Traveling a Mountain Path

 

This piece is created with collage, mat medium, inks, acrylics, pens, and watercolor.

The mountain silhouette is the one I see stepping out my backdoor.

The model was used from Unsplash - a website that offers free use of photos

supplied by photographers.  I often get good ideas by going there.

DAY 13 - Painting 30 Paintings in 30 Days (Yupo)

"Floral Crown"

8" x 10"

watercolor, marker and pencil on YUPO

Good/bad time to try something new.  I purchased 

some YUPO paper several months ago and

wondered if I had the time this afternoon

to experiment with it and get something

worth posting that is not what I usually have done 

with YUPO before.

I experimented and found

it's a bigger learning curve

than I originally thought.

Once down, you have to leave the watercolor alone, 

If you go back, you just about take the pigment back out.

The surface is really slick and NON absorbent,

so the medium just sits atop - puddling and pooling.

I have tried it with alcohol inks, just dropping the ink

and letting it bleed into different colors.

Lots of fun, but trying to control it

is a real task.

Didn't leave enough time to play with it 

anymore, had to call it done.

This is PAR for Friday the 13th.

"Cold Day in Lebanon"

"Cold Day in Lebanon"

9" x 12"

mixed media - watercolor and pastels

New Direction in Oil

"Prelude to a Fox Hunt"

6" x 6"

oil on Raymar canvasboard

for sale at ETSY HERE

I have been waiting to 'feel a change' in my art for some time.  My thinking takes me to a place in my mind where I know what I want to do, I have not had that breakthrough until late yesterday ~ this powerful need has been consuming me for at least a decade.  I think this is the one I have been pushing for - it is my springboard.  I have dreamt about it, I imagined it, I just couldn't get it to come out.  It's a genre that I had difficulty expressing.  I hope to get really involved in it - make it a commitment, a goal.

It's what I want to do with my ART. 

Does that happen to you?  Perhaps this made it's way to the canvas for me, through an encouragement I recently was given by another artist through a lengthy conversation we had, in addition to that angst I mentioned above (and yes, I had reallly been wrestling with this).   Her words basically, "Let it go, see where it takes you." 

So here goes...

More From Yesterday's Art

"Sweater Vest"

20" x 24"

pastel on Canson Mi-Tientes

I found this piece of art - photo on a CD.  I was looking for Herman photos to make a CD - just of Herman.  I think I posted this one LONG ago.  It is my favorite of all time, except for cutting off the hand - I used to be afraid to do hands.  Plus, I remember the hands were as they are in the painting, not really in the photo I used.  This is from another knitting magazine.  I like the colors used in the face.  I am working on a pastel right now, same paper.  Seeing this reminds me how it's really the best colored Canson for portraits. 

Retro Portrait

"Pigtails"

16" x 20"

pastel on Canson Mi-Tientes

Another one of those slides I found.  I think I am about at the end of what I can make look like it's supposed to. Some can't possibly be saved.  That's the nature of photos you take of your work.  You sell the piece or it goes to your deep dark archives and the only reference you have is a crummy slide or negative.  So, that said, always try to take the best true photo you can of your work and archive it correctly...on a CD or drive that is backed up regularly.  These are things you learn the hard way at times.

WIP - Girl on Porch

Work in progress.  Small 6" x 6" canvas, working in oil. 

Old photo of my daughter - a little bit of work to do. 
One thing is certain, upon photographing your artwork, you really see where
to work next - not always obvious just looking at it on the easel.  Right now, I see more
areas than I thought I would.

A Portrait for Today

"Ute Leader" - 11" x 14" on canvasboard

The photo I used for this portrait of a native American, was taken in Telluride, Co. which makes me think this could be a Southern Ute or Mountain Ute leader in tribal dress. I am open to correction or suggestion. If I had a book or two on the subject, I think I could have sumised more accurately. This one will go to the show this weekend, unless you are interested beforehand...the price is

$250.00, unframed, shipping is on me.

It is still wet, but would be dry to be sent and received by Christmas.

Email pattiewall@hotmail.com

A Pastel for Today

"Taking Inventory" - 3" x 5" pastel pencil on velour - NFS

So...this is how that little boy I drew a few days ago, looks today.

Amazing how art transgresses generations.