The red dress…This is a painting that I did some time ago and it still remains to be my favorite.
It was during a transition time for me when my life took a different direction. More importantlyI started painting.
this painting remains a bit of a mystery. A moment in time.
This is a small 11″ x 14″ expressionistic acrylic painting. It is loosely executed. This might look like a sad painting but it’s meant to be courageous. For sale $350.00.
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I rummaged through some old paintings today. I get inspiration when I see these works how there so fresh, new, and spontaneous. I see the freedom that came with painting what ever was presented right there in front of us. We did the best that we could or knew at the time. The art instructor would walk around looking like Wyatt Earp helping us to paint, to see and understand when areas were working or not. The thick smell of turpentine and oil paint saturated the room instilling a memory forever.
I’m a painter not a writer.
I believe Conversation enriches the understanding but solitude is the school of genius.
Edward Gibbon
I can never eloquently articulate into words what I am thinking and painting.
No matter how profound it might be even in a rough stage I can’t find the words to speak so instead I leave them unsaid in an endless pile of journals sitting in my studio.
I really have a lot to say. I’m learned in religion, politics and art. I like to talk about the mundane and the obvious. I enjoy conversation with coffee and or a glass of wine. I like getting deep. I like talking factual.
My goal here in starting this blog is that I’m in search of my voice.
I took a big turn this year from working on just fine art paintings to doing fine art portraits as well. It has been working out amazing well. I was really trying to pick and choose exactly what I’d be interested in painting and everyone couldn’t have been more pleased with the results. I’m working larger than I previosly was and I am constantly working now by filling in the gaps by having a variety of canvas going on at one at different stages. My studio has been conviently moved upstairs into a dining room that we never seemed to use anyways and extra lights have been added. My life as an artist is coming in full circle where as I am a working, selling and a showing artist. I have been also working on my website this is something that has been changing an evolving as well.
I took a big turn this year from working on fine art paintings to including fine art portraits as well. It has been working out nicely. I was really trying to pick and choose exactly what I’d be interested in painting and the results could not have been more positive. I now work larger than I previously was and I am constantly working by having a variety of canvas going on at once at different stages. My studio has been conveniently moved upstairs into a dining room that we never seemed to use anyways and extra lights have been added. My life as an artist is coming in full circle. I have also been working on my website this is something that has been changing an evolving in itself.
Visit me at http://www.cedarlodgeportraitstudio.com
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