Finally! Something I'm pretty happy with. I put on some blues music and went to town on it for several days. I think it works and conveys exactly what I wanted. This one is the largest piece I've done recently. I think I'll hang it in my house!
With the lights up in my new studio, I am back in business with paint brushes in hand. I loved the angle of this pose. It gives the feeling that you are center stage in the front row. I haven't quite figured how to photograph works in my new space but I will keep playing with it until I'm happy. Yesterday I just turned some jazz on spent the entire day painting. Next thing I knew it was midnight...
I have done all the commissions I am going to do for awhile. This is the last of four. I really need to do some painting for me now. I have lots of space to fill and the paintings I currently have hanging in my living space are not what I want to see. I finally have the lighting in my new studio done so I can work in there without having to put things away....
It feels so good to be painting again. I finally am excited about what I am doing. This one has more vibrancy than the previous Jazz/Blues series. The sax has so much fire to it! I love this one. I have to look at it awhile to be sure I am finished so for now it's on my easel....
I've been playing with the idea that I should paint something I could have printed on my Christmas cards. I did some very cartoon-like Christmas tree balls but that just wasn't it. This is much more like something I would send - the only missing element is the gold gilt edge! I'm always a sucker for the glitter!
This is an experimental piece playing with a gel medium on paper - I used the properties of the medium to resist the pigment of the paint. After looking at it for some period it felt as if the colors were indicative of that change from summer to autumn. I used some sharpie makers to draw some leaves over the top and here you are. Personally I rather like the results! 
I am only posting this so you know I am still alive and semi active. This is such a disaster and a big laugh for me. I thought I'd get out some brushes, paints and have a go at getting into a groove again. I grabbed some paper and laid it out, got my paints, water and brushes and started in. It felt good after such a long absence but I couldn't figure out why the darn paper was reacting so differently to the water. The paper was getting all warped and I was getting disgusted so I walked away. Later I came back and the paper had dried and gone nice & flat again. It was then I realized that I was using pastel paper not watercolor paper! After painting all the underpaint in acrylic and then topped it off with pastels. We'll consider this mixed media and call it a mess & done. I'll try to get more organized! It's a nightmare to move your studio! Haven't yet figured out what I am doing and it shows.
