Works from the drawing group....done for the summer

The Saturday drawing group of the Skokie Art Guild has to make way for the children's Summer camp. At the final meeting we had the model, Megan. The two watercolors were done on Arches rough paper, single sheet. The charcoals were just done on newsprint. Megan took a pose that did not seem anything I would like to either paint or draw (although I certainly could have), so I chose instead to draw Eugene. I did him in about 10-15 minutes because he left early and hasn't seen this. It's another of my ambush portraits. The other works were all done in 25 minutes. So, off this for the Summer and probably on to do some plein air painting.

Deja vu on the Brassown Road

These are two watercolors done a week apart. These were done plein air. Not sure why I chose to do the same view, maybe the challenge of doing all the trees. Anyhow, I sat out in the sun, put up with a lawn mower and wood chipper while I was painting....luckily no bugs. These are both watercolor but two different sizes. The view is the parking lot at the John C. Campbell Folk School looking down the Brasstown Road. My favorite was the first one.