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| Beware the Pit Acrylic on 9x12 canvas |
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Beware the Pit
Since I said I would post everything, even the weird - here is a painting I did a couple of weeks ago. It's a creepy painting that I did the week before the horrible Boston bombing and the insane, and scary, aftermath.
Saturday, April 20, 2013
Crosshatch Mac
This is the latest acrylic. Getting the hang of it - I like painting in layers. I don't have the patience to do it with oils - you have to wait a day between layers because they take so long to dry.
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| Crosshatch Mac Acrylic on 8x8 canvas |
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Two Greens and a Red
So it's fruit again. But fruit is the old reliable that I go to when I need to figure out the paint so there will be more coming (lucky you!)
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| Two Greens and a Red 6x6 acrylic on panel |
Monday, April 15, 2013
Boston You're My Home
Sad day in Boston. My thoughts are with everyone impacted by today's craziness. So cruel and so evil.
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Is 22 months too long between blog posts?
Well well, here I am. I feel as though I have stepped out of a cloud and back to crisp, bright blue clarity. Cerulean blue.
It's been a long time. Lots of things have happened - got a new job, worked many hours and had a hard time separating work from life which didn't leave time for art. I did have time for my son, of course. He probably would have preferred if I had backed off a bit because he's a senior in high school - which makes me an awkward annoyance with a wallet.
After not painting for well over a year - almost two - I started again a couple of weeks ago. I have kept my studio this whole time, but rarely went and when I did I just sort of puttered around. I was completely and totally blocked.
I still struggle to get to the studio, but I started painting at home with acrylics. Painting with acrylics is completely different than painting with oils and I'm learning all over again. I'm going to post one of them, even though it's kind of embarrassing, but the whole point of this blog - and my art - was to focus on THE PROCESS, not the end result.
I lost sight of that.
My focus right now is to learn what I can do with acrylic paint and reveal the shapes and colors (hence the title) rather than the subject matter. That's hard for me to do because I'm the most literal artist in the world (poetry is usually a mystery to me.) With oils I can goop it on and move the paint around and things blend and overlap and do wonderful things. Acrylic dries very fast so no gooping and moving unless it happens in 5 minutes; instead I've been doing many thin thin layers of paint. I'd like to get to a where my acrylic paintings are less literal and more painterly.
It's been a long time. Lots of things have happened - got a new job, worked many hours and had a hard time separating work from life which didn't leave time for art. I did have time for my son, of course. He probably would have preferred if I had backed off a bit because he's a senior in high school - which makes me an awkward annoyance with a wallet.
After not painting for well over a year - almost two - I started again a couple of weeks ago. I have kept my studio this whole time, but rarely went and when I did I just sort of puttered around. I was completely and totally blocked.
I still struggle to get to the studio, but I started painting at home with acrylics. Painting with acrylics is completely different than painting with oils and I'm learning all over again. I'm going to post one of them, even though it's kind of embarrassing, but the whole point of this blog - and my art - was to focus on THE PROCESS, not the end result.
I lost sight of that.
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| Shapes and Colors 11x14 Acrylic |
My focus right now is to learn what I can do with acrylic paint and reveal the shapes and colors (hence the title) rather than the subject matter. That's hard for me to do because I'm the most literal artist in the world (poetry is usually a mystery to me.) With oils I can goop it on and move the paint around and things blend and overlap and do wonderful things. Acrylic dries very fast so no gooping and moving unless it happens in 5 minutes; instead I've been doing many thin thin layers of paint. I'd like to get to a where my acrylic paintings are less literal and more painterly.
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