Athena

Athena (2011) Mixed media, watercolor and graphite on paper, 150cm x 124cm.
She is the 5th goddess in my Greek Goddess Series. I'm going to get some professional photos of them all and re post them (also because I made some changes to some of them).

Happy Valentine's Day

I made this for my husband. It's quirky, I know. I used passport photos of us that we had to take over and over again last year to go through the green card process for him. (My husband is Italian and we currently live in America).

Goddesses

A Show at Central Cafe': The Greek Goddesses
108 Central Ave.
December 16, 2010 to January 14, 2011
Closing Reception: Thursday January 13 from 5pm to 7pm
The Goddesses of Greek Mythology have been revised and exhibited at Central Cafe' in Brooklyn, a new cafe near the Morgan stop off the L in Bushwick. Here is a peak of the show.

Hera

This is the fourth drawing in my Greek Goddess inspired series of (5) drawings. You can see the other two in this post. I just have one left now and that's Athena.






















Hera. Mixed media, watercolor and graphite on paper, 150 cm x 124 cm.

Etsy Spotlight Gemelli Twins Gemini

I love twin art (maybe because I'm a Gemini) I also love symetrical, decorative and ornate work, like the painting shown above by SwanBonesTheater, because it reminds me of folk arts and crafts. On top of all of this I love love art of personified animals, because of the story book, fable quality. The collage of the bears is by SarahOgren and the collage of the rabbit girls is by Zeng.

Artemis

I'm working on a series of large mixed media drawings loosely based on Greek Goddesses. So far there is Demeter, Aphrodite and Artemis which I finished this month. There will be five in total and Hera and Athena are the ones that I have to finish.






















Artemis. Mixed media, graphite and watercolor on paper, 150 cm x 141 cm.






















Aphrodite. Watercolor and graphite on paper, 150 cm x 126 cm.






















Demeter. Mixed media, watercolor and graphite on paper, 150 cm x 125 cm.

Moving Collages

These are two stop animations I made 3 years ago when I was in college. I describe them as "moving collages'' because I drew and painted and collaged the scene and the the characters and then made them move.

This one is called Cat Fight and in it the characters tear apart each other as well as their surroundings (the room) The audio is also a "collage" of three different songs. It's hard to read the speech bubbles so I've included the script below the video.

Script:
Phone: Ba-rrrrnnnnngggg!
Girl 1: I'll get it!
Girl 2: No I'LL get it. It's not for you anyway!
Girl 1: Excuse---
Girl 3: It's not for you either, nobody'd want to talk to your fat ass!
Phone: Ba-rrrrnnnngggg!
Girl 1: Excuse me! Who the hell do you sluts think you are?! I'm the prettist one anyway!
Girl 2 and 3: SLUTS!?!

This one is called The Lucky Bachelor, The Dandies and The Virgin Queen. It is a procession of characters starting off with a Roman Lady who is beckoning to a group of flying angel cats who come fluttering and playing their musical instruments behind her. Some of the other characters are Queen Elizabeth, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Hugh Hefner and his playmates, victorian ladies riding a moose and a cow. a zebra pulling a Tudor style house, a chain gang, and others. There are a couple of famous paintings, drawings by myself, magazine cutouts and more collaged into this magical procession.
Like Cat Fight the audio is also a mix of a couple of different songs.


To see more of my art videos go to http://www.youtube.com/user/ilgattoselvatico (There are some video montages and a funny 'ode to Dolly Parton'

To see more of my art go to http://penelopereichley.wordpress.com/

The "stage" of The Lucky Bachelor, The Dandies and The Virgin Queen was inspired by this mixed media diorama by Joseph Cornell (The mountains). However I'm inspired by all of his work!


















Joseph Cornell (American, 1903-1972). Untitled (Tilly Losch), ca. 1935–38. Box construction. 10 x 9 1/4 x 2 1/8 in. (25.4 x 23.5 x 5.4 cm)

The Art of Collage

These are some collages I made this and last year but they didn't make it to my website. If you like these and you'd like to see more stuff like this go to penelopereichley.wordpress.com.













Theatre Music for Human Beings (future cover or poster?)


















Love Cats/ Love Birds

















Untitled (Woman with Tea Cup)