Painting in the Sun

What happens when you paint on a hot, sunny day in an outdoors studio:
"Sun Flower Cross Section" 9x12 paper on 1 1/2" cradled board.  R&F oil sticks and oil paints.

Big Mouth

Two new oil, cold wax and graphite paintings each on 12x16 inch encausticbord (on 1" cradled wood panels) painted as a diptych (bottom) but presentable as two separate paintings - Big MouthA (top) and BigMouthB (middle).  Painted on a hot, sunny day in California in my outdoor studio as I channeled my love of the sun!

Although not yet completely dry, they are now up on my Saatchi Art gallery:  http://www.saatchiart.com/Lucy

Busy Hands are ...

... the opposite of idle hands, which are the Devil's workshop, according to some.  Took some time out from sewing last week to play with cold wax and oil paints:

Top to bottom:

1.  Space Flower:  mixed media on paper covered cradled board 16x12

2.  Space Flowers:  mixed media on cradled gessobord 8 1/2 x 12 3/4

3.  Woman Looking to the West:  cold wax, graphite and oil paint on arches oil paper on cradled board 6x6

Something Old, Something New

Some tweaking of an earlier painting (Middle painting "Over the Sea") and two completely do overs of previous paintings:  Top, "Balancing Act" (painted over "Bird on a Wire") and "Bird On A Ball" (painted over "Bugs in a Bottle")  Fun day in my outdoors studio making a mess with cold wax, oil paint and R&F pigment sticks

New Work from Latest Workshop

Just finished a three day workshop at Jeffrey Hirst's Oakland Studio (link) with instructor Lisa Pressman (link).  We painted with oils, R&F oil sticks and cold wax on Ampersand Encausticbord and on Arches oil paper.  I learned a lot but ended up feeling somewhat frustrated since much of my work still needs work.  Adding and deleting to come up with image after image, until the final painting soars to life is hard!  Out of six 12x16 cradled panels I painted, only one really worked (top painting of White Bird).  The painting I started with is below it.  I had more luck with the quick studies and use of the 6x6 cuts of Arches oil paper as mini palettes.  Eight of those mini paintings are below the White Bird panel.  Painting without reference turned me, once again, to painting with stick figures, perhaps not too successfully.  The Tree painting was fun but is somewhat boring and the paintings of Big Bird and Rainbow Baby Bird (two lowest images show their evolution) seem to be regressing, rather than improving.  I love the medium, however, so will keep on keeping on with this for awhile.  The best thing about the workshop was the chance to work with a small group of talented people and to learn which artists influenced them (many of whom were new to me).

Color Composition

A chair and light in the Indian Valley College art classroom.  Pastel, ink and oil on pastel board 8x10.

Barn Window With Flowers

Photo taken in 2012 at Olompali State Park, printed on fabric, rabbit skin glued onto 10x8 birch board with oil painted flowers added