POR AMOR AL ARTE

i remember a great quote by cezanne my friend lynne hoppe posted one time about the fact that one could paint a hundred years and a hundred years after that and still feel like you were just beginning. i have felt exactly that these past few weeks as i continue experimenting with new colors and new mediums. thrilling! 

i especially like having discovered the stabilo pencil which comes in many colors. you sketch and then paintbrush over it for a watercolor effect. look at those mona lisa hands! just with one pencil.

i used it again in black for the above portraits.

something went wrong along the week when i started to feel a bit sick and headachey, maybe from exposure to my art supplies, maybe just a bug. so i soent the next few days just sketching.

thinking of future possible paintings such as this version of a menina.

halloween has certainly had an influence 

i am trying to find my own artistic voice

i see a pattern of britishness.....well, i grew up in england so the influence seems embedded in my subconscious i guess.

although i have discovered fresco painting through kate thompson and loving it.

above is a pencil drawing of my friend jeanne marie in orvieto

cathy cullis continues to be a great go to. 

as is misty

and then there are those random moments of silliness

i love art, can you tell?

but the other good news is that i finally hot around to tidying the studio a bit thanks to a pink filing cabinet richard gave up for me

i turned a closet into a library

with autumn here, many hours will be spent here

if not here

a time of gathering