Art - sculpture now, from the middle of life

Saturday, May 10, 2014

This is from last week. I want to have her standing in night, an invented setting, kind of a fantasy. The tree with a personality, responding to the sparkler light.

It came together pretty quickly, in 1 session. Though there is still some fine tuning to do, including the sparkler.

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

I've been working on getting things together for my featured show in July. This painting of the dolls in the wagon started out for a beginner's oil painting class that I've been teaching at Sequoia. I've painted dolls before and think they make captivating subject matter. What personalities! - I'm continually attributing feelings and thoughts to them while they're set up in my studio. It's kind of strange, and funny.

I still need to finish a few areas, the shadow to the brown haired doll's right. Straightening out the line of the wagon side. Aligning the front axle stuff, it's not lined up very well.

Saturday, January 25, 2014

Here is the finished piece.

Saturday, January 4, 2014

Still life

I started a still life while I'm waiting for the other to get to a dry enough stage to work again. I want to keep it low key and limited palette.

Sunday, December 29, 2013

I started this piece right before Christmas, knowing I would get to paint a couple times, and then leave it for a week or so.

(These are from my phone.) First pass, overlapping the forms with the background. I know I want to have a greyed dark showing through in the background, but not sure how I'll approach that yet.

Wanting to try out the colors next to each other, bringing some light into the background. Some questions: Will her hair against the doggy fur fade into the background? How do I keep that from happening?

I like the strong diagonal lights. Keep them loose. Stating the doggy face helps me to keep that area in mind as a focal point.

Conscious of leading the viewer's attention to the shared look of dog with child - and using the space in an interesting way - to strengthen that point. I removed some of the highlights under the leg. Deciding what to detail, what to keep loose.

This is where it stops for a while. I repositioned the right arm, detailed the shoulder and hair to pull attention there. I'll live with it for a while.