Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Dance Lyra, Drago


Dance Lyri, Drago
4/21/2020, ink jet print







March 11,2020
finished 4/20/20, ink jet print




Friday, April 17, 2020



Three Graces, An Art Experiment





This is a compilation of my favorite pictures from my exploration of different styles from one picture.  The Three Graces have been in the historical art stream since the sixth century BCE.  I am making a modest contribution, a reiteration, to a stream of art that has been for at least 8,000 years. 

Click here for more px's and info on the Floating World page:   





Saturday, February 15, 2020













Driftwood, Big Blue Wave
28"x14", 2019





Driftwood, Gold and Copper
13"long, 2019




Driftwood, Red Rocket, Portrait
30"long, 2019



2/15/20

For the past few months I have been working on this new series, Driftwood Painted.

To find out more about this series, click here, for the Driftwood page.


https://janetboydart.blogspot.com/p/driftwood-painted.html




Sunday, February 2, 2020






Three Graces

digital, 2/2/2020


There have been many renditions of the Three Graces.  The inspiration for  this one is Jean Baptiste Renault, 1793.  The inspiration for Renault's painting was a statue at the  the Libreria Piccolomini in the Duomo at Siena.  

https://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/three-graces

Why did i make this?  To make something beautiful.  To work with the anatomy.  Something to do.  A pleasurable activity to do.

This image has been popular since ancient Greece, and even before that time.  I feel a part of a stream of artist who have painted this theme.  A theme of beauty, grace, charm and creativity.  



Thursday, January 30, 2020


Horse Sampler,#1, for Dave, realistic
digital, 1/2020






Horse Sampler,#2, abstracted
digital, 1/2020


Dave asked me to make a picture of a horse.  I puttered around a while before deciding to do it.  I set my creative intention to be realistic, because that is what Dave likes.  After making the realistic horse in Photoshop I wanted to abstract the picture.  So i made up some loose guidelines.  I thought of diamond shapes, I thought about Harlequin patterns.  This was a lot of fun.  

Today, I worked on another pair of pictures, but with female figures instead of horses.  The realistic figures are almost done and i started abstracting them today. I am exercising my style tools, and doing something rather new.  I follow my muse.  I keep the art interesting, changing my guidelines, a bit here and a bit there.  I never get bored photo-shopping and painting.

The next thing that I want to do with the horse, is to blow him up.  I am excited to see how that will look. 

If that is not enough, working on four px's at once, I am also doing another thing even more out of my usual zone.  I have made some painted drift wood sculptures that looks fantastic.  I need to buy a new camera to get quality of photos of the sculptures.  Been doing the research on that.








Saturday, December 14, 2019

Sunday, December 8, 2019

Three Graces with Cardinals

digital painting, 12/2019
References an ancient Greek marble statue.