Gerhard Richter Inspiration

 

My Iridescent Gold Deep (Fine) acrylic paint came out in this one as well.  Why I’m so fascinated with the night in the city… beats me.  Colors used where my comforting grays, black and white.  I used a touch of blue as well but did not want the piece to take on a completely blue hue so I limited the amount.  Gold was added to break up the neutrality in the piece.  This painting will actually go on one of our walls in our home.

Random - Night Thoughts

Gold again ;)  My love of the night showing in this… the ally scene used in the NYC piece came back in this one.  I walked around the Soho area and the dark alleys always made me curious.  Though, not curious enough to walk down… I’m not crazy. 

Final - Absinthe

For the final, I tried to touch on my fascination with Absinthe in this piece but it did not turn out the way I truly wanted it.  I will be attempting this again on my own time.  I need to work on the fluidity of the female body and become more familiar with painting glass/clear and metal objects.  The background is what I wanted but simply being comfortable with myself will get me to where I need to go.  As I’ve said before… time will tell. 

Abstract Nature

This was actually the first piece I had free reign on color selection.  I enjoyed that.  I am much more relaxed when I use colors my eye enjoys.  Gives me a pleasure I wasn’t sure I would obtain from painting.  I remembered envisioning a wooded area at night.  The street light (on the road actually) gave a golden hue to everything it touched.  This was the first time I realized that streetlights made everything gold and not yellow.  I purchased Iridescent Gold Deep (Fine) acrylic paint to bring true gold to this piece.  It was not the last time I used that tube of paint ;) 

Bodyless - Consumed Repast

I don’t believe I fully understood this assignment so I interpreted it as “things a person would use.  After coming home from Home Depot, I remembered a very ugly wall paper that I was told was for a dinning room.  I was hungry and that’s how I came up with this particular piece.  The colors I chose (apart from the wall paper) are colors I tend to flock to.  I realize that my color selections tend to be on the dark or neutral side but… that’s me.  I still have “shadowing” issues but I will keep working on that.  Time will tell. 

Still Life

Because I missed the still life class I choose to create one in my own home. This still life kept me calm for the most part.  I enjoyed using the brush strokes and the simplicity of the piece also kept me at ease.  I have to work on my shadow but the overall image came out exactly as I envisioned.  Our window allows a very good amount of natural light.  We finished a bottle of wine the night before and I put it on the sill… voila.

Self Portaits

So this was interesting.  I don’t think of myself as a loser and rather not get tripped up into thinking to much of myself by classifying me as a “hero.”  The collage is a face with a Mohawk but the faces used are from a law school magazine… very boring.  I thought it would be interesting to use the mundane and spice it up.  The second piece (which will not rotate for the life of me) is me… no make up; no powers…  I think a hero is simply themselves (and hopefully caring and nurturing).  I choose to do a realistic rendition of myself because it does show the opposite of the other piece.  I actually like both.