Christmas card

I use old paintings (unsuccesful ones) to cut up and make small collages which I call my "Crazy Quilt" cards. Sometimes I do my own Christmas cards, and this year I did a collage and made copies for my Christmas cards. Doing these small collages is fun and makes use of left-over materials!

Another Thin Place

I have still been working on my Thin Places theme. After doing several paintings with almost no color and minimalist design, I am trying to add some color. I want the paintings to be impressionistic and to leave a lot of room for viewer interpretation. My friend from Scotland was here recently, and she is also interested in Thin Places!

Thin Places

Thin places are places that are sacred to the person, a place that feels connected to God or heaven. I am working on a series of thin places that are special to me. I love the beach and wetlands, or places where the water is meeting the land, especially where reeds or grasses emerge from the water. I am following Georgia O'Keefe's exercise in reducing elements down to the minimum, using little color. The attached painting is one of a series of "Changing Tides" which uses little color, some texture to give a feeling of movement of tides - which is symbolic of passing of time.

Non-objective

I just took the plunge and spent one whole day working non-objective, and I had a great time! I am attaching one painting from yesterday.

Abstract Art

I am still working on trying abstract painting. I am having a problem going completely non-objective; I still want to be able to see something recognizable. I guess it will take a lot more work on my part. I recently attended a talk on Jasper Johns which was very inspirational so maybe I can get started on something.

Variations

I am now working on variations of the wildflower series. I am abstracting the wildflower scenes and doing some paintings of weeds and grasses. I know I need to work some larger paintings, but I love the 12" x 12" format and have just ordered some more canvases. Guess that means more 12 x 12 paintings! Also, I am concentrating on using new colors; I am tired of doing green and blue for landscapes. I am really trying to use reds and yellows for warm paintings and use arbitrary colors for landscape scenes. I am attaching a painting that is an abstraction of red poppies.

More Wildflowers

I am posting another of my wildflower paintings. This series of paintings is done with acrylic paint on 12" x 12" canvas. I am almost finished with this series with the last few done in a more expressionistic style than the first ones. I love painting with this size canvas, but I think I need to tackle some larger works next.