Pears and grapes

Painted in 3 sessions, flat color, unfinished watercolor. I might finish it in pastels or acrylics...

Drawing

"Work of sight is done.
Now do heart work
On the pictures within you."

Rainer Maria Rilke

Radish study (click on image to enlarge)

"Painting is a great mystery. No one has ever learned quite how to paint. No one has ever learned quite how to see." Robert Henri, (from "The Art Spirit")

Camera work

I still am having trouble figuring out how to get a clear photo with the correct light and colors.

These two photographs are taken in different lighting situations - flash vs daylight. I hope to learn something helpful from this post. The camera manual is not very helpful in practice. The top one is daylight only and the lower one is flash in a florescent setting. Niether photo shows the correct colors (too washed out). Oh well. Must keep trying to improve the photos.

Lucky find on the short cut

Driving to the gym the day after a stormy night, I took the back way, and came upon two huge sunflower plants blown over by the fierce winds and heaped onto the road. Two gardners there hired to remove the storm debris, and they said that the person who owned of the little house with the sunflower garden wanted them removed, at least the fallen ones. So I changed course and took them directly home, put them into water and painted them. There are too many layers of paint here for a watercolor, (click to enlarge and you can see that). It would have made a better painting in oi, and I can use this as a study for that when I have more time.
I finally did get to the gym after painting.

Walking in Discovery Park

These black and orange feathers were in a pile in the grass; there had been a skirmish of some kind, but I hope that the colorful bird escaped the jaws of whatever was chasing it...a hawk or maybe the eagle whose nest is nearby. It was difficult to capture them in paint so the feathers themselves are included in this photo. They seemed much brighter out in the sunlight than here in the studio under simulated sunshine lights. Could they be from an oriole?

Gallery partners

Just for fun, here are two of my business partners on Halloween at our monthly meeting.