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).

Augustin Lesage

 Composition symbolique, oil and graphite on canvas, 1928

 Composition symbolique, oil on canvas

oil on canvas (date and title unknown)

 (date and title unknown)

Diligently working in his studio (date unknown)

I just found out about this French outsider artist, Augustin Lesage (Saint-Pierre-Lez-Auche, 1876 - Burbure, 1954) and I'm wondering why I didn't already know his name. He was a coal miner who believed that spirits were guiding his hand and would come home from the mines every evening to work on his paintings. I think these works are amazing because he was way ahead of his time. Google him, his paintings are amazing and he was a really fascinating guy too.

Rene Magritte

 La Cascade, 1961

 The Blank Check, 1965

Castle in the Pyrenees, 1959

Song of Love, 1964

 

Clear Ideas, 1955

Rikka Sormunen

 Cruel Summer

 Dark Waters

 

Nest

I love these compositions that are packed with patterns and textures by Rikka Sormunen.

Kadinsky

 Several Circles, 1926

 Blue Mountain 1908-09

 Composition 8, 1923

 Decisive Rose, 1932

 

Composition 2, 1909-10

Some of my favorite paintinsg by Kadinsky at the Guggenheim Museum. Some of them are in the special exhibition Kadinsky at the Bahaus. Definitely worth a look. I was very inspired by these and others to make some similar designs into dresses and scarfs.

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: Animal People

Are you an animal person? I am, I love animals, especially cats. I'm a cat person. What kind of person are you? I love art of personified animals, animals wearing people clothes or acting like people.

























































The images above, in the order they appear, are by MarmeeCraft, JuliaPott and BerkleyIllustration.

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.

Drawing and Painting on T-Shirts

Drawing on t-Shirts was a favorite past time of mine as a child, I have fond memories of going to the craft store with my mom and picking out some colorful fabric paints, puffy paints, t-shirts, and maybe fabric glue and fake jewels. Then years later in art school, myself and friends of mine decided to buy some iron on kitten transfers, t-shirts and puffy pants (as a joke), it was a great time! And again a few years after that I came back to painting drawing on shirts, first I made gifts for a friend of mine (a t-shirt with peace sign made out of red hearts, which she loved, and a blue dream catcher shirt) and then one for my self. I wanted a wolf shirt but couldn't find it so I made it myself. My friends liked my shirt and asked me to make shirts for them, one wanted a shirt of Kendall Hart from AMC (All my Children) another wanted a shirt of Diana Ross. Below are some of these shirts, above is a vest that I'm working on, I drew a geometric design with Sharpie markers and now I'm embroidering some of the shapes with colorful threads.







































































I've made two installations of Victorian style miniature houses out of paper and a number of illustrations of them so, feeling like it was "my thing," I made a t-shirt based off of one of the
illustrations. Plus I was in a show at a boutique and the shop owners made purses out of one of the works by each the artists who participated. They made a bag out of one of my house illustrations since I was exhibiting my house installations. You can see these art works here.






































I also did a t-shirt making swap with a friend of mine. She made me a beautiful t-shirt with 3 yellow bunnies on it and I made her this.

Captain Dakota

I was asked to paint another portrait of Dakota the chihuahua, but this time as a sailor. As you can see I had a great time. I was inspired by the photographs of Pierre et Gilles and by pictures of Dakota herself (at the beach at sunset). She even has a little anchor tattoo.



















Pierre et Gilles
















Dakota

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.

I just got a commission to make another portrait of the chihuahua in the post a little further down, but this time as a sailor. So I thought I'd post two other dog portraits that I made for members of my husband's family for Christmas last year.


















This is Ivan, my father-in-law's boxer. I obviously gave this to him. Markers on paper, 9x6 in.


















This is Zippo as a puppy chasing butterflies. This was a gift for my husband's aunt. Watercolors and mixed media on paper, 40x50 cm.

Chihuahua

I was commissioned to make a painting of a pet chihuahua. Here it is.



















Oil on Canvas, 40x50 cm.

I was asked to make her a Mexican soldier and to make it colorful here are some of the photos I used as inspiration.
Zapatista Soldiers from the Mexican Revolution.



















Painting by China Mike.

life on the moon

Here are some amazing images of what people thought life on the moon was like...