My current series of work is moving right along. I am now adding shadows to create depth to this work: note how I am using a blue tone for the shadows: this is borrowed from the French Impressionist Painters. Even before I was an art teacher, I was developing lesson plans. Once finished with my BA in Fine Art Degree …
This is the wall leading down the stairs from my upstairs studio. The large painting of the tipi was the start of the entire series that is now absorbing my attention: the rendezvous series. My mother lived near Riverton, WY, and they host an annual rendezvous, sponsored by the 1838 Rendezvous Association. Their website is: http://www.1838rendezvous.com/ This is a truly …
Time is a crazy thing. I have been busily painting the past couple of days… starting at 9:00, and shocked when I look again at my clock and it is 1:30! Time flies when one is doing something one loves… and creeps when doing something one dislikes! This great Coca Cola clock is in my studio. If you have to …
I’ve posted before about the presence of my children in my studio… virtual presence, that is! Here is a painting I did from the special day in which I took photos of my two boys. We had hiked up to a popular local destination site: Devil’s Bathtub. This is a pooled area up Squaw Creek, in our local Spearfish Canyon. …
My two children have majorly impacted my life, as most any mother would tell you. I have two sons: six and one half years apart. Raising a family takes a great deal of an artist’s time, and I believe that I balanced it well (thus far) Painting is my source of sanity, and is who I am… Motherhood is my …
Last summer I made a trip to galleries in Jackson Hole, Bozeman, and Billings. Those experiences are shaping my art today, as after seeing the more contemporary western painting there, I was emboldened to go bolder with color. As an art instructor, I often suggested students try “non-local color”, making things not their natural or expected color. Now, I am …
Turmoil, twirling, interconnected… seeming chaos, but then upon closer reflection, different aspects pull forward and one sees a more complex intertwining of component parts… This is the story of my life! The juxtaposition of many seemingly unrelated things make up the component part of the whole… I think it summarizes it up well!! It is not a conscious choice to …
Many of the ledger art images I have come across are very stylized: simplified forms resembling ancient cave drawings in some ways. The primal response to telling a story: to embellish where needed; and to simplify where prudent as well! I have been painting a great deal: especially liking this one, as it is depicting the importance of the bison …
To run free… the magic of the wild horse imagery. The way God intended, before the horse became domesticated. Perhaps this is a symbol of humans as well. We are easily tamed and domesticated, yet the free spirit within is harmed. It is a trade-off. Being tamed leads to different roads to travel, different experiences than one chooses on ones …
Everything in life is a negotiation… I’ll do this for you, if you do this for me… how much does it cost? Exchange of money has become a major driver in our culture. To some extent, the barter system is making a come-back… that is interesting, but then again, it DOES require interaction… we don’t do much of that these …