Waiting

Title: "Waiting"

Medium: Acrylic

Genre: Figurative

Size: 10x8 inches

This was a three hour pose done from a live model. I wanted to focus on mood, light, and shadow. Artist signature upper right corner.

Discus Fish Study

Title: Discus Fish Study
Medium: Acrylic
Size: 6 x 6 inches

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Description: Sometimes when doing a large, complicated painting I need to make small studies of its various components. Here I have familiarized myself with the beautiful colors and markings of a discus fish. Tricky critters to paint!

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.

Owl Be Around

"Owl Be Around"

6x6 inches, acrylic on birch

Genre: animals

©Theresa Taylor Bayer, 2015

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At present with all my caregiving responsibilities, I'm doing a series of small studies. This allows me to keep improving my skills and provides inspiration for future projects. 

Owl Be There

Just a quick little study...

"Owl Be There" 6x6 acrylic on panel. Purple seems to go well with an owl. It's the mystique.
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©Theresa Taylor Bayer, 2015

"Tiny Table" Figure painting from live model

"Agua Fresca"
8x10 acrylic on canvas

©Theresa Taylor Bayer, 2015

Study from live model at AVAA, Austin, Tx art center.

Glad to be back to painting again...  :)

Her New Hat

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"Her New Hat" 8x6 acrylics on panel. This was from a live model in a painting studio I attend. Want to thank Eve Larson for advising me to crop it (it started out as 8x8) and Kelly Borsheim for giving me help with the hat. Two wonderful artists and wonderful friends!

I am thrilled to announce that I've been selected by Daily Paintworks as one of their featured artists. It's an honor to be part of a group of artists I greatly admire. I've got a lot to live up to!

Daily Paintworks includes auctions, so I will be selling my work through them. You might still catch me on eBay, but I love being on a site where it's nothing but art, art, ART!

Treasure Map value study, imagination, and Kafka

"Treasure Map" value study, 8x10 acrylics on canvas. Value study for Daily Paintworks values challenge. I started this in alizarin crimson, but found it too intense, then switched to violet oxide, which I've used before in underpaintings. There are still traces of aliziran on face and hands.

This composition will be developed with more detail, then used as an underpainting and I'll glaze over it in acrylics.

Many times when I do such paintings, people ask me where I get my ideas. I did a post last year on this blog about stretching your imagination. I believe that imagination is a skill, and just like other aspects of art, it can be cultivated and developed.

That, and I'll leave you with a quote from Franz Kafka: "You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet."