Day 12

Day 12

And then I went out of town.  In the interest of packing light I packed only one paint brush, water color pencils and a pad of water color paper.  The painting that was resulted was, accordingly, a minimalist still life:

Day 11

Day 11

So here is another attempt at a still life, this time using Angus Wilson's fragmented, vibrant works as inspiration.  Here’s the the bare bones:

And this is another view of the painting that I took when the sun was lighting it up (and I rather like the help that the sun gave):

Day 10

Day 10

     I tried to redo our still life class assignment at home and this was my result:

This time the newspaper is a little more obvious in the vase and on the table.....

Day 9

     Here is a still life that we did in class:

Our assignment was to be primitive and we were encouraged to use newspaper or decorative paper into the piece.  You can see newspaper in the the vase and on the table.  One interesting note about newspaper; the New York Times is the best, both substantively and functionally.

Day 8  (or thank goodness for gesso!)

I left cats on Day 8 and tried to redo an assignment from class: flowers on a black canvas.  

Ugh.

So last night I gessoed the whole thing and it is now a horse!

Day 7

     Same cat, same pose, this time in blue. 

 

Day 6

     I had a long skinny little canvas so I thought I’d try painting a long skinny little kitten. Here is my first attempt"


And then I did too much <sigh>


So next I tried doing a water color kitty, this time on water color paper:
And another: