End of June Wrap-UP

I would like to introduce two sets of paintings that belong to and are exclusively composed of other people's families. I recently finished both sets of tiny-small commissions and wanted to share the final product. The first is group was painted for the Davis Family and consists 33 paintings that range in size from a 2"x 2" to 4" x 4". The group shot and several individual paintings are below.

Group two is for the Cole Family, recently shipped the second set of 5 paintings their way and wanted to share a few of the results. They are either 2"x 3.25" or 3.25"x 3.25". 

Currently, in my studio the following work has been brewing.....

a new 30" x 40" painting start

the 30" x 22" paper piece taken at the angle to avoid glare

the latest version of Follow Me, 16"x 20"

the finished(?) version of Croquet, 20" x 24"

painting not posting

Here are a couple of updates on several works that you have already seen in progress and a couple of new surprises!

1. Follow Me, the working title for this 16" x 20"painting....

2. We Could All Be 30, the working title of the previously titled work Dad With Floating Hands...

3. Fresh Starts, the newest painting featuring Marc Stone (my favorite husband and person), my niece Aliya, and a young version of my mother. The photos of Marc and Aliya are from our wedding...it's only taken three years for me to consider painting from them...sometimes I move a little slow. Also this work is on a 20" x 24" canvas, and I really like the dimensions. I am going to have to order more soon.

4. I also painted my kitchen, which doesn't really count...but I did use oil-based paint so I am adding it to this enormous blog post. 

 before is above, below is after

5. Last but not least, I am working on a collaborative project with the wonderful poet Liz Robbins. We are each making work in response to the others. I am making original works of art based on her work, and in turn she will do the same. Our efforts will be part of a 3 weeks exhibition at Flagler's Crisp Ellert Art Museum (CEAM) in the fall. Here are two finished drawings done in response to different poems, titles are shared by both.

the archer, 9" x 12", graphite and white acrylic paint on paper

snow white and the seventh sin, 9" x 12", graphite and white acrylic paint on paper

I have also pulled out a large scale (4' x 5') charcoal drawing on canvas that I started and never completed 3 years ago, I think I can take it somewhere.

Drift Magazine Interview

Recently, Rachel Bardin an excellent photographer and generally interesting person was gracious enough to come over to my studio/house and talk for several hours about my thoughts on painting, photography, and teaching. You can check out her personal photographic work HERE. 

I am very thankful for her ability to whittle down the conversation to something resembling coherency. Reading the responses, I can tell how mentally preoccupied I was from a busy day of teaching. Frequently it takes me a while to switch gears. My favorite quote, which didn't make it in was "maybe things were just more brown then" in relation to late 70's photographs (this statement is currently written in pencil on my studio wall). And the question of whether or not young adults will see low resolution pixelated photographs as romantic once the early 2000's becomes "vintage". Maybe I will strike it rich by making that an Instagram filter.

 Without further ado, I very happy to present an online interview about my artwork found HERE!

follow me

Below is a progress report on the painting that I am currently calling "Follow Me". One really exciting and fun aspect of this painting is the presence of Aliya and Ansley, my adorable nieces.

This is the stopping point at the end of the day, so I can walk out of the studio for the evening.

Yesterday I also worked on two smaller 5" x 7" paintings:

Last, but not least, I have opened up the can of worms in my solo dad painting, "Dad with Floating Hands". Directly below is the last "finished" version of the painting and below that is the current version very much in progress version. 

This painting's current resting place, I think I need to let it dry for a day or so before diving back in. 

Mid-May Progress

First Day of Spring, 24" x 20", oil on canvas, 2012

The completed painting, now titled First Day of Spring. I am happy to say that in my delay of posting this painting has left to Annapolis and was sold this past week at Wynn Bone's Gallery! Hooray for people who purchase paintings.

I am currently wrapping up several commissions of "tiny-smalls" and plan to post the results soonish.

Fresh starts are springing up in my studio currently. Color is something I am trying to push around more, but I seem to have come up with a familiar (many too much so) palette so far.