Apples!
So satisfying. This took me no time at all. A nice release from all the lame stuff going on lately.
Archive for Finished
Open hearted, open minded
This is something I actually made towards the end of last year, but I feel like it fits this week’s Illustration Friday very well. The working title had been “Rise Above It,” but the idea of course is to be open to the sun in the face of the rain, to face the rewards of being open-minded. To not simply focus on the immediate and the dreary, but to the bigger picture.
Art for sale, getcher fresh art
Anthony and I went on a photo shoot for the five things I have on sale. His part was mostly to stand in a big vacant lot and mine was to push the button.
Tell your friends and enemies that there are some prime originals on sale. Originals, people. Not prints, not little paper cut-outs to tack on your cork board, I’m talking about high quality paint-on-canvas stuff here. I am particularly fond of Emergency. It is the newest thing I have painted besides the thing for my brother, and I’m sort of a crazy head for selling it. But, it was originally a venting piece, and now that it’s out of my system it should probably be REALLY out of my system.
Little red bird
So when a friend of mine went to Guatemala a few years back, she came back with a plethora of pictures, as one does. A few in particular stood out. This was one of them.
When I was still living in the dorms, I got out a giant canvas one day and decided to paint this, finally, or something based on it, anyway. I had been meaning to — it had been sitting in a special folder on my desktop for precisely this reason — but I hadn’t yet for whatever reason. I got out my biggest filberts and painted the brunt of this in about 1.5 hours, and did the details on the bird later when everything dried.
This is now hanging right above my dining room table, and can be seen from outside through the window.
Sky Emergency
Emergency, 2007
Despite all the madness in our lives, despite all the human drama and confusing situations, I maintain a sunrise or sunset is of the utmost, urgent importance.
This will be on sale at my little shop after the 15th. This piece also marks my first entry to Illustration Friday, which makes me happy. I’ve been meaning to submit something for a while now, and this seemed to fit the bill nicely.
