Fish Temple Redux

Title: Fish Temple Redux
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Genre: Fantasy, Animals
Size: 8x10 inches

This is one I started three years ago, and finally finished. Decided it was too barren, so I added some corals and some extra fish. If you search this blog for "fish temple," you can see the original.

Big Bend Adobe Ruins -- and a Rabbit

Title: Big Bend Adobe Ruins

Medium: Acrylic on panel

Size: 6x6 inches

Genre: Landscape

Can't stop painting the Big Bend area, so I'm just going to continue. This is the Dorgan-Sublett trail, which is near the Santa Elena Canyon, and features 2 or 3 adobe ruins. The cliffs in the background are in Mexico, and in between runs the Rio Grande. The part where there is green grass in the way back is near the river bank.

Title: "Rabbit, Revered"

Medium: Acrylic on panel

Size: 7x5 inches

Genre: Fantasy, Magic Realism

Just a bit of fun with a bunny and an Ionic column. The bunny is really a ceramic figurine, and the column is one that I made out of clay, just for paintings such as this one. 

Fish Temple

Title: "Fish Temple"
Size:8x10
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Genre: Fantasy

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This painting is a continuation of my exploration of underwater ambiguities. Maybe it's underwater, or maybe these fish have lungs and can fly. I'll let the viewer decide.

References: Dover's "Animals" book, which features over a thousand copyright free images for artists and designers. The Ionic columns are from a photo I took at Symphony Square in Austin, Texas. The seashell is one that hangs out at our house.

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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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Know Thyself

"Know Thyself"
Size: 14x11 inches
Medium: Acrylic on wrapped canvas
Genre: Fantasy

This painting was accepted into the Rites of Spring 2013 show.

The scroll says "Owknay Aythay Elfsay." Hope you can guess what that means & what language it is! The frog is there because I wanted an interaction between the figure and another character. The columns are there because I love Ionic columns.