Contemplaing on Contemplation
Contemplation 9 (do you have ideas?) Mixed Media 18 x 18 deep, gallery wrapped canvas As you can see, I was able to get into the studio a bit this weekend. Yippee! You might recognize some parts of this particular piece. I think a while back I was showing some things I had done on [...]
Making Art
The first thing I want to share with you is personal. I know I said I was going to stop doing that, but this was also a part of art! My dear husband decided he was going to make me an ART CAKE for my recent birthday. Now here is the thing…he doesn’t really cook [...]
Connecting with Physical Locations…
Many of you know things have been wild around here the last week or so. They seem to be settling down a bit, however we all know how that goes. Thank you all for the lovely comments on the conversation I had with Barbara Wilson! The interesting thing about doing these conversations is the artist [...]
A Conversation With Barbara Wilson
Barbara you have a wide range of artistic talents. You have painted for many years, and those years of work show some fabulous art. Color is your thing and that is very clear. You have always enjoyed manipulating color wherever you can put your hands on it…even in the hair salon! You have not only [...]
Exciting Times
Untitled, 18 x 24 Acrylic on deep, gallery wrapped canvas. This is an old painting which I have never really shown people. Up to today I just was not sure about it. Today it shows you just the energy I have been feeling over the weekend! Let me tell you what happened. On Friday, my [...]
Emotions
There is a very good reason I am showing you old work today. I promise…well, aside from the fact that I am still working on the new stuff. I will tell you… On Tuesday, Robert Genn talked about Emotion in Buying in his popular newsletter, Painters Keys. His posting was talking about how he observed [...]
More About Textures, Art Friends and Sharing
Yesterday I was so excited, encouraged, and greatly inspired by every one’s comments and suggestions about textures in paintings. Thank you all so much for coming here to talk about art with me each day. Additionally, when I was making my “blog” rounds yesterday I was shocked to see two paintings featured which were so [...]
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Contemplation 8
As promised earlier this week, this is the other painting I worked on this past weekend. As you can see, I chose to use more rice paper. This was one of tissue weight which began with cleaning brushes off. At one point I even pressed a small wet canvas into the middle of the whole [...]
Using Rice Paper
Lately I have been working with a fair amount of rice paper applications to my paintings. At first I was just crumbling it up, wetting it and letting it dry like that. Then I would spread it out and using acrylic medium apply it to the painted canvas (you can see examples of this in [...]