'Pressure Point'

I enjoyed doing yesterday's piece so much, I decided to go back into the studio today and do a companion piece. This painting contains the same elements as yesterday with the exception that I started straight in with acrylic so the watercolor media isn't in the mix.

'Vanishing Point'

This is an abstract I started on yesterday with my Wednesday painting group 'Women on Paper'. It was too cold to paint outdoors so we got together at The Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art. Most everyone worked on an abstract of some sort. I was pleased enough with the start so I decided to take it into the studio today to finish it up. I started the piece working in watercolor & watercolor pencils....then today I went back into it with acrylic paint, some collage and some gesso...so it's mixed media for sure!

"Local Brevities" - which direction?

Having paper, paint and newspaper left over from the painting I did for the Aiken Retrospective, I decided to do a smaller piece using the same concept....a 'companion piece' so to speak. There was a column in the 1921 Aiken Journal and Review which was entitled "Local Brevities".....it contained tidbits of news about the towns people such as engagements, honors and awards, etc...
Here's my question to anyone who reads this blog......Horizontal or Vertical?

"The Big Fire of '21"

This is a piece I've just completed for a juried exhibition at the Aiken Center for the Arts. Aiken is celebrating it's 175th birthday and the exhibition is a retrospective of Aiken's history. I had to do a little Aiken research to come up with an idea for a painting.
One of my friends who lives in Aiken told me there had been a big fire at some point in Aiken's past so I decided to look into that a little further and I found out that the Big Fire of Aiken occurred in downtown Aiken on Oct, 26th 1921......I decided that lots of artists will be thinking of the equestrian history of Aiken and I liked the idea of doing something entirely different......I used old newspaper articles, hand tinted tissue paper and acrylic paint.

Christmas Joy!

The last commission is done and I'm slowing down for the remainder of the Holidays! Here's my Christmas Card for this year.
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!

"Flesh Colored Canvas" in it's new home!

Here are photos of 'Flesh Colored Canvas" in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Senn.

"Rejoice!"

This collage was a commissioned piece. It's based on a quote which goes like this:

"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses."
- Abraham Lincoln

I used hand tinted/textured papers, dried rose petals and Lincoln pennies....I'm pleased with the results and hope my patron will be as well.