Throwback Thursday

It's a brisk day here in Northwest Indiana. By the looks of last year's #art365 piece, it was brisk last year, too.

winter morning, wicker park, gouache, 4" x 6"

This piece is currently at Thaddeus C Gallery in La Porte.

in the studio

The good news is I've had a pretty productive week. Making myself always work everyday is a good thing. I need to paint something bigger next week.

1.6.15 gouache, 4: x 6"

1.7.15 gouache, 4" x 6"

1.9.15 gouache, 4" x 6"

1.10.15 gouache, 4" x 6"

wip, acrylic, 11" x 14"

I've been fiddling with the wip for over a week and I think just today I figured out what was not working. Hope to have this finished next week.

Out of the studio, I stopped by White Ripple's 2nd Saturday event. No opening this month, but they still had the open studios and there was an open mic that seems to be gaining some traction. Next week, the SLAC Anniversary show closes at Paul Henry's on Saturday, and with it the live art silent auction. I don't have any work in the auction this year, but lots of artists very generously contributed. There is also a group collaborative piece (on which I did paint a bit). The auction is benefiting the Carmelite Home in East Chicago. That happens 1-5 on Saturday. 

If you are waiting for the postcardswap...I'm getting to it. You'll have your assigned artist in the next couple of days.

in the studio

This week... a continuation of small interiors and landscapes.

12.17.14 ink and gouache

12.16.14 gouache

12.18.14 gouache (text)

12.19.14 gouache

Also this week, I had another papermaking feedback session, which went very well. We also swapped art, so I now have another piece by Gregg Hertzlieb in my collection. My husband set up a door on some sawhorses for Gregg's visit and it made such an enormous desk. I don't know why I balked at that idea previously. That will be getting moved into my studio later. Out of the studio - I delivered work for January's Members Only exhibit at Studio 659. And got word that several paintings sold from both Paul Henry's and Thaddeus C. Gallery. So I treated myself to this piece by Richard Kooyman. 

in the studio

I started this week with a small gouache study based on my studio. Robin Kalinich posted in the Ink & Alchemy facebook group, asking to see everyone's studio, which made me think I ought to just paint it. I'm looking for angles and architecture/structure that I'm not having in the landscapes I've been working on. Also, this piece has an initial layer of text in ink, which is mostly obliterated (and that's okay) by the additional layers of gouache. 

ink and gouache, 5" x 5"

The paynes grey in the lower right corner gave me some hope that I could get the gouache to work in a way similar to the pulp painting. So from there I did some landscapes. You'll notice I did not title them. I decided dating them was sufficient for now.

12.10.14, goauche, 4" x 6"

12.11.14, gouache, 4" x 6"

For the rest of the week, I went back to interiors. I think I will be exploring here for a bit. I wasn't sure what to expect when I posted them online. Although I occasionally do draw things along this line, I don't usually add color and they never get posted. These has been really well received among my online followers, and I'm very thankful for that.

12.12.14, ink and gouache, 4" x 6"

12.13.14, ink and gouache, 6" x 4"

12.13-14.14, ink and gouache, 4" x 6"

12.14.14, ink and gouache, 4" x 6"

Also, this week I had another feedback session on the papermaking. I'm finding these very beneficial. I hope to have two more before the end of the year. Out of the studio this week, I went to White Ripple's Second Saturday opening. It was a full house! Both of the previous shows I have work in are still up: Small Works, and Indigenous Landscapes. I also have another opportunity to exhibit in the works for later this month, more on that next week!

in the studio

This week started with more little gouaches....

melt, gouache, 4" x 6"

last night, gouache, 4" x 6"

dark prairie, gouache, 4" x 4"

...and ended with a bigger piece. This canvas has been fighting me, but I think it might be done. I'm going to sleep on it.

thaw, acrylic, 40" x 30"

And here I am at the Triad Show at CornerStone Gallery Friday night. 

photo by Debra Gutierrez

in the studio

This week: I painted. I sold more art. I booked a solo show for May-June. It was a good week.

sunrise over the prairie, gouache, 4" x 6"

two fields, goauche, 4" x 6"

lightfall, gouache, 4" x 6"

front, gouache, 4" x 6"

carmelite shadows, gouache, 4" x 6"

tangle (spirea, winter), gouache, 4" x 6"

saplings, gouache, 4" x 6"

Up this week: an opening on Friday at CornerStone for the Triad Show, featuring the work of artists from 3 local arts groups.


And here is another from the #postcardswap. This piece is by Loralei Walker.

in the studio

This has been a really good week. 7 paintings sold. Paintings delivered for an upcoming show. An opening Friday night. A potential solo show in the works.

I would say things fall into my lap, but I know that they fall into my lap when I work really hard. It isn't really luck, or at least not mostly luck. Cue the Thomas Jefferson quote:

 "I am a great believer in luck,

 and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." 

And on to this week's art!

morning clouds, gouache, 4" x 6"

the stretch behind, gouache, 4" x 6" SOLD

dusk, gouache, 4" x 6"

winter oaks, gouache, 4" x 6"

sunset prairie, gouache, 4" x 6"

fresh snow, gouache, 4" x 6"

Plans for this week: another delivery to Paul Henry's Art Gallery, a Friday night opening to support some fellow artists. More studio cleaning, so I can get that large canvas stretched. Some small color field studies based on the #art365 landscapes (think: simpler reductions) and a collage idea just popped into my head, which is a little weird because I don't do collages. hunh. Happy March!

in the studio

This has been a really good week. I mean, just, WOW!

crystalline, gouache, 4" x 6" SOLD

aurora. gouache, 6" x 6" SOLD

winter morning, wicker park, gouache, 4" x 6"

dissolution, gouache, 4" x 6"

afternoon prairie, gouache, 4" x 6"

willow, gouache, 4" x 6"

As much as I am enjoying these gouaches, I am itching to do some bigger gestural work and I just don't have the space to do it right now. (My lousy studio assistant really needs to get things in order. I can barely walk through my art room right now.) But I did just order some new supplies, more gouache, more paper - including some yupo, which I've never tried and some stretcher bars. So bigger things are on the horizon. Until all that arrives, there will be more little #art365 landscapes, although some of them may be more abstract than others...

forked trunk, gouache, 4" x 4"

This week: The COLD show at Sip is coming down and new work will be delivered for their next show DRIFT: #art365 coming and going there. Friday is the opening at Merge, where consideration and before are both included.

in the studio

This week: more gouache #art365 landscapes. 

morning tracks, gouache, 4" x 4"

my famous prairie, gouache, 4" x 6"

more, gouache, 4" x 4"

morning light, gouache, 4" x 6"

north highland was painted at Studio 659's LIVE ART event. The show will be up all month and also includes winter prairie.

north highland, gouache, 4" x 6"

snowfall three cypresses, gouache, 4" x 6"

pine and cypress, gouache, 4" x 6"

In other news, consideration and before were both accepted in the re-eMergence winter show at Merge. They will be delivered this week. Show opens on the 21st. And I really need to clean my studio, because I want to get back to big work.