HAUNTING

 

My art group, Capitol Hill Art League, is keeping busy and connected with monthly challenges.  The one for October is (fittingly) "Haunting."  This is a drawing of a glass skull that I have had for several years and only bring out in October.  I used an Elegant Writer pen for the drawing and then sprayed it in spots so it would bleed.  I love the unpredictability of the way the pen bleeds.  I am not sure what I think of it...I'm haunted by what else I could have done.  

TY SUE SUNFLOWERS

 

My friend Sue brought me some sunflowers and roses to cheer me up.  As I like to do, I made a thank you card for her.  I just did a little painting of the sunflowers, and not all of them, either.  Trying to keep it simple.  The little painting turn out well, I think.  I hope Sue likes it.  It is already in the mail to her.

Sunflowers After Eye Surgery

 

After recent "failed" cataract surgery on my right eye, everything I saw with that eye was blurry and my left eye still needed glasses.  I eventually took the right lens out of an old pair of glasses.  This sunflower painting is my attempt at painting what I was seeing then.  It was interesting to do and will document that particular phase of my recovery.  I am still using those modified glasses but am happy to report that now I am seeing well out of the right eye and now with no lens.  So I am actually seeing better than I did before the surgery.  Soon I will go back to the eye doctor for a follow up and will then move on to the cataract surgery on the left eye.  That is predicted to go well.

Thistles

 

I did this a couple of weeks ago, and don't know why I didn't post it.  I like how it turned out., but it was a challenge because I am not seeing well,  On September 9, I had what should have been routine cataract surgery on my right eye.  However, the cataract surgery had complications and I ended up having more intense eye surgery on September 25.  Recovery from that is going well. but is taking awhile.  The right eye is focusing better now and I still have to have cataract surgery on the left eye.

Ellen Cornett, the instructor for the Wednesday Studio group (I am a member) assigned a photo of thistles for anyone in the group who wanted to paint it.  Marian Wiseman does a blog for the group and she posted the paintings here:

https://thewednesdaystudio.net/2020/09/13/the-wednesday-studio-uncovers-the-beauty-of-thistles/

Mine is not included in that blog post because I did not finish it in time.  Once I finished it, though, I was happy with it because the thistles really do look prickly...just like real thistles.