Still on the Easel

This little painting is still a work in progress. My girlfriends and I painted and chatted today while we worked. I will put in a rushing creek, some more rocks, trees and leaves yet.
Just thought I'd let you see the process of an oil landscape.

Haunted Trees

My husband is a photographer and was taking some pictures of trees. Actually He was looking for a shot for a contest entitled: Up a Tree. He took a picture of these trees from the ground looking upward through the tree branches. What I saw was faces in the trees, A couple of women and something else I'm not quite certain as to what it is but, there they all are.
Kinda spooky looking actually isn't it?

BB Red Rooster

Another rooster appeared while I was mixing up some colors on this canvas. Started with the gel medium with color added and just moved it around to get some good swirls and a sculpted look. I turned around and there it was! A Black Breasted Red Rooster!
I painted it out and it came to life.
I really like the colors on this one.

Calla Lillies

Just had to have fun one more time with the acrylic pouring. This time I mixed the paint directly with the pouring medium which resulted in a rather thick mixture. The colors where drawn into and out of each other with a sculpting type stick. (It's a brush shaft with a beveled rubber edge on it.) It was all then allowed to dry flat and level. The colors still melded into eachother while the paint set up creating it's own unique patterns.

Birdhouse in a Poppy Field

My friend Kathy took a picture of a birdhouse in a poppy field and wanted it to be a painting. I enjoyed the play of perspective on this one. The photo didn't turn out as well as we had hoped but I guess you get the idea.

The Cherry Blossom

I had this very large sheet of water color paper, 22"x30", and I decided to try my hand at it. So, I first misted the paper with different diluted acrylic colors, light yellow green, azo yellow and cad red med hue. Or, just light green, yellow and light red for short ; ) anyway. After I had done that I asked myself, "so just what do you see?" I immediately saw that cherry blossoms were needed to bring out the wonderful contrast in the flowers and the background colors that I had just applied. That's how the flowers came about. Next was the fact that I wanted to do a watercolor but I don't know how to. Oh well, the only cure for that is to just go ahead and try, right? So, in the company of a couple of friends, I tried my hand at watercolor and this is the resulting piece.
I did enjoy myself so I may try it again.

Flame Flower

Flame Flower is 22"x30" on water color paper. The flowers just formed themselves when I let the paint "go". It is acrylic paint thinned out and distributed by squeeze bottles. It's just three colors, olive green, cad medium red and Azo yellow. Because I used thinned acrylics the colors made these wonderful puddles of color nestled right in the cup of each flower. They also took about 36 hours to dry too! The result was just lovely. I am going to work on more for sure!

SOLD

This is Natasha O. and she purchased both "The Ring of Fire" which she is holding up and, "The Rose", pictured on the wall behind her! Yeah Natasha!
These two paintings were hanging in the halls of Madison City Hall and Natasha saw them everyday there and said that she had to have them. I am so excited for her to have them as well! Now, The Rose was painted at an artist retreat. I was inspired by a beautriful bouquet of roses and I just was overcome with the desire to paint one up close. I used a gel medium to thicken the paints and a very large pallette knife. With deliberate swipes of the knive I carved out this rose. The Ring Of Fire painting was done with very bright colors and huge brushes. Painted in the evening and in quiet seclusion. Purples and Magenta's play up brilliantly against the oranges and Cadmium red hues.
One of my favorites.
Thanks again Natasha for choosing my art and enjoy!

Old Souls

This painting shown in various angles is called," Old Souls." It measures 24"x72"x1 1/2" gallery wrap, and is an acrylic on stretched canvas.

Now, the story! Some time back I made a painting called "The Travelers". In that painting which was very similar to this one, the tumbling pieces represented souls or sparks of the divine, returning to Source, or, the greater spark/light. In this painting I was suddenly overcome at midnight to make many entries to Source. So, in my jammies I began to trowel and knife in the colors of the Light. I did this in silence, moving speedily and with great purpose. I mixed the colors with a gloss gel medium to better move with the knife and blend with the long trowel. I also wanted to have the movement recorded in the painting. I worked on the "Souls" which are represented by the blue travelers, each returning to source in their own way by many pathways.


Where they get their name as Old Souls , happens as a result of the many times they have made this journey. As we sometimes note, and I might add, all cultures do, recognize that certain look in the eyes of some. We may be heard to remark, "He has the eyes of an old soul". These travel weary souls journey back to Source, some finally completing their journey some already waiting expectantly for their next trip. The Old Souls were painted to various music from the 70"s mostly, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Cat Stevens, and yeah I even threw in some gospel from Mahalia Jackson just because I like her.
So, look and see if you see what I saw. Or, do you see something else?

Winner of the Drawing!!!

Congratulations to Carleen Cowles who won the free drawing for this painting called, " Wall Flowers". I have been really enjoying the people who come to the booth at shows and stop by and look and admire, critique, and otherwise seem to enjoy the art work. Carleen was very happy to have won.

See ya at the next show and I hope you're the next winner.....!

Madison Street Fest

Today was the street fest in downtown old Madison. Here is the initial booth set up. It changed a little later in the day when I set up to paint on site.

Here is a lovely lady and her son with their purchases today
Here is another happy customer with her purchases as well.
We sold another painting to a gentleman, "Safe Harbor" was the one he bought. There were a few other paintings sold as well that we didn't get photos of. Ah well, we were very busy at times, talking and enjoying the great folks in Madison Alabama.
All in all it was a really wonderful day. We had a drawing for a free painting, and I also enjoyed painting for the people. I started a portrait of a little girl I know.
Jim and I did get really badly sunburned. Of course he looks all sporty and healthy, mine was only on one side of my face so I look ridiculous to say the least! : )