Emily Oaks Tree

pen & ink and ink wash on Fabriano toned paper

12" x 20"

This was done at Emily Oaks in October during the Brush With Nature plein air event. It was accepted, but I didn't get it framed in time to have it included in the show.

Detail:

Figure paintings from EAC part 3

Another one from Eleanor Spiess-Ferris' class at EAC

The model is Mugsie

oil on board

Figure Painting from EAC, part two

oil on board

I regret to say that I have forgotten this model's name.

Painted in Ken Minami's class at Evanston Art Center

Figure painting of Sojourner

oil on linen-covered board

I have been working on finishing (or deciding they were already finished) a bunch of figurative paintings I have from my EAC classes. Here is the first installment.

The model was Sojourner, and I managed to finish her up to about her elbows.

Painted in Ken Minami's class at Evanston Art Center

detail:

Monhegan Island Drawings

I recently did some drawing on Monhegan Island, Maine

Manana Island

marker and pencil on toned paper

Calf Cove

pencils on toned paper

Studying Inness

I have been somewhat obsessed lately with the work of George Inness (1825-1894), and I'd like to bring some of the technique and expressiveness of his work into my paintings.

I did 4 studies from his paintings (below) and also visited The Art Institute of Chicago in order to look at some of his paintings in person. I made some notes from a painting (The Mill Pond) as well as a sketch from a bronze of George by Jonathan Scott Hartley.

Studies after (clockwise from top left):

Home at Montclair 1892,  Landscape 1888,

Summer, Montclair (New Jersey Landscape), The Trout Brook 1891

oil on Arches 12" x 16"  oil paper

colored pencil in Strathmore Toned Tan sketchbook

3 (more or less) recent watercolor sketches

I decided to torture myself and play around with watercolors again:

plein air, Michigan City, IN

Contesse de Ternay

plein air, Skokie Lagoons

Winsor and Newton watercolors in Holbein sketchbook