The Gryphon's Feather Studio

WIP

 

I've been getting ready for artfest, and thought I'd give a peek at some paintings I have in-progress that I plan to take along to show.

 

this one is 20x24, mixed media- acrylics, pastels, charcoal, watersoluble media, etc.

 

 

and this one is 12 x 16, same sort of thing, with half an antique doll dress embedded in the painting.

I found that it's hard to take a quicky iPhone photos of dark-hued paintings; so my apologies for the images. I'll re-shoot once they are done, but now I'm outta here to run a couple errands..

lost in space

Last week, I was doing a little late night painting. The day had been a scorcher, and now that it was night, the air was cool, and smelled fabulously like June-summer-night. (I would love to wear that as a perfume scent.)  I had my favorite albums on the record player, and a tasty, crispy-cold glass of Chardonnay.  I put my wine glass on my work table next to my brush water, while I sat at the easel, singing along, painting, and basically getting lost in the whole mark and respond process. You know, basically disappearing into the painting?  I decided to use some water-soluble crayon in a few areas, and applied those colors. Then, I dipped my brush to wet it so I could blend those areas. Guess what I dipped my brush into?

 

Photographic Painting