Far away, Happy Joy Joy

Far Away, Happy Joy Joy
44" x 50"
Mixed Medium on Canvas, 2009


This painting has lots of metallic and iridescent paint, yummy decadence:)!!!!

Raining on my spring flowers

Raining on my spring flowers
44" x 44"
Mixed Medium on Canvas

Long Distance

Long Distance
48" x 50"
Mixed Medium on Canvas


Whats really great is seeing this large painting in this small thumbnail size!!! Because when its so big that your physically inside while painting, you can't always see the composition. Since I don't plan my paintings, or even know where I want them to finish...when I end I'm somewhat nervous, but then seeing them small in one eye blink on the computer, I see that there is balance!!! Yah:)

Finding Joy

Finding Joy
44" x 50"
Mixed Medium on Canvas

(I havn't stretched the canvas yet, so pardon the shadow's in the top corners)

Spring Beginnings

March
4' x 5'
Mixed Medium on Canvas

This painting I finished today, and have been working on it for a long time, it changed so many times; I almost cut it up, threw it out, etc. and then I put it away for a couple weeks-out of sight, out of mind. Today I decided to revisit it being freshly inspired with an attitude of freedom. I am happy that I touched it once more, and happier still that it found its final form...well for now, Raushenburg was known to continue to "improve" his finished works:)

Spring Is Here!!!!

Yellow Spring
5' x 4'
Mixed Medium on Canvas

Untitled Drawing
12" x 16"
Mixed Medium on paper

Untitled Drawing/Painting 2
12" x 16"

Untitled Drawing/Painting 3
12" x 16"

Spring Green Triptec
3pcs 11 x 14 each
Mixed Medium on Canvas Board


The drawings were done in transition between winter and spring, the large yellow canvas I have been working on, ( Its done now!) for the last month or so..and the last piece was a "daily" painting completed today......I am still working and working on how to work more!!!

New Works

Godspeed
58" x 38"
Mixed Medium on Canvas, (Oil, acrylic, graphite, gold leaf, crayon)

It Keeps Snowing
58" x 38"
Mixed medium on Canvas, (oil, acrylic, graphite, gold leaf, crayon)

New Studio

Winter Hues

A photograph of snow and asphalt, while walking home the other day.....

In China's Tang Dynasty ( about 627 AD-) Someone wrote..."We see only what we look for; we look for only what we know" ( I just found this quote from a friend and fellow artist, Harris Browns, essay about "what is art" for 4th graders..and it is very apropos for me this week)

Below are four paintings I completed about a week ago. I was terribly dissatisfied at first and almost embarrassed by them, despite that I greatly enjoyed the process of creating them. I felt so uncomfortable with them, because I thought, "What are these? Their so trite and about nothing...why am I inspired to make marks about nothing?" I showed my husband and he encouraged me that they were nice as was..even without a known figure, symbol, intention or purpose.

So, I didn't touch them, ( or destroy them), and I went for a walk. While I was walking I noticed what I was looking at, I was looking at the marks in the snow, on the ground...the silhouettes, flat shapes, lines and textures... I SAW my paintings!!! I realized that I am painting what I see, feel and think, even when I don't consciously recognize it, and this helped me to know that I need to trust in the process. TRUST my painting process. That doesn't mean I have to love every outcome, but that I need to let go of the control even more, and just swim in the wonderful unknown waters of creativity, which is where my joy is....

Winter Hues I 11" x 11" Mixed Medium on Wood

Winter Hues II 11" x 11" Mixed Medium on Wood

Winter Hues III 11" x 11" Mixed Medium on Wood

Winter Hues IV 11" x 11" Mixed Medium on Wood

Day 12, 13, 14

So, here are the last 3 days of painting on this project (its taken me ummmm a few wks to post an update), as I have decided it will be 14 painted days and 30 days out doors...or actually whenever I can retrieve the paintings from the frozen snow and ice....( They are currently entirely covered, and I can't even see them!) When I uncover them, I will decide what to do next with them....hmmm???
I am stopped early with the this painting/throwing away project because I got anxious to start painting "keepers". This was a great warm up exercise, allowing me to just play. Play with mediums, styles, techniques, material etc. and I'm amped up to paint now!!!
I just hung two large canvas's and am actively working on them....it is soooooo fun, and I am so happy to be painting again!!!! FOR REAL!!! HOLLER!!!
In between these throw-away paintings and the canvas's I'm working on, I did a small group of paintings that I will post tomorrow (maybe....having a baby means maybe for everything!)

Days , 8, 9 & 10 & 11

Outside all the paintings (days 1-7) are buried, and the deer are walking on top!

Day 8 Front- This painting includes mixed paint mediums as well as fabric

Day 8- Back
Day 8- Outside


Day 9 Front

Day 9 Back ( I like the stuff on the table around this painting, so I left it for the photo)


Day 10


Day 11

The other "environmental" art piece of the day