Suzanne Gysin - Paintings and Drawings

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Watercolor sketches

Here are some small watercolor sketches. This first one is a copy of Hopper's watercolor. Pretty isn't it.

Fabian Park Windmill

This week, we went to Fabian Park, very early in the morning. It was cloudy and gray. I did a quick study that morning, and the drawing for a later coloring.

We went back on a sunny evening and completed the second one.

Monday, June 7, 2010

Plein Air - Ping Tom park in china town chicago

The week we headed down town Chicago, for an industrial view. This is the view from Ping Tom park on Wells and Cermak in Chicago. This is a very nice park, and the chinese food nearby is fantastic. It is a 8x10 watercolor.

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Plein Air - Capitol in Madison Wisconsin

Another gray sunday morning. This is the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison. Watercolor 11x14

Plein Air - Lake Delavan

Plein Air at lake Delavan, this one is watercolor, about 8x10. Started out a gray morning with the fishermen out fishing on the lake. They are ALWAYS fishing.

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

After George Bellows

This is the George Bellows painting I copied, to practice street sceenes. Too bad we don't have horses in the streets any more.

Chicago River

Last week we started Plaine Aire Sunday, and this Sunday we were in Lake Geneva. I attempted a street scene painting from Starbucks, but it just fell flat. The same day, I bought an excellent book on George Bellows and after copying one of his paintings, I did this from a photo of the Chicago river.George Bellows was not afraid of using black, and he has a point.

The Bean

Plain Aire season has started, and we have made a resolution to paint out every sunday morning. That makes us very much the Sunday Morning painters. We started by heading downtown Chicago, and painting the Bean. This is 8x10 Acryllic on board.

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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Child eating Moon

This is an illustration of Grimm's fairy tale The 7 Raven. It is when the sister is searching for her brothers, and comes accross the moon who smells children's flesh ready to eat them.

Boys Turning into Raven

This is an illustration from the take of the 7 Raven. It is the instant when the 7 boys turn into 7 raven. Note the whitie tighties.

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Changing of the guards

8x10" acryllic on masonite

This is from a photo I took at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington DC of the changing of the guard.

What struck me is the man on the left is older and a little hunched over in his walk. The man on the right is sprite and upright, and has a naiivite in his step and crispy uniform. The older man is in the shadow, the younger man in the light. A true changing of the guard, very deep isn't it?