Ascent 18 x. 24" oil on canvas Sold
Spontaneous Moves - Black White Gray / Horizontal 16 x 20. oil on canvas
Innovation in Blue and Orange 40 x 40" x. 1 1/2 oil on canvas. Sold The spontaneity of this piece is my beginning to use the paint differently. I have explored brush work, mediums and palette knife and here is seemed time to use my favorite value scale in cad orange and Prussian blue in a different way.
Day, Night, Firmament 28 x 22 oil on Canvas This painting was named thus after it was finished. It reminded me of theGenesis, the beginning of the first day.
Spontaneous Moves - Black White Gray Vertical 20 x 16" acrylic on canvas This process was innovative for me, but totally different and less time consuming from the one above. I could call this painting :Frustration: This painting happened almost without thought, but with using my mother's addictive behavior in the order, Clean it up! So I did. I took the black and white acrylic that I had been using for something, or perhaps nothing, and a large brush, and cleaned up the paint on this canvas. That was it. Once I got into it, I really caught the design bug. It had to be just like this and nothing else.
DreamScape 14 x 11 Acrylic on canvas Sold
Prints can be made in compatible sizes. Yes, yes, prints. Sell sell sell. Why? This was a perfectly good painting. But because it was made on top of something else, and the paint wouldn't cover parts of the underpainting, I destroyed it. It can never be duplicated. Paintings have life, I found out. They have a soul life. They were made by a creator. But, oh, what a headache our Creator must have had when He decided to have Noah, a righteous man, build the Ark, so that the world would be flooded and every soul killed, save the animals.
Inside Oil On Canvas. 24 x 18 The design element was part of my experience in the Cooper Union Fine Arts in 1956-59. We had handset type and printing and sculpture, drawing and painting. At that time there was no xerox copy or computer, but graphics, lithography, and etching. I couldn't see a way to implement what I had learned since the choices in available work in art in NYC seemed to be commercial as in window dressing, book design, and illustration. I would have needed a ton of more study, and joining the Art Students League would have been a very good boost to my painting for portraits and for illustration in book covers. I chose, however, to leave New York City and adventure out into the rest of America, Mexico, and Canada, mostly on foot and hitchhiking. I didn't have many close friends with whom I could share my uncertainties, it seemed that an artist's life was a lonely one, in a dark studio with one's own thoughts. Now I see from your User Design Process that thought needed to go with me into the visual arts. I had made friends with Claus Oldenburg. Claus worked at the Cooper Union Library.
Sun Sea Sky 10 x 15". oil. palette knife. sold
Sun Sea Sky 15 x 30 oil Palette knife
Value and Chrome study OIl on canvas palette knife 11 x 14"
Drip Green Black an Innovation in painting, for me, I like it. Oil on Canvas 11x 14". After I returned from the great northern journeys, I began to haunt the San Francisco Public Library for books on painting techniques in the stacks.I had a big sunny studio in a Victorian home, occupied by my new family, a writer husband and two talented kids. I began to paint in oil at home, and I started to use pastels and charcoal at Fisherman's Wharf outside the cannery on Leavenworth Street. There were singers in the alcove and clowns and craft sellers along Jefferson Street. During my painting years I would destroy any creative work painted at home that didn't get positive notice from viewers. I didn't have friends or anyone who was interested in paintings. My mother never liked anything did, but then she was very subjective. She told me to enter into exhibits, juried competitions, but I complained that was a lot of work and expensive, not having any idea how it worked with other artists competitively. I do love working in art classes with others, but I couldn't put two and two together to realize I could have that on a larger scale. I worked using all my imagination that comes as you paint, both at learning how to paint every sort of subject, trying every color scale, and enjoying the solitude and the feelings that went into every project. Now life is different thanks to the advent of the Internet. I tell people who ask if I sell or if I exhibit that "No, not much, Yes, a little, But "I never marketed myself" "! I begin to see the wasted time, the folly. But I also see a lot of artists who jump in without a lot of study, and marketing is the biggest thing. I wish everyone in America appreciated art and culture as much as is done in Europe and other cultures.Our government cuts funds for public arts whereas I think other countries make big contributions to artists.
