HAPPY FALL Y'ALL
Here's a pumpkin still life I did yesterday in drawing class. It's charcoal on a 16 X 20 goldenrod colored mat board.

MORE TEA?
Here's the teapot again, with tea and citrus fruit. This time it's in charcoal and white pastel on a piece of 16 X 20 pale blue mat board. I hope the teapot is put away next week. I'm ready for something new.

THAT SEVENTIES ART
My mom and dad were cleaning out the attic for a garage sale this week, and they found this old piece of junk. Signed and dated by me in 1978. I remember doing this in my high school art class. It's tempera paint on Crescent art board. My husband saw this and loved it with all it's colors and what I call "dod-doo" on it. It's paint is worn off in places and has character with the doo-doo spots I reckon. He liked it so much that he took it to have it framed today. Hahahahah! I suppose it is a pretty complicated piece with all the interlocking geometric shapes. Heady stuff for a teenager in the seventies. Whoa...It's thirty years old.

TEA & SHRIMP PAINTING
Here is the painting of the shrimp. They finally got tossed after all the painting and drawing. Today, we just drew the tea pot, some tea bags and some citrus fruit. I did something cool with it that I'll post later. This painting is 16 X 20 oil on masonite.

SHRIMP & TEA
Here's another attempt with pastels. I did this in drawing class today. I'm also painting these shrimp in painting class, so we'll see a painting later of the shrimp and this same tea pot, etc. I love the irregular shaped brown cup that someone made in the pottery class.

I am liking pastels more. I'm slowly catching on with each drawing. I actually like this piece, though I don't think it's all that greatly executed, I'm improving, and I just like the stuff in the picture. I was dragging a bit today and seemed to have a problem with relationships for some reason. I used a piece of mat board for this one, colored a sort of goldenrod.

WINTER BIRD
Experimenting with the pastels again. I used my Rembrandt pastels with this. I do like them better than the Nupastels. This is just a small piece on black mat board. I used a wat-not bird for a model and some dried up rosemary. I did some reading on techniques and tried some out with this. Just messing around really, but he's kinda cute.

CURLY WILLOW ROOTING
Our latest still life in painting class is an unusual looking clear glass jar with some curly willow sticks rooting in it. They are really pretty, but very tall. I was lucky to get some of the leaves into the painting. Hopefully I'll be bringing a branch or two home to plant in my yard.

There's the pomegranates again. And the pumpkins. And that red pitcher I've painted and drawn umpteen times :-) Haha! 20 X 24 Oil on masonite.

STRUGGLING WITH PASTELS
I really want to work with these because they are so pretty. This is only my second attempt with these, so maybe I should not expect too much. I'm trying to get the hang of how these blend, which brand is best for me, when to rub and when not to. These are so much like paint but not as easy to correct. Hopefully some progress will be seen as I go along. I think some different paper would help, and it could be time to try the Rembrandts.

DOWN TO THE WATERLINE
20 X 24 Oil on masonite painting from class. I have been forced to paint gladiolas! Arrggggghhhhh! Painting flowers is not my favorite, but the more I do it I'm sure the better I'm going to love it. My favorite thing about this piece is the vase and the waterline. The photo does not nearly do it justice. I need a better camera.

BIG SPECKLED EGG
This craziness measures 8 X 10 on a canvas board. Still wet when I snapped the photo. Strange painting, but I needed to use the paint left on my palette so I could clean it up and have a fresh start on Monday for painting class, and this is what happened. We'll be starting our mid-term project then. I did not want to waste the paint leftover from the pear paintings, so I did this egg. I realize it looks kinda crazy, but I sort of like it at the same time. When I look at it I think dinosaurs and jungle plants, or even "kerthump!"

A PAIR OF PEAR PAINTINGS
After touching up drawings to complete my drawing class portfolio, I had nothing better to do than paint since my family deserted me for band contest, and old friends. So! I had these lovely pears from WalMart that I decided to paint. I put two on a dishrag with a speckled ceramic egg, and then I painted one alone, and really,really large. These are still wet in the photos so they look a tad shiny.

Pear Pair - 12 X 16 Oil on masonite (Saturday night)



Alone Pear - 16 X 20 Oil on masonite (Started Sunday morning and completed by 2p.m.)