Finally Finished “Happiness”

“Happiness” is finally finished . I began this piece several months ago. I had decided I was happiest when working on one of my large cubist pieces. I looked at pictures from my cubist focused art books, and of course, I zeroed in a Picasso piece.  There were two Picasso pieces that spoke to me. Here they are:

I wanted to make the piece flow more than the first Picasso piece so I posed myself in front of a mirror and drew myself on a pad of paper. I used the technique that I learned from a teacher at The Art Students League of Denver. I drew with a black pen and never looked at the sheet of paper, only at the figure I was drawing.

I will follow up on my next blog post with more of my process for creating my art work.

Added a new piece to my dreaming series

I called this piece,  “Wallpaper”, since a tired worker was sitting in front of a finished project.  You can check out the other pieces in my dreaming series in small works catagory.

Hello world!

This is where I will share some of my thoughts on art, life, things that are happening around me, or just my feeling on what’s moving me at a certain time. I hope you’ll enjoy my points of view and share them with your friends and family.

Sync Gallery Update

Visit Sync Gallery for Contributing Artists Exhibit.

Artists showing are Fred Voight Becker, Rita Bhasin. Andi Burnam, Virginia Coleman, Cat Davis, Vivienne Douglas, Susie Drucker, Melody Epperson, Lisa Garrison, Carole Goodwin, Chris Hudson, Cheryl Jelm, Liz Lathrup, Kay Moore, Johanna Morrell, Diedre Olin, Joy Redstone, Lydia Riegel, Bev Ruiz, Sam Smith, and Carole Whitney

Visit Sync Gallery at 930 Santa Fe Dr. in Denver. The gallery is open Thursday, Friday, and Sunday 1- 4 pm and on Saturday 12-4 pm. As things lighten up a bit per COVID-19 guidelines there are a few more people but it still feels safe with masks and social distancing. Since I can’t realistically show the work of all twenty artists, I picked my three-favorite works, pretending I was a jurist giving First, Second and Third Price.

My First Choice—Johanna Morrell

Johanna did three wonderful abstract pieces using ink and acrylic paint on plexiglass

My Second Choice-Lisa Garrison

Lisa is exhibiting three acrylic landscape paintings, that have mystery and create feelings within me of the possible places they represent

My Third Choice-Andi Burnum

Andi did a fabulous paper collage of two cows. This normally would not be a subject matter I would choice but her use of small pieces of torn paper is intriguing.

Member Gallery at Sync Gallery

In the Member Gallery at Sync Gallery my Piece, Fire God

This piece is the 3rd in a series based on the ancient Gods of Wind, Fire, Water, and Earth. Earth has sold, and I still need to create Wind God. I may try another version of Earth God also.

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