I took a Plein Air painting workshop this weekend with Michelle Chrisman. Plein Air painting is painting outside directly from nature. This was a new experience for me and I truly loved it. We first painted at Los Poblanos Ranch and on the second day we went far north in Corrales and painted the Rio Grande. As you can see I improved by the second day and can't wait to get outside and try this again. The fall weather was beautiful and I learned invaluable lessons of cropping my image, simplifying the landscape, finding shapes, and creating a pattern of dark values.
I'm starting something new. ATC's are meant to be traded only. They are small works of art measuring 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" (the size of a baseball card), and can be of any media. They are portable and fun to do as a respite from more serious works. I have begun this endeavor with watercolors of dead artists. I plan to do a small series.
Oil on Deep Edge Stretched Canvas, sides painted and suitable for hanging without frame
12"x12"
$216.00
This is my first of a series I have been thinking about for a long time. My desire is to pay tribute to women around the world. While we enjoy hard fought freedom here in the United States, there unfortunately remains much of the world where women are oppressed. Of the two sexes, women are the most evolved (in my opinon) for they not only have a high intellectual ability, they also are able to fully embrace the emotional capacity of the human spirit. It has always boggled my mind how women historically ended up in a subservient role only because they had less physical power. Someday (long after I am gone) women will no longer be regarded as "less than." I think they are "more than" and I will paint them from all corners of the earth.