Patio

acrylic on canvas, 20" x 20"

Wall

acrylic on canvas, 20" x 20"

Dots, Grids and Expressive Lines

This piece brought together three types of imagery found in my artwork. Below are two sketches as well as the final piece.


colored pencil on paper, 5.5" x 8.5"


colored pencil on paper, 5.5" x 8.5"

At The Decordova Museum outside of Boston, I saw a kitsch show back in 2005. There were lots of sentimental objects and garish pieces. When I got back to Metairie, I started working on this piece. In each square of the grid, I picked six colors blindly. I then chose which ones to make the background in a square and which others to color the dots. Then I'd pick six more again and again until I had used all the colors in the set.

Normally instructor artists will tell you to use a limited palette. I was determined to use every color in the box of 120 colored pencils. I kept pulling six colors until I went through the whole box then started over picking six colors at a time.


colored pencil on paper, 21" x 26.5"

Artwork in Circulation

In March '06 many of the pieces on this blog were placed at the Friends of Rivertown Fine Art Gallery. In mid April '07 the gallery closed for good. Since then I have circulated the art to other venues around town. I've even entered some of the works in competition.

Although I have concentrated on the production of my dot artwork, I do plan to continue on this tangent I began in late '04 - that is keep what I do more random and continue to experiment. These works represent a different direction for me and I hope to continue it. Like most art I do, I just have to jump in and see what happens. Making art spontaneously is always more exciting. I don't who said it but it goes something like this: "If all you do is what you did, than all you'll get is what you got."

Agrow Sold

Today I sold this piece to a friend I knew from high school. She intends to hang it in her daughter’s bedroom. It was great to sell to someone I’ve known that long.


watercolor on canvas, 12" x 12"

Premonition Orange Sold

Today I sold this piece to another artist. It’s always more exciting to sell to someone who likes making art too.

We See

The West Bank Art Guiild meeting was tonight. Again we had an "artist of the month" competition. Below is the piece I entered. At the break all the artists voted. After the ballots were tabulated, my piece was announced as having won second place. What is rewarding is that my peers were the ones voting.

This is a piece I made from images and papers handed to me at a seminar in Boston last March. I was attending an art educator's convention. The first twenty-five people in the room received materials. We were instructed to take the bag of items and make a collage when we returned home.


collage, 17.5" x 24"

Premonition Orange

mixed media on paper, 17.5" x 24"

Premonition Green

mixed media on paper, 17.5" x 24"

Premonition Pink

mixed media on paper, 17.5" x 24"

Macrame

Art Mix

Here are some recent works . . . some are from a series and others are not . . .

Abstractly Speaking

These pieces were included in a small group show at the Louisiana State Archives in Baton Rouge. The show was named "Abstractly Speaking." It was up during the month of August. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita prevented me from picking them up until just last week, I was happy to have my art back. :)

Aflow

watercolor on canvas, 12" x 12"