Kendrick
My kind of portrait! This child (one of my granddaughters) was totally lost in creating art - the light was sweeping across her hair/face - total drama. The energy, the spirit, the movement - all there!
Enjoy!!
Saturday, July 27, 2013
Friday, July 26, 2013
My Studio on a Good Day
I am inviting you in - into my studio! I have tried so many times to be analytical - to try to make it all make sense.I know that if I spend an hour trying to catagorize the tubes of paint - It is an hour not creating - and always find the correct pigment in the last place I looked!
Thursday, July 25, 2013
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| Cafe - Vallois (in progress) |
The Jazz Club
So, when artists become confident, and want to display their offerings, anything can happen.
Three years into my art journey I was approached, by a young woman (I knew her, she was not an unknown ) - to display my paintings. Now this was not a normal venue - it was not a gallery, but an upscale jazz club/restaurant, in a well known South Carolina city.
New to the game, I agreed, and drove 2.5 hrs. and 2.5 hrs. home, to deliver 5 paintings, which would be displayed, and would be for sale. We agreed on commission cuts and this was going to be a great opportunity for me.
I was optimistic, but was not expecting the phone call I received the morning after the opening night!
The short version - one of the owners - in a substance or mental - meltdown, - proceeded to chase the chef through the club/restaurant wielding a huge knife. That night was the premiere and closing for this restaurant/bar.
Before my representative could retrieve my paintings (the morning after ) two had mysteriously disappeared - poof - gone!
I should have been outraged, but found this amazingly funny - and just a run of bad Ju Ju!!
Since this debacle - I have been brave enough to display my canvases in other restaurants (galleries also) and have had wonderful results.
The Jazz Club snafu was a perfect storm of hilarity for me! What a great story - and a reminder that you can smile (or belly laugh) through your pain!
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
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Sienna - Girl on a Bicycle |
One Summer Afternoon in Sienna
Sometimes you just have to shoot lots and lots of film when you are traveling. The day I spent in Sienna resulted in four or five rolls of film (before the digital era). I am a people watcher and always look for unexpected views, but really had no idea what would "develop".
So many photographs - so many cafe and market scenes - which really didn't thrill me until I began cropping the pictures after scanning them into my computer. At that point so many wonderful scenes became evident and the resource material for "Sienna - Girl on a Bicycle " popped up. What good fortune and how charming.
Monday, July 22, 2013
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| Hydrangeas - Wood Street |
Hydrangeas - In Progress
Hydrangea painting in progress. I have been working very slowly on this one, and considering a minor crop.This is an experiment with different combinations of complementary colors and has morphed through several incarnations - the only change I will make will be to re size the painting.
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| Southern Landscape in Progress |
Southern Landscape in Progress
Middleton Gardens - Spanish Moss
I am having a very hard time letting this beauty go - Maybe I just want to live with it a little longer.
Landscapes in the American South are not the usual sweeping vistas.
I will always be infatuated with these magnificent oaks - the dripping Spanish moss and the elusive light that draws you back deeper and deeper - quite the ongoing love affair.
This tableau is 20" x 24", oil on stretched canvas (I stretched this one myself). I wish I could say I will be excited to complete this one, but there will be a great deal of separation anxiety when it leaves my studio.
I know I will do this one again, I have painted it larger and smaller - there is always an opportunity to see different colors - experiment, and most importantly experience joy while creating!
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