New Work: Pink Rainbow Carousel

Pink Rainbow Carousel
Color study
Acrylics and photoshop

I painted the girl on her horse with golden fluid acrylics then I scanned and edited the background and added the frame in photoshop. I love playing with layers and colors trying to keep the same luminosity digitally that I create with paint. This is a fun study for a finished painting, I really like the framed piece, it would be even more awesome with a gold leaf frame on a wood plaque.

Work I'm totally into right now - with a preview!

Immersed in all things girly, colorful, and fun, but I avoided the magenta while painting this piece. She's still in progress, to be finished this week and: I love it! I love it! I want to paint 1,000,000 more girls like this.
I added the frame ( from Dover) for the preview but I really like it - now I'm thinking about adding one in the final piece.

Hmmmm!

Think think think.
Do I add a frame and a stripey rainbow background?

A Lolita Valentine

Love Birds
Acrylic on paper
9"x12"

I do these cutsey little girl paintings when I am testing out a technique. They are sweet and smaller than the pieces that I have been working on, and so quick to do... comparatively. Whenever I get stuck or too into a painting to 'mess it up' I step back and paint something pretty and frivolous and silly and fun. Usually I'm nailing an idea or a technique or I'm experimenting with color and its safe, and I don't feel like I am going to ruin a larger piece I've been working on for months. Which is a silly notion anyway.
I also like them because I can share them. At 9x12" these pieces on paper fit almost perfectly on my scanner, where as the 18x24 pieces need to be photographed and I can't share them.
This one just turned into what it is now. It started out as a girl, then there were birds, then there was pink and hearts and lace and now its completely different. Its super pink lolita valentine. I like it.