Flapper

"Flapper" 8x10 acrylic on canvas. This one has a soft burnt sienna glaze over the whole thing, to soften the look of it.

I Will Keep Faith With You

Title: "I Will Keep Faith With You"
Medium: Acrylic on panel
Size: 6x6 inches

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Time, distance, and circumstances may separate us from friends and loved ones, but love knows no boundaries nor impediments.

This was a small profile study I made on unstretched Yes! canvas and I liked it, so I affixed it to a panel. I often use a profile as my gateway image whenever I am stuck creatively. I was kind of blocked for several months, but it has passed, and I am now back to happily working in my studio.

Friends With Fins

"Friends With Fins" 12 x 12 inches. Medium: acrylic on canvas. Genre: fantasy. Our lovely model in Friday painting studio was studying marine biology, so I thought it would be fun to portray her as a mermaid. I painted the fishes from some little plastic sea creatures that I received as a gift.
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Finished Painting of Profile (oil, glazes, Lady, cat, heron, fish)

"3 Keys to the Loch", 12 x 12 oil on canvas.

I finished the fish & the background, added in the keys, and now it's done. The water in the background looks like a lake, or loch, hence the title. The fish has a lock in its eye, and the other characters in the painting all have a key. Originally I was going to have just one key dangling off the lady's hat, but once I put the lock into the fish, I realized all three of the other characters had to have a key.

I entered this painting into a juried show AVAA 32nd Anniversary (Austin Visual Arts Association). 

WIP Stage two: True to my vision despite similarities

WIP stage two. Acrylic on 12x12 canvas. No title for this piece as of yet.

There are several images I've used consistently throughout the years such as a checkerboard, a fish, and figures in weird hats. Checkerboards, fish, and figures with strange headgear are also used extensively by an artist whose work I greatly admire. I mulled this over a lot and finally decided that since I was already using these images in clay and in watercolor over many years, and since my full intent is to create my own original vision, that it was OK to continue with them in paintings. So I put all three in this painting to challenge myself to use them and still present my own vision. I think I have succeeded. By the way, the fish has something the cat and heron both want--besides a nice fillet!