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The word over at Illustration Friday this week is stay. I had a few ideas that I tried but they weren't working for me. I have felt blocked lately, like many of my other creative friends. And then it dawned on me. I haven't been painting my beloved ravens for a long time. It's as if I had abandoned them without even noticing until painting wasn't making me happy any more.
I hope for my sake they're back to stay.
So here is today's alla prima painting, Raven Totem.
acrylic paint on canvas, 4" x 12'x 1 1/2" deep. Soon to be available on Etsy or perhaps YART
Crocus in an Egg Cup, oil on linen on wood, 4 x 6 inches, 2010
Greenery-Yallery Apple, oil on linen on wood, 5 x 7 inches, 2010
I had a hard time with this one for unknown reasons. Still not really finished. But I've already spent six times as much time on it as I wanted to (happens!) Scrap-heap bound.
Little Silver Bag with Red Apple, oil on linen, 8 x 10 inches, 2010
Glazed, oil on linen on wood, 8 x 6 inches, 2010
This was one session: it's difficult to achieve that glazed look without actually glazing! ;-)
Onion Skin, oil on linen on wood, 8 x 10 inches, 2010
This is alla prima, all done in one session, but not exactly speed painting as it took me about an hour and 45 minutes. I might go back and do a little touch-up and glazing: then again I might not.
BRAVE is the theme this week at Illustration Friday. I thought this portrait demo I did for a class I am teaching would fit the bill. In several ways:
1) It is brave of me to show an unfinished piece. In fact, a barely started piece. I was demonstrating how to start a portrait and then was kept busy individually assisting my students for the rest of the session.
2) Teachers have to be brave to do demos in general. There is nothing like standing there in front of a class for a little performance pressure! Added to it, is that you need to talk, explain what you are doing and answer questions, while producing something the students will find worth emulating.
3) This model, whom I have used frequently, strikes me as a brave soul. Also an artist, trying to piece together a living with modeling and rare commissions and sales and other part-time jobs: living on the edge.
We all artists have to be brave, and also a little strange, to do what we do.
Lily stepped back to get her canvas - so - into perspective. It was an odd road to be walking, this of painting. Out and out one went, further and further, until at last one seemed to be on a narrow plank, perfectly alone, over the sea.
~Virginia Woolf, from To the Lighthouse
Little Gold Sweet, oil on canvas, 2.5 x 3.5 inches, 2010
Duck in a Box, oil on gessoed ragboard, 6 x 6 inches, 2010
Bagel on Blue, oil on gessoed ragboard, 4 x 6 inches, 2010
The Blue Mint
oil on gessoed ragboard, 2.5 x 3.5 inches, 2010
My grandfather used to keep a stash of these in his pockets.
Overturned Mushroom
oil on gessoed cardboard, 4 x 6 inches, 2010
Rooftops in the Snow, oil on linen on panel, 10 x 8 inches, 2010
I did this out the smaller studio window this afternoon. Snowed again all day today. It has not amounted to much as yet, just a lot of cold wetness melting in the streets and sticking to the old piles of snow. And scaring the populace, with our fresh memories of the recent blizzard and power outages. It's certainly pretty though!
Thyme in a Bottle
oil on linen on wood, 6 x 4 inches, 2010
I might go back and touch up the label a bit more tomorrow or the next day. The paint is too thick and wet for me to get further detail in. BTW, I truly did not even think of the song title till after I'd posted the image! Now I've got it in my head....
Ripe Berry
oil on gessoed cardboard, 3 x 3 inches, 2010
This may have been my fastest one yet. And I can't even see what it really looks like, because it was dusk when I started painting and after only about 15 minutes I dropped my brush and raced out the door to pick up youngest son from his after school activity. When I got home, night had fallen. I've never managed to set up good artificial lighting in my studio, and rely entirely on daylight. I may be in for a huge surprise in the morning! Well, never a dull moment when you are a painter.
EGG TRIO
oil on gessoed cardboard, 5 x 7 inches, 2010
Starfish from Eric, oil on canvas, 3 x 3 inches, 2010
Snow Man
oil on gilt cardboard, 8 x 6 inches, 2010
Maybe I will start a new blog category: speed painting. The way I am using this term, it is a subset of alla prima painting and consists of getting the image onto the canvas in the fewest strokes possible. We are talking half an hour or less! Speed painting was necessitated in this case by the pain of painting while looking into the white glare of snow...excruciating. I wore a hat to cut the glare but even so...ouch.
My youngest son took this picture of me as I was crouched on the landing painting (I think he was very pleased that I was painting his snowman!) Very circular..taking a photograph of someone painting a sculpture created by the person taking the picture. Am I dizzy!
Yellow Onion, oil on gilt cardboard, 6 x 8, 2010
Neighbor's House, oil on linen, 6 x 8, 2010
I'd call this a plein air piece except that I did it out of my studio window yesterday afternoon. We got 22 inches of snow over the weekend! I hadn't painted snow in a long time...fun! Wish I had a bigger view from my studio window but you make what you can out of what you get, right? ;-)
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I love them Lo!
Yup, your ravens are your totem...follow them and you can't go wrong.
Beautiful!
XXOO~~
Anne
i blew it up and tried to catch my breath....
♥
kj
Oh my gosh, this is stunning!!! Come back ravens!!! Beautiful Laurel!!!
Just breath-taking, Laurel. Some jawdropping happening on the west coast with this one.
I love your gleaming blue-black ravens. The composition is awesome.
You KNOW I love this!!!! Blue-Black-Purple-Winged Ravens.....and those berries!!!!
HEAVENLY!!! Yes, don't ever stray too far from your Totem!!!!!
Love,
♥ Robin ♥
Your painting style always always makes me smile. You are simply just so good at it. And I did think of you each time we saw a huge raven on our recent road trip and there were many of them!!! I am glad they and you are here to stay!
the ravens came to rescue you from your "block.' They are so lovely.
These are just beautiful - I see your ravens and realize I have a long way to go before I can even draw ravens as well as you. I love the deep colors - it is really just beautiful.
It's really beautiful lo. i hope the ravens have worked their magic and your block is gone now.
have a wonderful inspired week ahead!
xoxo lori
Oh wow Lo isn't this wonderful!!!!
So beautiful! Doing what what touches your heart will give you back the fun in painting. And this one is so you!!! Perfect!
Hope you can hang on to the joy and inspiration tpainting this must have brought you.
♥♥♥
>M<
I agree with Suki...the Ravens came to help you unblock...and what a remarkable gift they gave all of us, as a result. I love this painting...really, I wish my creativity was half as blocked as yours was, heh!! xx
You obviously broke through your block. It's magical and feel of feeling. I love your raven work. Thank you for the inspiring piece and giving back creatively!
Happy new week to ya !
So lovely Lo. Ravens are your thing, I used to paint them a lot too, I still love them and always love seeing yours. Glad they are back. xoxo
Keeping your values SO close to each other really gives this piece a mysterious mood.
nice.
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Lovely!
YOu do these so well. I think of you everytime I see the painting I have of yours. :)
Nice! Love the colors.
Your totem is quite handsome. I have missed seeing it pop up now and then. I hope you muse hears its call and is stirred by the flapping of its wings.