Latest new piece, finished last night... warning: put on your sunglasses! This is bright!

I've always loved the idea of straddling the space where abstraction and representation intersect. I've been thinking of new ways to enter into abstraction, while maybe bringing some of the representation into the work. I've been considering beginning with landscapes and still lifes, then pushing beyond.

I didn't get as far into abstraction with this painting as I intended...I got hung up in the representation of the iris petals... a real danger for me when I start with representation, but I decided to let it be for now, and see what I think after living with it for a while. I do love the more abstract bits as well as the more representational bits.

For #SurrealArtSaturday hosted by +Mikko Tyllinen


This work is a large painting made up of twenty 12″x12″ panels attached to a 4′ x 6′ sheet of cradled plywood. The first panel, “The Seed,” was the spark for the whole series, with each subsequent panel unfolding from an edge of the previous panel, yet with the freedom for each new panel to go in a different direction than the one before. (I only had one or two panels on my easel at a time (small space) ).

The idea behind this series was inspired by ecological succession, a natural sequential process in which there is a gradual supplanting of one community of life forms by another, each stage building upon the previous stage.

Some of the imagery in this piece is based on images from life, such as aerial images of river courses, pancake ice, and mud flats. You'll recognize some Hubble space images: a spiral galaxy, the Pleides, a quasar. Some of the panels are straight out of my imagination, and I'll leave the rest for you to decide.

You can view the whole piece, as well as each individual panel in my web gallery here: http://marilynfenn.com/art/abstracts/succession/


Succession
Oil on canvas
48" x 60" x 2.5"
© 2008 Marilyn Fenn

For #LandscapeArtTuesday sponsored by +Lena Levin .

Here's one of my early favorites. The scene is Enchanted Rock, near Fredericksburg, TX., the largest pink granite monadnock (exposed dome) in the United States. It was a sacred Indian spot going back to perhaps as long as 10,000 years ago, and has been a sacred hippie spot since the 1970's. :) The rock, which heats up during the day, contracts at night, causing weird creaking and groaning sounds.

I took the photo from which this was painted during morning meditation at the Harmonic Convergence, celebrated there in August 1987. The world's first "globally synchronized meditation" correlated with an "exceptional alignment of planets in the solar system."

I painted it several years later during winter in Chicago.

"Enchanted Rock"
Oil on Masonite
16" x 24"
© 1992 Marilyn Fenn

Very cool! http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2011/11/sculptures-built-from-repurposed-objects-and-hammer-formed-steel-by-greg-brotherton/

Thought I posted this earlier, but I don't see it here now (?). Anyway, some circles you might want to add...

http://www.happyplace.com/8975/21-google-plus-circles-you-can-actually-use

It's Good to be Back in My Right Brain

Too much left brain lately, and I think I've done my last new website project for anyone else (pretty please, let it be so!).

My neighborhood website project is mostly done (well, are they ever really done?), so finally I can get back in the studio, finish #'s 1, 4, 6 & 8 and start some new ones.

This one is from about 3-4 weeks ago...whenever that was that I was more of a full-time painter.  It seems so long ago now.  I still have much to learn about using acrylics.  I'll probably end up back in  oils, but this is opening up some new possibilities, too, and it's kind of fun, actually.  :)

"Composition #7, 2013"
Acrylic on Panel
12" x 9"
© 2013 Marilyn Fenn

#nonobjectivepainting   #nonobjective   #art   #painting   #color   #form   #composition  

OH, no, what happened to G+?  Some of the fonts are kind of hard to read...

What's with the 3 equal columns?  Where to focus?  

I think I'll go do something else...  :(

Kelly O'Connor's "Last Resort: Color Me" at Women & Their Work during the West Austin Studio Tour

I tried to make to out to the West Austin Studio Tour this year, and unfortunately, this is as far as I got.  One gallery, one show, and I had gone to this gallery for the specific purpose of buying a Catalog for WEST.  So I figured, while we're here, let's see the show.  

Here it is: photos with sparkles and stuff, styrofoam towers, lawn furniture and, my favorite, a hand-built geodesic dome complete with bejeweled wasp nests.  I was most intrigued by the fact that the panels in the dome were irregularly shaped pentagons and hexagons.  That must have been a bear to figure all the wonky angles and construct!

Anyway, I lament the fact that I missed all the painters, esp. the non-objective ones, but there weren't too many of them anyway....

Oh, well, there's always next year.  :\


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Cool Image of the Day

I'm a big fan of both fractals and gears, for some reason, so this is some seriously major coolth here.  Plus, it's soooo pretty.  Enjoy!  :D

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 Good night Me luvilees!  Off to dream some pretty fractal patterns!

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Painting of the Day #2

Perhaps I'm being greedy to post 2 paintings of the day, but I've been meaning to share Pascal's work for weeks, if not months, so...

+pascal campion is one of my favorite artists on G+.  His work evokes small moments in daily life, marvelously realized, and he posts one of these great digital paintings almost every day.   Another fabulous artist to add to your circles.  :D

#paintingoftheday  

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Yesterday's Not-So-Daily Painting: "It's Spring!"

I usually consider that spring has arrived when our neighbor's gorgeous saucer magnolia tree blooms, and that happened about February 7th this year -- a bit early, I think.  That's also usually the same time that the redbuds start to bloom, and they bloomed beautifully, but now the blooms are gone.  I didn't even take any pictures of those this year, for no good reason(!). 

But it has seemed to be cooler this spring than other years of late, and I know some of you have still been getting some snow!

Anyway, wishing for warm spring days for all my friends the world over (or fall, if you're down under).  Cheers.

"It's Spring!"
Watercolor and ink on Portofino paper
6" x 6"
© 2013 Marilyn Fenn

A Little Confection for Easter

Don't read too much into the name.  My husband suggested "Yeaster Yeggs," which has a certain resonance, but, well, I just don't know.

Anyone have any better ideas for a title?

"Easter Zoetrope" (new title!)
Watercolor on Portofino paper
6" x 6"
© 2013 Marilyn Fenn

Another Early Experiment from This Year

This was my 5th piece of the year, and I haven't shared it until now.  I am again combining some imagery from various series of the last few years, this time in watercolor pencil (with water added, of course).  I may try to fix that purple-y bit in front, though quite honestly, I'm not sure if it can be fixed.  I'm not crazy about the grainy quality that I accidentally achieved there.  :\

"Not-So-Daily Painting 2013-005"
Watercolor pencils on watercolor paper
9" x 12"
© 2013 Marilyn Fenn

#abstractart  

A Bit of Green for St. Patrick's Day

Thanks to my Irish grandma, a wee bit of a wild lass whom I only met once or twice.  She may have given me the genetic gift of art, as in her tamer moments, she hand-painted china, and very beautifully at that.  So I thought I'd share one of my many green paintings with you for St. Patrick's Day.  This one has a great title for today, too:

"Quest for Magic"
Oil on canvas
12" x 12"
© 2011 Marilyn Fenn


And here's a nice little Irish toast to go with it:

May the lilt of Irish laughter
lighten every load.
May the mist of Irish magic
shorten every road...
And may all your friends remember
all the favours you are owed!

#StPatricksDay   #abstractart  

Splat!

Thought I'd try out the Sennelier watercolor block I discovered the other day buried in my studio.  Watercolor is a medium I'm not super familiar with.  I did maybe 10-12 large watercolor still lifes back in the late 80's, but otherwise, I have mostly avoided it -- except for small watercolor pencil drawings (paintings?) over the last few years -- until just a few weeks ago.

This time, I soaked the paper pretty thoroughly, taped it down and started to paint.  Hours later, the paper was still mostly wet, and the colors were still bleeding(!).  So, this is more messy than I'm completely comfortable with, but there it is, fwiw.  I added a bit of gouache to tame things a bit, and had already made quite a mess with drops of alcohol that got out of control.  It's a hard-sized paper, too, and I don't think I like that "feature."

Good thing, too, because to buy this watercolor block today would cost $75.00 for 20 sheets.  I guaran-damn-tee you I wouldn't have paid more than $20-30 at the most.  I think.

"Splat!"
Watercolor and gouache on Sennelier cold-press watercolor paper
12" x 12"
© 2013 Marilyn Fenn

Make it Stop!

Seriously, I can't stop looking at this one:

http://mrdiv.tumblr.com/post/23252902042/twist

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Wow!  This is an amazing painting from +Saeed art portal  .

#paintingoftheday  

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Winter in the village
Artist:  Saeed
50x60cm oil on canv
www.saeedartportal.com

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#paintingoftheday  Wow!  What more can I say?

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Hey everyone, I'm a painter and instructor in San Diego. Mainly do portraits and figurative work. Just started exploring nudes. Attached is my first large scale nude.

If you like it, you can see my other work at http://www.stanprokopenko.com

Thanks!

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This is well worth the watch!  My latest favorite video.  Hat tip to +J.L. Btwee  for sharing...

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Speaking about global warming: this bear interrupts a good shooting

Progress Photos from the Painting "The Cosmos Made Conscious"

This painting started as an attempt to capture the beauty of a passion flower, and ended up as something completely different.  I started it in acrylic, too, as my previous work had come out quite well using acrylics, but for this work, the acrylics were just driving me crazy, so I quickly switched to oils.

I really don't even know what to say about the progress shots during the change from a passion flower to this somewhat fanciful floral abstraction, except that sometimes when things aren't working, I have to do something to break the painting so that I can fix it.

I'm very happy with the ways I simplified things, especially the way that mess of stuff to the right of the flower resolved into mostly just lovely paint and space.  There is a lot of paint on this canvas -- juicy gooey paint smushing into more juicy gooey paint.  I love that!  :)

However, I'm still not sure I consider this done yet; there are a few things on the edges that I think could probably be removed, simplified, or just dealt with differently.

These progress photos were shot with warmer studio lights, while the final photo was shot in the cooler, bluer light of day.

P.S. The second image is an animated gif.  It was supposed to be the first image, but something unexpected happened in sharing this from Picasa.  Not sure if I can fix that now.

“The Cosmos Made Conscious”
Oil on canvas
24″ x 30″
© 2012 Marilyn Fenn

http://marilynfenn.com/shop/the-cosmos-made-conscious/

This is my next canvas -- planning for it to be, anyway.  I'm not sure whether I'm more excited or more intimidated.  I haven't painted on anything this big in about 9 years!

Anyway, I'm doing sketches and color studies to prepare.  Wish me luck!

Number Six for Best Twelve of Twelve

This may seem like a odd painting to make it to my best 12 of 12 list, but there's a reason, and it's hard to explain.  Well, I love the brushwork in the space areas, and the discreet little things floating in front of that space.   I only realized a few days ago that there's something here that intrigues me quite a bit, and that I imagine what I did here might become part of what I will be attempting in my next big series of paintings.

Most of my paintings seem to contain a unity in the whole; although they have become mostly abstract in the past 6 or 7 years, they still belong to a more or less traditional mode of composition.  But I'm starting to think about other modes of composition, and I think this may be an example of what is on my mind.  And it has to do with combining and contrasting things vs. stuff, discreet vs. continuous, sort of like beans vs. soup.

Perhaps those beans ain't cooked yet in this painting, and it may take several paintings before I even really know what I'm trying to do, but this one -- goofy as it is -- does something for me in ways that most of my other work does not.  And I like it!

“In Flight”
Oil on canvas
16″ x 12″
© 2012 Marilyn Fenn

#besttwelveoftwelve  

December Sale, Day One: Sets of Still Life Paintings of Toys

The first items I am offering for my 20% off December Sale are 4 sets of small still life paintings of toys that I painted in the fall of 2011.   When you purchase them as a set, the price is $50.00 off the price for all the paintings in the set, PLUS an additional 20% off through the month of December!

Here is the first set.  The “Wind-up Toy Set” consists of three 4"×4″ oil on canvas paintings: "Akk-akk-akk-akk-akk!", "Say Cheese", and "Wensleydale?"

$140.00 for the set, plus $20.00 S&H.

They may be purchased here: http://marilynfenn.com/shop/wind-up-toy-set/

Visit the Artwork on Sale page to see all four sets now: http://marilynfenn.com/shop/artwork-on-sale/

My Art Available as Prints on Amazon!!!

The other day, I discovered by accident that all some of the artwork I have available as unsigned, open-edition prints on Fine Art America are also available on Amazon!  I must have missed a note from Fine Art America, as this came as a real shock to me, but a welcome one (I think).

Looks like I need to update my FAA portfolio to add more of my work from this year.

You can view the whole shebang at Amazon here: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_pg_1?rh=n%3A1055398%2Ck%3Aartist+marilyn+fenn

P.S.  I also have a very few signed and numbered limited edition prints of older work available on my own site here: http://marilynfenn.com/shop/home/giclee-prints/

And originals, of course!

The People's Republic of Austin

On an unintended wiki-walk, I just discovered this little factoid: 

My town -- "Austin is known as an enclave of liberal politics in a generally conservative state—so much so, that the city is sometimes sarcastically called the "People's Republic of Austin" by residents of other parts of Texas, and conservatives in the Texas Legislature."

Hey, those of us who live here proudly call ourselves the "People's Republic of Austin."  So, I guess we're all in agreement, then.  :)

from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin,_Texas

* Art-eruptions -- New Work*

I'm working on another series of small sketches inspired by the wonderful sculptures of Lee Bontecou.  I'm finding it a bit easier to work on these small painting-sketches with all the art-making interruptions I've been handling this past couple months, as I can stop and start again as my schedule allows.

Some of these may end up being translated into oil paintings on large canvases, as I did with the last two in this series.  I'm also willing to sell the sketches.  :)   I'll be adding them to my shop in a moment...

Not-So-Daily Painting 2012-005
Ink and watercolor pencils on heavy (100 lb.) Raffine sketch paper
6" x 5.75"
© 2012 Marilyn Fenn

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Gotta love the folks in my town...

H/t to +Thaddeus Neal for alerting me to this cool little story.

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All My Recent Art

My third album/blog of art to share with you all contains almost all the work I have done from about mid-2006 to present.  

In 2005, I quit my very last outside-the-house job, and then ramped up my freelance business, but also began to focus on where the heck I wanted my art to go.  I continued to experiment with various modes of abstraction/non-representation, and I also began to paint in encaustic (hot, pigmented wax), starting with paintings of tornadoes and nuclear bombs.  

I also started sketching more again: in acrylic, ink, watercolor and watercolor pencils and crayons.

I present to you here a lot of work I am truly very happy with, as well as some failures and a lot of experiments.

Now almost all my artwork is available to view in 3 albums on my profile, and 3 Blogger blogs.
And here is this blog, to which I will continue to add new work: http://occupywalls.blogspot.com/

#art #paintings #drawings #sketches

We could all use more of this.  :D

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I can't even tell you what a hard time I had picking just one painting from +Penny Otwell 's amazing body of work to share with you today.  I  do know I have always loved this one.   Penny's use of thick paint and her color sensibilities combined with her skill at painting a representational scene through the use of all these lovely little abstract shapes is just fabulous.  There is so much to enjoy here, I can stare at these works for such a long time.  For #firstfridayartwalk  .

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Here's one of my favorite of +Daniel Ibanez 's delightful works for #firstfridayartwalk  

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MeetTheGPlusArtists

Oh, my!  I just discovered this artist today.  +Sven Ochsenreither -- I love his whole body of work!  The off-center compositions, the simplified patches of color that make these works absolutely as strong in the abstract sense as they are in the representational sense, the oh-so-lovely color palettes that make my little heart go pitter-pat!

Sven is both the most recent artist I have found on G+ and my first #MeetTheGPlusArtists  artist.  

I will try to introduce you all to one G+ artist every day.  Who is one of your favorite G+ artists?

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More New Work: "Bloop!"

This painting is actually almost a month old by now, and is almost the next painting in my most recent series of works.  This one was inspired by the one just before this that I haven't shown yet (which I'm saving for this week's Friday Art Critique) but I can tell you that the initial inspiration for the previous one was water reflections.  This one has traveled a bit beyond that.

For me, this is sort of an experiment in soft and broken colors, and I do love the palette.  I hope to do more in soft tones like this in the future.

"Bloop!"
Oil on canvas
12" x 12"
© 2012 Marilyn Fenn

This painting can be found here: http://marilynfenn.com/shop/bloop/

More New Work: "Here We Go Again, August 29, 2012"

Here's another new painting that started out quite differently than it ended up.   This one took about a week to resolve; and I was working on it during the time Hurricane Isaac was building in the Gulf Coast, so I guess you could say that became an influence.  ;)

Even though I scraped lots of paint off of this several times while in the process of creation, it still has lots of wonderfully gooey paint on it (dry to the touch now, of course).

"Here We Go Again, August 29, 2012"
Oil on canvas
16″ x 12″
© 2012 Marilyn Fenn

Another Painting from 10 Years Ago in Italy

I was going to start posting my new work, but I had one setting wrong during my photo session yesterday, and the colors came out too blue, so I will re-do hopefully tomorrow and begin showing you my latest crazy series of abstract paintings soon (but not today).

In the meantime, here's another favorite from my 2002 trip to Italy.

Hillside at Giogalto
Oil on canvas
~18″ x 12″
© 2002 Marilyn Fenn

10 years ago, my husband and I flew to Italy on Sept. 11 (2002, for the calendar-challenged).  We were flying on buddy passes -- in other words on standby -- which meant we could get seats on Sept. 11, but not any other day in time for a painting workshop I was to attend.

It was a hard time to be traveling elsewhere in the world as an American, if you remember how much we were hated just a year after 9-11.  We tried to stay low-key about it, and eventually people figured we were Canadian or British.

And just in case you think I forgot, my heart goes out to everybody who died and suffered that day, and everyone who died, was maimed or in any way hurt every day since then as a result of the wars we have waged in response.  Oh, yeah, might as well throw in everyone who has died in any war or police action or airplane crash, car wreck or as a result of violence or illness.  OK, this is getting out of hand, but you get the drift.  (clearly, I have a few boundary issues).

This is my favorite painting from that trip.  

"Rain Coming, Giogalto, Tuscany"
Oil on canvas
20″ x 24″
© 2002 Marilyn Fenn

Blast from the Past

In honor of the RNC this week, here's a painting from 4 years ago.  Not my best work -- just another experiment.  I was already painting this the day the big news story was that John McCain didn't know how many houses he owned - hence the title.

"John McCain's Houses"
Acrylic on canvas
36" x 36"
© 2008 Marilyn Fenn

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My selection for #paintingoftheday  today.  I've loved +Jessica Torrant 's work for several years.   Such happy colors and joyous movement; this is just one of many of her beautiful works!

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From the Archives

Last year about this time, I decided to get back to basics for a bit.  For this almost daily exercise, I went back to doing still lifes, which I hadn't done in years.  I was trying to loosen up while improving my brushstrokes.  This was the first of about 17 small still life paintings.  I was aiming to complete each painting in only one painting session, but many of them took several sessions.

This was the first -- and one of the least successful (IMO) -- of the bunch.  Too tight!

"Spongebob Squarepants" | Oil on canvas | 6" x 6" | © 2011 Marilyn Fenn

Based on a small plastic toy

Balloon Art

I love these! (stumbled upon these years after they were posted, so don't sue me if you've seen these already).  ;)

http://blog.asiantown.net/-/1414/Artist_creates_giant_sculptures_from_party_balloons_that_look_like_sea_monsters

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Close-Up

Our friendly (?) front-porch spider.

for #natureartthursday  +NatureArtThursday sponsored by +Trisha Standard and +Dane Clingan 

Food Forest

My first acrylic on canvas painting in almost 4 years; I've probably only done 12-14 acrylics on canvas, and I never was that comfortable with them; I'm much more at home with oils.  

I did really enjoy working on this one.  I started out with high-energy and quite abstract, and each subsequent day was slower and more studied...refining the image.  I didn't mean to get so...representational with the artichokes (yes, the 3 flowers are 3 stages of artichokes seen and photographed together in an urban food forest-type garden several weeks ago).

I'm not sure if I'm done, but I think I might be (darn those color changes, though!).  I see that this medium holds some promise for me; maybe I will finally find a way to merge abstraction and representation -- something that has been a goal for years!  I can hardly wait to start the next one!

P.S.  This is a studio shot; not the final photograph of this painting, which I hope to shoot tomorrow...so the colors may not be 100% accurate.  :)

Nature Studies for the Grow Forth show

A couple weeks ago, the artists in the Grow Forth show (see previous post for show info: http://goo.gl/82RAu) met at an Urban Patchwork garden in the style of a "food forest" to sketch or take pictures as inspiration for work for the show.

I found at least 4 types of plants that inspired me, and hope to create some work involving 3-4 of the plant forms.

I've started with a series of small representational drawings to serve as inspiration for larger abstracted paintings.  I'm doing the set of drawings as a quadriptych (aka tetraptych, if you prefer the Greek); no hinges, though.  Here is the first one (leftmost panel), done in Prismacolor pencil (which, btw, I haven't used in years, but used to be pretty good at, she said humbly).

I am a sucker for flowering plants, but I do not know what type of pink flowering vine this is.  I will try to find out tomorrow.

Sharing one of my many artists circles

I haven't updated my "Painters Painting" circle in a verrrrry long time, but I'm sharing it now anyway.  If you are a traditional media painter who posts mostly (or at least ~50%) about painting (your paintings, other's paintings, whatever), and IF you're not in this circle, please let me know in the comments, so I can add you.

Also, feel free to share this circle, and to add these folks to your circles.

Spotless

So this week, my husband and I engaged in a little (well,actually, a lot ) of late spring cleaning.  We even scrubbed the shower curtain liner and tub mat, and moved all the furniture in our tiny bedroom to discover and get rid if all the dust!  The house hasn't been this spic and span in quite some time!

Here are a few pics...

West Austin Studio Tour

My hubby and I toured about 6 of the 162 art spaces on Austin's first West Austin Studio Tour. We got a late start, so that was a mistake, but each artist I wanted to visit was at least 10-15 minutes from each other artist I wanted to visit. I guess you can only figure on seeing about 2 artists at hour when they're spaced that far apart.

Actually, there are plenty of artists spaced close together, but I have specific criteria for what kind of work I want to see; namely painting; primarily abstract, and must be good. :) Plus, if I know their work already, then I'd rather make room for someone I haven't seen yet.

And then we went to an opening of a friend of mine's after a great dinner at Threadgill's.

I did take a lot of pictures, but forgot to take any at about half of the studios!

So the pics below are from Austin Art Garage: http://www.austinartgarage.com/ -- esp. the work of Jessica Erickson: http://www.austinartgarage.com/jerickson.html and Gabe Langholz: http://www.austinartgarage.com/glangholtz.html

Sharon Zeugin, who did awesome drawings and paintings that started with calligraphy: http://www.westaustinstudiotour.com/#artists/14

Valerie Fowler, whose work absolutely bowled me over! I love, love, love it! http://valeriefowler.com/home.html

and Elizabeth Chapin, whose large acrylic portraits are fabulous, and she lives in one the coolest houses that I've ever had the pleasure to set foot in! http://elizabethchapin.com/

Not pictured: Brandon Miller, whose humongous 8' x 10' paintings were terrific: http://brandonmillerstudio.com/

Not pictured: Davis Gallery with my very talented friend William Wahlgren, the amazing sculptor Caprice Pierucci and more: http://www.westaustinstudiotour.com/#artists/182

Not pictured: one other painter whose work looked better in the catalog than in person. :(

Question about Online Art Portfolio/Sales Sites

I am so tired of updating all the various art portfolio sites I have signed up for in the past. I have 3 left to update, but I'm wondering, is it worth the time?

Do any of you other artists find any of these 3 sites worth keeping up with, for whatever reason (and what is the reason?):

1. SaatchiOnline
2. Meylah
3. Rtist (which looks like it may have lost whatever life it once had)

Also, likely to go on the chopping block next go-round is AbsoluteArts.com, but I did just update it, so will keep for awhile: http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/m/marilynfenn/

Thanks in advance!

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Great circle of artists. :)

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Do you love art and share a lot of artistic or art related content?
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Please share the circle and tell explicitly (a plus is not enough) if you want to join or nominate someone else!

Sun Rose
Oil with cold wax medium on canvas
36" x 36"
© 2012 Marilyn Fenn

Submitting my latest completed painting for #abstractartmonday , sponsored by +Ping Doherty and myself, as part of +Daily Fine Art Themes and +AbstractArtMonday .

This was one of a very few palette knife paintings I have ever done, and it was so much fun to do! The image is based on a sketch that was based on another sculpture by Lee Bontecou. This image demanded to be further and further removed from the original sketch....and I complied. ;)

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For +Friday Art Critique : I may be done; I may not. I could tweak this endlessly (really!), but I'm raring to start some new work, and this is feeling close to done. It's covered in about a pound of paint, which is a lot for me! I'm going to do the math soon and see how many actual tubes that represents.

I welcome all comments, positive or negative.

I've posted progress shots all along, and should have details pics in a bit in the attached album. The difference in the warmer and cooler views of this are simply whether they were shot indoors at night under artificial light or outdoors during the day (in bright shade). Version 9 was shot this a.m. outdoors.

Hung Some Recent Work...

..and took some down.

And here's where I got to tonight (I know you are all on the edge of your seat waiting for this!). I may even finish this tomorrow!

Now, dinner and a movie, and later, I'm sure we'll have to watch at least 1 episode of Weeds, to commemorate 4-20.

Woman Chained

This is my second-most recent painting, from just a couple of weeks ago. I finally got a better photo of it...still not sure this photo captures all the subtle color nuances, but fwiw, here it is.

Available here: http://marilynfenn.com/shop/shop-for-paintings/shop-for-art-by-year/new-work-2011-2012/woman-chained/

For #abstractartmonday now sponsored by +Ping Doherty and myself, of +AbstractArtMonday and +Daily Fine Art Themes .

White Rabbit

A day late for the Easter bunny, here is a white on white painting I did during a spate of small still lifes of toys last fall. This was lit with a warm light casting cool shadows to the left, and a cool light casting warm shadows to the right. My husband is responsible for the title. ;)

Available here: http://marilynfenn.com/shop/shop-for-paintings/shop-for-art-by-year/new-work-2011-2012/woobie-contemplates-revenge/

For #stilllifeartmonday sponsored by +Melodie Douglas and +Maude McDonald of +Daily Fine Art Themes .

Tornado - Coin, Iowa

The tornado painting I'm posting this week is more of a supercell (a rotating thunderstorm) than a tornado. According to Wikipedia, "supercells are the overall least common and have the potential to be the most severe. Supercells are often isolated from other thunderstorms, and can dominate the local climate up to 32 kilometres (20 mi) away."

Available mounted and framed here: http://marilynfenn.com/shop/shop-for-paintings/shop-for-art-by-year/2006-2008/tornado-coin-iowa/

For #landscapearttuesday sponsored by +Christina Deubel of +Daily Fine Art Themes and +LandscapeArtTuesday .

Here's just a basic life drawing sketch from life drawings sessions many years ago.

I will try to return to the "Figures in Space" postings next week (in case you've missed them).

For #figurativeartfriday sponsored by +Maude McDonald and +Melodie Douglas of +FigurativeArtFriday and +Daily Fine Art Themes .

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+Margie Hearron pointed out earlier today that +Sharon Vaknin, an editor at CNET.com with over 12,500 followers, is struggling to filter the noise from her stream. And I want to help! =D

I have very carefully built my circles around a system that I am now going to share with you. This is my secret weapon to circle organization.

I'm a very visual person, so I worked really hard to make this slideshow to (hopefully) explain the process as clearly as I can.

May it inspire you to grow your circles to include a lively network of active people!!!

Many great thanks to all the early adopters who provided tips when I first joined last July! I'm standing on the shoulders of giants!

Luminous Future

My contribution today to #abstractartmonday ™  sponsored by +Charles Lupica and me, of +Daily Fine Art Themes and +AbstractArtMonday .

I was very honored to have this painting on display all last year at Austin City Hall during the 2011 People's Gallery Exhibition.

Texas Tornadoes

We had some pretty fierce storms here in Austin and throughout Texas last night. A tornado touched down near San Antonio, damaging 6 homes, though thankfully, no one was hurt.

I was in the edge of a tornado touchdown once in Dallas that was kind of scary. We think that a small tornado may have been involved in a very fierce storm that hit our central Austin neighborhood a few years ago, complete with very high winds that were twisting all the large trees around in the most amazing way and terrifying hail that sounded like gunfire as it broke house and car windows all around us. The next day, the whole neighborhood looked like all the trees had exploded, and many large trees were uprooted.

So to recognize the power of tornadoes that often affect those of us in Texas and the midwest, here's a painting of a tornado that took place in Dallas in 2006. It's kind of pretty, though; don't you agree?

For #landscapearttuesday sponsored by +Christina Deubel and +LandscapeArtTuesday .

Bonus track: One of my favorite Texas bands, The Texas Tornadoes, performing "Is Anybody Going to San Antone," which has one of my favorite lines:

"Sleeping under a table in a roadside park, a man could wake up dead." ;)

http://youtu.be/A6MdYSSjpkk

Drawing the Figure in Space, Lesson Two: Every action demands a reaction

For #figurativeartfriday sponsored by +Maude McDonald and +Melodie Douglas of +FigurativeArtFriday .

This is a continuation of my last Figurative Art Friday post (2 weeks ago; sorry for the delay, I have been overwhelmed with work since then).

When drawing the figure, continue to think of the space containing the figure.


Every action demands a reaction: in and concave – out and convex; in and up – out and down.

This implies a counter-movement.

Like the movement in Cezanne’s "Madame Cezanne."

Make things bend for the demands of the flat surface.

Previous posts are here:
week 2: http://goo.gl/rosnA
week 1: http://goo.gl/uDfqO

And if you're inclined to read through all my notes regarding this (in very rough note form), they are posted in a sort of a series starting here: http://marilynfenn.com/continued/project-yourself-into-the-picture-plane/

Leslie 'Keep Austin Weird' Cochran has passed away

For those of you coming to Austin for SXSW, one of Austin's most colorful characters, Leslie Cochran, passed away today. If you've been to previous SXSWs, you may have spotted him on 6th St. or SoCo displaying his tush in a thong.

Leslie was also strongly associated with the Keep Austin Weird slogan. Here's a link to a photo gallery dedicated to Leslie in the local daily rag:

http://goo.gl/V8AHp

And a history of Keep Austin Weird: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_Austin_Weird

And more Austin weirdness: http://www.keepaustinweird.com/

Rest in peace, Leslie.

For #AbstractArtMonday ™  sponsored by me and +Charles Lupica , as part of +Daily Fine Art Themes

One of my latest completed abstract paintings, now complete with a title, "Flamingo Mallets" (h/t to Lewis Carroll).

For #NatureArtThursday sponsored by +Trisha Standard and +Dane Clingan

Another drawing from an afternoon spent sketching stuffed animals and animal skeletons at the Field Museum, Chicago a long time ago....

Brand new painting!

I just shot the photo of this painting; the paint itself is still wet, though I finished it last weekend. But I do love working with my new, oilier medium.... :)

For #NatureArtThursday™ sponsored by +Trisha Standard and +Dane Clingan (psst - do you both want to be notified of new paintings ?).

More abstract flowers, from a work that I began in November which wasn't successful, and has now been almost completely reworked. Now I love it!

The year 2006 represents a turning point in my long journey as a painter. While I had been painting representationally from the beginning, I had also toyed with attempting abstraction all along. Not too many were successful, however (it's harder than you may think; some of you know!).

But abstract paintings make my little heart go pitter-pat even more so than representational work, and I was determined to keep trying to find a way to paint my own good abstract paintings. This was an attempt in a series of (sadly) only two; should have done more along these lines. I had a commission for a representational Italian landscape just after doing these. This was also the year I rediscovered encaustic and started my series of paintings of tornadoes and nuclear bombs in encaustic.

Argh! Interruptions, and then I never seemed to get back to working this way.

So, here it is, a rare abstract watery piece for #Waterscapeartwednesday curated by +Terrill Welch

For #SurrealArtSaturday, sponsored by +Mikko Tyllinen

Not sure if this is truly surreal, but I just picked it up from the People's Exhibition at Austin City Hall, where it has been on loan for a year! Now I can make some adjustments to it, and then rearrange the artwork on my walls again. :)

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I started a page here on G+ (and a blog on Tumblr) for celebrating Abstract Art.

Today's post celebrates the wondrous work of Austin installation artist Beili Liu.

Check it out, and add my page to your circles, if this topic interests you:

https://plus.google.com/b/100991613700519080291/100991613700519080291/posts/iidbGNm8H7D

I love Yayoi Kusama -- this is so cool!

http://goo.gl/oKkhF

This is my fourth pick for my #BestElevenOfEleven artworks.

I used to do a lot of still lifes. It's a great way to focus on seeing the shapes, colors, and relationships of things, to improve one's eye-to-hand coordination, and practice basic painting chops, but I hadn't done any in years. I felt like getting back into it through some very small paintings of some toys I have--to help me focus on brushwork...I was aiming for looseness.

This was my second still life this year, and I was pretty happy with how it turned out. Learned a lot through this little series.

Here is my third piece for my #BestElevenOfEleven artworks. Whether these are actually "bests" or just "favorites," I'm not sure.

Another quick sketch, this time part of a series of ten exploring minimalist landscapes (inspired, in part by +C.J. Shane and her gorgeous minimalist paintings!), though not entirely unlike other earlier works of my own.

This one is my favorite of the ten. I may or may not work these up as larger works in oil; it doesn't seem to be the direction I'm heading presently, but you never know...nice to have a little space.

My contribution to #FigurativeArtFriday sponsored by +Maude McDonald and +Melodie Douglas .

Continuing along the same lines as last week's entry; this was done in my second semester of life drawing classes, when we started working in color. The assignment was to create an image with one figure in the flesh, and an identical figure, skeleton only.


Mary Pickford and Friend
Pastel and Colored Pencil on Paper
24" x 36"
© 1988 Marilyn Fenn

This is kind of a cool animation; never seen something quite like this before, have you?

http://vimeo.com/7050373

For #WaterscapeArtWednesday sponsored by +Terrill Welch

A small sketch from a few years ago; this is based on a photo I took while touring the Ethnographic Museum in Rumšiškės, Lithuania, the town where my grandfather emigrated from, and where some of my family still live on a small farm.

I never met my grandfather, as he died from black lung when my mom was 13. He was a coal miner and had also been gassed fighting for the US in WWI. During my trip in 1993, I met his still surviving sister who lived on that farm in Rumšiškės. She became ill during my two-month stay in Lithuania, and died the day after I left. :(

It was so awesome to have met her, and my other relatives, though. This is just one of the many beautiful images from that trip, and so far, the only one I have painted.

River and Trees at the Ethnographic Museum, Rumsiskes, Lithuania
Watercolor pencil on paper
10" x 7"
© 2005 Marilyn Fenn

For #LandscapeArtTuesday - sponsored by +Christina Deubel at +LandscapeArtTuesday

Another oldie, but I hope you think, a goodie; painted based on a sketch on an airplane napkin:

Aerial Landscape
Oil on canvas
30" x 40"
© 1992 Marilyn Fenn

"Communist Muppet Conspiracy" - what a great name for a band! From Comedy Central:

http://www.indecisionforever.com/2011/12/05/fox-news-unearths-communist-muppet-conspiracy/

Ah, ingenuity born of necessity.

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2011/12/christmas-tree-made-from-40000-recycled-plastic-bottles/

A Cautionary Tale: The Top 5 Regrets of the Dying

This week brought the death of a friend's cherished mother--a friend and neighbor to me, too, and a delightful artist--after a long struggle with cancer. She died peacefully, having had a great life, though still far too short. I've linked to an article below that was shared by this woman's daughter, who said that her mom lived a life with no regrets.

I think most of those of us who are artists and creative souls have to struggle so hard to do that which makes us most happy (our art), and if we can survive the economic hardships of that life, I believe most of us will also look back from our deathbeds with few or no regrets about the choices we've made.

I am lucky now to have much happiness in my life. This was not always the case, however. I made a conscious decision 26 years ago to change the unhappy path I was on, and seek the life I truly desired.

Now, I am both physically and (mostly) mentally healthy. I waited for what seemed like forever to find the perfect person to fall in love with and marry, and we are great together. I have friends that I love dearly and spend probably not enough time with. I am finally spending most of my days as a painter--my life's goal since I was born. And what work I do for others, I do on my own terms. We live frugally, but we take good care of each other and ourselves.

I am relieved that I am now doing most of the things recommended in this article.

Please read it, and see how you are doing. I think it is very instructive.

http://www.activistpost.com/2011/11/top-5-regrets-of-dying.html

For #FigurativeArtFriday sponsored by +Maude McDonald and +Melodie Douglas

More ancient work: in figure drawing classes, we often drew skeletons; in this case, within the body from a source of my choosing (I chose a photograph), though sometimes we also drew the skeleton from live models. In either case, you have to figure out how the skeleton fits under all that skin and muscle.

Here's my first one:

Dance Me to the End of Love
Pastel Pencil on Canson Paper
24" x 36"
© 1987 Marilyn Fenn

Artists' Palettes - What kind of palette do you prefer?

I love looking at artists' palettes. You can see the colors of their paintings' preserved on the palettes, and the state of array (or disarray) in which they worked.

Here are great pictures of some famous painters' palettes: http://www.retronaut.co/2011/01/pallettes-of-famous-painters/

From the painters among you, I'd love to hear your thoughts on what makes your best palette.

Below are four of mine, the 1st 3 retired, due to too much gouging of the wood--which happened when I would scrape down the dried paint in my attempts to obtain a smoother surface for new paint--plus they're just too small!

The 4th is a large (18x24") plastic palette I used for years a while back, then sanded down. I may use it again, because I love having a large palette, but in the end I really prefer a glass palette. It's so much easier to obtain a clean surface to begin anew every day.

I'm thinking of ordering the glass cutting board shown below in the 5th picture, it's a little smaller than I'd like, but so is my studio and my painting table that it needs to fit on. But it would work in my space very well, I think.

More Artists' Palettes

And if you're on Facebook, artist +Farrell Brickhouse has shared this awesome and extensive collection of photos of contemporary artists' tables, shelves, and palettes: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1062923943362.11491.1533881901&type=3 This is really a fascinating peek into the working worlds of many artists!

Once again, sharing two art circles of artists' personal profiles. Here's the first. This one I call "Painters Painting," because almost everyone on this list is here on G+ to connect with other artists--they post their artwork, and they engage in communication with the other artists here. And it's mostly painters.

For #WaterscapeArtWednesday curated by +Terrill Welch

I've always been interested in a kind of merger between abstraction and representation. During this particular semester in art school, I was trying all kinds of ways to explore that region. Some times I would start out with representation and attempt to interpret it in a more abstract manner; other times I would begin purely abstractly and try to find representation within it.

This painting is from the latter category of attempts. IOW, it started out as an abstract work and became a waterscape.

Fire and Water
Oil on canvas
48" x 40"
© 1992 Marilyn Fenn

For #WaterscapeArtWednesday sponsored by +Terrill Welch

A sunny sky behind a tornado, rain, a patch of island, a reflection.

"Tornado - Big Pine Key, FL - April 14, 2005"
Encaustic on Masonite
8" x 10"
© 2007 Marilyn Fenn

For #AbstractArtMonday sponsored by +Esther Hardman

This painting is a favorite of mine. It's a bit of a fusion between representation in the cloud/smoke form (though that part, too, was simply imagined) and pure linework. Later I saw an video with steam rising at Yellowstone Park that looked very much like this cloud form; hence the title.


"Yellowstone"
Oil on canvas
16" x 12"
© 2009 Marilyn Fenn

For #FigurativeArtFriday hosted by +Maude McDonald and +Melodie Douglas

A very early colored pencil drawing--I used a very intensive drawing method for this piece--it took maybe 100 hours! Drawn from a photograph.

"Darien and Dessa at Bandon by the Sea"
Colored pencil on Canson paper
26" x 20"
© 1988 Marilyn Fenn

How do you take down a large installation piece? Try kicking it.

http://vimeo.com/31600067

For #AbstractArtMonday sponsored by +Esther Hardman

I've always been interested in becoming an abstract or non-objective artist. The purity of the elements of painting without the distraction of subjects, objects or other representational references in a work really moves my soul. Whether as a viewer or a painter, I can concentrate on color, line, shape, form, composition, brushstrokes, and how all the elements interact with each other.

When I was beginning to seriously study art, one of my teachers responded to one of my first attempts at abstraction by telling me I was not an abstract artist. I was so ticked off, I went home and did this little pastel drawing.

I will say, after over 20 years, and over 300 abstract works attempted, I know what he meant more now than I did then. I feel like I am finally on the road to becoming an abstract painter, but it's not been as easy as I think it may be for others or as most people seem to think it is. I guess this kind of work is both harder to do and harder to appreciate, unless the artist is really quite successful.

Anyway, here's my first semi-successful attempt. I hope you can at least appreciate the effort.

"Thanks to Mr. Drew"
Pastel on velour paper
20" x 26"
© 1988 Marilyn Fenn

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This is bloody insane. Beautiful. Staggering. Just WOW.

keep an eye out for the thunder storms at 1.20...

This is pretty wild clay animation: a "perfect balance of yuck and beauty." Plus an interview with the artist here: http://www.fecalface.com/SF/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1665&Itemid=92

Five Tips for Painters

...who are interested in seeing their work withstand the test of time, at least in a physical sense.  Interview with Mark Gottsegen – founder of AMIEN, author of The Painter’s Handbook, teacher, artist, and all around art materials guru.

I learned a few valuable things here!

http://goo.gl/ZVzdU

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For my fellow painters, a new color palette for you.  :)

H/t to +Jim Tipping for sharing.

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This is kind of goofy and cute....

Van Gogh's color palette was brighter than we assume

These blue walls were violet, and in more of a harmonious complementary color scheme than what we see here.  But fugitive reds faded away, leaving violet walls blue and pink flowers white!  Gah!

And according to this article, he was more methodical, and less deranged than has been thought. That makes me happy.  :)

Read about it in the NYT: http://goo.gl/o7d5j

What Paint Does

I'm really enjoying the essays of Robin Greenwood.  This one has awaken something in my brain that I think has been asleep since art school!  Not sure if I agree with it all, but it's exciting (to me) to contemplate these thoughts, as well as the rest of the essay and subsequent comments.

"What’s missing from this, what makes it a defective raison-d’être of painting, is the recognition that paint can carry more potency and meaning through its use as a designator and articulator of form and space than it can by any literal demonstration of its real-world properties. To suggest that the literal ‘materiality’ of paint – or indeed the process of applying it as a performance – is truer to painting than the fullest, richest fulfilment of its potential as an illusionistic medium is to belittle and falsify it. Such a philosophy of painting (for such it is) exhibits a failure to recognise that the meaning in abstract art is not what it is, but what it does. Herein is both enigma and illusion, since what abstract art precisely does cannot be easily described verbally (if at all, and there would be little point to it if it were otherwise), and all painting contains illusion; all good painting contains a convincing matrix of illusion. Every mark on a two-dimensional surface creates an illusionistic (re)presentation of space. With figurative painting, no problem; but how do we reconcile illusion with being abstract?"

<Rant> My Website Hosting Company Ruined My Birthday

Or most of it, anyway.  I don't normally like to whine in public, but I feel like I need to get this on the record, so stop reading here, if you're not into 1st-world problem style whining. ;)  

I do have a question at the end.

Background: I spent all of last week doing all kinds of physical tasks so that I could spend my birthday doing my favorite thing: painting.  Three afternoons of yard work -- mowed and edged the front and back yards, trimmed all the bushes, pulled tons of weeds.  Nothing had been done in 6-7 months, since my husband broke his leg, so there was a lot to do.  We filled 6 bags with yard waste, and hauled two huge loads of grass clippings to the compost pile.  I did most of it, as my husband's leg is still healing from last fall's break.

Then, we cleaned the house from top to bottom.  My arms and legs were still aching like a sumbitch Sunday night.

So, yeehaw, finally, everything is done, and I'm all ready for good night's sleep and a full day of painting!

However, the phone rang at 7:30 am on Sunday morning (my birthday), and a long message was left.  I was ignoring it, but my husband got up and heard the message from our hosting company that they had taken down our websites -- ALL of them!  And sent him a note which said:

"Unfortunately, we were forced to disable the script [the index page] as it was causing high loading issues on the server. Due to this affecting all of the other accounts on the system, we had to take immediate action for the health of the server. "

This is at least the 4th or 5th time in 5 or 6 years that they've taken this drastic action before contacting me to fix the issue.  One problem with 1 site, and they take them all down (we've got dozens).  oO

And then they withdrew my access to my sites, my ftp access, and emptied out our file directory, leaving me NO WAY to fix the supposed problem!  Except to get into at least a 30-minute chat with tech support, who was as bewildered by all this as I am.  Grrrrr!  From past experience, I dreaded getting into this, as their demands to make certain changes have cost me days to weeks to months of work in the past, and sometimes, the problem wasn't even on my end!

But after trying to paint while being truly P.O.'d, I realized I'd better go ahead and deal with it.  Just what I wanted to do on my birthday (not)!

So after getting access and doing the "fixes" they requested (deleting 2 plugins and installing a different caching plugin), I checked the activity on the site in question for the preceding 24 hours.  The index page was exactly as it had been 4 months ago, there were no signs of any hacking, no questionable scripts, and the site got only 17 page visits, total, on Saturday, and 1 on Sunday.  I gotta say, if my dinky little 18-page visits caused their servers to bog down enough to affect their 400,000 other clients, they're doing something wrong!

Worse than that is that I cannot get them to contact me before pulling everything down!  Double-grrr!

So, I guess I am looking for a new website hosting company, with great sadness, actually, because other than this issue of treating their customers like this, they've been the best web hosting company I've ever dealt with (and as a website designer for over a decade, I've dealt with quite a few).  Sigh.  So if you know of a GREAT web host with excellent tech support, for multiple WordPress sites, who won't pull all my websites down at the drop of a hat, I'm all ears. </rant>

Thanks for reading, if you did.  Promise, I won't do this often.  :\

Possibly the Best Story You'll Ever Hear

It's about a Detroit folksinger named Rodriguez who created 2 albums in the early 70's that went nowhere...in the States.  Meanwhile, his music becomes huge in South Africa -- iconic music for the anti-apartheid movement, but Rodriguez doesn't know it!  Fans from S.A. search for clues about what happened to their idol, and the story that unfolds is amazing!

A film in the making for 4 years, after running out of funding before finishing the movie, Swedish filmmaker Malik Bendjelloul shot some parts of the documentary on an iPhone App that cost only $1.99.

It's a beautiful documentary of a story that's nearly impossible to believe, an achingly touching story of a talented musical artist who fails to receive recognition in his time.

If you rent the disc, be sure to watch the making of the story, too.  It's as beautiful as the film itself.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2125608/

Welcome to All My New Followers!

Over a thousand in about a week!  I am truly humbled, and hope that you find my almost daily (or more) posts to your liking.  

As you may know, I am a painter, currently working in abstraction, but with a good background in representation.  I paint in oil, watercolor, acrylic, ink or mixed media, depending on what ideas I'm interested in exploring.  I post mostly my own art, sometimes the art of others, some studio pics and other snapshots from my life.  I have a website of my paintings, a blog, and an online shop of my work, which you can find on my profile.

Let's engage.  If you leave a comment on my posts (as long as it's not inappropriate, weird or mean), I will add you back.  :)

I am presently seeking out new territory in my paintings, and it's too soon to show what I'm trying to learn now.  So, for your viewing pleasure today, here is one of my favorite paintings from my encaustic period (which lasted maybe 3-4 years, and may not yet be over).  This is the 4th in a series of 4 paintings of poppies - a very popular group of paintings.

“Stoic Poppies in an Earthquake”
Encaustic on panel
12″ x 12″
© 2007 Marilyn Fenn

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Painting of the Day

Check out this gorgeous painting by +Ivan KRUTOYAROV !  Love the palette, love the paint handling, wonderful image!

#paintingoftheday  

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http://works2010-en.ivankrutoyarov.com/2011/11/treatment-of-spring-avitaminosis-2011.html