Kitchen

Kitchen
mixed media on canvas panel
20 x 16 inch
available here

One of the houses I lived in while growing up had a happy yellow kitchen complete with a retro linoleum floor and a green telephone with a cord so long, you could reach to the bottom of the basement stairwell or out the back door to sit on the porch step to talk.  I learned to moonwalk in that kitchen because my mother kept the floors very clean and slick with Mop & Glo.  It made it easy to slide my feet.

I hope you have a beautiful weekend and that your kitchens are happy ones.

♥ Lisa

Interior Paintings

Green Couch
mixed media on canvas
16 x 20 inch

Painting interiors, especially simple ones can be so pleasing.  These are mixed media works, but mostly done with acrylic paint.  I used cut papers for the pillows, lamps and coffee table in the couch painting, and on the chairs in the table painting.  I have another one in the works that is a kitchen scene.  I feel most at home with the kitchen painting because I spend so much time in my real kitchen.

Simplicity Table
mixed media on canvas
16 x 20 inch

Both of these are now at Tessera Fine Art Gallery here in Wichita.  I usually take my new pieces to the gallery and the rest of my art gets listed on Etsy.  Someone asked me if I wanted to do art fairs and festivals at some point.  I haven't taken that avenue because of having to buy equipment like a tent and the surfaces to hang the paintings on.  Plus, you have to find a way to take credit cards.  And there is weather to think about also.  Kansas is pretty windy, a bit risky when you are dealing with one-of-a-kind work you spent hours and hours creating.  Lastly, I am too energetic to hold still for two or three days.  I would be miserable sitting, sitting, sitting.  

I hope you have had a great beginning of your week!

Lisa

Egon's Field

Egon's Field
mixed media on canvas
(sold)

It took a while to think of a name for this painting, but then it became obvious that "Egon" should be in the title.  The sunflowers were inspired by Egon Schiele's gouache and pencil drawing called "Wilted Sunflowers".  I have always loved the quirk in his drawings and wanted to capture that same quirkiness in my sunflowers.  You can see my sketch of the sunflowers in the photo below in my sketchbook sweetie book, which was done some time ago while studying a book I have of Schiele's watercolors and drawings.  You can see the book HERE.  

my mixed media work desk

          Hope you are having a great week!

♥ Lisa