This is our sweet little Fred kitty. She has such a fun personality. She loves to run(that’s her favorite thing to do!), she likes to pounce grasshoppers and birds. She also loves to climb up the window screen and catch flies. And then when she’s sleepy she likes to curl up on one of our laps and purr herself to sleep while we pet her. She’s such a love. This painting is about 22″x29″. Mark just made a beautiful frame for it that has kitty paw prints wandering all over it. It’s wonderful! I’m going to enter this one into the Utah State Fair.
I believe art is a journey, an exploration of ourselves and the world that we experience. It’s a way to express ourselves and discover ourselves at the same time. Lately I am fascinated with the idea of combining that which I experience in the real world with that which I imagine my feelings to look like in order to share my feelings about certain things with others. I hope that you can see through this painting that I have a passion for native cultures and the beauty of dance and rhythm. In fact it’s actually an expression of my passion for life in general. Every day feels like a dance to me, a celebration of color and light.
My husband and I are working on a collaborative project. When he takes a photo that inspires me I do a painting of it. The last 2 peices that I blogged about were part of this project as well as 2 others that I blogged about in the past. I thought you might like to see the photos next to the paintings. We’re going to present our idea to galleries and see what they think. It’s a cool idea because the photos are art in and of themselves and the drawings are art in and of themselves. When you see them side by side you see the beauty and uniqueness of each piece and each style of art. They compliment each other and together become a new and original form of art. So here you go. The photos next to the drawings.
Here’s one that I finished just before Christmas. It’s a prismacolor. I haven’t thought of title yet. I have to figure out what her story is first. If any of you readers out there have any ideas, I’m open to suggestions.
Well I finished another one today. Actually, I should mention that I’ve been working on this one for quite awhile. I started weeks ago and didn’t like how it was coming out at all so I totally redid the background today and now I love it. The forest seemed like the perfect setting for this young man.
I’ve been doing a lot of paintings lately of people who are searching for something. I’ve also noticed that I always seem to do a solitary figure in my paintings. I wonder what it is about that theme that fascinates me. A friend once suggested to me that an artist puts something of herself into every painting she does. Maybe that’s what I’m doing. Anyway, here is my painting. I’m going to call it Vision Quest.
Here’s the first painting I’ve finished of the little birdies I took pictures of. Well actually I did another one but I don’t like the way it turned out so you don’t get to see it. I know, maybe I’ll burn it and make another burn bad art video! That was fun. Anyway I think I”ll call this one Among the Leaves.
I’ve just started a new drawing for the DeZion art gallery and I’ve decided to blog my progress. I would like to have started by showing you a photo of just the original sketch but I didn’t think of this idea until I was adding the first of the color. I’ll be sure and do it for my next drawing. So anyway, I always start a drawing with just a basic pencil sketch. I ALWAYS use a mechanical pencil for this sketch because you never have to sharpen mechanical pencils. So nice! I wish Prismacolor made mechanical Prismacolor pencils! Oh that would be heaven… (more…)
I am fascinated by the natural world around me and the people who live in it. Nature is art, and I love to try and capture the beauty that resonates through it. Everything and everyone has a story to tell. Everything and everyone around us is full of emotion and life and has had experiences that we can’t even imagine.
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This is our sweet little Fred kitty. She has such a fun personality. She loves to run(that’s her favorite thing to do!), she likes to pounce grasshoppers and birds. She also loves to climb up the window screen and catch flies. And then when she’s sleepy she likes to curl up on one of our laps and purr herself to sleep while we pet her. She’s such a love. This painting is about 22″x29″. Mark just made a beautiful frame for it that has kitty paw prints wandering all over it. It’s wonderful! I’m going to enter this one into the Utah State Fair.
