Completed today, April 7, 2020

The Dutch Pitcher

Watercolor, 10" x 10 3/4"

 

Here are two other paintings using the orange dessert plates as a major part of the design.
I have had many people ask how I am able to paint glass. My answer always goes back to my favorite quote from Monet....

Quote: Claude Monet, French, 1840-1926 “When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you. Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here an oblong pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as you see it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives your own naïve impression before you.”

May 2020 is the month that five friends are supposed to have an exhibit at Gallery Uptown in Grand Haven. As things look today, it might not happen. I would like to share this painting with you, and tell you about our little challenge.
We got together last November, to select five different items to use in a still-life challenge. The items selected were: the mid-century coffee pot, white cup, bananas, red flower, and two fabrics...the polka dotted and the stripped. We each had to create a work of art using these five items, plus whatever else we wanted to add.
As we get closer to May, we will learn if the show will go on, or if it is cancelled! The opening is scheduled for the first Friday of May. You will enjoying seeing all five solutions to the challenge, hanging together, along with several other recent works by each of us.
"FRESH FROM THE STUDIO" artists: Margaret Benefiel, Jan McLaughlin, Nancy Clouse, Rosemary Hayes, Marilyn Ryan, and Sandy Meyer.

 

Completed today, a new portrait of an iris. The original study was completed back in June when the irises were in bloom throughout the garden.

Title: The the Sun Came Out to Play

watercolor, 15 1/2" x 16"