In the Garden with Egon Schiele

I was looking at a photo of a watercolor by Egon Schiele entitled "Sunflowers" while painting this nude. I used his color palette and some of his forms while painting the nude model. This was an exercise we did in the life drawing class that I attend each week. I want to do this one again but on a larger scale.

Frottage and Nude Together

Frottage is a rubbing over something with texture to make a print. In this case, the something was a paper lace doily that I put under a piece of watercolor paper and rubbed with a gold metallic wax crayon. Then I painted the blue nude.

It Might Have Choked Arty...

But it didn't choke me! This is a lithograph (series of 6) that I did some years ago. I'm thinking of adding watercolor to each one, or maybe just five of them.

A Silver Fish

This fish is painted using actual silver leaf in the body. It reflects the light beautifully and I'm planning to use it judiciously amongst the fish that will be painted with the silver metallic oil paint in the grand oeuvre in process.

Experimenting with Silver

I'm working on a large painting which will involve many little silver fish so I'm trying to decide which metallic silver I want to use. This little guy was painted with silver oil paint.

Floating in Tropical Waters

There is something about a cold snowy day to make one nostalgic about tropical locales. My feet were cold the entire time I spent painting this, but it gave me a warm feeling!

The sun was shining

The sun finally showed itself today and I guess that became the impetus for this painting which is nearly complete. I worked very fast because I wanted my brush strokes to show movement and I was afraid the sun would hide again.