"Ms. Manzanita" in progress

This one is on an 11 x 5 1/2 inches paper... fairly small. I used a doily I got from Pasta Market (baked lasagna sits on top of it on a plate) as stencil for the pattern on her dress.

... and done.

I finished the first piece of my new series that I've decided to call "Damsels in Distress".
I only have photos taken with my phone right now, so it's grainy, but here it is:

Here is a detail of the flowers on her head that I drew in graphite:

And here is to give you a sense of how big it is:


It's on a 30 x 22 inches watercolor paper and I used house paint, watercolor, graphite pencil, sumi ink, china marker, white oil pastel, black conte and gold acrylic.

Work in Progress

...still a long way to go.

Abstract Expression

Just experimenting with mixed media on paper. Each piece is about 7 x 13 1/2 inches. Let's see... for these ones, I used black conte crayon, sumi ink, watercolor, white oil pastel and graphite pencil.

Flower Head Prints

These are partly-monotype silkcreen prints. The first two passes, background and the shape of the figure are all the same. And then I painted details(face and flowers) on the screen, then squeegeed them. Pretty tedious process, I must say. The painting part takes a long time because water-based ink dries so quickly and clogs up the mesh. I had to wash the screen after every pass which was about 7 times on each one excluding the first two passes. Boo!

These ladies turned out the way I envisioned them though. Screen printing is in itself a tedious process anyway but most of the time pretty rewarding.

Agave - 4 x 8 ft. panel

After much thought, I've decided that I am not quite done with this one. But here's what it looks like so far.

Details!

The drawing is in graphite and the painting is in oil. The polka dots are silkscreen and there's also some oil pastel and polyurethane on there.

Ostrich and Polka Dots!

Due to technical problems stemming from a combination of my ancient, second-hand mac tower and crappy wi-fi internet connection, I have been MIA the last four months. Even though these problems have not been resolved, I have found some way to get connected every now and then in the mean time. Yay!

Here is one of the more recent paintings I've done. I finished this one last month. I've also been working on an 8ft x 4ft panel (photos coming soon!), my biggest one to date. I finished that one last week, phew!



Ahh! I am obsessed with polka dots. Spent a whole drawing night at Donut Wheel meticulously sticking those little round stickers onto tracing paper. For this painting, I "polyurethaned" the polka-dotted tracing paper onto the panel. But I also burned the dots on a silkscreen so I can silkscreen polka dots onto anything!