Inspired by Yellow Orange Glow and Alma Thomas

While BG watches Sunday morning talking head shows I've been virtually attending a six-part series of lectures at the National Gallery (Smithsonian) called Colorstruck. Look at the Colorstruck page. 

After watching these I end up a bit smarter, a bit more enlightened, have a few more words to add to my vocabulary, and I am inspired. This week's lecture was Yellow Orange Glow and featured the work of Alma Thomas. 

I'm still only working on postcard sized paper unless I'm doing background printing/painting on large sheets. I'm not sure how it relates, but after todays lecture I was inspired to at least DO something. I took a large printed sheet, cut it up into postcard size, then looked at what I had and thought about what it could be. So far all I could come up with is a vase with some alien flowers (watercolor, crayon, and pencil on acrylic printed/painted paper, above). 

Next: 1) Try (copy) some Alma Thomas ideas and work bigger and in acrylic like she did, 2) Make 1 postcard each day and use up all my weird scraps of already painted/printed paper, 3) Check out an Alma Thomas book from the library. 4) Go to the next 3 Colorstruck lectures. 

Vase/bowl thing turned out okay. That is thanks to the twice-monthly hour-long Drawn to Figures lessons at the National Portrait Gallery. Short versions of some of the lessons here. Someone will like getting this postcard in the mail.