A Painted Background

I finished a commission last night.  Paintings aren’t something I have been working on lately and it was fun to play with paint for a while.  Maybe I could make a painted background piece and then layer portraits on top of it?  Not a bad idea.  This is what I worked on tonight including the commission….

Collage because my sewing machine doesn’t work…

My sewing machine has left me nothing left else to but make collages.  I will probably have to bring it in somewhere to get fixed.  Grrrrr.  So I did a little drawing and made some small collages.   The good news is that I sold five pieces at ArtSquare yesterday!

Thinking About Louise Bourgeois

Louise thought mainly about relationships…seeing an entity in relation to its surroundings.  I like this approach to art.  I see it in my own work all the time.  Thinking about this helps me focus more.  Shapes in their negative spaces that make whole compositions on their own.

Studio Notes

I took some pictures of art that I have made that I like in the hope of figuring out what techniques and compositions work for me.  I had fun making them and want to return back to this post so that I can push each idea even further.