1. The Awakening
The awakening painting was created by first making a pencil sketch on paper then scanning it into the computer. I used Corel Painter 7 & IX to paint the image. Mostly I used the soft charcoal variant of charcoal & the artist...
2. Moon Goddess
I’ve had a love affair with the moon ever since I was child, and my favorite past time was going outside after sunset to swing on my swing set, until the moon came out. I would sing to the moon and mom would play the guitar, it was...
3. Nimue
The Lady of the lake from the Arthurian legend has always fascinated me, and the moment I laid eyes on a photograph sent to me of my niece Tessa, I knew I had found my inspiration for the painting of Nimue. It was a photo of Tessa,...
4. Daybreak
Aurora is the Roman Goddess of the Dawn. Her name means ” daybreak, the dawn, or sunrise. Ovid describes her as the one who brings the light of day as she rides in her chariot across the skies ahead of the sun. I envisioned her with...
5. Mask Of Gaia
Gaia the primordial Greek goddess believed to be The Mother Goddess or Great Goddess. She is also said to personify the earth, the Greek version of “Mother Nature”. The inspiration for this painting came from a dream I had...
At Play In The Studio
It has been a wonderful day with lots of sunshine and a perfect day to finish one of the collages I have been working on. It feels good to finally be done, so I can move on to the next project.
Afterwards I took a break and started browsing on the internet and found this great video.
One Week Of Japanese Art
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“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Happy Valentine’s Day
I went to the eye doctor today to have my eyes checked out, and he dilated my eyes so the pupils are huge and my vision is a little blurred. Very spooky looking!
My doctor said everything looks fine, and suggested computer glasses for I have been experiencing Computer vision syndrome (CVS). I have an appointment next week with my optometrist to help resolve this problem.
My hubby and I love coffee lattes and he found this great video. Makes me want to make a latte run. Yum!
Coffee Latte Awesome Art
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What A Great Weekend.
We had a great weekend here in northern California, blue skies, lots of sunshine and warm weather.
After all the cold weather and rain, it was nice to be able to work in the garden again. There is a lot more that needs to be done, but first we need to let the soil dry out before we can do anything else.
Of course, we went to our favorite book/coffee place to peruse the art magazines, and just sit, relax and people watch. My husband brought along his sketchbook and camera, and took some pictures.
Snoopy Statue
Today, I was thinking about what it means to be an artist, and how we define art. How do we define what it is that we do? It seems there are a lot of opinions about this subject and I wanted to share some of them with you.
– Art is the child of imagination and gives life.
– Having an itch you can’t scratch.
– Art is anything that requires a maker; it cannot make itself – this is Aristotle’s definition in The Nicomachian Ethics, and I think it to be the best.
Kate Cherry, associate director, Melbourne Theatre Company
– Art is indefinable.
– I asked our dog Ruby and she didn’t know either …
– For as long as we’ve been able to hoot, toot, tap bones and make effigies out of bits of clay and other inchoate stuff, art has been integral to our species; the imaginative end of our need to conceptualize.
Mystery
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, . . . manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty”. – Albert Einstein
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Lost And Found Files
As mentioned in prior posts, I have been organizing, clearing out and making backup copies of my files. Yesterday, I found all kinds of painting files in folders I had managed to hide from myself.
Paintings, sketches, photographs, and collages I found lacking in some way or another, yet after a couple of years have passed, I find myself looking at them with fresh eyes.
They were lost and now found, below are a couple in various stages of development.
Calla Lily With A Rose (C) 2003
Crow Messenger (C) 2005
Digital Collage