She is collaged and painted on 11 x 14 wood cradled panel. She has a metal embossed heart--yea! i used the metal embossing! Lori and I are going to A Small Cleverness tomorrow and take the metal embossing workshop and really learn how to do it. That will be fun!
On this piece I tried to not let the word strips quote be too prominent. You can read them if you walk up close---but then, isn't that the purpose?! She also emerged looking maybe of Indian descent? I think Indian women are so beautiful. Go see Slumdog Millionaire and you will see. Great movie, by the way--and usually I am a very tough critic.
Also, I will post something tomorrow that I am very excited about that I created totally intuitively. I think it is a breakthrough for me for a look I have been trying to achieve. I love a specific style that I have been seeing in the art of several of my admired artists that I follow--DJ Pettitt, Sharon Tomlinson, and Misty Mawn---among a few others. I am not sure what they do to get this dreamy, whitish effect on their art but I think I figured it out. White paint--or gesso! Who would have thought??? AND--I can't tell you how excited I am---I can even put my calligraphy on it. I will post it tomorow. I also have another girl that I painted on the first background that I posted yesterday. Stay tuned! My several days of research have recharged me.
Also, I forgot Milliande--she's great too.
7 comments:
She is very pretty and the background is wonderful. Did you do the white writing that peeks through. Thank you for visiting me and thanks for the shout out here. I can't wait to see your next piece.
hellow!! i´ve arrived to you from Zhao Jinjang blog. i like very much your work and this portrait is very very good.
she's gorgeous...i wish i had beautiful hair like that! you did a great job on her heart pendant....that was fun learning how to do the metal embossing! :)
AS always, another lovely lady.
She is wonderful. How exciting, a metal embossing class. Can't wait to see your "new" work, sounds exciting. (That's not to say that I can't wait to see your other work - I love it)
You did great on the word strips. It's a wonderful portrait. xoxo
She is so sweet looking. I love the quote and I agree with it. Oh how I wish it were summer now so I could mow and weed away my worries.
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