Hanging On The Line

Time to answer the call even if I dropped the ball.  I feel a little rusty after a nice family brake.  The holidays were full and fun...oh and the stomach flu came visiting.  Noise filled our house for a few weeks and I welcomed the familiar sound.  I am so very grateful and feel very blessed.  Now it is time to get back in the studio.  I spent a few days cleaning and tossing and evaluating my work.  In the process of doing that, I painted this little 6x8 oil and it did not come easily.  Painting is not like getting back on a bike.  

So I am looking forward to pushing ahead in 2012.  Best wishes to all of you in the New Year.  Thanks for all your comments and views of my blog.  You keep me motivated.  Thank you for all your support.

This painting is available by bid through Daily Paintworks.  I decided to start my bid price at $25.00, which means if you are interested you might get it for $25.00 plus S&H.  So check it out and click on the link to follow or bid.  Have fun.

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Just Another Path

I love this little path.  This is a 6x6 pastel of a road I like in Irvine park.  I did this same road back in October in a 12x12 format, called "Forgotten Road".  

Holiday Blues

This guy just could not hang on any longer.   He is too blue.  

Christmas will be here soon.  Many blessings to all of you! 

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Hanging Christmas Balls

More on the Christmas theme still life.  I get in my head and think about these Christmas ball as people hanging around with the guy on the box offering a hook up.  I really need to do more real people.

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Holiday Dine

Getting in the holiday mood?  This is a 6x6 oil.  After doing still life for a while it starts to make me crazy.  It is always a good exercise for so many things, but the items selected can get silly.  Like this one of silverware, christmas balls, stripes and polka dots.  

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Ben the Corgi

Ben is the brother of Jerry, a corgi my family was very fond of and I painted sometime ago.  Ben and Jerry (cute huh) have both pasted on and we only hope that they are romping away and celebrating a job well done.  Two more dogs that came, loved and taught us well, how precious and fleeting life can be.

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Bird On The Edge

A local bird just hopping around waiting to jump off the edge for a morsel of food to drop at our local coffee house.  I am amazed at the brazen  behavior of these chubby birds.  

This is 12x12 pastel on Uart sanded paper with an under painting of compliments.  I covered most of the painting with pastel.  Sometimes I love how the under painting comes through and other times it just acts as a guide and gets covered.

Looks Familiar

I managed to get this posted on Daily Painter Originals, but missed my blog.  This 6x6, is pastel on Pastelbord from Ampersand.  It has a much more even texture than the hand textured boards I did on the last 3 posts.  I like working on these hard surfaces.  Mainly because in the end it is easier to pop them into frames.  I still need a spacer and glass, but it goes together much easier and handling is easier as well.  The pastel seems to stay put and I am getting uses to the sound of applying the pastel to the surface.  That might sound funny, but it is important to feel comfortable.  Soft surfaces make one sound and hard surfaces make another.  When I work there is a rhythm that happens, almost like music.  It feels tribal and I love how sound inspires me.  Sound creates movement.  That for me inspires creativity.  I find art is completely sensory and good music, sounds, rhythm, vision and beautiful movements are  important as I create.

What's Next

Sometimes we wait a long time to get to a place we have always wanted to go and there is only one day to see it all.  It can feel like a chore checking off the list and overwhelming too.

Observing Life

Chicago Art Institute is one of the greatest places to observe the observers.

Pastel on hand textured hardboard using marble dust, gesso and a paint brush is a 6x6.

Interesting

This little 6x6 pastel is done on a hard board using gesso and marble dust as a surface texture.  I painted an under painting using pure pigments in complimentary colors.  The scene is from our trip to Chicago Art Institute a few years ago.  I loved the body language.