Postings of my various and sundry attempts at something like art
I took some photos of some pretty flowers near my PT facility. Turns out they were Stella D’oro blossoms. I did this all day yesterday, I really like how it turned out. The blog entry for this is https://tamouse.notion.site/Stella-D-oro-9a9c0e47b361484a90949bb40a5cc7d3 .
One of the other students gave us a picture of one of her flowers, an amaryllis, and our teacher turned it into a class lesson.
Continue reading “Amaryllis, November 11, 2020”
This painting was begun near the beginning of September 2019, and took quite a while to complete because of missed classes and so on. It’s a relief to finally get it done. I’m rather pleased by how it turned out.
Continue reading “Sunflowers and Barn”
Today’s painting class assignment was a picture that one of the other students found that was a fairly impressionistic watercolour of some vases with flowers on a patio.
Continue reading “Vases with Flowers on the Patio”
Last week, I attended both the Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday afternoon watercolour classes, because, wow do I NEED some painting time! The assignment was a painting by Manet, “Flowers in a Vase”, which is a rather lovely impressionistic oil painting. We, of course, work in watercolour, so it’s interesting to see what we come up with.
Continue reading “After Manet: “Flowers in a Vase””