This is the continuation of my homage to Tamara de Lempicka. This box is called The Girls, de Lempicka had a knack for showing the sensuality of women. This was the period in time that her awareness of her attraction to women was in full form. In fact she had several affairs while she was in a convenient marriage to Tadeusz de Lempicki.

This is not even close to done but at least you can see the progress of the work and the scale that I am working with.

This is also done in acrylics like the last one. Maybe soon I'll work in oils. But oils has a preparation that I don't have to deal with when I work with acrylics.

MY NEW BOXES!!!!

I've begun painting boxes a friend bought for me and thought I might like. I started with landscapes and changed my mind and I'm paying homage to my favorite artist Tamara de Lempicka. She was an art deco artist from the twenties to the forties. The first box I've attempted is called The Orange Scarf.

I've used acrylic as my medium. I really like the way it's turning out and I can't wait to put the hardware and accessories on it!

Great Mother's Day Show!!!

My group and I (Chicagoland Artist Network) had an art show at a church called Victory Christian Assembly Church. Even one of my friends stalked up on art for his new condo. I made some sales selling reproductions of my pieces on tile. All in all It was a nice show and I'm glad I participated. I will keep you all posted with any upcoming events or shows.

red stripes finally finished

I finally finished candystripes, but I decided to rename it red stripes, since I thought about it one day. I realized there are no pieces of candy anywhere in this painting. So why am I calling it candystripes? I think it turned out pretty great. It's been a while since i used red in acrylics and I realized why I don't, it comes out so patchy!!! Thank god for gloss gel. I would have pulled my hair out. I posted it on wetcanvas since technically I was a month late. I'm working on my deadlines. Using my time wisely and learning time management, constant life struggle of mine.

morning glory finished

I decided to add water droplets, to the flower... The center could be better, but I think I've done the best I could do with this painting. Imagine when I take on these further projects with oil, cant wait ... I got my liquin and I'm ready to roll stay posted on my latest pieces, guys.

morning glory phase 2

I made the petals more distinct and then I worked on the center a little more using soft white. I'm not in love with the way the stamen is turning out, so I'm going to put an a glaze of violet over the rest of the painting excluding the stamen and see how it looks to me.

morning glory phase 1

I just started this painting two days ago and this is what I have done so far. It's acrylic on 6 inches X 6 inches gallery canvas. I used gloss gel medium on this to make the painting go on the canvas more smoothly. I hate that patchy look I was getting when I was painting the reds in candy stripes because it was drying so fast. With the gloss gel it made the consistency of the paint more fluid and a better glaze also it slowed down the drying time a bit. Like liquin with oil paints.

This is the side view of the piece. I like the feeling that the painting never truly ends. That it continues into it's environment.