Composition and Contrast

 What we can see in an otherwise uninteresting photo. 

Brick Road and Stone Church

 

Painting

Because I must have something “to sink my teeth into” during the next decade, I must paint. My art friends enjoy plein air, being outside and painting what they see in front of them. Others paint from photos that they have taken. Some artists painfully reproduce the subject and others give artistic license to their paintings. I wish I could do either and am trying, but I can’t help but stray. Though I am moving into oils, yesterday I felt the lure of acrylics that I attempted to tame in recent years. The process has been: I paint on the canvas. Then I evaluate. Then I cover it with another layer of paint and then another. Eventually most canvasses end up in the garbage. I may keep these. The paints in both were three blues, a white, and a deep yellow, and the canvasses were well textured! I don’t plan. A frenzy overtakes me, and in a few minutes, something satisfying emerges. The rectangle I have named Into the swamp. The square one is Along the Trail. A name helps the viewer make sense of a painting. The iPhone is not exact in representing color  

Neighborhood Sightings

 Little free library and wild fern next to a little creek  

Sweet Henry

Beautiful Church

Driving today on a country road and spotted a gold dome atop a lovely well preserved little church. On the way back, I was fortunate to stop and get a pic or two. Russian Orthodox. Right in the middle of corn fields and farm lands!

Flowers are sensuous

 

Funny face on donkey

One from several months ago. 

Sent to GGM

 

Flowers at Lowe’s

 

Gnarly

Woohoo!!

 

POTD

 

a painting

 

Sunday at church. Mother and son.

 

An old church?

 

Sweet couple

 

From October

 

Just because nobody has seen this

 

At the yearly end of watch memorial service

 

Offended Cat

 

And old wall and tree

 From the grounds of my first grade school. 

Nasturtium leaves

 

Granddaughter Graduates. And her friend!

 

Girls in bw

 

Saucer magnolia leaves

 

Any town