Finishing up...

Finishing up a few of the small paintings I started in a fury around Thanksgiving time. The piano ladies... I still am thinking of a good title that will explain the story behind it. Think I need to sleep on it!

The first one is inspired by my imagination when I was a kid... a 'what if' kind of thing. I did not like all the rules in school, including no gum chewing, no running in the halls, that we all had to play baseball on Mondays, etc. So, what if everyone had to have the same haircut? The same sack lunch? What would it be like to live that way, hmmm. Funny how some crazy childhood thinking turned out to be not such crazy ponderings after all :) Thinking I may make their shirts longer so they're not floating.

Piano Ladies and Night Snow

Already shoveled this out this afternoon!

I worked on the piano ladies today... and many other ones today too! (ahh, nice to get in some good painting days!!) This is another work in progress - I like to have several going at one time. I work on one for awhile... then when I'm 'spent' I'll move to a different one. I'm posting about another wip over at Take 5 Paintings, so check it out! ( I've also added 2 new paintings to the shop and will probably add another one tomorrow.)

**On the flip side... look at all that snow! I'm doing bunches of laundry for fear we'll loose power. I heard on the news this is apparently 'The perfect storm' and much different than the meteorologists could have predicted. It may mirror or surpass a record from 1950 where they got 14 inches of snow in 24 hours. Yikes, I feel the cabin fever coming on already! At least the kids have adequate snow boots this year.. I can tire them out by running around and sledding in it.

Tea and Peace in the Village

Here's one of the 'repetition' series (must think of a better name!) Sorry for the crummy quality photos... I couldn't get any good ones this close to winter Solstice! It starts getting gloomy around 3:30pm and dark by 4:30pm. (I'm never ready to photograph in the morning light, gotta work on the paintings first :)

Anyway, I eliminated some of the items that were up top and put in mountains instead. They remind me of the ones from home on the Olympic Peninsula of WA. I'm not liking the smoke... there's still a lot of tweaking to be done but here it is as of tonight!

New Painting Progression...

OK, so I should be posting new paintings on my painting blog... but I think I hear crickets over there so far. Must install stat counter to know if any one's visiting!! I'm doing a little series (these are about 6 x 8" or so) of repetitive, patterned paintings. I love those 2 elements, so it's a lot of fun for me. This one started with bobbed-hair ladies, a favorite subject of mine. I've added cameras, handbags and some chairs. Sunday will probably be the next day painting might happen... I'll have to wait until then to see what happens .
On another note... I delivered my goods to another 'trunk-show' style show at another artist's house. Hopefully I'll sell something, you never know with these tight economic times... but I'm happy to participate!

The Music Teacher

Jewel Box Bobbed Hair Lady...

Gatsby Girl

Another Bobbed Hair Woman...

Jewel Box Painting

Here is one of several jewelry boxes I will be painting for an upcoming show. I used my favorite Venetian Red Gesso (from Daniel Smith). I love a change, painting on a dark background as opposed to white gesso... it makes the skin "pop". This is just the beginning of this painting... there will be borders, backgrounds - stay tuned.

Woman with a Fan

Here's no. 3 in the Bobbed-Hair Ladies series. 8 x 8 in square, acylic on canvas.

The Dissapointed Gardener

acrylic on canvas 10 x 10 in.

This is the 2nd in a series of Bobbed-Haired Women. I imgine she has just noticed her roses are covered in aphids again and she doesn't have any more tricks up her sleeves.

A little sidebar... anyone else not able to use spell check, bold, italic etc. on blogger posts?

The Blue Veil

8 x 8 in acrylic on canvas
Here's the first in a series of 'Bobbed - Hair Women'. I added 2 views today because I didn't like the glare on the non-close up photo.


It's time for my close up...