I’m too old to be this busy….

 

Well part of my problem is I think it’s Thursday instead of Wednesday…Whatever, I just unpacked my art bag from class on Saturday…totally forgot I had painted this mostly in class. I like the colors and the building detail, need a little more work on leaves and branches.

AAlso worked on this one, which I can’t seem to crop. Not sure about this…gotta go to exercise class…

When It Blooms

 My favorite pot this summer. Took photo when pink Angelonia was in full bloom. Shortly after the photo it gave up but the sweet potato vine has reached the ground. Many parallels between gardening and watercolor painting. 

A tree and a meadow

I think this needs something more but not sure what.

I think this one is done.

 

 

July 26, 2025 — Elaine O.

Here it is in all its glory—a bathroom window. I loved the light bouncing around all the reflective surfaces, framing the solid backlit plant. I tried to rely on color rather than value to get that effect and I think it worked. At any rate, I am very happy with the way this turned out.

The Bathroom Window    9" x 12"

After all that dancing visual patterning, I wanted something calmer and simpler (and easier?). Same bathroom, but a more serene corner. This may be a study. I like the composition, and I like the blue-green color, but the paint has some opaque white in it and it feels chalky and splotchy. I do like that liquid soap bottle, though!

approx. 10" x 13"

Makes me wonder if I've found a new series—bathrooms?

Almost There

 Grandson Wyatt. His first beard. It amused me that he grew it while he still had braces….but ended up not including them. Hope I’ve learned the lesson after this…Use a bigger piece of paper😳

Can’t see the forest….

 

Here’s a painting I did a few years ago . It’s on a piece of crummy sketch paper,  but i  really like it and that’s what I’m trying to recreate in a larger format.

So these are all the trees I’ve been painting and this is my reference photo. And it just dawned on me this minute that the first painting is not confined by a window frame…and I know, none of the paintings look like the reference photo…and the reference photo looks nothing like the first painting that I really like…I’m just a confused person….does anyone know what happened to Alan and Greeta?

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In progress

No trees I am afraid.  I love the flowing undulations of the Lurie Gardens.  Maybe too many different colors and maybe it could use some tall plants close up.  

Tree is going to need some work to fit in, but I need to fill in more background to find out how that might work.

 

July 19, 2025 — Elaine O.

Here's the dilemma when you have a really good reference photo. Do you try to paint it, knowing it may never be as good, or do you just let it be its own beautiful photo self and paint something else? I took a chance painting a photo of my Mom's bathroom window. I'm about 75% finished here and I haven't ruined it yet. Next week will tell, I think.

approx. 9" x 12"

 

Winter in Summer 71995

 The first version of this neighborhood scenery sometime in February 2025 drew comments on the dog and her walker. The rest of the painting was a major application of white or lightest values to show it was a heavy snowfall. I was not able to show the silhouettes of the houses across the street nor did I highlight the bodies, the leaves and the trunks of the 2 trees. Thus, when I prepared my painting stuff into my 2 paint bags, I picked up this February painting with a plan to improve the values and create an acceptable Andersonville snowball winter story. During the Saturday class of July 19, I converted the 12" X 9" into a square 9" X 9" by cutting the top 3 inches of the paper which showed  the painting of  the curtain like mini canopy of the pine trees of my house & my neighbor's. The removal made the composition easier to arrange. I added the bike & stop sign at the top right empty space. I defined the houses across the street and added the blue car on the left. I added the  turquoise shadows of the dog and the walker. And then I have the revised snow scene of July 19! Happy Painting!