Little Red Pig with Wings

I collaged and painted this little red pig straight onto a cool little frame I found at a garage sale. It's a bit rough around the edges but I like it.

Happy White Flowers

I had this painting hanging around in shades of blue and black for a long time... It was sad, and it was starting to get at me to see it hanging so drab and forgotten in the back corner of my studio. So yesterday, during a particularly gloomy rain, I dragged it out, scrubbed a few happy glazes over it and now here it is, with it's lovely new clothes.

Sunnies on Blue

This is Sunflowers on Blue . It's 24 x 24 inches and was painted on a really thick, heavily woven cotton which was stretched on a thick wooden frame, so it's hefty.

If you're feeling a little deja vu ish about this painting it's probably because I've done it thrice before with a red background. I like the composition of my original sketch so I keep going back to it. On a side note, I was recently commissioned to do another sunflowers with a red background soon to stay tuned for that one :)

Old vine

Since it's been a while I thought I'd put up a pic of the latest progress on the "Old Vine" commission. This painting has been putting me through my paces. I did several layers in the middle ground trying to get it to make sense, but it still needs something. I might have to make a major change... however, my other worry is that when I end up getting to the vine itself and putting in it's leaves etc. the painting might become too busy... sooo I may opt for simplification of the middle ground at this point. That treeline on the right is not working for me... At any rate what it amounts to is me staring at this for hours a day and getting no work done. So I'm going to tackle the middle ground today once Jo goes down for her nap and see where I end up...

Wine Lover II Completed!

I finally did it! Nothing like a deadline to get those last few hours in! This commission took me two years to do, that's pretty long for me. Thank you Deja for being so patient!

Lucky 13 Corn theme

This month's lucky 13 theme was Corn. I thought corn... hmmm, how many different ways can you interpret corn! That's the beauty of doing this project though, it gets you to think wayyy outside your comfort zone.

I had a flood of ideas for this one, but the image that kept revolving in my mind's eye was "imprint" which is what I titled this piece. It's basically just a straight ink imprint of a lovely piece of corn, which I rolled over a few times with different colors, glazed a sepia and then fixed with a spray poly. I like how it turned out like a pop-ish abstract, usually I have an extremely hard time getting my creative mind to loosen up enough to get a successful abstraction going, so I was pretty happy with this excersize.