Cosmic Armadillo

Title: Cosmic Armadillo
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 6x6 inches
Genre: Animals

Don't look now, but there is a giant Armadillo floating somewhere out in the cosmos.

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Anna's Cats

Title: "Anna's Cats"
Medium: Acrylic on panel
Size: 5x7 inches
Genre: figurative

Started from live model, finished from photos. Her pensive expression gave me the idea of providing her with some company.

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Bubbles

Title: Bubbles
Genre: Fantasy
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 5" x 5"

Acrylic on wood panel, framed. Did this while listening to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. No, that cup is not a horcrux.

Resting Dancer (Study)

Title: "Resting Dancer"
Genre: Figurative
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 14x11 inches

Three hour study from a live model, who is a belly dancer. The background colors are from another painting showing through. If I do a live study that doesn't turn out well (and that one definitely did not), I paint over it. The colors from the painting underneath always make for an interesting background.

Underwater Teacup

"Underwater Teacup"
Genre: Still Life, Fantasy
Size: 6x6 inches
Medium: Acrylic on wood

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I'm fascinated with the idea of artifacts in a wild or natural setting. I love painting underwater scenes, and I love painting still life objects, and somehow, the two just go together for me.

Delicate Manners

Title: "Delicate Manners"
Medium: Acrylic on linen panel
Size: 8x8 inches
Genre: Still Life

Started this painting with my artist friend Eve Larson. She supplied the pansies, the vase, and the little gold dish off to the side, and I supplied the china teacup and saucer. It's great fun to paint with a buddy-- artists painting together give each other energy and inspiration.  Took pictures of it, then finished it at home.

Both china and flowers are delicate, but they make an strong and lasting impression on our senses.

Green Fairy

"Green Fairy" 9x12 acrylic on Raymar panel.
© Theresa Taylor Bayer 2015

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Work in Progress: Fairy on a Frog

The Fairy is a clay figure I made, and the Frog is part of my plastic animals collection. Here you can see the first 3 stages of this painting.

©Theresa Taylor Bayer, 2015

Title: Work in Progress: Fairy on a Frog
Genre: Fantasy
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 8x10

Fairy & Friends

Title: "Fairy & Friends"
Artist: Theresa Taylor Bayer
Medium: Acrylic on Raymar panel
Size: 24x18 inches
Genre: Fantasy

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A very sedate Fairy with a group of goofy friends.  I wanted to make her wings look like they are actually growing out of her back. For reference I used a photo taken of a model in my art group, plus other photos I've taken of peacocks, butterflies, cats, and trees. The frog was one of my collection of plastic animals.

Frog with Pansies, fun art by Theresa Bayer

Title: Frog with Pansies
Size: 4x6 inches
Medium: Acrylic on Everlast panel
Genre: animals, illustration, fantasy

I've been working on painting faster, and have found that if I paint thin, it's much easier to go fast. This one is a little tighter than what I've been doing lately. Still experimenting with this thinner paint body; maybe I can loosen it up just slightly. I also am enjoying putting glazes over an area, to either knock it back or give it some extra color.

I've acquired what amounts to a whole collection of plastic frogs, and used two of them for the frog in this painting. The column is from a clay model I made, and the pansies from a photo I took.

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Halloween Ghosts

"Ectoplasmic Touch"
Size: 7x5 inches
Medium: Acrylic
Support: Stretched canvas
Genre: Fantasy
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An old theme, revisited. A few years ago I did an ACEO of this one, below. I'm not sure if trying to repeat the past is such a good idea; still there are things about the newer version that I like. In the end, it comes down to getting out the old sketchbook and coming up with a good initial design, which certainly could reinterpret past elements in a new way.




Here's the older version:

"A tangle of ectoplasm" ink and watercolor ACEO. Sold.

Goose in a Green Grotto

"Goose in a Green Grotto" Size: 7x5 inches. Medium: Acrylic on canvas. Genre: Animals.
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The uprooted flower means that it can be replanted, as opposed to a cut flower which doesn't have a chance to re-establish itself. The wing has been anthropomorphized into a sort of hand, complete with opposable thumb.

Re. the color, I'm working on mid tones, to get more variation in them.

Treasure Map: The finished painting

"Treasure Map" Size: 10x8 inches. Medium:  acrylic on canvas.  Genre: Fantasy.  ©Theresa Bayer

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I went back to the original violet oxide underpainting; I really like that color. The face got changed because the painting insisted on looking like the model. You can't argue with a painting. It will beat you every time.

This might be called a spiritual quest. The frogs represent earthly concerns; the butterfly represents the spirit. One of the frogs is wearing a locket, and a key is dangling from her hat. This means that spiritual and earthly concerns are intermingled.

Treasure Map: Work in Progress

"Treasure Map" Work in Progress. Size: 10x8.  Medium: acrylic on canvas. Genre: Fantasy.
The face is finished, and hopefully the hand, although it may need a little pink added. Yup, that's a frog on her hat, but it's artificial, so it's not very heavy. The butterfly, however, is real. The butterfly is offering to lead her to the correct place to dig. The frog, being artificial, is entirely useless in that regard.

Schrodinger's Cat Always Lives, experiment # 3

 #"Schrodinger's Cat Always Lives," 6x4 inches, acrylic on panel, genre: fantasy. SOLD.
The cat is holding an infinity loop, meaning that cats always survive experimental boxes. This box is very experimental indeed, with a face, and topped by an owl. A dragon lurks in the background. The cat dangles a key from his tail.

This piece started out as an experiment with ink on the panel but it didn't work. The painting wanted to be a normal painting, and you have to respect what it wants. Conclusion: ink is for paper, at least for me, and I will be doing some more ink/paper collages on canvas.

Food for Thought

"Food for Thought" 8x8 inches, acrylics on illustration board. Genre, fantasy.

The painting started out smaller, but it was too small to frame, so I glued it onto another illustration board, thereby adding a border. It can be framed as is, without glass. Note the heart shaped by the bird's head, the girl's elbow, and the greenery to the side of her.

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BTW I'm starting a campaign to get artists credited, especially when people share paintings on Facebook. Feel free to use this... it's signed. Or make your own and sign it. Writers get credited when they are quoted. Let's have the same respect for artists!

Advice from the art muse

"Advice from the Art Muse" 9x12, archival ink on watercolor paper.

I wanted to experiment with some colored ink. All I had were brown and green, but I really like how it came out. Planning on buying some more archival colored pens. The brown was a Pitt pen, and the green was a Zig calligraphy pen.

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Deep Waters

Will the fish be able to unlock this heart? Maybe the octopus can help.
"Deep Waters" 8x8 inches, acrylic on panel. Genre: animals
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Fish With a Key

"Fish with a Key" Acrylic on panel, size 4x6 inches, genre: animals. I love visual puns, so that's what this is about. What the key represents is a mystery, left to the viewer's interpretation.

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Saturday Cafe

"Saturday Cafe" 5x7 inches, watercolor and ink on 140# coldpress paper.
This is from the Daily Paintworks "Crowd Challenge." I wanted to see how much I could change things around from the photo, so I made some of the figures into cats and birds, and then added other figures from my imagination.

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