Lemon LeMonde Part 1

It is a baby. I just started this last week. The pattern was an idea that I have been working on for awhile. The first version emerged during a loooong LIBA meeting.

Americana-rama!

Here is my lastest painting! I had it photographed at the University Imaging Services- I think they did an amazing job. I had to change from the original... The light fixture wasn't working- it looked like a UFO.

I am working on a new one. Lemon LeMonde is the title. I'll post some pictures soon.

Work in Progress

Here is my current painting. I am in the final stretches with this one. It is the Ultimate America room. I think Elvis would be jealous. I have always been influenced by Graceland. This one reminds me of the Billards room.

I can't decide what to title the work....

1. Political Dinner Party (groan)
2. These colors don't run
3. Patriot's Place

I need a title that is punny. Those titles could be improved upon. Look out for the finished piece.

This painting is a copy of a Heda (Dutch Still Life painter). I did it in December of 2006 for the Old Master class at Tusculum. I really love all the different textures- the porcelain sugar bowl, the oriental carpet, and especially the goblet. I want to know how to drink out of goblet- you could injure yourself.

Juicy Fruit

I wanted to post this image because it reminds of Aspic Fantastic. I finished this almost 5 years ago in grad school. It is on display at the house of the president of CGU in Claremont. I would love to see it again, but at least I have the 4" x 5" transparency.

Closer... but I am not sure if it is done

I worked on the background after Thanksgiving. I think I might have a little more work to do. There is some detail work that doesn't show up in the photo. I think this is the only painting I make in this space. 4' x 4' (the size of Aspic Fantastic) is the biggest I can make in this office/ studio.

Aspic Fantastic (in progress)

a couple more days... I have to work on the striped background and the platter. I think I'll be done before Thanksgiving.

Vending Frustration...

This is a print that I made at Penland this summer. I took a class in the new printmaking studio with Georgia Deal. This print uses chine colle and sintra plate. I took the imagery from a vintage yoga book (I love the thrift store!). The background is a zerox transfer on rice paper that I cut out.

Steve Miller from the letterpress class liked the print so we decided to do a collaboration. He printed "trancing" on the bottom. He made the word up....

I never use the figure in painting, but it shows up often in printmaking.

I want to post a painting in progress. I found this image in a vintage cookbook. I chose it for the graphic stripes and the positively gross gelatin in the back. I also liked the color unity with yellow. My working title is "Aspic Fantastic". I have to finish the aspic, the platter, and the background. The painting is upside down because I like to sit on the floor while I am painting. I just flip the painting around to where I am sitting.

left in North Carolina

This painting is long gone. It is from a vintage book (one that came from Spruce Pine). I chose it because of the crazy glass and bright candy colors. The background was always a struggle. I painted and repainted many times.

Kevin had it in his truck when he was at a job site in NC. The decorator for the house bought it out of his truck to put in a little girl's room. It think the setting is very appropiate.

Skate Mate!

This combines my love of stripes, vintage imagery and ice skating! Even though I am from the great state of Alabama, I learned how to ice skate at a very early age. I always had my own skates and we went almost every weekend. Decatur has the southern most open air ice skating rink. Who knew....

oldie but goodie

This is a very old painting. Desert Plate was the first "successful" painting I did in grad school. I really used the medium to emulate the cherry and textured medium for the nuts. It is small -20" x20".

This painting is interesting to me. I made my own jello and then photographed it. It is painted photorealistically with acrylic underpainting and oil glazes. Jell-o has some crazy reflections. This painting in many ways is related to my old work in undergrad. At that time I was abstracting food and turning them into weird landscapes. I stopped doing those in grad school because I hated the browns in meat. I love the artificial color in Jell-o.

Flamin' Paintin'

I did this painting last fall. It was a long painting. I probably spent over 200 hours on it.

The image came out of a book I bought in Spruce Pine, NC at an antiques store. An arsonist burned down the antiques store this summer.