Monday, January 27, 2014

Always Cold

Always Cold
oil on 5 x 7" paper - mounted to mat board
SOLD

This is true today.  Right now it's 16 degrees.  Many others in the USA know this same pain.  Ah, but fear not...it will warm up.  It always does.

A huge thank you for your wonderful comments about my news of gallery representation. I am still on cloud 9 about all the wonderful friends and opportunities this could bring.

However, I want to be quiet now and to say no more...I truly want to come see your blogs...so here I come.

♥ Lisa

Monday, January 20, 2014

Lisa Graham Art 2013: a Video

Lisa Graham Art 2013
slideshow video (enlarge in lower right hand corner for better viewing)


This is what I spent a good portion of my weekend putting together.  It was fun to do, but not easy (for me anyways)...and it was very hard to choose the music for the video.  The choices are a bit limited on YouTube...you won't find names like The Beatles or Led Zeppelin, but I was thrilled when I found My Time by Mackintosh Braun.  It is a song I have shared before here on the blog.  I was going to choose a Chopin etude (that is what my son KC said I should have done), but it didn't have the funky thing going...which I think is what my art calls for at this point and time.  :)

I hope you like the video.  I took the time to put the titles on the pieces to make it more enjoyable for you.

Happy Monday and thanks for all your support friends!

♥ Lisa

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Awakenings in the Upper Room

Awakenings in the Upper Room
20 x 16 inch acrylic and pumice on canvas panel
reserved for art show at City Arts

 I love interior paintings.  I know I have said this before.  They are a joy to look at and a joy to paint.  This is the last of my 2013 paintings and it was a fun one in every way.  I was looking at the image of one of Balthus' paintings Les joueurs de cartes and just had to paint a table with a checked table cloth, and this is the result.  Once it was finished, the new theme for my art show at City Arts in April was decided...rooms!  

detail

I already have enough work for an entire show because several of my paintings are  set in a room of some sort.  However, now that I have some direction on the theme, I am sure more interior paintings will emerge. 


detail

One thing that always eludes me is how to keep layering my paintings once the composition is down.  I liked the composition in this painting and didn't want to lose anything, but it was difficult for me to know how build up the layers. 


detail
  
 I went over each little check on that table cloth about three times and it just seemed to only change the color, rather than add interesting layers.  The same goes for all the other areas of the painting...the girl, the carpet, the picture, the window..etc. It was tedious and with little result.   The easiest parts to layer were the walls and ceiling.  They actually had more layers at one point, but I wiped them off and sanded them down because it seemed to bury all the other elements.   


detail

If I had a chance to change anything, I think I would have done this in oil rather than acrylic.  It probably would have layered the way I was striving for.   I am happy with it, but I do plan on practicing ways of building up the entire painting a little more...it's probably time to hit the sketchbooks and stay there a while.  

Are you having a good week?