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Working on a Poster that will show that a percentage of sales will go to the Nature Conservancy.
I want these "fish" to exist beyond my paintings, so 3% of total sales will go to help preserve them and other precious fish and birds that are in environmental pressures that might destroy them.
Red Sea Fish under threat of extinction
Thanking Albert Castiglia and Graham Wood Drout for adding the music!
Loved putting this together using Moo.com, created a beautiful invite.
Here's Casey, giving me her eagle eye after I woke her up to take her photo. Drawing based on this photo. Hours were spent just on creating her nose. 1,000 colors in my kit and none truly captured her colors. So out came the paint brushes and blending, blending blending.
After "Oh Walter," I just had to try a piece on my dog, Casey. Here's the process:
Beginning on work.
Still considering adding more orange to the drawing......
Geometric Illusion 3-dimensional large painting.
Looking through my studio, I stumbled upon this 3-dimensional acrylic painting, 5' X 6' in size, and reminded myself how much I love perceptional illusion and the idea of space moving in and out. I looked at it and said , wow! I am sharing it here, it's living right now in my new studio storage space and might be for sale if someone is interested, contact me if you will.
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"OH WALTER!"
"Oh Walter" is an amazing and lucky dog. He was rescued from the pound by two loving people, just in the nick of time. They have taught him to be loving and in return they love and cherish him. He has been a joy to draw.
I never thought I would be drawing someone's pet, really, not doing that, but this time it is really wonderful. Walter, my Walter drawing, still to be finished, looks so much like him, I'm expecting him to jump out of the page. He will be finished soon, but first my art studio is getting some updates, I'm having my space redesigned to hold and store so many sizes of art work on paper and canvas and other materials, now in an organized and safe space.
The shop is now open!!! Art Work is being added to the SHOP on a regular basis, keep checking back for more and new work. The works are mostly paper pieces that will need to be framed, a few oil paintings and who knows - whatever I can dream of.........
This Blue and Yellow Fish is now in the Shop and you can own it. Send me a message if you have any questions. Let's have fun with this.
Pink Wax Jambu Fruit trees discovered near my house, inspire my work as they fall from broken branches. I tasted these delightful tart juicy apple like fruits that seem so out of place in my environment and yet, they gave me so many ideas for my work.
Discovering older works and comparing them to those I'm working on now is rewarding and scary. Looking through 30 years of work and realizing images being used over 30 years ago, are popping up in my new work, unconsciously, and in new and exciting ways.
It's frightening and rewarding and scary. Having put myself back into the Artist chair, I am my biggest critic, it has to be perfect, it has to feel like it speaks to me, not just speaks, but screams truth to my soul. Doing art in this manner makes one crazy and happy all at the same time. It's very hard to explain, this is not happy therapy, it is a life in pictures, a life in emotions, in movement of my thoughts pouring out onto the paper or canvas with hands moving fast in many directions and then looking, seeing and reworking, reimagining, and deciding what works, when is it done, that's the real question and when is it good enough?
