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Tuesday, December 9, 2008

3 acrylics

Katie came for a visit and of course took it as another opportunity to pose for me. Very comfortable , goofy, young and a handful. But a lot of fun to paint.
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These are also 2 smaller paintings from my painting while sick in bed time.
I got a thing for black pearls so I painted me one. I also painted a black heart that's been on my mind. As my lungs were feeling like 2 shriveled up raisins it was on my mind.

3x7
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3x7
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Continuation of the Mini Series

My acrylic series on 3"x4" on cherry wood continues with an image from a strange and very long dream I had about a house in the middle of nowhere and a little schoolgirl just floating around in my head.

"I Sure Love My Hunny!"
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"Picture Day"

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"Red Rubber Ball"
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"The Lady Lizzy"
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Sunday, November 16, 2008

Info for blue squared show

I got an email from the wonderful Cathie Joy Young of The Gallery Paradiso in Portland Oregon about the card she had made for the Blue Squared show. I was excited to see the wonderful work of some of the other contributors & also to see that 2 of the 3 of my images ( Synch or Swim & Blue Grace) were selected to be advertised for the promotion. All 3 of my paintings including Blue Bunny are still up on my website but will be available for purchase only through the gallery from now - Jan 4th. There is a link by each one at www.bluefacekiller.com under recent works. To visit or get contact info for Cathie Joy , her amazing works and The Gallery Paradiso happenings click the banner to visit the site. Currently Cathie is showing a collection from the brilliant Mike Egan and lucid dreamy paintings of her own creation as well.


Monday, October 20, 2008

A new direction

In rediscovering my acrylics I have started this series that seems to be endless and really a lot of fun. Many more in the works and on the way. 6x9 on heavy 140lb watercolor paper.

~Candy Girl
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~Little Luci
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~My Buddy & Me
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~So Happy Together
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~Gangster Luv


~Cradle of Love

Friday, October 10, 2008

A little thing called love

I do love weepy emotional everything , but this song says a lot to me. Ups and downs of living have made me a sap. And no more shall we part is the song and i sat down and painted this , again i used acrylic and it was really smooth transition from idea to board. Unfortunately I have been not wanting to get back to my oil paints so i have a pile of unfinished oils that need a lot of work. Laziness perhaps. Here is my new piece acrylic on masonite 11x12

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The Blue Squared series

I was asked to paint a few works for submission to a show themed Blue Squared. I picked up my acrylics after not having used them since i was 17. I was pretty happy how comfprtable it felt since i have been pretty loyal to my oil paints for so long now. And i gotta say , what a nice break from wearing latex gloves and a mask ( I am very sensitive to the chemicals involved in oil painting)
It was fun... different.

here is my Little Blue Bunny 5x5 in acrylic.



My monochromatic swimmers called Synch or Swim acrylic on canvas 10x10



and last is Grace in Blue 12x12 acrylic on hardboard She has a sister piece in color named Grace

Sunday, September 14, 2008

pin up sisters



Sweet Tits and Sugar Ass are sister pieces i created in 2004. The owner of these 2 pieces moved several states away and after having unpacked everything found the 2 were missing. It's a stretch , but if anyone should happen to see or know anything about them , I know she would like them back. They measure about 11x11 and have wide black frames . no mats,with museum glass in them. This is all I thought I could do to help her out. Thanks for your time in reading this.

Friday, September 12, 2008

self portraits


"1-2-3" June 2007 - oil on canvas 18x18
"She died of mortal passion. How she suffered for him.
They say that a sad dove comes to sing to her early in the mornings. They say that dove is none other than her soul."
At the time i was having great pains from kidney stones which have plagued me since the birth of my daughter. I now have an overproduction issue which have stones that filled both my kidneys and all the way down the ureters ( T M I ) but at the time i was feeling ill and I was so tired. It was a ugly moment for meboth physically and emotionally.



I am very much in love with portrait work , most especially of the older very traditional style like the ones i am in love with st the Portrait Museum. Not being a master of the art by any means I still enjoy painting and drawing portraits. It is a very intimate process which is why I am so emotional about looking at portraits and painting them. Here are 3 self portraits all done in oil.


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Self Portrait 2004 - 14x18 oil on 8 ply acid free board

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"Twin Bed" 2005 - 8x10 oil on masonite The celibate years

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Sewing project

It's 2:30am .... just finished this a little bit ago and i was very happy with the way it turned out. Hand sewn , hand painted muslin , embroidery floss and acrylic paint. It's been floating around my head for a while, it's good to have it complete.

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Monday, September 8, 2008

Color pencils

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The other night my husband and I decided on watching a slew of gruesomely dark and disturbing movies. Some were laughable and some were just , a little too much for even me. Which is rare. But past events may have changed my viewpoints of such random acts of violence. Not that i don't love Grindhouse, Evil Dead and other such classics , I tend to be too emotionally attached somehow to the based on true story movies. Moving on though , the day following our film fest i found myself feeling loopy and out of sorts so I decided to draw for a bit. I took out my colored pencils which cause me great pain after drawing for too long, but it felt so good to use them again. My subject matter helped me get back to feeling "normal" again. It's hard to feel bad when I see their faces.

Recent works, plaster and wire


Here are some of my recent works. It's been 4 months since i quit my job and I have taken up more time consuming projects I previously just didn't have the patience for. It's been a nice growth period for me. I find myself wanting to do too much at once and focus has been a problem. So that, i do need to work on.










"Grill~ Extra Cheese" wire plaster , oil paint, metal leaf

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"Love me" wire plaster acrylic paint. Lyrics , Love and Rockets (part of my 80's series in oil, coming soon)

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