Color Color Color!

I'm organizing the supply list for my workshop

FYI

I don't use every color for every painting ...

just thought it might be fun/useful to see all the possible contenders 

It will be a "suggested" list

approximate colors are fine

But color is a biggie for me.

~Swoon~

 :)

"Broken"

Long time in the making ... 

Finally finished...

Could not be happier :)

detail shots

TO DO LIST:

non-glare filter for camera asap :)

BTW

I am teaching a two day 

WORKSHOP IN ATLANTA

September 14th and 15th

a few spaces are left.

I will give a short demo of my process, instruction will focus on painting in oils from life

OH and

props will be bows and presents not headless dolls :)

Click HERE for more info

or email any questions my way.

Many thanks to all who have encouraged me on during this painting!

Wait

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"Wait"

6"x6"

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"Travelers"

6"x12"

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"Stacked"

12"x12"

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OMG!!!

:)

"Down and Out" ... moving right along

Oh my gosh!!

how this...

magically turns into Barbie hair 

is keeping me GLUED to the easel!

 Seeing that the next canvas is three quarters hair...

obviously dinner and laundry and cleaning will just have to wait dear 

BTW- if you haven't seen this movie ... you just must!

"Down and Out" ... progress report

I almost feel bad having so much fun painting poor Barbie while she's clearly so unhappy

braving a frozen smile ...

and those blank staring eyes ...

melancholy at best...

but I'm in heaven

with blobs of paint turning into plastic and hair

Yum-E...

so sorry Barbie

"Down and Out" ... in progress

(12" x 12")

This is the first section of a four canvas composition

each canvas will be 12" x 12"

next canvas sketched

Stay tuned to see how she develops and 

I promise to be a bit tamer than my last Barbie painting :)

Ohhh and also....

("Stacked" - 12" x 12" overall painting size, framed in an extra wide floater frame)

I finally finished framing my previous multi-canvas painting "Stacked" 

I just adore working in sections like this!

"Sunday Blues"

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Am I the only one out there finding it difficult to get in front of the easel/work lately???

  

Normally I organize my time pretty easily, but this time of year its impossible!  

Can I hear a "heck yes!" ...

(cricket cricket cricket) 

anybody... :)

Anyhoo...

Grandiose ideas of a mammoth comic painting eventually settled on this tiny version

click HERE for info

Happy Happy Holidays!

Book Release Party

Some time ago I posted the exciting news that my painting "Clay" was selected for inclusion in Manifest Gallery's International Painting Annual Vol. 2

INPA 2 has now been published and the Book Release Party is this weekend!

Out of 1310 paintings submitted from 452 artists, only 118 works were selected.  I am honored to be one of the 72 artists represented in this amazing publication.

Anyone living in or near Cincinnati stop by the gallery for what I hear is quite a fun event! 

Click HERE for more information about the book and gallery

and HERE for the Facebook Event Page

Thank you Manifest!!

the big and small of it

On the BIG easel today ...

I have been making lots of progress on this painting, I just haven't been posting about it.

It seems my page of in-progress pictures (On my Easel) takes FORever to load because of all the photos so I stopped updating, but ....

only two and a half heads to go!

  

On the Little easel today ...

Yes,

that is a lemon

on a bow

on top of a doll head

and Yes,

I wrote

Beck

Loser Baby

because I was listening to Pandora while painting and Beck's song "Loser" seemed a perfect potential painting title.

Much more direct then I usually go for ...

I was planning on the less obvious title "Lemon"

humm ... we'll see

thanks for tuning in :)

"Stacked"

I feel a spell of yellow comin' on ...

which made me wonder...
is the phrase "spell coming on" widely known or is this a Southern thing?

interpretation..
I can tell I'm about to get really obsessed with (fill in the blank)

in my case yella :)