Reworked Floral piece

Could stand the overbright colors and silly flowers of Floral Explosion no more.  Textured over the florals and muted all with browns and sienna.  Now gives a more swirling grassy effect.  The burnt orange and brown is now paley reflected in the gritty arc.  The bright blue of the heavy textured orb is muted, but reflects a rainbow of other colors.

Decided to rework one of my almost monochromatic salmony pieces called Sinuous.  Added more color to original orb, and added an almost translucent piece.  Now is almost ethereal, hence the rename Sinuous Ether.  Added bronze lines to hold orbs and balance the piece.  Like this much better.

Long time in between

Am really behind due to a month bout with some strange flu and visit from family.  Have the piece GENESIS 1:2 done and curing.  Will get it varnished and put on computer after my husband and I have our weekend date. 

I have also taken SINUOUS out and am in the midst of reworking it.  Like this new idea and hope I can get the image in my head and what goes down on the canvas to mesh.

Genesis 1:2

Started in on my next piece, which has been whispering in my head for a while now.  When I reread Genesis 1:2, it made a picture which wont go away.  The idea of the Holy Spirit "hovering over the deep".  Now I am studying and pondering how to create that.

My questions are: Is the pure spirit enough light to create some color?  There is water, but would there be some form of clouds and atmosphere?  How much?  How do I depict the spirit without looking like Northern Lights?  So....I am, of course, starting black, with an almost full globe area.  I have done well so far with black, dk blue and purple....but not satisfied yet.  Will be an interesting process.

Commission

Done with a small commission for one of our clinics.  Turned out nicely, and they seem to be excited about the piece.

Calling it 'Infused Vitality', since it is going to our Infusion Clinic.  Contract has been signed, will bring the Certificate of Authenticity tomorrow.  Will be nice to get a little money for my work.  Hope this will be the good luck mechanism to more commissions.

Lesson Learned

I learned a hard lesson, but thankfully one that seems to have been harmless.  The painting that was to sell  was just a phising expedition.  Thank goodness for Paypal.  Before I did anything, I called them first and found nothing had been put in my account.  The forms looked extremely professional, but when forwarded to Paypal, found it wasnt.  Moral of the story.....do NOTHING until you are sure they money is proven to be in Paypal, the bank or where ever, BEFORE you do anything.

Sale pending

May have sold Gradual Degeneration.....still waiting to hear the final verdict.  Am seriously thinking about going back to some older paintings and make some more colorful changes.
The other painting look great to me, but apparently they dont photograph well enough to gain interest.  Or may just make more photos showing different areas of each piece.  Gotta think on this a bit.

Gradual Degeneration

Got my painting photographed and ready to go online. Calling it Gradual Degeneration - a play on a Dickens quote. You see degeration in the rusted metal plate which seeps down into a gold and aged white stucco-like area. The rusted area shows degeneration of areas of greens, orange and blue. I love the accented discs, which also show degeneration of form and color.

Now I have one ready to go that will depict Exodus Ch1: vs 1-2, as well as now having one the girls in our infusion clinic asked for.  Busy, Busy

About 2/3rds done on this piece.  Love the bottom, but top still needs work.

Precipitous Flow

Decided to call my piece "Precipitous Flow".  Precipitous as in craggy/rough as in the curved piece.  It is also a nod to "precipitation", which not only means weather - depicted in the sleet-like beads, hail like pieces and the flakes, but it also means a slant, slope or decline.  I used "flow" in the flow of the red center piece, but in the fact that it looks like a flow of magma.  A 24x30 multimedia piece for $300.

New piece...as yet unnamed

This is my newest piece...still trying to figure out a name.  It has a flow made from tissue paper, with oranges, reds and browns.  It is in the midst of small beads, FLEXALL raised opalescent pieces and blue flakes...all reminiscent of forms of precipitation.  Has highlights of purple dotting, green and metallic.  Will post one good photo, as soon as I get some good sunlight...and the name.

Getting back to Abstract

Had all the fun I can stand with the Steamunk piece, but am keeping it nearby.  It has been more of a project, and that is why I havent done anything with it for so long.

I am starting on something that is actually fun.  I am putting down a base on a piece that will be a textured abstract.  Will try to create an image tomorrow and put up.  Using a blue curved base, with tissue paper bits and a curved area from crumpled tissue paper.  Got a fun idea in my head...but as usual, the piece will decide for me.

Got the base down on my Steampunk piece.  It is a much larger canvas, so it taking much longer.  Of course, taking time from family to use for this large piece is hard.  Got lines down for the mapping and hope to complete them soon.  Next will be gears and such coming up and out of bottom corner.  Going to try to find a few actual metal gears....if it doesn't look too "forced".

My biggest question will be how to create the locomotive....size, placement, etc.  After that, I will look at the piece and see if I need to add anything else for balance.  Maybe just adding the clouds of steam will be enough.

Learned a valuable lesson....dont ask anyones opinion about your art.  My husbands challenge is ever changing.  He gave me a Steampunk challenge, then decided after I showed him my study for it, that a different main form would be better....after the next study, now he thinks a collage of 3 main forms would be best.  Beginning to go from a labor of love, to just labor. Yeesh!