I finished two more art cards today during this stormy rainy Saturday that are up for auction. Nice vibe in my studio today all around. Candles and groovy music always help. And when it is rainy like this I don’t feel so guilty about being inside and am able to focus on my work. You know what I mean?
Anyway, enjoy!
“What Dogs Really Want”
“Little Girl & Her Little Bed”
April 25, 2009 | Comments (2) | Views (125)
I have a couple more in production, but for now I thought I would post a couple of my artist trading cards that are currently up for auction. When I finish the others, I will of course post them.
It’s evident I’m in a suspensefully sarcastic mood these days.
April 20, 2009 | Comments (2) | Views (152)
It might not appear to be, but this painting put up a big fight. I was quite close to tossing it out the window at many points. I worked a little larger this time with this one, so maybe that was the issue. Guess its not important now that it’s done. This one is 6” x 12”.
I’m not sure if people want me to explain my pieces or not. I always enjoy hearing people’s renditions of what they think is going on in them, and often times I hate spoiling their vision with what was REALLY going on in my mind when I created them. AND, sometimes other people’s renditions are way more fascinating than what I was aiming for.
For this one, I may leave it up to the viewer to discern. Although I will point out that the blue-gray birds atop the radios represent monotony and the lady’s heart is quite simply – somewhere else.
April 15, 2009 | Comments (5) | Views (127)
I had a LOVELY weekend visiting with my family. As usual, LOTS of laughing. My father’s incredible wit was out in full force. My mother and sister are no slouches either. We played Rummy Royale all night Saturday and just as I was making my comeback from owing “the bank” 8 times of borrowing 25 chips, we called it a night. Right on the edge of my comeback. I won that last hand, you know. My comeback.
Yeah, nobody cared then either.
Anyway, I thought I would share a part of my hometown with the internet. The parts of it I miss. Besides my parents, I miss Lake Michigan. I didn’t take my phone-camera with when I took an Easter Sunday walk with my sister, Mom and dog along Lake Michigan Sunday morning. Wish I had. It was a GORGEOUS day. And I tried to drink up as much sun, blue sky and blue wavy water and boats as I could before I left.
I miss that big body of water. I really do. I feel so lost without it. The sight and sound of water just soothes my soul and without it, I am sort of a wreck.
Kringle works the same way. Below is what we all woke up to on Easter Sunday. I nearly soiled myself at the sight of them.
April 13, 2009 | Comments (10) | Views (172)
I wanted to get back to doing my watercolor, but my acrylic concoctions are calling out to me instead. Moreover, I should be whipping up some more Art Cards since those are the things that “sell”, but after a real struggle, the need to work on my acrylic diptychs and triptychs came through.
This piece is entitled “Full Potential” and it is done on 4” x 4” masonite boxes with acrylic and vintage collage.
There are a few things going on inside this piece that I will point out. We all have a bluebirdy voice telling us not to ever give up hope. Sometimes we hear it, other times we just choose to ignore it and focus on the bad. I made this painting to remind myself to listen to my bluebird more. I thought about putting the blackbird in too, but didn’t want to give him any press right now. He’s been getting too much with me lately.
The bluebird and his ability to see positively into the future, is in color for obvious reasons.
In the first panel to the left, I really wanted the dancers to be drab to illustrate that not all that glitters is necessarily gold. Grass is greener, that sort of thing.
And the crazy lines in pencil are to illustrate that how we get where we do in this life is not by direct route, but we get there.
April 6, 2009 | Comments (2) | Views (132)
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