Category: About my art
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Artisan Well
My yard and studio have become my creative source: a veritable wellspring of inspiration and ideas. The more I work & play, the more I feed my own creative energy. I have created spaces for my ideas that feed new ideas and new work: a continuous cycle of playful work!
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Twelve Labors
This is a 9?x12? page divided into 12 squares, each representing difficult achievements in my life! The inspiration is the Twelve Labors of Hercules, the media are water soluble graphite, watercolor pencil, & watercolor paint on paper, draft 1 is on the left, draft 2 in the center, with the digital version of draft #1…
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Twelve Labors (minus 2)
A small exercise from last night, incomplete: this is a 9″x12″ page divided into 12 squares, each intended to represent a difficult achievement in my life! The inspiration is the Twelve Labors of Hercules, the media are water soluble graphite, watercolor pencil, & watercolor paint on paper. Two more to go, probably involving art! The…
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Listen to the Women, MeToo
I have been struggling with this second in the series “Some of the Women”: it seems to be resisting me! I want to give the faces life, energy & the desired expressions!!! And I am so sad, so concerned for all the women who have spoken up about past abuse. Far too many of these…
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Can They Listen?
As this painting has evolved, the title has changed from “Can We Listen” to “Can They Listen?”. The finished color palette of the painting (at left) is so “white guys in business suits” that the figures are no longer “we”, but rather “them”. The figures have now come to represent so many of the predominately…
