Summer 2021

I'm trying something new!

Beginning to use acrylics (It's my neighbor at a wedding.)

Painted on my grand-cat's birthday.

From a series of 12 using only alizarin, yellow, black, and white

From a series of 6 using many forms of texture

Self-portrait using palette knife

 

 

From an additional series of 6 on texture, this time using watercolor. 

Used palette knife, cardboard, etc. to apply paint

Pencil, charcoal, watercolor

Inspired by the simplification and dramatic lighting of Anzalone

Exercise using underpainting

More underpainting, inspired by Sonia Barton

Use of several kinds of contrast (color, tone, texture,  saturation)

Missing my choir, I collaged song lyrics

  

Studies using contrast

 

 

 

Facebook reminded me of this photo and I liked the reflection

Enjoying using texture in the background

  
Series exploring effects of saturated/unsaturated colors, warm & cool colors, lights & darks

Using texture for contrast

First time to use oil pastels. Like them.

So then I thought I'd try soft pastels, too.  

Working in a series in acrylics. First, realistic, then looser with texture.

Next, added collage and stenciling, more abstraction.

Olive trees in St. Jean de Moirans. Used sponge, palette knife, fingers.

From a series of abstracts using several layers of collage, paint, lines, stencils, etc.

 

Kate's avocado forest

From Nicholas Wilton's Breadcrumbs challenge:

Artists share with each other.

My feelings about Paris

An exploration of found photos (from newspaper, etc.) using texture to integrate the background.

Girl at refugee center holding her dad's finger

After her doctoral recital

Father and child crossing the Rio Grande