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A new website for new work, and an artist’s blog

November 29, 2017 · Lel ·

I’m making no promises for this blog.
Oh! I always start with a negative. Damn it. I will add that fault to my long list of things to work on. Aren’t we all supposed to be constantly improving ourselves? It seems like there’s an infinite well of self-help and personal growth advice on the Internet. I find this both inspiring and irritating. Yin and Yang. Inspiring in that occasionally I stumble upon a golden nugget does inspire, and make me think differently. Irritating in that there’s just so much of it, it’s a firehose of inspirational quotes done in lovely, feminine handwriting script. It can be a distraction from doing and just being.

OK, end ramble and back to it… this blog will be about new work, inspirations, news if I have any to report, and some random thoughts. Please forgive my grammatical errors and rambling nature, what can I say, I’m not a word person.

iPhone with artis's instagram accountAbout this site

This website puts on display new artwork of an abstract and personal nature. It’s not easy to commit to sharing this work, but once I started sharing on Instagram it fed upon itself. The IG art community is a generous one and I felt momentum. Just put it out there, and do it again, over and over. See the progress and enjoy the process. Draw from those many years of experience, seeing and noticing. See what happens. That’s what I’m doing, I’m committed now and I welcome your feedback.

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Cropped to a square is an improvement (image 1). T Cropped to a square is an improvement (image 1). This is the painting shown in previous tape peeling reel post. The exercise is to use linear overlapping shapes (image 3) to jumpstart an abstract oil painting, from the Exploring Abstraction course by Jenny Nelson. None of the original marks are visible btw. 🤓🤷‍♀️
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Static images of the painting exercise shown in ye Static images of the painting exercise shown in yesterday’s reel. 
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Now we’re cookin’! 👩‍🍳 This is a new e Now we’re cookin’! 👩‍🍳 This is a new exercise using linear overlapping shapes to jumpstart an abstract oil painting (image 2 ➡️, details 3 & 4 ➡️). Mixed up a specified harmonious palette and added some juicy R&F oil sticks. I’m getting the push I wanted to move my digital abstract work into real world materials. Thanks to the Exploring Abstraction course by Jenny Nelson @nelsonpainter - I’m jazzed! 🤗
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4/4 monochrome oil paint on canvas paper exercise, 4/4 monochrome oil paint on canvas paper exercise, using collage as beginning reference (image 2 ➡️, detail 3 ➡️).
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3/4 monochrome oil paint on canvas paper exercise, 3/4 monochrome oil paint on canvas paper exercise, using collage as beginning reference (image 2 ➡️, detail 3 ➡️).
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Oil paint on canvas paper exercise 2/4, using coll Oil paint on canvas paper exercise 2/4, using collage as beginning reference (image 2 ➡️), and detail image 3. 
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