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!)