“Where Flowers Bloom” is an 8 x 10 inch acrylic painting on stretched canvas. (SOLD, thank you!) This is my second painting of a portrait such as this, with half a face showing…I love the unexpected nature of it, her peeking over the canvas like that. She’s another Frida inspired painting. And of course, you…
A Woman of Fashion – 20 x 24 inch acrylic on stretched canvas This is the last of six large portraits painted for the art showing at our local beauty salon, Headspace Beauty Lounge, for the month of June. I loved painting this one…as this girl in a top hat has shown up a few…
La Pintora Mexicana – 18 x 24 inch acrylic on stretched canvas I love to create Frida Kahlo inspired paintings, because I just love her great sense of style, and she had such a strong desire to paint in spite of her physical challenges. She was quite an influential Mexican painter, and she inspires artists…
Portrait of Marguerite – 20 x 20 acrylic on stretched canvas Another one of the “beauties” I painted to hang at the new beauty salon in my community. I have a fondness for all things Rococo…and I just LOVED painting her high hair! My favorite part, are the wispies coming off the sides of her…
”Windswept” is a 20 x 20 inch acrylic painting on stretched canvas. I am really loving this chance to make some of my smaller portrait studies into larger canvas paintings. I love her wild hair just blowing in the wind. She went through quite a metamorphosis to get to where she is now…but I finally…
Brooklyn – 18 x 24 inch acrylic and collage on stretched canvas This is one of six large canvas paintings I worked on in the past two weeks. She is a beauty, if I do say so myself…and I just adore the background, that is so full of colorful marks. Her dress is actually collaged…
May has been FULL of painting! Mostly portraits, thanks to the Let’s Face It 2017 class. I am really enjoying new techniques, new supplies, and new color palettes. Just a Dream Away – 5 x 7 inch acrylic on gessobord I am completely immersed in faces…and loving every minute of it! Some of them are…
