Chameleon Painting is COMPLETE!!!

FINALLY finished this painting today.  I was observing it while riding on my spin bike last week because it is located in my studio and the bottom left corner looked way too busy and unpleasing to the eye so I added some large leaves to that area and I am VERY pleased with the end result!

I plan on doing more chameleons in different compositions and colors.....FIN, FUN!!!!!

After all CHANGE is the ESSENCE of my life!!!!!  Infinite Love & Gratitude!!!

 

 

Mr. Chameleon is comming along

I'm having so much fun playing with paint and lines and stencils with this chameleon!  He is just about done......I want to add more lines and contrast and perhaps color to the bottom of the painting.  I am enjoying the energy!  I plan on painting a series of chameleons in different colors!  Fun, fun!!!!!

Creative juices flowing

Needless to say, all of this painting combined with the energy work I have been doing on myself has me really inspired!  I painted these old canvases red and purple..........

I decided to paint a lotus flower on the purple canvas and a Chameleon on the red canvas............

Here is the completed lotus flower.........



A friend on facebook loved it so much she bought it before i was even finished with the finishing touches!!!!!

Here is what the chameleon progress has been so far..........

He is ALMOST done.......not quite there yet.

Joseph Seascape

I was inspired to create a 2nd painting done in pastel of him a little older.  Here is closer to the age he was when he died.  I thought the sea was appropriate because he was stationed in Hawaii and also because his mom loves the ocean.

Here is a video of my process........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qUVQ89ka5c&feature=youtube_gdata

Joseph Airforce Portrait

My dear friend had her 70th birthday last month and I was inspired to paint her deceased son Joseph as a surprise present for her.  Joseph has been dead for over 20 years and he had lost all of his airforce photos before his passing.

I really enjoyed connecting with him on a spiritual level as I created this work from a grainy newspaper clipping and some old photos......

Here is the newspaper clipping I was working from........

Here is the 2nd reference photo I used........



I combined both images for a rendering that would make a good painting....using Artistic License.

Here is a video of the process...............

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo56uiDHEDE&feature=youtube_gdata

Casey

My first portrait commission for 2012 is of my friend's baby Casey.  Here is the progression so far from latest rendering to the first layer of paint on the canvas........

Re-entry

So, for some reason I went another year without painting again......I really hate when that happens......
I did finally get off my butt and pust some paint on canvas paper....here's what I came up with......

I allowed myself to play with color, brush strokes and shapes......it was a very liberating exercise. 

Here's the 2nd one........

I like the 2nd one better......fun, fun!!!!!!