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                                                                       Pirouettes                                                                         16"x12"                                                                          Acrylic I find that some times when I am away from painting every day I have a problem getting back into the groove and finding inspiration.   That is where I am right now, not really sure what I want to do so am doing some experimentational things until I get momentum again. I just got back from Home Depot where I bought some hardboard and am going to try to do some things on that as a substitute for stetched canvas.   Why you ask, it is more economical.  I think that actually I might be able to hang it without a frame, or think it might look great in a floating frame.   I wouldn't need a mat or backboard since this is pretty stiff.  I think too, you can work on it gluing on canvas (I am going to try using mod lodge as the glue) or

                                                                       Les Fleurs                                                                          9"x12"                                                                         Acrylic Well took a bit of time to settle back in to being home and in the studio.  So yesterday was destined to be a messy day but one which was inspired with some of the modern art I saw in DC.  "Just let it run" was my motto.  Also, learned a new recycling use for those tp inner cardboard rolls (seems like I have an endless support of them and you can reuse them I think).  You can pour paint into them and it stacks up until you release it.  The paint colors, even though it might be all fluid consistency, have different weights so they suspend and hen spread out at different rates.  But boy did it have a lot of paint, so a long drying time before I could go in and touch things up.  I think they call this technique puddling. Sta

Ok trying again, me and technology haven't gotten along too great lately.  So this is how I made my flight go fast, saw this face in the flight magazine and just has to do him.  He is primarily .5mm mechanical pencil on plain white paper.  Later went over his dark areas with 4B pencil.  Used the old finger to blend.  I haven't drawn much lately so was surprised how quickly he came together. Also met the flight attendant who wants to start drawing, hoping I gave him enough information to start.  No such thing as talent, just posts of practice. Thanks for stopping by to take a look

                                                                In The Shadows                                                                     16"x12"                                                                     Acrylic No the title isn't the name of this picture, it is a name for me!!  Well today's philosophical question is does anyone else ever get scared of their painting.  It might not be cool to tell how insecure one is, but I got to tell someone.  As you know I am trying new things and painting in a different direction and while I have built some confidence in doing the performers series, when I am trying to apply it elsewhere, it just is scary.  Talk about being in the dark.  I am finding that I am thinking a lot, maybe over thinking, while I am painting, not just letting go like I did in some of the other paintings.    And I know, deep down I am afraid it won't turn out.  It is just a piece of board - it shouldn't rattle me if it doesn

                                                                        Tooter                                                                        16"x12"                                                                        Acrylic Ok, I have made it through a couple of days now after I went dark/private and it appears that whoever or whatever has lost interest.  Hope it stays that way.  I don't think I was hacked, not sure how I would know that, just got a lot of views, all from Denmark, that only showed up in country stats and not under individual pictures.  So I am thinking I had some kind of bot.  Who knows in this technology world. Anyway I have been busy working while I was waiting.  I do post on FB at Nelvia's Fine Art page but I still enjoy being able to write more information here. I tried a different technique using an empty yogurt cup and just twisting dobs and dabs of paint in a circular motion.  I had someone tell me and now that I look at

Well going to give this a try and see if all the views from Denmark return.  I know that I was getting hit with bots or something but really have never in all the year seen anything like this.  Only way I could fix was to go dark. This is a 9"x12" quick sketch I did yesterday.  I had lots of canvas backgrounds drying, it was cloudy and dreary foretelling today's rain.   The paint was really drying slow.   Matter of fact I took off some of the stuff I was experimenting with and one background was still wet after all day - tried more drying last nigh and hope to be able to paint today.  Anyway, I digress, I have wanted to do a series for many years with Native Americans, so thought I would check this idea out.  Also wanted to see if I could pull my acrylic method over to the pastel world.  Not sure it worked, but  did give me a good idea in color sketch form of whether or not to continue with this idea. Thanks for stopping by and hope I am back without having to chang

                                                                Galactic Wolf                                                                     14"x11"                                                                     Acrylic First let me apologize for asking you to prove you are real.  I don't know if this will help but I am getting hit by hundreds of supposedly views, all coming from Denmark.  I don't know exactly what it is or how to stop it, but I am trying different things in the settings.  Most everything I read is that these are bots and only I see they are hitting the site, but it bugs me!!  I will remove the "prove it" once it settles down.  I might just have to go dark for a while - don't know. Ok, next is I think I got a little colorful on this one.  But I needed to do something to jazz it up a bit.  After I put the mountains in I really didn't like them and wish I would have added the wolf lower.  Isn't it weird how some