Familiar Stroll

6.5"x8.5"  oil

This image came from a post by Leslie Saeta who is currently traveling in Italy.  She is posting images for painters to work from and I chose this one because it reminds me of places I have been, curving side streets with high contrast light and shadow.  I may go back in and add some darker shadows to the yellowish building.  I tend to not get values dark enough.  Tell me what you think.

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Parking pastel #189

This was an exercise in arbitrary cropping. A fire hydrant in the foreground might have made it more interesting. I will have to think about that but there is a mystery to who is getting in/out of the car. Who are they and what are they doing? On a less productive but still artistic note, I went snowshoeing with my husband today (he came to visit us at my daughters) and I really studied how things looked and what I would do to paint them. I didn't have my sketchbook or a camera, but I really thought about seeing and not just about what I saw, but how do I translate that into 2-D with chemical pigments? I know this is what artists do all the time, but I really indulged today. It felt like a significant lesson.