Newest Work

Left image: The Sky Winks and Eye/Waterfall Dress-up, mixed media including watercolor, gold leaf and pressed flowers; Right image: Trying on a Rainbow, mixed media including watercolor, gold leaf and pressed flowers

These two paintings were made to fit two twin thrifted frames, though the paintings themselves are more like sisters. The title “The Sky Winks an Eye” is a nod to a song my daughter wrote one day. It’s the most precious thing. It was a love song to the sky. Her dress is meant to look like the falling water of a waterfall. In “Trying on a Rainbow” the girl has plucked the colors from the rainbow on which she sits and is admiring the beauty. Pressed petunia make the starry sky, with a little petal on top as the tails of a shooting star.

This was the first painting I ever sold. I remember feeling proud and so happy that someone would want a painting of mine, let alone one of my face. There was another feeling, though, that went along with it. It’s hard to describe, but maybe it felt like a piece of me was leaving with it. Maybe since it was my first, it was hard to let go, but after talking to the lovely young woman to purchased it, I felt like it was going to a good home. And that feeling…that feeling is so incredibly wonderful.

“Boobs” has always gotten a lot of fun attention. Many have appreciated the colors and the form, but I still have it. So I have these vintage drawer pulls that look quite like burlesque tassels. I was thinking of adding those to this painting to create a mixed media playful piece. What do you think?

 

These four painting were actually displayed together vertically creating a fragmented figure as part of an installation piece. “Coyly” is still available for purchase.