Sketchbook 3

This is at Fabyan Forest Preserve in Geneva (I believe.) I had a very fun day painting with Katie. It was gorgeous. We also were in the newspaper because many artists gathered at the park for a paint out.

Sketchbook 2

This is over a couple of days. Maybe 3 or 4 hours total.

Sketchbook

This is a fountain just south of the art institute. It started raining 15 minutes into the painting, but I really like what the paint was doing.

1st Still Life

This is my second water color painting. My first real still life. I love the way it turned out too. It’s an african figurine, a plaster hand w/ broken fingers and a shell. I love the shadow from the figure and the shell. At the beginning of the class that shell didn’t look like anything, but a blob and half way through the class it looked awful so I am glad it turned out ok.

Street Lamp

From a park in the Goldcoast, Newberry Library. From 2004.  

Random Things 3

my shoe, a chain, a singer at the “L” stop, blue line riders 

Random Things 2

a light in the “L” tunnel, blueline riders and a woman’s hat 

Fabric

Unfinished Candle

Random Objects

Tux’s chewtoy, ducks, and a muskrat