three panels
dandelions
Rebirth
Kind of. This bloom is emerging from a tree that is 90% uprooted. I think it’s a mountain magnolia. I’ve added a LOT more paint.
not DOA
This tree fell on our power lines this winter and did a lot of damage. The repairmen cut it up. Now it has these lovely blooms. Should we tell the tree that it’s toast?
Still life
Charles & Karen came to my studio and we did a still life. We all are painting more.
the whole bloomin’ thing
I dropped off some new work at Art on Depot. This yellow daylily is appropriate for the festival on Frog Level this Saturday, and Art after Dark Fri. from 6-9.
TMI
I’ve been doing a series of drawings, well I call them drawings. There’s acrylic washes, writing, and collage, along w/ the drawing so maybe they are ‘mixed media”. Whatever. I use the oval face of a woman wearing a skull cap as the starting point to investigate the stresses on women, and lately stresses from the world news. I kept honing in, showing the stress on the cap, then a partial face, and finally just in the eye. The media is making me worry about women in Arab countries, or Japan, or now, Alabama. I feel there pain, but I also need to step back. This is called” Too Much Information.”
Drawing or painting.
I haven’t got the love affair w/ acrylic paint that I do with oils. However, this winter I have been doing drawings that have a lot of acrylic washes and some painting on them. Some were on vellum, which has a nice translucent quality and smooth texture. This one is on paper. I had painted a rant on the paper last fall, but I knew I couldn’t make anything from it. I drew and painted over it. You can see part of the word “class” left over from the rant.
Computer Problem
I have discovered a new approach to drawing. It’s much more like my paintings. Part of this came from being forced to use acrylics thru the winter. I wasn’t thrilled w/ them for painting, but I stumbled into a winning tri-fecta of drawing, vellum, and acrylic washes. I’m using chalk and charcoal for the drawing. I sneak some color in. I’ve also added some collage after all of this, on other works. This drawing is 3′ x 28″.
Womyn, broken computer
I started this drawing in San Antonio, on vacation. This is my first day back in my Fines Creek studio, the winter has made the commute impassable. Anyway, I focused on the theme of the womyn w/ a cap over her head, and stuff going thru her head. I did several drawings there, all w/ a hint of blue, not my usual color. This one bemoans computer glitches. How do we live with them, or without them? Sounds like the dilemma about men!