Posted in Figure studio sketches on April 27, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I brought home two more baby chicks today! And now I’ve got my flock and am beginning to freak out about where to put them all - coop-wise. The newbies are Silver Laced Wyandottes - so exotic! Pictures to come. They’ve got faces like some exotic wild cat from Africa (but [...]
Posted in Figurative Abstracts on April 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
While I was painting today I noticed a piece of mind chatter rattling around. I’ve been spending a decent amount of time checking on my new little chicks throughout the day. So I’m painting and thinking how bored I would be, sitting in a cage all day and I actually started feeling sad [...]
Posted in Nature Abstractions on April 24, 2007 | 8 Comments »
I love to mix “crafty” activities with painting (particularly when working with kids). So in the last lessons with Haley, Cammie and Mary Jayne we soaked Masa paper, crinkled it up and squeezed the water out. Then spread it out and painted an apple orchard in bloom. The paint gets into the [...]
Posted in Everyday Sketches on April 22, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Three little puff balls, the new chicks, and pretty feisty for only 5 days old. Ready to try out their little wing puffs. Unceasing in their peep serenade. One has penguin markings, another the most exotic Cleopatra eyes and chipmunk markings. Only the R.I. Red looks like an ordinary chicken. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 21, 2007 | No Comments »
Again I’ve been sidetracked from painting, or perhaps I should say I’ve been filling the vessel of creativity! Starting over with my chicken flock, this time with freshly hatched and youngster chicks. First the two young Silkie chicks you see below, and two days later, with three new-hatched ones which have [...]
Posted in Figurative Abstracts on April 17, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Actually finished two pieces in the series I’m working on. The working title for the series is “Fissures of Time” and the intention is to connect the past to the present by weaving images throughout the paintings which tap into our collective questioning about the meaning of life. Whew! I’ll have to [...]
Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks on April 14, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Wrapped around the base of the gnarled old apple tree in my studio garden is a very plain looking vine. I believe it’s called Dutchmen’s Pipevine? And it is literally crawling with scores of the gaudiest caterpillars, black with orange polka dots. And they’re eating and getting fat, then swarming the garden [...]
Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks on April 11, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I pulled this one out from my contemplative sketchbook from last year because it’s so relevant for right now. And I apologize to those of you who are still dealing with the frozen winter woes. Hopefully it will give you something to look forward to.
Acrylic, Sharpee pen on Llama Li sketchbook paper
just now [...]
Posted in Figure studio sketches on April 10, 2007 | 5 Comments »
There’s no better way to practice drawing than to try to draw a figure from an unfamiliar angle, (like sideways) because there’s no way to project your usual mental distortions and you have to simply observe what you see, line for line and angle for angle, measurement by measurement. It feels impossible at first, [...]
Posted in Figure studio sketches on April 7, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Our Thursday night figure studio model inspired me to go a bit more realistic. Felt compelled to draw those lips of hers - fascinating, and distracting actually.
Watercolor inks on paper
