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