How the Light Gets In see the collection Pictured above, How the Light Gets In, acrylic on panel, 24”x30”, $1300 plus s&h to the first asking nicely. The link above will take you directly to my website where you can make her yours. Questions? Just reach out . This one is pure magic. She’s a fusion of the landscape centric Talisman (acrylic) paintings and the broken sky oil studies I have been obsessed with the last couple weeks (they have been shared on FB and Insta ). She’s also got bits of my mixed media drawings in her - not literally, but the gems I discovered while making the mixed media drawings (last year) definitely informed her progression. She oozes serenity, which apparently I needed a good dose of, because my entire mood improved once she hit my easel. I’ve defined some takeaways and new what if’s to explore next. Excited to see where she takes me. A full in process lesson will get added to my Patreon classroom shortly ...
Oil Studies see the collection Pictured above, an intimately scaled oil study titled Autumn, inspired by the larger acrylic painting of the same name. This is impasto (thickly applied) oil paint on Stonehenge paper, paper sized 9”x12”. Autumn is part of 15 oil studies newly available, all visible through the above link. Questions? Just reach out . I’ve been making these studies of my acrylic pieces, selections from The Talisman series, using the larger paintings as a launching point for creating something smaller in oils. Some of the studies are very similar to their inspiration piece, some went in a different direction entirely. This has been such a great exercise for so many reasons, and I have thoroughly enjoyed the process and the resulting works. And now it’s time to let them go. The paper has roughly a 1” clear margin, image approximately 7”x10” (excluding Peace Dove who is roughly 7” square on the 9”x12” page). All paintings are initialed inside the image in o...