| This is a journey of sorts from one frame of | | | | painting I did not like."The Power Within |
| mind to another and the colors and moods that | | | | Me" 48x36 oil and gold liner on canvas dated |
| guided me. I describe three paintings and | | | | |
| their process."Anticipation" 36x24 oil on | | | | August 2002 is part of my "African Series" |
| canvas, dated, Sept. 1998, from my "Passion | | | | * |
| Series" *was actually a breakthrough piece | | | | |
| for me. I had been | | | | This painting is part of my "African |
| | | | Series". I used phthalo green |
| painting my "Victorian Series" for months, | | | | |
| spending hours on | | | | along with my beloved full palette in this |
| | | | series. I painted this |
| modulating the colors. I paint a lot from | | | | |
| photos. My goal with the | | | | quickly as well. It almost feels like a |
| | | | fever, it just flows. I |
| "Victorian Series" was to put in as many | | | | |
| colors in the skin tone as I | | | | attribute that to doing my homework so to |
| | | | speak. All those years of |
| could. Looking at a photo or life long | | | | |
| enough a lot of colors begin | | | | modulating and painting in sepia tones, my |
| | | | constant drawing in |
| to show themselves that normally go | | | | |
| unnoticed. Modulating many | | | | graphite gives me a base of understanding. I |
| | | | put down colors as I |
| colors I became frustrated and bored after | | | | |
| finishing 10 or so of | | | | feel them, almost in a dance and it is most |
| | | | certainly trance like. I |
| them. I had a canvas that I had painted a | | | | |
| dark blue and decided that | | | | use a lot of paint and use big brushes. I |
| | | | work from dark to light. |
| maybe it would be ok to just play.....and | | | | |
| not modulate at all. I | | | | I save the lights and small brushes until I |
| | | | am pretty sure that I am |
| found a picture that I liked, studied the | | | | |
| colors, filled my brush a | | | | happy with the painting in general. It is |
| | | | always tempting to use |
| fresh for each stroke and applied them to my | | | | |
| canvas. I have not | | | | small brushes and add some highlight but I |
| | | | remind myself that that |
| modulated to the extent that I was since. I | | | | |
| continued painting with this color palette | | | | would probably ruin the painting and make it |
| naming | | | | appear tedious. |
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| the series "The Passion Series". I still | | | | Sometimes they don't work, but I just think, |
| tried to fit every color in | | | | "So What!" I can always |
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| the rainbow on my palette as I do to this | | | | paint over it, that is the gift of doing |
| day adding small nuances | | | | oils. I think sometimes |
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| wherever I can. I would add here too that | | | | there is more freedom in oils than there is |
| the series before "The | | | | in drawing and most |
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| Passion Series" was "Hawaiian Legacy" which | | | | certainly watercolors. Painting on large |
| is predominantly done in | | | | canvas' is also very free. |
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| sepia, tones.Another example of moving | | | | When I paint small I become locked up and |
| forward is "Girl On Phthalo Green" 36x48 oil | | | | back to where I started |
| on canvas, dated Oct. 2000 and from my | | | | |
| "Cosmopolitan Series" * | | | | when I modulated colors. When we draw on |
| | | | paper we try to tell |
| I became tired of the palette of blues and | | | | |
| fell in love with phthalo | | | | ourselves that it is 'just paper' to try to |
| | | | set ourselves free from |
| green for a time. I guess I still love it. | | | | |
| This painting was | | | | worry about the end results, but oils make a |
| | | | better friend to me.In all of my paintings |
| greatly influenced by Modgliani. When I was | | | | emotion plays the strongest part. This is |
| in high school, many | | | | |
| | | | the part that takes the longest. If anything |
| years ago, my mother asked me to copy a | | | | must be right it is the |
| Modigliani for her house. I | | | | |
| | | | emotion felt by the image, so that they can |
| painted a 60x72 piece for her in corals. I | | | | breath. Sometimes I |
| never forgot that | | | | |
| | | | cannot get that part and it is so |
| painting nor Modigliani. When I feel truly | | | | frustrating to me that I cannot |
| inspired paintings are | | | | |
| | | | sleep at night. It becomes the only thing I |
| done quickly and the brushstrokes are done | | | | think about. I choose |
| wildly. I am in heaven | | | | |
| | | | to paint mostly women because I am one and |
| during these times. I painted this in | | | | because I think they are |
| perhaps 3 hours over another | | | | |
| | | | beautiful. |