Going AWOL for life (well, not really...)

So I disappeared for a few months, wasn't that interesting? Sometimes life can throw you a curveball and you just have to go and deal with it. I'm back now, though, and casting a cold eye over my work...and while I can see the first fumbl9ings of an idea, there's nothing really substantal there yet. Time to roll the sleeves up and start thinking outside the box - stay tuned!

Work in process, with a working title!

This is my 'Icy Lady', the piece I'm working on at the moment, sorry about the darkness of the photo. It's 60cmX60cm, and acrylics on canvas.

She looks a bit 'big handed' at the moment, but so was the original model! I'm also trying to get some green undertones into the shadows of this figure. I think it seems to be working!

Vulnerability

Vulnerability, acrylics on canvas

This is a small canvas (30cmX40cm) but there is something I really like about it; maybe it's the pose of the model (I used it for a small watercolour previously) or the abstract, yet organic, background.

I think I'll try to take a better photo of it tomorrow in the daylight, as there is a bit of shine from my camera flash. I've also decided that I really like the juxtaposition between the figurative foreground and the abstract background and I already have an idea for another piece that plays with this contrast

Art Squared: 'Vulnerable', 'Spring', and 'Faded Memory'

Three wee illustrations (4"X4") in watercolour and ink on paper.

Illustration Friday: Save

Save me, it's a jungle out there!

Acrylics on Canvas, 70cm X 100 cm approx



I think it's the positioning of the hands, but there is something about this painting that reminds me of Penelope Pitstop ... save me, save me!

Storm Coming...

'Storm Coming'

Acrylics on Canvas

50 cm X 50 cm

It seems I spoke too soon earlier, I actually finished this piece today - go me! The text on the canvas is a new departure for me and there are elements I really like about it. I can see myself integrating text into my work again.

So, onto the 'Save' piece tomorrow, for illustration Friday, and then I want to do a few 'miniature' paintings and see what happens....

Edited to add: I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, 'text, what text?'

To make a long story short, I decided that i didn't like it on this canvas after all (artist's prerogative!) although I still love the concept. Maybe I'll use it for a collage piece, not sure yet....

Ye Olde Works in Progress.

So, this week's prompt for Illustration Friday is 'Save', and I've got just the painting for it... If I get it finished in time...

It's acrylics on canvas and is roughly 70cm X 100 cm, so it's a bit on the large side, but I do like the almost 'Penelope Pitstop' pose she has, with her pleading hands.

Help, Help, save me!




Also, my 'Storm Coming' painting is coming along, although I'm having trouble working with the eye. All the same, I think I should be moving along to next layer of this painting tomorrow and adding my 'text'.

Then I think I'll leave it be and consider it done!