If you want to know where the rainbow ends

It's you who've got to go there and find it my friend

(Tom Waits)

4th Annual Black & White Ball

Art Show coming up:
http://www.oncanvasartgallery.com/black%2Bwhite2008.html

Come and check it out!

Below are pieces that were commissioned after the opening.

What the Heart Reveals

Asleep at Dawn

 

Untitled

Self Portrait

I finished my self-portrait... I will have a better quality image soon.

I had much fun layering colours and used a small plastic bottle with a 0.7 mm tip to do the "squiggles", I enjoyed the looseness of that.
Half my face is in shadow, most appropriate at this time in my life. And the colour, well, it speaks for itself.

I also used a quote from Shakespeare:

"Their life, exempt from public haunts,
Find tongues in trees, books in running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything."

That's how I feel in the middle of the forest... I then played around with the order of the words, with texture/collage... a fun project to get me in the right head space for the new body of work percolating in my mind.

Back to Colour... with a BANG!

Well, I've finished working on my black & white pieces for the show... interesting how the lack of colour has renewed my love of it. Having to work within specific parameters helped me appreciate form, composition and texture in a different way... But what can I say, I'm a lush for colour - I was hungry for it and today - I went full swing back in colour... a self portrait for a project I'm part of... I'm having fun with it!

2 Mixed Media pieces finished!
(Notice my shadow... a sunny day to boot!!)

The beginning of colour...

Self Portrait - Rediscovering the pleasures of layering and colours

Still working the bits and pieces...

In the Studio... works in progress

I have been happily ensconced in my studio this week...
I'm working on pieces for the Black & White Show at On Canvas Art Gallery at the end of March.

A raccoon's eye-view... One came by for a visit this afternoon.

The Studio on this cloudy day


One of a pair... mixed media
Black and White

Detail of the second Black and White Mixed Media Piece

Embracing the decorative...

A Bit More Life Drawing

A few more images...
from the past couple of sessions
2 models

Rainer Maria Rilke

I beg you… to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without ever noticing it, live your way into the answer…