Molly

This is Molly everyone. She's the late companion to one of my sisters. She was well loved and had a few quirks you might say. That bent ear for starters! She's a German Sheppard and didn't live to her full life expectancy. Very difficult loss for my family to process. I did this painting as a tribute to Molly and i certainly hope it's well received. 18"x24"x1 1/2" acrylic on canvas.

New Technique for Me

This piece is finally completed! Framed beautifully too I might add. 16"x20" on wood, oil and cold wax medium. Jim did the frame. What a pro!
 While I was on an art trip this past summer to Asheville N.C., I was exposed to a new and exciting form of abstract medium for me. Cold Wax. It's a medium used in oil painting for many purposes. I think its main intent was one of a finishing product. However: It makes a beautiful product when mixed with oil paints. This piece also has oil stick in it as well. Very much a "Mixed Media" in the "oil"painting branch of art expression.

Johnny Cash

Here he is The Man himself, Mr. Johnny Cash. 11"x14" acrylic on canvas

Australian Spring

It's Spring in Australia and this painting reflects that. A nice bush flower I think. The reason behind the painting is a painting swap! That's right, I get a painting and I send a painting from a group I belong to called Sketching for fun. I an so excited about this project and it really inspired me to create this little painting. Now for me, this is quite small, but thats what the swapping perimeters were, 8"x10" only. It's all wrapped up and ready to post. I will show you all the painting I receive when I get it. The swap is over on halloween. The person I get a painting from lives overseas in Australia so the mails will take awhile. Keep ya posted!!!!..........

The Man in Black

This particular piece is already SOLD, but let me tell you about it anyway. I wanted to portray Mr.Cash in a light that showed both his strength and his loneliness. I  know that he found his soulmate in his wife June but i also know that he faced a lot of demons due to his chemical addictions. I believe it was in large part because of his June, and all her love for him, that he eventually got sober. His music is soo unique and one of a kind. no one, absolutely no one, can play his music like he did. it was entertaining and sometimes gut wrenching. 

 I may paint another partial profile of his face but at this time I'm on hold with that thought.

Just one other thing...Although I connect with many of his songs, I remember as a child that I especially liked , "a Boy named Sue" because my middle name is Sue.

 What are some of your favorites by Mr.Cash?

16"x20" acrylic on canvas

Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy makes an appearance!
He measures 20"x 20"x 1 1/2 ", acrylic on gallery wrap canvas. Another fabulous musician shows up in the studio! I also worked on him as an exhibition painting at the Monte Sano Arts Festival this past weekend, brought him home and finished him off. Now ready for a home......

This Week

Dear friends, colleagues and collectors.
 I have been on vacation and have not posted in awhile. I went to Estes Park Co. and had a wonderful time hiking and painting until the floods came, at which time a fast retreat was made across the mountains to escape. All is well with me but I continue to pray for those folks who lost it all and who will have a long road ahead of them to restore any sense of normality in their lives.
 I did pack out my paintings that I did while there, in the UPS which should arrive today sometime. I will post those paintings when they are photographed.
 In other news, I will be one of 140 artists chosen for the Monte Sano Arts Festival this coming Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013. Please come on up the mountain to see all the beautiful works that will be there. Talk to the artists and have a great time! Oh, and buy some local art!
 I will also have a piece on display in the Lodge at the Park. You may visit the Lodge while at the art festival too.
 Until then, or until my next post.... ta ta
 artfully,
 Angela True

New Abstracts

Single Soul, abstract mixed media, 18 1/2"x24 3/4", on wood board, framed beautifully.

Evolution, abstract mixed media, 20 3/4"x24 1/2", on wood board, also framed beautifully.

Newest Blues Player

Could't see myself doing those last few blues greats without throwing in Mr. Buddy Guy. My husband and a friend of his were shooting pool one night and and brought the topic up. They mentioned how Buddy always has either a polka dot shirt or polka dot guitar going on! So here he is in all his glory! @
24"x30" , framed in a floating frame made an inch wider all the way around.
Acrylic on canvas.

Another Completed Blues Singer

This is Mr. John Lee Hooker. In order to paint these fabulous musicians, I have to play their music. I really fell in love with this mans music! This piece was a commission. Measured, 24"x 30". Acrylic on canvas.

Another BB KIng Painting

Couldn't resist this last BB painting. Its 12"x30"x3"deep gallery wrap acrylic on canvas.

Faith and Patience

24"x36" acrylic on canvas. This painting came about when I asked my sister on the west coast via FB what I should paint at about 1:30 am. her reply was Faith and Patience. This is what I was move to paint and it immediately struck a cord in a friend of mine who purchased the painting next day. I love how that works out. You see, the paintings are never for me. They only come through me. They're for someone else and the journey is to find that someone else.

BB King

24"x30" acrylic on canvas

Been Real Busy In The Studio Of Late.

Let me introduce Mr. Bob Marley. My first attempt at him was a failure  :( Then I thought I just have to try again only this time I had hubby download his music for me so I could channel his spirit so to speak. I hope you like him.  !8"x24" acrylic on canvas

This painting came about over my broken heartedness of the folks living in the recent tornado zones , mostly those in Oklahoma as I do have family there. Texture and depth on this piece has to be seen in person to be fully enjoyed. 18"x24"x1 1/2" gallery wrap acrylic on canvas.

I really find that Mahalia Jackson is my favorite gospel singer of all time.This is a contemporary  look to her in her more youthful days. 16"x20" acrylic on canvas

 Went to a concert recently and the band was doing Beatles songs. During "Hey Jude", the audience that was seated in front and all around me, joined in singing and stood up and wrapped their arms around each other and began to sway to the tune. it very moving. I came home and started painting this right away. 12"x24"x1/12" gallery wrap acrylic on canvas.

 I LOVE the texture of this painting. It"s painted like a paint peeling old Brittish phone booth. No toxins or hazards here though, only the illusion of peeling paint..18"24"x1 1/2" acrylic on canva

 

In 2001 I was visited by an image that looked very much like this. He didn't move or speak , just stayed for awhile by a table in the carport. It"s the kind of event one never forgets. So in honor of that memory  I went ahead and painted it out and shared it with you. 18"x24"x1 1/2" gallery wrap  acrylic on canvas

Birds Of Paradise

This is the last of the three in the Garden Series. It measures 18"x36"x1 1/2 gallery wrap. Titled Birds of Paradise.

Garden Series

Knock Out Roses

30"x40"

Iris, Three foot x four foot . These pieces came about when I was going to paint the iris that were blooming in the yard, but mother nature had another thing in store for us, rain! So, instead of a tight study of a small composition of flowers, I  took to the studio and put on some music and listened to that inner creative voice. That still quiet voice we all recognize as our higher power. It said we were not going to paint "tight", we were going to paint loose. so, with Radiohead playing on the stereo and God whispering in my ear, this is what we got instead. I Love them and they"re just in time for spring!

A Salute To George Jones

Ya know I was raised on good ole George Jones and his whiny crying in your booze type of of country music. I was fortunate to see him in concert a few years back just after he had earned that "No Show Jones" reputation. He showed up for our concert and he did a damn fine job too!
Wow, I can hardly believe that he's gone.
 I couldn't let the moment pass without memorializing him in paint.. 16"x20" Acrylic on canvas.

Getting there

This little pooch whoochie is a little practice doggie that I did. I chose a particularly hard subject so that I could improve my skills. Perspective is a little off on this one, I must admit, but the face and head are overall very well executed I think.
 I like painting the dogs, I think because I'm a dog lover! Call me with your orders! Only the finest oil paints and linen surfaces used.
this one is 9"x12"

Pet Portraits

Did this little Golden in the middle of the night. I had a client ask me , "do you do dogs portraits?" Hmmm, well, I never had before so I had to practice one. So at 3 am this little darling was painted. Its a 9"x12" on linen board ,oil of coarse.

This Portrait is on conventional cotton canvas, oil. 8"x10" this is my dog Kosmo.

Truth be told, I prefer the linen board. I know its more expensive but it takes the paint in such a lovely way.

Looks like we are now in the business of pet portraits! I love the doggies! 

Deep Impact

Finally this corporate sized piece is finished! Quite fascinating to look at up close, filled with texture and color. The larger piece measures 3'x4' and the accompanying smaller four pieces each measure 8"x8". All are 1 1/2 " deep gallery wrap.

Farmyard Friends

 Moo! This cow is 16"x16" gallery wrap oil on canvas. I'm hoping to show her at the Mooresville, Al., Walking tour and art show coming up soon.

Same destination for the chickens, only they are 11"x14" gallery wrap acrylic on canvas .

Heavenly Inspirtions

While working in the studio the past two days I have been listening to old gospel hymns. Of course music always influences not only how I paint , but what I paint. This Holy Man measures 16"x16" on gallery wrap

This painting I started about a year and a half ago but never finished I decided to pull it out and work on it again, I find it quite touching.

24"x48" gallery wrap acrylic on canvas

For thirty pieces of silver he sold his off his lord  now he doesn't seem quite as happy as he thought he'd be, hmm?  20"x24" gallery wrap acrylic on canvas.

Mother Theresa

While in a blank spot about what to paint, I asked my friend what I should paint. She replied simply," Mother Theresa", and so we have her here in oils on canvas 11"x14".
I couldn't stop thinking  about all the good and selfless tasks she did everyday of her life just to ease the life of another. I researched many poses, there are many photos of her. This one seem to me to capture the weariness her poor body felt yet it still holds the wisdom in her eyes for all she has seen.

Sunflowers

12"x24" acrylic on gallery wrap canvas. a showy turnout of sunflowers in an unusual array of colors. Always keeping it fresh and apealing. The background was done in a splatter effect. and layers of different color glazes. I like this one.

Uncle Albert

Textured Mixed Media of Albert Einstein measuring 20"x24", again on board. I'll tell you he's just a riot to look at ! A fav for any physics.

Seaside Cliff

This 10"x20" acrylic is painted on board. The colors are absolutely vibrant! Using again the highly pigmented Golden fluid acrylic this one seemed to carve itself out of the side of the cliff. I love diversity of sea colors.
 Enjoy!

Fun with the Beatles

10"'x30" acrylic on canvas panels

Just Off The Easel

 Eve,16"x20", acrylic spray paint and highly pigmented acrylic paints on gallery wrap canvas. This Painting came about as a class example in spray paint backgrounds. After spraying the background the continued exercise was to see what the patterns in the paint brought forth in your imagination. What began to form for me was this woman. I love that she is plucking the fruit "earth" from the tree.

 This one I call "Long Tall Sally", and it measures 10"x30" and is an acrylic on canvas. This one brings joy to me and makes me smile through the dreary days of winter.

This last painting is another example of a sprayed background and an imagination gone wild . I felt the dream catcher first and painted that in. The horse and Man came simultaneously, and the woman last.

All of these paintings have been a bit of fun and a example of whats upstairs I suppose! Enjoy.

Been Busy in the Studio

The abstract Horses are 8"x8"

 This 30"x40" abstract is quite stunning and called Hallelujah, which is quite representative of the spiritual colors of my inner self. More my trade mark colors. Really lovely in person.

Oh, and this one folks! Wowzers, measures 24"x48" called Abstract number 25, and is almost too colorful to look directly into!

The Dancer is the final painting today that I'm posting. I saved this one for last because I wanted to tell you what was going on when this one was birthed. I was listening to tribal Native American Indian flutes and chants and was just taken over by something so strong, my hands literally shook for 30 minutes after the completion of the painting. It was truly one of those works that you can feel come through you rather than from you. This painting measures 24"x30", gallery wrap as are all of the paintings posted today.