Small Works (3"x3" 3/4) - Chinese Lantern

Warm Glow (Chinese Lantern)

Oil on Panel -  Unframed, $25 plus $5 Shipping

Painting on Fabric

For the love of pattern... Acrylic painting, sealed, on cotton fabric ("fat quarters"), on 4"x4", 1.5" deep - gallery wrap canvas, ready to hang (sawtooth hanger)

 $35 each plus shipping. To purchase, contact me - aldisdl@hotmail.com 

Bluebird -SOLD

Dotty the Giraffe -SOLD

Making Waves - SOLD

Satsuma - mini!

Satsuma, 2"x2" oil on itty bitty canvas

$25 plus $5 shipping

To purchase contact me - aldisdl@hotmail.com

So cute. I love miniatures. Its a challenge, but so much fun! I was teaching today so I was not able to get to my doggie series...a tiny orange will have to do... tomorrow, though, is another day! 

11/20/11 - 9 & 10 of 30, Fuschias and Glitter, Forest Funghi

Fuschias & Glitter

Oil on Found Paper and Canvasboard, 8"x10"/$40 plus $5 shipping (US)

To purchase contact me -aldisdl@hotmail.com

Forest Funghi

Oil on Found paper and Canvas Board, 8"x10"/$40 plus $5 shipping (US)

To purchase contact me - aldisdl@hotmail.com

Direct Painting Class with Barbara Fugate, Session 1 & 2

Session 2 - Oil on Canvas 28"x20"
Approx 2.5 hours

The Challenge in this painting was to work with line/contour line. We initially stained the canvas using paint, dipping our rags in mineral spirits. The focus was to get the big shapes of light & dark, positive and negative down first. We each chose a color scheme - I picked a Secondary Triadic of Green/Orange/Violet. The next step was to use line, of varying weight, color (intensity, value) to emphasize and activate the forms. Barbara showed us artwork by Matisse, Max Beckmann, Gauguin, Oskar Kokoshka, Alice Neel and others.

Session 2, Detail 1

Session 2, Detail 2

Session 1 - Oil on Canvas, 24"x24"
Approx 2h

In our first Direct Painting class we were challenged to simplify the forms we saw into simple, big shapes of light and shadow. We each picked a complementary color scheme - mine was Red/Green. We also had to try to find a Figure-Ground relationship - by adding greens into the figure I incorporated colors from the background into the main figure. We looked at the San Francisco Bay Area Painters (Joan Brown, Terry St. John, Paul Wonner), Leland Bell & Elmer Bishoff.

Session 1, Detail