in the studio

The big thing that happened in the studio this week, was the studio got cleaned. My husband commented, wow, we have hardwood floors?! uh, yeah, yeah we do. The cleaning was necessary because I had to find room to put the Alternate Realities paintings, and really this is where they need to go for now. And that sort of sucks because I was working on bad penny which is big and needs to be in that same spot to be painted.

pretty much as good as it's going to get

No #art365 landscapes this week, just more and more work on bad penny and this was only a dream.

this was only a dream, still a wip

I forgot to take pictures a couple of days, but when you look at the first two of bad penny, you see how little difference there is between the two days. There were two days of work, unphotographed, between the 2nd and 3rd pics. Here's why: with Alternate Realities pieces are back in the studio, it's a little chaotic now.

how I was working today

in the studio

I feel like I don't have a lot to show for this week. I didn't do any of the #art365 landscapes. I still painted everyday, but I did get a little lazy about posting it a couple of days. Layers and layers of washes in the same spot of the same painting look kind of ...well, they don't look like much. They are much, but they don't look it.

There are two days worth of washes on this was only a dream, all of them focused on the upper left portion. It's close to where I feel like it should be but I've been really wanting to get back to painting larger. At 24" x 48" this is too small.

And so I reclaimed three old canvases and began bad penny.

before: awaiting, limb,and before the dream

after: day 1 the beginning of bad penny

day 2

day 3

day 4 text added

day 5

in the studio

This week in the studio, time was mostly spent on the #art365 project. 5 new pieces

5.6.13 wicker park through the oaks

5.7.13 above

5.8.13 merge

5.9.13 pear II

5.11.13 lincoln highway

I also worked a bit more on this was only a dream for a couple of days. Here's where it is tonight. Still a bit wet in the upper left in this shot.

in the studio

Just a quick follow up of what I've worked on in the previous week. The first half of the week, I was working on spirea. There are a crazy amount of layers in this piece. It's closer to done.

 The second half of the week, I painted a lot of #art365 landscapes. Two of the days got double paintings. You can see that spring has finally made it to northwest Indiana.

5.2.13 magnolia petals scattered, 5" x 7"

5.2.13 pear, 5" x 7"

5.3.13 violets and redbud buds, 5" x 7"

5.4.13 flowering oaks and maple I, 5" x 7"

5.4.13 flowering oaks and maple II, 5" x 7", SOLD

5.5.13 ridge road, 5" x 5"

If you want to see these as they come out, you can follow along on google+, twitter, facebook,  pinterest, or my website. Yes, a lot of links. Someday I will have an assistant to do these things for me.

#art365 : the bright ones (or it's starting to look like spring)

Do you have any bright ones? 

 Yes, we're pretty much over winter here in the Midwest. It is near the end of April. Is it spring yet? Let's have it already. We're impatient. And even though I've been enjoying seeing all the different shades of browns and tans and greys, I'm ready for some color, too. Here's some of the latest #art365 pieces which show spring on the way.

4.10.13 afternoon prairie, overcast, acrylic on paper, 5" x 7"

4.16.13 slow morning, acrylic on paper, 5" x 7"

4.17.13 vinca, leaf buds, acrylic on paper, 5" x 7"

4.20.13 deceiving spring, with willows, wicker park, acrylic on paper, 5" x 7"

4.22.13 forsythia, willows, acrylic on paper, 5" x 7"

 You can see the whole #art365 series on my website. Now through the end of April: 10% for autism for Autism Awareness Month.

Live Art!

update 4.7.13: Photographer and blogger Wes Bushby was at the opening/event Friday night. You can see his blog post here. He shoots at lots of local events, not just in NWI but in Chicago, as well.

This Friday I participated in a Live Art Show at Studio 659 in Whiting. There were 10 invited artists, each was asked to bring one piece which would be hung at the start of the event. Then we were to create a brand new piece while visitors could watch us work, to be completed and cleaned up all at the end of the reception. The newly created piece was  to be hung at the end of the night. I brought renewal with me, framed. And a whole portfolio full of the rest of the #art365 landscapes.

renewal, acrylic on paper, 5" x 7"

During the evening, I created 2 new larger landscapes based on a local park.

wicker park willows, acrylic on canvas, 10" x 10"

wicker park willows II,acrylic on canvas, 10" x 10"

And, happily,  sunrise over the ridge sold. The first sale of the month! 10% of all my sales this month are being donated to NAA-NWI, the local National Autism Association, for Autism Awareness Month.

sunrise over the ridge, acrylic on paper, 6.25" x 4.75"

PINK!: Women Artists Call for Art

Studio 659 in Whiting has a new call for art posted. Link is below.  This is their third Pink! show, held annually in conjunction with the City's Paint the Town Pink program in support of breast cancer. I've been in the show the last two years. embrace was in the first year's Pink! What to enter for this year. hmmm....

Women Artists Call for Art

embrace, 2010, acrylic on canvas, 48" x 36"