May 29 bouquet

The hand collaged.

I like this better now.      

Hand day two

Base coat done.     I like the charcoal better than the painted version.    Sometimes I wish I could step backwards...    lol.    Good reason to take photos as work progresses.  

Hand 1

I am attempting a painting of my left hand.   Knuckles are getting swollen and nobby with arthritis.  Not as bad as my aunt's whose hand were nearly useless in her late 80s.    One hand had frozen almost shut and fingers could not open.    

I had not really paid much attention to my own hands until our senior art group leader asked us to draw a hand.     I dug out a drawing i did in 1984 from a college course assignment and compared them.   

Now i can clearly see the gnarls and nobby knuckles.      Im going to do a lot of hand exercises - squeezing a rubber ball and such to help keep them more limber.   Id hate to lose their usefulness.    

This is charcoal sketch with beginning of  background.   

May 25th breakfast sketch

Wildflowers on hillside.   

Green and gold

Flowers for Patzee

Finally Im satisfied with this delicious piece.      Its so rich and colorful.      Its in the mail.    I hope she gets it today.    I know it will brighten her day.

May 23 breakfast sketch

May 21 breakfast sketch

Neutral abstract with circles

Breakfast at the beach

This little sketch is from a photo taken by my aunt on one of our outings.   I dont think she ever painted it but i remember she sold lots of cards with this photo at the art shows in Santa Cruz and Carmel areas.  Sometimes we would sketch but other times we just snapped photos and had a picnic lunch.     They were really special times.   

Breakfast with Jack Pellew

This morning I based this little sketch on a picture from an old art magazine.  1982.   That was one of my cancer years.   I didnt pick up a paint brush until chemo was over and I was well enough to function again.   In those days I painted in oil.   If I had tried my hand at watercolor sketches - i could have painted daily.     Woulda, coulda, shoulda moment.      Lol.   I probably pulled this out for an oil painting as the palette is interesting.   It was fun to capture in simple watercolors.     

May 18 breakfast sketch

May 17 breakfast sketch

May 19 breakfast sketch

Play day

Our mixed media group divided up the space on watercolor paper and filled in the spaces as we visited.     Time flew by.    I chose a limited palette and design elements.

Felted floral.

Just finished this one for a friend.   If you zoom in you get a better sense of thecwool colors and layering used to create it.   

Country road breakfast sketch

Breakfast sketch mothers day

Breakfast sketch

Going round in circles

Breakfast sketch landscape

Id like to wake up in this setting.    Focusing on a landscape during breakfast is almost as good as being there.   

Pats flowers

May 10 abstract

Another neutral

Neutral study limited pallette

Abstract with limited pallette.

Vermilion. Black. Yellow ochre and deep green. Koi watercolors.

Abstract w pink

Another breakfast abstract.

Morning abstracts resumed.

Change in weather makes studio comfortable for morning painting.   We had very hot weather for about a week. Now its more normal again. I only used air conditioner two days.      Ì

Curiousity

Aquarium

Blobs.

Collaboration

I did color blob. Barbara added ink work.  Angry bird.

Critters

Play day with mixed media pals. We drew little creatures.  In this case Barbara suggested we start with drawing eyes.    Thses blobs of color were smushed around then finished with outlines.  Fun.

Blob . Fox on skis

Pretty in pink blob

Green blob characters.

More blob critters.

More critters.

These started with color blobs. Details including eyes added after pain dried.