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Recent Works of Our Members Clicking on a thumbnail photo will enlarge it. Members: share photos of your recent works, your comments about them, and tell us if you want suggestions. This will allow us to connect without actually meeting in person. The newest arrivals are being put at the top of the page. Keep scrolling down to see those posted earlier. Please send your comments to the artist. If the artist wants them posted, she/he can send them to me. Be sure photos include the frame. Try to avoid glare and overexposure. Don't worry about having the image rectangular or level. That can be fixed.
Bill Franklin, physicsnerd@yahoo.com Four Horsemen, One Driver V4, August, 2020, watercolor 10x14, matted to 16x20 This will be my entry in the Climate Change exhibit. It portrays the four horsemen of the Acropolis (dire disasters all) and the one driver of them all, namely human overpopulation. The flags will spell out the specifics. There will also be some suggestion of the sky and ground with dust stirred up by the ensemble. There will probably be a 5th version (at least), so suggestions of improvements would be welcome.
Corean at piano V5, August, 2020, watercolor 10x14, matted to 16x20 This is my 5th try at painting a friend in Acme, WA, who was a concert pianist, but has not been able to play at all lately due to advanced aphasia. I consider it finished, but I am thinking about a 6th version, and would appreciate any suggestions.
Bill Franklin, physicsnerd@yahoo.com Banjo Ben 3, June 2020, watercolor 10x14, matted to 16x20 I was trying for a watercolor look Comments welcome.
Bill Franklin, physicsnerd@yahoo.com Banjo Ben V3, July 2020, watercolor, 10x10, matted to 15x15. I made a more detailed ink sketch, with crosshatch shading, intending to use very sparse color. However, things quickly got out of control, so I ended up painting more details, and darker paint. Now it looks more like an oil done with watercolor paint. Comments welcome.
Cathy Niekamp, cniekamp@msn.com Portrait of Christine, pencil, 9X12, June 2020 Comments welcome. This is the final version.
Creeping Charlie (wildflower), May 2020, oils This is what Sandra was finishing Sunday, 5/17. Comments and suggestions are welcome.
Wildflower, May 2020, watercolor pencil, 5"X7"
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Glad Girls 1 with background, watercolor, 10.5"X10.5" The background was originally left white. I filled in the greenery before Sunday, then added the critters Sunday. Comments welcome.
Chesley Smith, csmith108@hot.rr.com Guitar, May, 2020, Collage, 8"X10"
Bill Franklin, physicsnerd@yahoo.com Glad Girls 4, May 2020, watercolor 10X14 (quarter sheet) This is the finished painting, I think, but it could still be altered. So I would still welcome comments and suggestions. I probably won't do a V5, but I am considering revising V1, filling in some of the white background with hovering objects, like butterflies. From Kay Reinke: I really like this. I particularly like the hands. They are so hard to do and yours are great!
Glad Girls 4, May 2020, watercolor 10X14 (quarter sheet) I'm incorporating suggestions on GG3 & color choices. At this point you can see a change in the background. (earlier versions are below.) By enlarging it, you might be able to see the sketch lines, which include changes in the hands & clothing lines. Nothing is finished, but the footprint of the flowers is what I plan to use, unless I hear suggestions to do otherwise. Additional comments & suggestions are welcome.
Sassy Blue Eyes, pencil, 9X12, May 2020 Comments welcome. This is the final version.
Evening Glow, April 2020, 18x24 oil, $550 Comments are welcome Critique by Sandy Scott: Mesmerizing, very inviting, soothing. Wow, it is lovely! Critique by Bill Franklin: I really love this. Shadows from the bright glow of the sun are very well done.
Emergence, April 2020, 24x24x1.5 gallery wrapped acrylic, $650 Comments are welcome Critique by Sandy Scott: Aptly named, like an emergence of life in our world and experiencing the soothing but glowing flow of lights in the beginning of life... Beautiful! Or it could be a woman emerging from her tub of low emotions, and successfully beginning life anew with colors bright with possibility. This painting surely got me thinking :)
Bill Franklin, physicsnerd@yahoo.com Glad Girls 3, April 2020, watercolor 14x20 (half sheet) I never got suggestions for the girl's clothing colors, and I decided that one problem was that there were such large areas that were basically featureless. So I decided to try giving them indigenous clothing, woven wool wraps. I didn't pull it off very well, partly because the clothing areas were already defined. I'm considering a version 4 with a sketch with different clothing. I'd appreciate any comments and suggestions on Version 3 that I could use for V4.
Dr. Martin King jr, mixed media, April 2020 Critique by Sandy Scott: I just have to say this is my most favorite of your MLK paintings. It's got everything! If it were in a gallery, I would just have to keep returning to enjoy it!
Chesley Smith, csmith108@hot.rr.com Abstract, April 2020 This painting is not showing up when I visit this page online. I tried replacing it where it was, then trying it below, rather than above Chesley's other painting. It still isn't showing up for me. If this happening for you, let know. I don't know what else to do.
Glad Girls 3, April 2020, watercolor 14x20 (half sheet) This is version 3. I have made changes in the hair and the teeth, but it have both worse. Anyway, still need help with now is the girls clothing colors. In version 1, I used blue and gray. In version 2 (bottom of this page) I used blue and pink. I wasn't happy with either. What do you suggest? Other comments & suggestions are also welcome. If you think any of the combinations below look good, please tell me which one. Or suggest another.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Critique by Sandy Scott: I think version 3 in your chain of pictures looks best. I'm not the best at picking colors, but these colors are bright without taking over the other objects and people in the painting. And, the flowers don't disappear in the area of the smaller girl's dress.
Portrait of the artist when very young, April 2020, graphite, 9x12
Ott, April 2020, colored Pencil, 9x12 Critique by Sandy Scott: I am amazed by your drawings. It must be difficult to blend with colored pencils. I enjoy seeing your talent develop. Critique by Bill Franklin: I continue to be amazed by what you can do with colored pencils. I tried that for a while, getting better paper, better pencils, but not getting very good at using them.
Untitled, April 2020, unfinished,11x14 oil, comments and suggestion welcome. Critique by Sandy Scott: I really like this, colors & shapes are beautiful. I would darken his underbelly by adding some muted blue & feathering it upwards, lighter as you go, like you did his front leg. I would also soften the hard lines around his body & the mound below him. I think this will turn out cool! Critique by Bill Franklin: This is my favorite of the 3. I can't add any suggestions to Sandy's.
Untitled, April 2020 may be unfinished, 16x20 oil, comments and suggestion welcome. Critique by Sandy Scott: The roses are a pretty color. I like the still life, but I would soften the lines & make more shadows, especially underneath the single rose on the table, the bottle & the glass. I would also darken the background where t hits the table, and soften the gray on the wine bottle.
Great Outdoors, April 2020, unfinished, 24x48 oil, comments and suggestion welcome. Critique by Sandy Scott: I love this. The mountains are cooled down nicely. Try cooling & lightening the landscape as you go toward the horizon. Perhaps the fish could be brighter. Critique by Bill Franklin: Here I can make a few suggestions. For one, the trees in the distance are far too regular. Add more to the vary the spacing and the heights, and make them extend along the entire shore, rather than stopping before they get to the nearer trees. Also, the deer and fox need to have some molding to make them look 3D. There isn't a real sense of where the sun is, i.e., where the light is coming from. Perhaps from the above right? Make it cast shadows to mold the animals and on the ground beneath them to root them. Finally, the eagle is larger than the deer and therefore must be closer, but it tends to look like a very big eagle at the same distance. I'm not sure how to improve that. Maybe with shadows below the deer, the lack of one below the eagle will let us know that he is closer than the water below him, which is not in the painting. If the light were coming from behind us, you could make its shadow smaller than it is. That would let us know that it is closer than its shadow, which would be near the deer. I hope this didn't seem to critical, but I think you can make this a very nice painting with a few improvements.
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