In keeping with my recent pattern, I present here views of the artwork I completed in June.
6 x 8 inches. Watercolor on 300 lb. hot-press paper.
Our teacher Diane Steele brought in flowers from her garden (and vases). This is the combination I chose to paint.
I painted this view of the Waterford, N.Y. Harborside Visitors’ Center based on my own photos of the place:
6 x 9 3/8 inches. Ink markers and watercolor in my sketchbook.
Diane had planned to have some of her students sketch at various locations in the farmers’ market one day. I superimposed the lettering on my drawing to make a notice flyer, using the “pic monkey” program that I use to edit scans of artwork to go online.
It happened that on July 1st the temperature was predicted to be 100 degrees or higher, so vendors and buyers at the farmers’ market were much diminished, and the Art event got cancelled.
Below is my rendition of an intriguing building that I came across while doing some business in Mechanicville, N.Y. :
6 1/4 x 10 inches. Ink and Watercolor wash in my sketchbook.
Here’s the reference photo I took and worked from. Every day I see a building that makes me think : “Wow, I bet it’d be fun to draw that!” This one, in the middle of a two-short-blocks street in a quiet neighborhood in a little old city, tightly surrounded only by the type of utilitarian structures that are near it in this shot, made me stop at once to examine it. It was a fire station originally, now apparently turned into apartments. I went to the local library to look for a picture of it from the time it was built but couldn’t find one.
- “No.4 W.B. NEILSON No.4” Firehall. Mechanicville, N.Y. Date unknown (by me).
I began the sketch below while waiting for work to be done on my car. The car is a Mustang convertible. Rear windows stopped closing up tight when I shut the top. I continued working on and finished the drawing later from a photo I took.
6 1/2 x 10 inches. Ink and watercolor wash in my sketchbook.
My friends (OUR friends) Cheryl and Randy bought a house in Wevertown, N.Y. (in the Adirondacks) to fix up as a getaway destination for their large family. They invited me out there and I spent a wonderful day exploring the house and property, which includes a mountain brook with a waterfall nearby. At home, from photos, I painted this portrait of the house:
6 x 9 inches. Watercolor in my sketchbook.
Began the sketch below while waiting for work to be done at another establishment, then finished it later, using a photo for reference. Phony (but nice looking) ficus tree:
6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches. Ink and watercolor in my sketchbook.
Pencil sketch done while at the Waterford Harbor Farmers’ Market:
6 x 10 inches. H B pencil in my sketchbook.
A very illustration-like painting I did, based on a drawing by Mary Fekete, teacher of the watercolor class at Clifton Park Senior Center:
6 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches. Watercolor, ink, colored markers on 300 lb. cold-press paper.
Another exercise of interpreting a painting example done by Mary Fekete:
7 x 12 1/4 inches. Watercolor.
Done in Diane Steele’s painting class at Halfmoon Senior Center:
5 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches. on 300 lb. cold-press paper. Mixed media ( watercolor, ink, colored markers).
My great car:
6 1/2 x 10 inches. Pencil and watercolor wash in my sketchbook.
A cottage on Lake George where I stayed over for one night with some friends. Sketch started on the spot and completed later from a photo reference:
6 1/4 x 9 inches. Ink, watercolor, colored pencils. In my sketchbook.
Another “Open Studio” at the Hyde Collection Museum in Glens Falls. Last day of June. The lesson presented by artist Betsy Krebs involved choosing a sculpture from the museum’s current exhibit and using your interest in that work as a departure point to create your own “maquette” or small model of your own sculpture design, using scrap materials. I continued working on and finished my “maquette” at home with the aid of a hot glue gun. Two pages from my sketchbook:
6 1/2 x 10 inches. Pencil. on sketchbook page.
6 1/2 x 9 inches. Photos on a sketchbook page.
Thanks again folks, for looking at my work.
George
UPDATE: I did some more work on my sculpture. Here’s a collage of views of it:
MOST OF IT 