Kitty, Kitty, Kitty

"Kitty, Kitty, Kitty 6x6" oil on canvas panel

 

I've been a bit under the weather this week and tied down with wedding preparations, showers, and graphic design work, so I haven't been able to paint much. However, here is a commissioned piece that I have been working on for a friend.  I do love those sweet, sensitive eyes of contentment as this kitty sat before a window. Sorry but it's not for sale at this time.

 

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nancy

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Upper Level Management

"Upper Level Management" 6x6" Oil on gessoboard

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Looks like more layoffs may be coming down in the corporate world. Money is tight and jobs hard to come by. This high-ranking corporate official has some tough decisions to make in order to trim excess overhead. "Aha! Diversification would offer me the option to restructure, filling newly-created positions from within." He has asked for volunteers, hoping several of his long-time employees might be willing to transfer into the highly-speculative Cobbler Department...Someone just has to step up to the plate.

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Launch of the Boating Party

"Launch of the Boating Party" 6x6" oil on gessoboard

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An island in the sun, boats gather around this tropical resort casting sultry reflections that swirl a top foamy waters. This reminds me of all those exotic destinations where cruise ships, like flocks of graceful geese, silently maneuver their way into bustling tourist ports. I guess this is as close as I'll get to a vacation this summer but my mind is frolicking in the spray of ocean mist. Bon voyage!

I am trying out a smooth gesso surface with this painting and enjoyed not having to fight the rough waves of stiff canvas.

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"Undercover Agent"

"Undercover Agent" 6x6" oil on canvas panel

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As you can see, Special Operation's Officer, Lt. Frank Fork sits camouflaged in cool, dark shadows under the protection of a plate in this recent dragnet. He sat by undetected for days, carefully observing every move of this flashy duo perched overhead. It was reported, in the end, violence broke out leaving in its wake a juicy-blood bath.  

I'm sure you all thought I was the one who had died! It took me forever to find an opportunity to finish this painting. By the time I got back to it, the strawberry was covered in a disguise of mold and the watermelon was literally running off the plate trying to escape the scene. Gross! I ended up pitching it all in the trash and working from memory. Oh the trials of being a painter!

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Down by the Old Mill Stream

"Down by the Old Mill Stream" 6x8" oil on canvas panel

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This landscape painting was another challenge posted by DailyPaint Works. (above is the photo we painted from)

Painting a landscape feels like flying, such a welcome change of pace from still life. I love the loose flow of buttery pigment as it courses, glides, drifts, circulates, skims, oozes, swirls, and rolls off the fine tiny hairs of my brush with a story of its own to tell. The brush charts its own path catching light off vapors of layered atmosphere, fluid sweep of free-flowing water, or the crisp rustle of dry swaying grasses. 

It feels so natural to me, I can't imagine approaching a landscape in any other way. To labor over each exacting blade of grass, every ripple on the water's surface, or the intricate patterns of bark on a branch, would condense it all into a frozen frame of a girdle to sit lifeless and idle for all eternity. In a landscape, I want to capture the movement of breathing spirit. I want the viewer to feel the chill of the wind that's blowing through my hair, the warm rays of afternoon sun that sit perched on a shoulder, and to detect the decaying scent of autumn rising from the mists off the bank of cool waters. 

The artist job is to take it all in but then to simplify and filter down to the barest of it all, that which contains the whole. I still have miles of canvas to go but am loving my journey along the way.

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Strawberry Fields Forever

"Strawberry Fields Forever" 6x6" Oil on canvas panel

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"I was looking back to see, if she was looking back to see, if I was looking back to see, if she was looking back at me", said the strawberry. I set this still life up on top of a mirror and the multiplication of the strawberries went crazy. Reflections of the image, and the mirrored images in the mirror and in the silver bowl appeared every; reminding me of those crazy fun houses we went into as kids with the mirrors that made you look like you went on into infinity. 

This was a fun one to paint because it forced me to let go of what was real and what wasn't and just paint all the little spots of color and values I saw, where I saw them.

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nancy

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"No Present Like the Present"

"No Present Like the Present" 6x6" Oil on Canvas Panel

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We all have heard the saying, "The present is a gift, that's why it's called the present", so here's my gift to the present. It's nearly impossible for me to ever stay in the present for very long, unless I am either meditating or painting. This is the best part of being a painter. I literally can't even tell you where I go but my mind disappears into thin air. From the book, The Art Spirit by Robert Henri this resonates with me, "At such times there is a song going on within us a song to which we listen. It fills us with surprise. We marvel at it. We would continue to hear it. But few are capable of holding themselves in the state of listening to their own song. Intellectuality steps in and as the song within us is of the utmost sensitiveness, it retires in the presence of the cold material intellect....we fall back and become our ordinary selves. Yet we live in the memory of these songs which in moments of intellectual inadvertence have been possible to us. They are the pinnacles of our experience and it is the desire to express these intimate sensations, this song from within, which motivates the masters of all art."  

Thank you for viewing my song for today!

nancy

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Time Out

"Time Out" 12x12" Oil on Wrapped Canvas
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If you are wondering what all the commotion is about here today? It's a parade! Some of the local citizens of Down the Highway are lining the streets, just as it gets underway, commemorating the First Year Anniversary of the founding of their colorful town. Spoon float is passing in front of the judges showing off her silvery sheen. Making her golden debut is Marmalade Redbeckia, a new star and latest addition to the neighborhood. She's the only one around who can, without a whimper, stand up to face the summer inferno. She rocks!!! In spite of her demanding schedule, I think it's pretty cool how she magically produced a diminutive clone of herself onto the face of spoon. Nearly everyone is out celebrating with the exception that little imp sachi who is seen pouting in time out. He was caught trying set off a bottle rocket in spite of the ban on fireworks.

You know, every now and then, I paint a little piece of something that seems to really work in a painting. Leaves are exceptionally tough to get right but check out that one little fellow who fell off the stem and is resting half in and half out of ruby red's shadow...that was a special "aha" moment for me! I love it when that happens!!!

Thank you to all of you who have continued to follow this digital little Peyton Place in spite of all the violence in these not-so-still lives...And, thanks for viewing my paintings!

nancy

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