on the road

yesterday in Atlanta

this morning

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art every day 24: airplane art

I could also call this "turbulent" art but then that might sound like I'm making excuses...

Thankfully it was a short flight.

 

 I am so very...

and wondering what life would be like to be named Thankful L.

art every day 21: minis and modigliani

                                   

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Today I felt like I needed some help so I turned to Cezanne.  I have been asked often if I think its cheating to copy and the answer, for me, is always no.  

I'm preparing now for an unexpectedly busy time of year coming up.  I committed to doing more shows than I have ever done within a few weeks time so I will be in full creative swing. 

For now, I am concentrating on smaller pieces and since I will be traveling over the Thanksgiving holiday I will be able to keep up the pace...I think, I hope. 

For anyone who is checking in for the first time I should mention the post titles of "art every day" is in refereance to an online challenge Art Every Day Month  put together by Leah Piken Kolidas.  You can view the list of participants here.  I'm in the studio nearly every day but I still like having this challenge to spur me on and it was definitely helpful in providing the impetus to getting this blog off the ground.

Now if I could just find the time to figure out how to add buttons...

         

a little abstract watercolor from last night

Below are some photos of a painting I finished two weeks ago.   I got some great feedback on the last painting that I posted the progress on so I thought I would post some photos of the beginning, middle and final states of this one.   It is 48" x 36" and sold!



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If you are in the Cambridge/Somerville area this weekend stop

by the Burren for SLAM, the Saturday Local Artist Market. 

Its an execellent opportunity to browse, shop and enjoy a pint at the same time!



art every day 15: breakthrough

Untitled

acrylic on canvas

48" x 36"

After spending the day working on this painting I finally feel like what I have been wanting to happen happened.  I knew it needed to open up and I kept wishing I could crawl inside it somehow and work on it from the inside out.  Impossible, yes, but that was the sensation that kept arising.  So the question has been playing with me, if I can't blow it out from within then what?  I think I got as close to what I was going for, aside from a few touch ups,  that I will stop for now.  This is what it looked like a week ago and this is what it looked today when I started painting.  Because I know all along I wanted to push it in a more expressive direction I like to think of it as all the color and line underneath just exploded and rearranged in a new, more organic order.

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Playing catch up today.  This first photo is from the sunset I experienced Friday evening.  I didn't have my camera with me so I could not wait to get home to see if I could recapture it from memory.  It was changing before my eyes as I just sat and watched to make sure it was imprinted.  I was looking east toward a distant rise and the entire sky was filled with this suble color.  I was kind of glad I didn't have my camera because I also suspected if I had tried to take a photo my little point and shoot would probably not have captured the full range of soft colors.  I was so happy yesterday when someone chose it and another suble landscape painting to take home as a pair.   

This feather I painted yesterday while sitting at my table at a show I did in Sterling, MA.  It was an excellent day and I met a lot of really great people.  I did another smaller aceo sized painting of a feather that I put on the table on a mini easel.  It sold within minutes!  This larger one still needs a bit of work but wanted to post it anyway. Thanks to all who stopped by my table to look, talk and purchase!   

This is the painting I have been wrestling with for almost two weeks now.  I keep seeing it opening up in my mind but every time I work on it it seems to get tighter.   I worked on it for about 4 hours on Friday and could not get myself to open it up the way I had in mind so I just went with it.  I'm sort of expecting it will just happen when the time is right.  So until then I'll just keep staring at it and wondering. 

  

I am so excited about joining my first Etsy team, Finding Fine Art.  I have been an admirer of founder Jessica Torrant's work since I came upon her work on Etsy.  She created the team, a blog to go with it and it is taking off!  Sara John Afana is a her west coast affiliate and they are doing a great job.   I was so thrilled last week to be chosen for two of the treasuries on Friday.  A big piece of the Finding Fine Art movement is Fine Art Friday, which encourages members on Etsy to put together treasuries of fine art, thus giving so more exposure to so many talented fine artists.  I love this!!  Finally. It was noticeable to me right away when I joined Etsy in 2008 how little attention fine art got in the treasuries compared to the other categories.  So thank you to Jessica and Sara for taking it on!

And thank you to Michelle Pryor for featuring one of my favorite paintings in her "The Fine Art of Flying" treasury she put together for Fine Art Friday.  (I still have not figured out how to post the treasury images but I will! )  You can view Michelle's work here.

 now I'm off to enjoy what is left this beautiful day