Mucho Memphis

I spent six hours painting today, phew! It's going really well. I was telling my friend, Nina, today that I think this painting is coming easily because I have sat on the idea for a while before beginning the actual work. I have already made quite a few compositional decisions, now it's just a matter of getting it down on the canvas. It doesn't hurt that I am racing to finish for my portfolio deadline.

Small addition

Wow, Blogger actually loaded this photo! That's a first in a few weeks. I snuck in an hour of painting today after a work shift and was able to lay in the sunflower. Sorry about the moll stick in the frame, but I didn't realize how distracting it would be when I quickly took the snap.

Memphis

I began a new painting today, and it's all very exciting. The painting is HUGE, and I started with a venetian red gesso ground. But I can't get blogger to load any of the photos of the piece, boo! Good thing Picasa Web Albums works. Just click on the link titled "portfolio" on the right hand side of this blog. Then you can click on the new photos for a close up peak.

Newly finished pieces

I have been wrapping a few things up as well as pushing to compile a portfolio for a series of college interviews I have on Saturday. Here are photos of a finished Eve, a reprinted linocut (white on cream so I apologize if it is hard to see), and a little more work I have put into the old painting of the squash. (Check the portfolio link to the right for pictures of the squash painting. I can't get Blogger to load it to this post for some reason.)

She said, "Let there be background"...

and there was.

Slowly plugging away...

I worked on this piece a little more today. Really I was just putting in some details on the prickly pear cactus and some highlights on the open fig. I also tried to work out the feet. I stared and stared at my feet in the mirror, and I think I've ended up with statuesque Rodin sized clonkers on the ends of my legs. But...I may leave them out of proportion. I'm not really going for photorealism here anyway. I have been puzzling over the composition of this piece as well. It seems empty compared to its twin - the painting of Tyler, and I am toying with the idea of laying a ground and horizon line; but pretty annoyed that I am thinking of doing this now. It will mean some backtracking... hmmm.