a horizontal mirror. The see thru box plant holder on the right, is from an Antique shop in Andersonville, was a bar stool!The painting of Intimazzy Swiss Train ride, ( exhibited @ Epiphany Center Summer 2023), on the top left, complimented the composition. This interior art exercise is like painting plein air, a reminder to my future self, a visual diary. I am lost on the boxy lampshade on the right side. It felt like an alien visitor of the container garden, taking a selfie photo of the Snakes and the Pothos!
I had two pages left in my little sketchbook and I was tired of looking at my own neighborhood-block after same block as I rehabbed my hip. But I kept running across great screensavers on my computer and these are two of them.
Tired of coloring within the lines? It’s trouble when you are the one drawing the lines. I tried to be as loose as I could with the paint and brush but still ended up respecting my drawing. Still, I think it’s pretty fun on 5 X 5 hot press. And I got to use my urban sketching kit so I’ll be more prepared to use it when the weather changes.
The building is slowly coming into view. It's a restaurant in the Marais district and I wanted to get the typical Parisian architecture and colors, along with the exuberant floral decoration over the awning.
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Of course, my first impulse was to start making corrections on the folder people. Took correcting strokes on Sara and then so tempted to start fidgeting there and elsewhere. But have to get packing which is probably a good thing. Note that I made sure to have Pat overlooking Sara.
Put more detail in the building to compete with the wall, and I like it, but the wall is still winning. Maybe I will break it into smaller pieces, maybe put a little more paint on her, maybe cry out in rage as I rend the whole thing into a thousand littles scraps of papery despair, you know, something.
I haven’t had the inclination to paint much (sitting like that makes me stiff) but there was a picture I took in New Orleans that I’ve been planning to paint so I did it a few minutes at a time. It’s only 8 1/2 X 11 and I think I should have painted it on larger paper. If I do it again (and I might) I’ll do that. I know I’ve got stuff in the right place but something seems off to me.
I’ll have to think about it some more and would entertain suggestions to make it better.
Here’s my final double portrait, which I finished in class yesterday. Here, I’ll reprise the other two below.
They all have their merits and distractions! What l leaned was start with a better source material…not a tiny blurry washed out photo!
