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.

Most recent works

This here is Brittany Howard from the band Alabama Shakes, singing her heart out here. Alabama Shakes is a local band to us here near Athens Alabama. They're up for a Grammy this year I hear and one of their singles Hold ON made it to the top ten Rolling Stones list!

Now this dark bluesy fellow is non other than Tom Waits. Unique to this painting is the fingers and hand continue to wrap around the canvas on this  11/2" gallery wrap canvas. This painting sold already but prints can be made.

Now on to Cathy. My studio muse and I painted this praying form, never knowing that when she was to be finished two and a half weeks later, some madman would gun down Sandy Hook Elementary kindergartners and their teachers. I had always felt that the name Cathy was such an odd pick for this painting until I saw one of the victims faces. One little girl named Catherine V. Hubbard. To me, the resemblance was eerie. Cathy could have been the little girl had she had the chance to grow up, or maybe her mother or grandmother. In any case the family resemblance was just striking. So I auctioned off Cathy to raise money for the Sandy Hook Fund. 

Coming off the Easel this Week

 This fist showing of the Roosters is for a class I'm teaching in Roosters. This is all the prep work plus pictured on the chair is a rooster done on wood. My next student has a project featuring roosters on wood so I thought I'd do one to show her how easy it was going to be for her to do.

 Not sure where these Lily's in space are headed, stay tuned. they could be done or, a work in progress.

 This piece was inspired from a piece of crystal a friend of mine used that she incorporated into a prayer stick she made. The colors in the background are of the crystal, amethyst and aveturine lying on a spayed cad red. I asked my friend what were the certain powers of this crystal and she told me , prosperity, grounding, abundance, healing, connectivity, heaven and earth. Using a sort of visual artists word play, I began to sketch what these words would look like inside of me, to me and from me, as I only have me for a reference. This is what emerged.

And lastly, my friend Michele came over and we had a little creative time together. She worked on her dolls and I on this painting. It's a Japanese Noodle Shoppe.

Painted Bra

This years submission in the auction for the annual Liz Hurley Breast Cancer Awareness fund. I do hope it draws some bids. It's modeled after a 57' Chevy .

New Paintings

 

12"x24", "Forget Me Not".

 

16"x20", "Star Gazer"

                                                            24"x30", "Holy Apparitions"