FINISHED - "SUNDAY AFTERNOON"

 At an artist talk, I discovered that Andy Warhol gets credit for the sculpture joke. "What's the definition of a sculpture? It is something you fall over in a museum when you back up to look at a painting." I thought that comment was older than Warhol. I suspect some people get credit because of situation - who one is with, where.

I am fooling around with solid field and illusion imagery more and more. Mixing it up. I don't know why but I best think of something.

SUNDAY AFTERNOON, 16" x 20", acrylic

PORTRAIT READY TO GO

This painting is paid for and ready to ship. Portrait commissions are so often a problem unless the patron is a fan of your art, period. Such was the case for this painting. So I could relax into the painting, no harping little critic in my head. Just soar, dance and struggle with myself. I've never met this young woman but I did get a lot of photographs, snap shots, from her father to give a sense of different angles.

AMIYAH, 14" x 11". acrylic on canvas

 

FINALLY GOT A GOOD PHOTO!!!!!!!!

I finally got a good photograph of this little painting. I think subconsciously I didn't want a good picture, wanted to keep it off the Big Web. I do like to share. This country, this culture IS suffering from art starvation. Make More Art!

Tah-dah!

ME AND MOM, acrylic on canvas, (h)17" x 24", 2003

CARE

I subbed for caregivers for Charlotte. It was challenging in oh so many ways. Crazy Carl is in rehab. Charlotte needs 24 hour company in addition to assistance.

Here is the small sketch on the front porch.

PLEINE AIR

Trying my hand at pleine aire painting in my backyard. The sunflowers are acrobatic in their gyrations, drying in the August heat. The birds still come to steal seeds from the pods. This is a small acrylic on paper, about 10" x 12".

NEW BLICK ART SUPPLY CATALOG

In the new art supply catalog from Dick Blick, the poisonous pigments are indicated. Poisonous to the environment as well as to artists. Some of my Favorite colors. I bought pints and as I run out I will not replace them with the same pigments. Color is relative, anyway, but, Oh-h-h, I do love that cadmium yellow! I noticed that my favorite brand, Utrecht, doesn't have as many red indicators of danger (THANK YOU, CALIFORNIA). Everything changes.

BUFFALO DAWN, 1993

YELLOW ROSE, 1999

 

SOLD AT CERES, NYC.

Another offspring....or spring-off....sold, gone away. A small one. I will get name of purchaser later and paid when the check clears. I love galleries. They do the book work!

SISTERS (SUNFLOWERS) 8" X 10"

A sister painting in the exhibit, no doubt, helped with the sale! Ceres was great to allow a second, small work to accompany the main event! 

GOLDEN CHEEKED WARBLER, 22" x 28"