Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Drops

Here’s the first of five pieces I completed for an art show June 1st - 13th at the Louisiana State Archives in Baton Rouge, LA. It is gouache painting. I haven’t done that many with this cousin-medium to watercolor. With such a short deadline for this show, I stuck with ideas that could be generated very quickly.


gouache on paper, 11.75" x 14.625"

Friday, March 07, 2008

Bananas Fly

This was the fourth painting in this series of banana grid paintings. The colors came from a set of Atelier acrylic paints I was handed at the National Art Education Association National Convention in Minneapolis.


acrylic on canvas, 16" x 20"

Friday, February 22, 2008

Bananas Flip

This is the second of the banana paintings. With this one I decided to use variations of pink since it is a color that is normally associated with femininity in contrast the masculine banana.


acrylic on canvas, 16" x 20"

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Bananas Fall

This is the first of a group of paintings using a banana shape and a grid. I cut out cardboard banana shape that I traced. As I went, I flipped and rotated it on the page. It started with my fury with a few students and with the impending Iraq War back in 2003. I painted acrylic on watercolor paper and then added florescent oil pastels on top.


mixed media on paper, 11.5" x 35"