Emerging work

This is a 30"x40" painting. This is only the first layer. I just started pushing paint around and the figure emerged. I'm using an old set of MAX water soluble oils that I've had for a while but I really don't like- thought I'd see about using some of it up on an oil painting from years ago- redeeming both the canvas and the paint! Here are some details.

Fire and Water Glass Show

These are pieces I'm hanging today at the Fire and water Showroom for our show of the Beauties of Glass or would it be Beauty's of Glass?

I don't do lovely glass jewelry like Kathleen Mooney, but I have been interested in capturing the light through glass in many of my paintings.

Check the blog for more info.: www.fireandwaterart.blogspot.com

Golden

We've just returned from a trip to Golden, Colorado to escort our youngest to graduate school there. Not much art to post as a result, but lovely images and memories to inform future studio work. What a variety of landscapes in this world of ours!

REDEEMED 2

This is a recent piece completed on a piece of 300 lb watercolor paper I saw in the trash at a workshop. That stuff is too expensive to not have a second chance to I 'redeemed' it and obliterated what was on it under layers of paint. So I guess Redeemed has two meanings here.

It's the second painting in a series. I posted the first one July 2nd. That was painted to go in a frame I redeemed and repainted. Maybe all the pieces in the Redeemed series will mean salvation through Christ and new life for old materials considered worthless in another context and now worthy to be saved and honored! Whew! That's a little heavy!

TREES ON 56th version 2005

I thought this one was done in 2005, but I was wrong. There are some things I really like about it, but the following posts will show you where it has gone this week.

TREES ON 56th version b

TREES ON 56th version c

Almost there.

TREES ON 56th- final version

AERIAL VIEWS 2 and 11- 2005

This is the way these paintings looked last week. The current versions are in the following post.

AERIAL VIEW 2 AND 11 -2007

These are the updated version of paintings that have been hanging around since I thought they were finished in 2005- I think they're truly finished now. There are some things I liked about the first versions, but this is what staisfies me today.

new postcard

I've been working on a new postcard I'll send out to promote a solo show I'm having in the fall at the Wyoming Library. I spent hours this week with my friend Mary Andersen (http://www.maryeandersen.com/) working on a PowerPoint presentation of her work she's presenting at MANNA on Monday (www.mannagr.blogspot.com). We were laughing about how people think the life of an artist is all about pushing paint around and they don't see the bits and pieces that take up hours. Promotion, preparation, accounting, arranging for shows, applying for shows are the left brained part of this art business. Time to go push some paint around!!

VINEYARD

This is the last of the little postcard sized paintings I did up North. Not sure it's done, but I'm trying to avoid being too 'finished'. I've been working on a few things since we've come home, but they have not been photographed. It's been fun having this 'stash' of photos to blog from.

Here's a quote:

"When love and skill work together
expect a masterpiece." (John Ruskin)

I found that on the Painter's Keys this
morning and it's worth chewing on...
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HOLLYHOCK

Ah, summer!

BIRDHOUSE

Not sure that this is done.
Not sure it has to be.
It's just a record of a lovely day
up North in Michigan.

BIRD HOUSE AND HOLLYHOCKS

Another little sketchy watercolor.

ONE MORE SUNFLOWER

One more sunflower painting.
A long one this time.
I cut a mat and put it in a little gold frame and a and it's out at the gallery in Lowell.

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BEACH PATH

This is another of the little watercolors from last week - 4x6.

SUNFLOWER 6

This is the last of the watercolor sunflower series...for now. There may be some acrylic ones in the future. There are a few more coming of other subjects.

SUNFLOWER 5

This was done with watercolors and watercolor pencils.

SUNFLOWER 4

Talk about quick! My brush was a blur on this one.This actually looks like two separate pieces to me, top and bottom halves. There's something here that may transfer onto canvas or a larger paper, if I could keep it loose enough.