Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Luminous Woman
Friday, November 17, 2023
Multifaceted Women
Deserey, Seeing Eye Bird
digital
Desirey, with Three Cranes
Woman Wondering
digital, 11/23
Vision
Diana with Flowers
Diana Musing
Pomona
Celeste
Here I have posted several pictures of women. Some are recent, some from a few years past. Some, I may have posted previously.
I wonder why I create so many pictures of women? The easy answer is that I just want to paint women. But there must be more to it than that. The answer is not easy to formulate. I am a woman, do I paint the idealized woman that I want to be? Ummm, I guess that is it. Being feminine is deeply interesting. I am exploring fascinating territory.
Some artist paint their sorrows. Picasso's "Guernica", is one of my favorite pictures. It is devastating, intense suffering is portrayed. There is no attempt to show the bright side of life. There was no bright side of life in Spain during that war.
I am, unfortunately well acquainted with suffering. But, I do not want to paint pain. Maybe, making art, for me is escapist, a denial of the desperate low points of life. I want beauty, joy, spiritual ascendance. So, I create pictures of what I want.
Thursday, May 6, 2021
Spring with Cheshire Cat
Spring with Cheshire Cat
Saturday, May 1, 2021
Rose Dancer
Rose Dance
Saturday, April 10, 2021
Luminous Woman, three images
Amazon Grace
Jitterbug
Grace Grape
Tuesday, January 5, 2021
Resting on Couch
Resting on Couch
limited edition of 50, signed, archival inkjet print, 1/2021
Well, here is a picture of a woman relaxing comfortably. A bit of a change in subject matter, because usually my women figures are very active. They dance, they fly, they do yoga. I guess it is time to take a rest after all that exercise. She looks peaceful and contented.
The colors are rich and mellow. I think that they are yummy, like a chocolate covered cherry. The woman is depicted with minimal graceful lines.
I create digital works similar to the way that I create with paint and canvas. Using digital brushes I create lines and texture that show, "the mark of the maker". The composition of the painting creates a large "X", with the blue throw balancing the diagonal line of the woman and the window.
You may order a print by clicking on my email address in the column to the right and leaving me a message stating the print that you want. Prints, 8.5x11", are $60.00. An acrylic on canvas original painting may be commissioned, write to me about the size that you want and I will email you back about the price. Your commissioned painting will be very similar, but not exactly like this digital image.
Happy New Year!! Surely 2021 will be better than last year. Stay healthy.
Sunday, December 13, 2020
A Young Daughter of the Picts
A Young Daughter of the Picts
Monday, November 2, 2020
Pomona
Limited edition of 50, archival ink jet print, 11/2/2020
Sometimes, I wish that I was a tree. No, I dont, for I am contented with my life as a human. But, trees are some of my best friends. The big trunked oaks around my home, pine trees, fruit trees, I could go on and on about my love for trees.
There is a large oak here, must be six feet in diameter and i dont know how tall, 60 feet, 80 feet tall? This is Grandmother tree. Sometimes, I leave her offerings in a knot of the trunk.
Another tree is Great Grandmother tree. In the eighteen years that I have been here she has suffered from decrepitude of old age. Large branches have fallen off during storms. She is covered with trumpet vines, embellished with orange flowers. The trunk is hollow, some critter lives in there. An armadillo? She perseveres, hanging onto life, in the middle of a mown field, between two creeks. She has immense character, unusual beauty.
Another tree is Dragon Tree. A swamp Tupelo that has a 20 foot long, undulating, dragon like root at the edge of the creek.
Tree women, women integrated with trees, have tended to reappear in my art practice for decades.
Pomona is a sacred wood nymph in ancient Roman mythology. There were sacred groves of fruit trees dedicated to her in ancient Rome.
Monday, October 26, 2020
Floating Couple with Baby
Floating Couple with Baby
Floating Couple with Baby
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