Pearls

A new little work for an art show I am in tomorrow. If you are local and want to come just email me. :)
6 x 6" Acrylic

New Art & Things in Progress

Just finished this cute little girl but I have no idea what to call her. Maybe something will come to mind once everything settles...

And here is a Rocket Boy. His background was inspired (copied - ha ha) by Mati Rose from her book "Daring Adventures in Paint". Definitely a fun read with some good ideas.

Here is a very orange little kitty I am working on. I used a product called Paverpol for the silk flower and leaves and then painted them. The Paverpol makes them kind of hard and a bit flexible which is ideal as an embellishment when you are using stretched canvas for the painting. I think I will use it again.

Do you think I need to add an ear peeking out on the left side? I keep going back and forth on that one.

And I finally got the words onto this painting "Beauty in Your Soul", so now I can call her finished. 

Thanks for stopping by and I hope the rest of your week is awesome!

I have a new look!

I decided it was time for a change. Time to lighten up my blog from the very dark black to pale grey and whimsical. I even over-hauled my logo which I am really loving.
Let me know what you think of the fresh new look!

 

What I am working on

I am creating this piece for an art show I am doing on Saturday, May 11th at Oyster Point in Newport News, VA. I think I am going to add a butterfly and words trailing behind it that say
"Recognize the beauty of your soul"
what do you think?

Little Buddha's

Check out the "Little Buddah's"!
The one without the shirt is my Grandson and the other is his best bud.
Too Cute!

Eye Candy

This is a pretty small painting and a collaboration between my good friend Cynthia Anderson and I. She started it and then was fed up with it (I know how that goes), so I said I would finish it. She did the cool lacey paper collage and began an outline of a woman which I then reinterpreted, added some blacker blacks, whites and the funky leaves. I think it is pretty sweet!

New Work

Some new work I recently finished. 30 x 40" Floral Cat and 24 x 36" Best Friends. Both are acrylic, mixed media and hanging in the Gallery at the Chapman in Hampton, VA.

Mistakes Happen

As you can see mistakes happen. The fun part (and the challenge) is what you do about it. 

In the first example is a commissioned piece that I painted called "You Are Beautiful". The first image shows you the start of the painting where all was well and then the finished piece. Unfortunately my paint brush does not have spell check and I didn't notice the mistake in spelling until the day I was to deliver the painting. There wasn't anything I could do except take it as it was since there was no time to fix it before or after work. What did I do? I told the client about it and offered to fix it. Funny thing is, they loved the mistake (for reasons I can't share here). I still have the offer outstanding to them for me to fix it. I would feel much better if they let me (smile). 

The second painting is just something that came out of my head onto the canvas however, every time I looked at her, all I could see were those poor little puppies that are so inbred their eyes go in different directions. All I could do was either scrap it or fix it. I liked the direction she was going so I decided to fix her. I drew lines on her face for measuring to determine what the real issue was and it became very apparent. The left eye was about 3/4" higher than the right. I am sure this is due to the fact that I drew the face on an angle. So I painted out the eye to try again. And then I decided to just paint over the whole face and re-draw it in. I like her much better now but I still have some tweaking to do on that left eye. The outside corner needs to come down just a bit. :o)

I welcome the mistakes and find that they exercise my brain and lead me to new discoveries. They are little journeys that keep me engaged and my creative process infinitely interesting.

MOCA Virginia Beach

Butterfly Enchanted

I created this for the Andy Warhol exhibit now showing at the MOCA in Virginia Beach. The call to artist's went out to anyone in Hampton Roads to create a portrait in any style, using any media. It did not have to be a representation of a real person. You can find my piece in the exhibit "15 Square Inches of Fame" along with 100 other Hampton Roads artists. So cool.

The reception is tomorrow, May 28, 2012, from 10:00 am - ? and is FREE and open to the public.

Come out and see me if you are in the area. It should be fun!

Poppy - Paper Clay

This is Poppy a paper clay sculpture I just finished.

It was good to get her done. She's been waiting a little while.