Paintings on Fabric, Part Deux

More mini paintings on cotton fat quarters! 4"x4" paintings on gallery wrap canvas. Hanging hardware (sawtooth hanger) included. $35 plus shipping.

To purchase please contact me - aldisdl@hotmail.com - include image title in subject line.

They Call It Camouflage - 4"x4" Oil on fabric & gallery wrap canvas

$35 plus shipping

Moving On Up - 4"x4" Oil on fabric & gallery wrap canvas

$35 plus shipping

Here's Looking At You, Kid - 4"x4" Oil on fabric & gallery wrap canvas

$35 plus shipping

Tiny Bubbles - 4"x4" Oil on fabric & gallery wrap canvas

$35 plus shipping

Up & Away - 4"x4" Oil on fabric & gallery wrap canvas

$35 plus shipping

10 (8x8) Canvases - $30 each!

PWA Project - 10 Artworks, 30 hours, $30 each

8"x8" Gallery Wrap (1.5" deep) Canvases, Cotton Fabric, Acrylics

So, I missed the hanging deadline. I finished these two days after the drop off date. I can't blame anyone but myself, but, in my defense, life has thrown me some big curve balls recently. Not bad stuff, just, stuff that keeps me from painting & creating. 

These 10 paintings are all done on 8"x8" Gallery Wrap Canvases that I covered with Cotton Fat Quarters from the fabric store. The original concept was to create origami animals and paint them but I realized I just wanted to paint animals - birds and insects. This is one of the few times I have painted exclusively in Acrylics. That might change, but I like the set so far. I just really dig pattern. 

If you are interested in purchasing, please email me - aldisdl@hotmail.com (please put 8"x8" canvas in the Subject line) they are all $30 each plus shipping. 

Enjoy!

Direct Painting, Sessions 6, 7 & 8

Each painting took approximately 2.5 hours. I'll probably re-visit a couple in the future. What a great class. I recommend anyone who wants to improve their painting (or drawing) to take Barbara Fugate's classes, either at Gage Academy (www.gageacademy.org) in Seattle or in West Seattle. (www.fromlife.blogs.com)

Emotive Color - 24"x24" Oil on canvas

Bright Color - 24"x24" Oil on Canvas

Neutral Color - 24"x 30", Oil on Canvas

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

Single Fare 2: Please Swipe Again. And Again.

My three entries to the Single Fare 2 show. I am so out of my league. Wonderful, wonderful works in this show - great artists like my friends, Debra Goertz, Suzanne Lago Arthur, Charis Carmichael Braun and Christian Johnson, as well as big names like Alyssa Monks (ridiculously amazing), Jacob Jacobsmeyer.. .
I had fun, and I know that counts somewhat. But some days, you just feel mediocre in the presence of such greatness. Which makes me more determined to keep learning.