Multifaceted Women

Deserey, Seeing Eye Bird 

 digital

Desirey, with Three Cranes

digital

Woman Wondering

digital, 11/23

Vision

digital

Diana with Flowers

digital

Diana Musing

digital

Pomona

digital

Celeste

digital

 

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.

Spring with Cheshire Cat

 Spring with Cheshire Cat

close up

archival inkjet print, 5/6/21

This lovely woman named Spring, is bedecked with beautiful flowers.  She is swaying gracefully in a vintage forest.  Her hand gestures towards the cat.  Everything is beautiful, except for the Cheshire Cat.  That Cat!  The image of the trickster signifies all the dirty tricks that life bestows.  Is he evil?  Maybe, maybe not.  He is the one throwing glitches at earthlings everyday.  I, you, can blame the trickster.  When your bad thumb pushes the wrong button on the clicker, blame the Cheshire Cat.  When I get confused and cook the recipe wrong,  the Cheshire Cat made me do it.  When one is called into the managers office for an anal evaluation, and things do not go well, that is definitely the Cheshire Cat playing annoying tricks. 

I found the inspiration for this image on FaceBook. Someone, I wish that I could remember who, posted a series of vintage photos from about a hundred years ago.  I worked the image up in photoshop.  Lots of fun adding color and making flowers.  The original image had a rabbit, which I replaced with the Trickster Cat, adding a dash of irony, to spice things up.  

Rose Dancer

 

Rose Dance

Rose Dance

digital work, archival inkjet print, 5/21

There is something spiritual about this picture.  A beautiful, feminine dancer is ecstatically merging with the graceful lines and vibrant color of an exquisite rose.  I think that it portrays the height of joy.  An epiphany of light.  

Created in photoshop for archival ink jet prints. This is similar to an image that I created a few years ago.  I used the same female silhouette from an earlier picture.  

The openness of her posture shows an abandonment of worry, escape from the nagging of daily reality.  A portal has opened for her to a higher level of spirit.  

When you look at this, I hope that you are aware of the human potential for joy. I hope that your heart strings vibrate with vibrant color. 

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Luminous Woman, three images

 

Amazon Grace

Archival inkjet print, recent work

Jitterbug

Archival inkjet print, recent work

I was surprised when this figure showed up.  I think of my style, I do try to stay on a stylistic consistency path, but my Muse insists that I do not follow any rules strictly.  I think that my work lately and over the long hall aspires for luxe, calme and volumpte.  This picture is not calm, it is vibrant with ecstatic energy.  I enjoyed making this, I hope that you like looking at it.

Grace Grape

Archival inkjet print, recent work

The really satisfying aspect of using Photoshop is that I can reuse, rework image items.  I dont know how long I have been using this body of a figure, a year?  maybe two?  It is like using a stencil.  The wings, color and background are changed, a new mood is created.  I have a collage using the red and black, Coco figure.  I need to get it photographed so that I can post it.  

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.

A Young Daughter of the Picts

A Young Daughter of the Picts

Limited edition of 50, signed, archival inkjet print, 12/2020

This image was inspired by a friend, Jesse Poinboeuf's, post of a picture on Facebook.  The original picture is assumed to have been painted in about the 1580's by Jacque Le Moyne de Morgues, but the facts are a bit muddled.  Previously the painting was attributed to another artist and a earlier time. The original picture is an imaginary image, painted to represent ancient (yes, ancient to the people of the 1500's), Scottish people who were called Picts.  It is an interesting history that you may want to google.  Scholars surmise that the image illustrates a Pict that the artist assumed was  similar to tattooed North American Natives. The flowers of the original picture are flowers that were popular in England in the 1500's, adding anachronism to the muddle of  history.  It is a really fun, mysterious image.

 I depicted flowers that are mostly imaginary, not specific species.  

Seeing the image on Facebook, I found it to be somewhat similar to the images that I have been creating.  So, I used it as inspiration for this digital image.  I may also make an acrylic painting of the image, but who knows, I am never sure what comes next.   

I was motivated to paint this  woman, why?,  to represent beautiful, ideal feminine qualities.  She carries a sword, making her a "dont mess with me" woman.  

And, oh yea,  I added a flower/womb with a baby in the belly.

close up

 A Daughter of the Picts

Attributed to Jacque Le Moyne de Morgues

circa 1580's

10"x 7.5", mixed media

 

 

Tree Woman, Pomona

Archival inkjet print, signed and numbered, edition of 50

11/17/2020

 

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.

Floating Couple with Baby

Floating Couple with Baby

acrylic on canvas, 16x24", 2019

Floating Couple with Baby 

limited edition of 50, archival inkjet print, 2019

close up

 Shuffle into the Sunset

acrylic on paper, 16x24", 2019

There is a narrative to these pictures.  The deer is a guardian angel to the baby.  The pictures glimpse phases of life from loving couple, to baby, to death.  I made a folding brochure with images similar to these.