Painting on Black

11.06.2011


chicken and corn 16 x 20 acrylic on board

14 comments:

  1. just Beautiful Chick! I love the frame too, just finishes it of nicely....

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  2. princess: i had two of these frames - sprayed them flat white and rubbed on the gray. I wish I had more of them - I made the painting FOR the frame. I have a trunk show thursday and a studio sale in 3 weeks so I ma trying to make unique affordable new pieces. thank you!

    roxanne: sweet. thank you!

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  3. I like the frame painted white/etc. Really nice contrast to the black back ground. I spent some of my weekend viewing a ton of Day of the Dead skulls and found a few that did the black background/white. It's interesting how much changes by the shift in contrasts, but I really like this painting. The images truly pop!

    Will you put your item online? Please? is that possible?

    xoxoox

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  4. I like the way your, or at least my eyes go around in a circle investigating the nooks and crannies, but when you stand back your struck by the symmetry of structure and color. Don't know much about art, but I like this. Your raindeer's still my favorite. What are those sand dollar, egg things, or am I supposed to know?

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  5. Very cool. Thanks for showing it.

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  6. boxer: On the days of my studio sale, which is November 26th and 27, I will also post some of the work on my website. I had been wanting to paint on black gesso for a long time - one of my patron saints of painting, Anna Pugh, paints on black and I always loved the look - although these pieces are to be very spare - i.e. affordable. to me- they are also like Miro with the shapes floating in space. You have inverse calaveras? I wanna see that. xo

    curmudgeon: thank you! the green eggs (i like that interpretation!) are just design elements. they are loosely "flowers". Im going to try and do some raindeer like pieces for the sale - but in more understated colors - so they are "cabiny"

    von LX: you are welcome and thank you, cat!

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  7. LOVE it !! Love those old vintagey frames.

    Morran portraits are so stunningly sophisticated over at Studio Morran I'm hanging my head in embarrassed amateurish shame (just between you & me ;-) xoxo S, Dee & Sam(uel)

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  8. warmly and softly
    sentiments rise
    harmony flowers
    tea with the sky
    corn trails and feathers
    a pull of the calm
    in centralised symbols
    that flow through the palms
    in psalms of a calling
    the deep of the sea
    where the birds fly
    a sense of all free
    in the feilds of emotion
    on eternitys tide
    with harmony flowers
    the earth and the sky

    ..peace..

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  9. The seed pod/flower in the upper right is my favorite element after the chicken tail feathers. Sometimes I see in your work a very delicate balancing act between down home folk art and a kind of Mid Century Modern-esque high stylization. I don't know if that's intentional or just the way my eyeballs interpret it, but it's very unique and compelling when it happens. I dig it!

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  10. susan: I feel the same. Im embarrassed of mine. If I dont have time to do something well i shouldnt do it at all - or do it but if its not up to snuff -hold it back. I thought yours was professional and lovely.

    SHe is going to put every entry in the book. I try too hard lately. I have to just draw freely and let things be off or wrong and quirky. I have to do assignment work today -but for my studio sale I want to just draw automatically and paint without too much fuss. Im having some difficulty focusing lately. gah!

    Neil!: I swear everytime you write a poem I declare that one my favorite. Tea with the sky? I love that. I always delight in these poems. thank you so.

    Moi: an astute deconstruction. Couldnt have described it better myself. Im glad you likey!! More to come.

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  11. @ moi .... very much a mid century color scheme too.

    @ Chicky ... it's a happy painting!
    Perky chicken, eager insect, cycling life.. is this your painted haiku?

    Good luck with getting everything ready for your sales. Will you put everything online after the on-site sales?

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  12. This is beautiful dear chickory,that is one confident looking bird. I love the colours against the black background it gives them more prominence.
    xoxoxo ♡

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  13. shut up !!
    mine looks naive (not in a good way & tres amatuerish - boo !! boo !!

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