Fishing - Rice Fields

First Block in of a painting I have been wanting to execute for a long time.  Got myself together this morning, stretched a canvas and blocked this one in.  It is 16" x 20".

I will continue to post future sessions - for now, it is very wet (oil paint) and needs to set before the next session!

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!!

 

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!

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!

 

Summer Afternoon in Sienna

The Same Summer Afternoon in Sienna

 

The same summer afternoon in Sienna - I found this image among my photographs and decided to paint it - and there is another bicycle in this view, actually, there were three - I used my editing license for this one.

Sienna - Girl on a Bicycle

Girl on Bicycle

Girl on Bicycle - Sienna

by Jean Hanna

Check out this great piece of art on Saatchi Online.

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.  

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.

Girl on Bicycle - Sienna

by Jean Hanna

Check out this great piece of art on Saatchi Online.