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"

The Farm

Blue Birds

24"x48"x1 1/2" gallery wrap acrylic on canvas

White Bird and Praying Monk

20"x30"x1 1/2" gallery wrap canvas.

This Weeks Production Whilst in Surgical Recovery

 This weeks selection is very, shall we say, very much the reason for the title of my blog Pick My Brains Art. You really get to see that quite a lot goes on in there left to it's own devices.Okay, first up is Feeding Time, an 18"x24"x1 1/2" acrylic on canvas. Koi swimming about at feeding tie done in the Flora Bowely style of art where extra markings start the canvas and then imagery takes over.This piece was also painted mostly with my fingers as instead of brushes in most instances.

Next here we have The Balcony, 16"x20" acrylic on canvas. She is of mixed media and was formed from palette colors applied to my canvas and spritzed and let dry. I go back later and see if an image appears to me. This is one of my ways of painting that brings me personal great joy and a use for paint not used in a previous painting. I just put up a new canvas when finished and apply the unused paints to the new canvas, spritz, hang to dry, and then it may be ready to work on next day or so. She came out with water color crayon on acrylic paints. I painted her in, well, what wasn't already there to start with, and added some finishing touches.

 I call this one The Story because everyone sees something different going on here than what I had intended when i painted it. Rather that force my vision onto you I'll just let you see what you want to see and let this painting tell it's own story to you.
 Again, this painting started off as a palette of mixed colors added to a blank canvas, spritzed and let dry. The Story told itself.. 16"x20" acrylic on canvas.

The Wise-men, 12"x16". acrylic on canvas. three, for lack of a better term, wise-men in the middle a camel on the left and a praying angel on the right make up this painting.

There you have it folks, week two of recovery from spinal fusion. Interesting to say the least. I wonder what week three will hold?