More Paint Pushing.

So we're wrapping up with color and landscape painting. Our assignment was to paint a landscape at three different times during the day....one in the morning, one in the afternoon, and one late afternoon. At first, it was kinda hard because of the weather, but once I got out there, I enjoyed it. It's pretty interesting to see the dramatic shifts in color. Part of it had to do with the weather....one day it was overcast, another day was perfectly clear. But I really enjoyed doing these a lot. And I'm pretty satisfied with the results. Anyways, these are from Lake Cunningham Park, which was right down the street from where I live. Enjoy.

Morning-around 9am


Afternoon-between 11am-12:30pm


Late afternoon- around 4pm. This one actually was the most interesting because I got out there kinda late...and with daylight savings, the sun starts to set around 5ish. So while I was painting, the light was changing pretty fast, and I actually noticed the color change in the mountains. At first they were this desaturated yellowish (as pictured below), then they changed to a reddish brown, then changed again to a blueish! I was totally amazed.

Oh yeah.....BTW

My brother dressed up as mormon/jehovah's witness....

I thought it was pretty funny. That's him on the right.

Happy Halloweeeenie!

So halloween this year wasn't anything too special. Although I had a couple of costume ideas, I actually didn't dress up. I spent most of the afternoon in the library trying to catch up on some stuff. I was originally planning on going landscape painting again, but the weather was a problem...it was overcast, which I don't mind, it's just that the rain was on and off, so it was a bit unpredictable.

Anyways, after the library, I went home and finally got around to carving my pumpkin. Every year, for the past few years, my brother and I would each carve a pumpkin. And each time I would have these cool ideas(so I thought), but the results weren't always as satisfying. One year I tried carving Bruce Lee--ended up looking like Mr. Spock; another year I tried Bob Marley--ended up kinda looking like.....James Brown! So this year, with the election only a couple days after halloween, I thought it would be the appropriate idea to carve the presidential candidates. So my brother got McCain, leaving me with Obama. My brother's pumpkin was pretty successful, as it usually is. I, on the other hand, totally rushed mine. I finished in about an hour and a half, but this is the sad result....



I thought it kinda looked like Ray Charles....my mom said it looked like "Preddie the Cougar"(ahem, she means freddie kreuger, hahaha).


My brother's Senator McCain.

The Fall is here, with it finally starting to rain....so Happy (belated) Halloween. Don't forget to eat lots of candy, go out and VOTE on NOV. 4th!! and also to change your clocks/watches this weekend for daylight savings. Enjoy!

-jeff