Number 1, fruit salad - Gene had fruit, yogurt and granola this morning. This was as close to fruit salad as you will get in my house during this Hunt. It had apple, nectarine, grapes, blueberries, pear and banana. The bowl has leaves on it so that sort of confused the issue in the sketch. Ah, well. And, number 2, prominent nose. You know who!
The demo for the Austin Municipal Art Guild went well yesterday. We had a lot of fun. You know I love talking and never know which I like more - talking or painting. I worked on a landscape from a photo. I painted on Colourfix sanded paper by Art Spectrum. I did a watercolor under painting with very little detail, just blocking in the big shapes. I discussed how colors look different, depending on what they are near. I used some different color pastel paper to demonstrate this. This subject is discussed often by Richard McKinley. He calls it, Simultaneous Contrast. His Pastel Pointers Blog is so full of information. Be sure and visit there when you have time on your hands. Addictive reading and stock full of pastel info on every technique, surface and under painting.
I framed the 11 x 14 painting against the glass and gave it out as a door prize. This is always fun and unexpected by the audience.
Eleanor Harris was the winner.
As is normal, I did not take any photos as I went along or before I put the painting in the frame and taped it closed. I took these from a side angle to avoid as much glare as possible. You can at least get the idea of the colors and composition from these two corrected in Photoshop Elements. Of course, painting for two hours or so does not give a finished painting.
Personal Notes:
We have had a bunch of cowbirds visiting. I think they are the brown headed variety. I suppose they are passing through. We saw many of them in New Mexico when Gene's mom had her bird feeders. A week or so ago we had a bunch of robins. Gene saw them in the morning but by the time he mentioned it and I got the camera, they were gone. In past years the robins stayed around the other house for a few days feeding on the red youpon berries and leaving a big red mess. Just as well they were here just for a morning.
Gene put up a purple martin house. Maybe this year it will attract some. There were too many trees at the other house. The hummingbird feeders are up, too. May be a bit early, but Gene saw some butterflies so you never know.
5 comments:
Looks like the demo went well. It is always fun to be the youngster in the crowd.
I thought you were talking about egrets until you said brown. Cowbirds, huh. I wonder if that is what Toby calls them, too.
Bag Blog, I wrote that a bit weird. There are bronzed cowbirds and brown headed cowbirds. The brown on the heads seems to come further down and blend in more on the bronzed ones. Don't know if these cowbirds hang around cows. We've only seen them at the feeders. Hmmm. We see the white egrets out with the cows a lot here, too
Nice painting. And, that's a *lot* of birds!
The lady on the left in your photo looks a bit like Ruby. :-)
Apparently I'm a robot 'cause I'm having a *lot* of trouble with the new "captcha" verification thingy.
Don't feel bad, Joanna. It took me three times to comment on Lou's blog today. She does look like Ruby. Thanks. For sticking with it and commenting.
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