Pre-Summer Post-Summer

 It's Halloween, October 31 today.  I haven't met with any fellow painters for our usual paint-outs since February.  So I've painted some watercolors and gouache pieces from my photos taken close to home.  We're still having warm days but it's feeling like fall.  Last December I took a photo of some colorful liquidambar trees just south of my house.  I used it for a recent "autumn feeling" gouache piece.  This painting reminded me of the beginning of summer when I took a photo of a home decorated for July 4th in the block north for a holiday watercolor.  These paintings were for the weekly prompts our wonderful and generous leader/organizer gives the Saturday group.  Inspiring, and they keep us painting and connected.

7"x5" Gouache

5"x7" Watercolor

Postcards!

Many artists have used this pandemic period to paint and send postcards to friends and relatives.  Since plein air painting with friends hasn't really started again, I've now painted and sent six postcards.  I posted two in Safer At Home Art.  One of my more recent postcards, using watercolor and pens,  was of a friend's mountain cabin.  And since Halloween is coming, I painted and mailed two Halloween 4"x6" postcards to my grandkids.  Always a fun, annual, thing for me!

4" x 6" Watercolor and pen postcard

4" x 6" Watercolor and pen postcards