The New Garden

Here's some photographs from my new garden....

Mother Earth

I had to do a mixed media piece with a "political" theme.... i'm not particularly political, however i do try to be environmentally concious. I decided to illustrate Mother Earth wearing a gas mask. I like how it turned out, and I've got all kinds of neat things collaged in there, including some green Earth Day Campbells soup can labels. Mixed Media, 22"x30"

La Calavera

This is my sugar skull. It needs more flowers, but other than that i love it!

Acrylic on canvas, 5'x2'

Ami-Ti-Rangi

My assignment was to illustrate a myth. I picked Ami-Ti-Rangi, a polynesian sky goddess that fishes from the sky for mortal men to devour....

pastel 22"x30" NFS

Untitled

Acrylic on canvas, 5'x2' . The 1st photo is of the entire canvas, the next 3 are detail shots.

Complementary Color Still Life

This past assignment in drawing was to do a still life in pastels using a complementary color set. I chose red and green. 18"x24" pastel

Chair Full of Mannequins

When I sat in the chair to have my hair cut, I glanced over and saw hair flopping over the arm of the chair across fro me, and thought someone had passed out!!! After a second, I realized it as a chairfull of practice mannequins for the 2 new trainees... creepy and funny all at the same time, which, of course, is just my style! I'd love to turn one of these into a painting....I know I would always find the humor in it!!!

Bird Of Paradise

When I went to have my hair done, Tera had this gorgeous bouquet on the counter... I couldn't resist taking a couple of shots...

Lakelawn

This past weeks drawing assignment was to do a monochromatic landscape in only 5 shades of green pastels. This is my 1st attempt at the pastels, and my 2nd attempt at landscapes. Pastels are definitely a challenge, and I don't think I've completely found my groove with landscapes yet, either. With that being said, I'm still pretty pleased with this initial attempt, and I'm ready to try a few more.... This landscape is from Lakelawn over in NOLA.

My Sweet Rosalie

Our last assignment in drawing was to make a collage of black and white pictures, and then draw our collage on etching paper with charcoal. I have these wonderful pictures of my grandmother at the beach with her friends that i've been wanting to use in an art project forever, so I did my drawing of my rockin' hot grandma...a real true pin up gal! I love how it came out, and plan to redo it in color so that it looks like old sailor jerry tattoo flash....