Thursday, May 28, 2009

Spring Flowers Redux


Another flower demo for my elder-art students. This one is postcard size.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

More Spring Flowers


My Elder-Art students love to paint flowers. This is a demo I created for them. We are working on "negative-painting" or defining forms by darkening the area around them.

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Sunshine Wildflowers


I can't paint rain everyday...today's painting is wildflowers, for my mother-in-law on her birthday.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Another Rainy Chicago Day


Quick watercolor study in my sketchbook after photographing some commuters-in-the-rain this morning. I think the colors need work before I execute this as a full size watercolor painting.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Chicago's Rainy Spring




Almost every one of my son's middle school baseball games have been canceled due to rain or wet fields. All this rain inspired me to create a rain series of paintings. Here, unfinished, is the first one, inspired by a painting by watercolor artist Mary Whyte.