3 studies….

These are nothing to write home about, but I guess they all focus on color mixing on paper, wet into wet.i just watched a sunset tutorial that demonstrated a slower more controlled technique, maybe I’ll give that a try. 
 

The Magnificent Seven

Or maybe the pretty good, or the not so bad, or the so so, or maybe just the, seven

 These are the seven crops of this one, which I did not like.

I was going to edit this using what I learned from the magnificent seven, but now I have kind of lost interest in it and I am thinking I may just give all seven 5x7 crops a 9x12 interpretation.

October 25, 2025 — Elaine O.

This is one of those paintings that needs a day away to decide you like where it's going. And now I'm hoping I don't ruin what I have. I also think this is going to be one of those slow-and-steady paintings, so you'll see me working on this for the next couple of weeks or so. Just a warning!

14" x 11"

It's a boy climbing a tree in summer, by the way.

It’s NOT a Pumpkin

 The title here is “Holly’s Harvest”.  My daughter thinks she’s gardening, but she’s really farming.  The orange tomato was huge making it look, against the other veggies, like a pumpkin  I like the composition  

  

Alan Fall 25-4

 11 1/2 X 14 on Yupo. Apples in pottery bowl in front of Ice Bucket. The composition is from Greeta. I thought it would make a good Yupo piece. It was a lot of effort because the background washes didn’t work. I finally just scrubbed the background out in preparation to try it again. As I was trying to think of what to do next, I just gave it another look and thought “Well hell….. I like this.”  So I just cleaned it up a bit and left it alone. 

Garlic bulb on a spoon rest on top of an electric stovetop. I don’t know what the hell happened here. I had an idea that just didn’t work to the point where I wondered what I was thinking in the first place. The reference photo looked good but I used a polypropylene medium that didn’t work as well as Yupo and stained more deeply so I couldn’t just wipe the color off.  I had to put the white back in with white crayon, white acrylic, gesso and Chinese white. Maybe the whole premise was off. Here’s the reference photo. 

And here’s my take. 

It’s amazing to me how badly I can paint. And I really spent some time and effort on this. Well I did like the circles. 

A process

 This is a tree that Constable painted.

This is the tree that Ken painted using Constable's image.  Ken was not very happy with it.  So he cropped seven views of Constable's tree, and painted each one.

These are all 5x7 and only the first two are done.  After I have finished all seven I am going to do more work on my original painting of Constable's work.

Mini landscape of Patagonia Mountains

 

October 18, 2025 — Elaine O.

I've spent many an hour at this bus stop waiting for the #50 bus. But few of those hours were in such fine weather. 

12" x 9"

Class Photo — Fall 1 2025

 Time for another group photo of some of our favorite artists. Looking...and painting...as good as ever! 

Ss: Mi Chica que Limpia