Some new art from late august
Category Archives: Art
PORTRAIT OF A CHILD, IN STAGES
Mr and Mrs, Mr and Mr, or Mrs and Mrs What’s-it!
(Made of polymer clay and pipe cleaners, toothpicks and tongue depressors! )
Beatnik Band in clay and pipecleaners
More New June Art +
Paper mâché “Robin” with colorful sneakers and a red ball. Lovely photo taken by someone at the gallery. ( I don’t think I’ve posted this before, but sorry if it’s a repeat.)
Watercolor Study of a day lily on Canson cold press paper for a painting to be done later on Arches. (Many mistakes but I’m learning…)
June Art (so far)
Diane’s House, plus three others
Le Chat d’une amie- A friend’s Cat
painted for her birthday – peint pour son anniversaire.
Here’s the original photo of pasha
Here’s my rendering, with the chocolates turned into a book, The Art of Purring by David Michie, one of the 5 Dalaï lama’s cat books.
Recent Art – Teabag Paintings and more
I removed the tea from used teabags and opened up the packets, washed and dried them, then painted on them. These are about 3” by 5” without frames.
Posted this on Facebook 2/17/2023
FROM THE GUARDIAN September 2022
The first line of the article below is stunning but the article that follows (see link) is even more so. Please read and come back here to tell me what you think.
“I’m a psychologist – and I believe we’ve been told devastating lies about mental health…”
LA PETITE JEUNE FILLE
TEABAG PAINTINGS
Yes teabag paintings! I took apart and washed the paper in a teabag, prepped it with gesso and painted on it. These are about 3” by 5” roughly. The two faces sleeping under the moon were just experiments but the white New England farmhouse is now framed and for sale. Today I will also post a new papier mâché sculpture but in a separate blog post. Paint is gouache acrylic and acrylic.
You can see the edges of the teabag paper here.
New Cat in Oil Pastels
Painted this afternoon for another member of Brattleboro Time Trade. Oil pastel 11” by 14”
White Cat in Oil Pastels
MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES INSPIRED ME
Using a copy of MSF Alert (below) I began a blind contour drawing of the woman with her baby on the cover, but it morphed finally into a collage using African textile patterns printed onto paper. The facial details were added with ink pens.
Apres avoir regardé la couverture (dessous) de la magazine de MSF, j’ai commencé ce tableau avec un dessin de contour à l’aveugle, mais je l’ai changé à un collage, fait de motifs africains imprimés sur papier. Puis j’ai ajouté les détails de visage avec des stylos.
TWO NEW PET PORTRAITS
The dog (11” by 14”) was painted for my brother and is a portrait of his dog. Acrylics, on canvas. The cat portrait, done for another member of Brattleboro Time Trade is twice the size of the dog painting and is also on canvas but was done in Sennelier and Holbein oil pastels. Sorry about the watermarks, but it’s necessary.
Stages of a pet portrait
From drawing to final portrait
EN FRANCE MES ŒUVRES LES PLUS RÉCENTES. IN FRANCE, MY NEWEST WORK
Also some photos in France of Guillestre and around there, where I am staying.
Je suis en France depuis déjà deux semaines mais le temps passe vite. Je n’ai que deux semaines de plus à Guillestre et après ça deux semaines à Paris…j’ai tout un tas de photos de vous montrer mais je crains que les photos sans fin des montagnes puissent être ennuyeuses . Je vais essayer de les organiser dans un diaporama, peut-être un peu plus tard. Pour le moment, juste quelques unes de Guillestre et les environs.
i have been in France for two weeks already but time is flying. I have only two more weeks in Guillestre and then two in Paris. Of course I have taken a whole pile of photos to show you, but endless photos of mountains could be boring so I’m going to try to make a slideshow of them, maybe a bit later. For now, just a few photos of Guillestre etc.
THREE PENCIL SKETCHES: KALE, APPLE, SQUASH
WAGblog: Dum Spiro Spero 