Waiting - Carousel Girl Painting

 Waiting

Carousel Girls

Acrylic on Canvas

11"x14"

 
Finished!  Scanned and edited and color corrected and DONE!  Now to start the fun that is making prints.  I want this one to be close to full size, but I can't do that with my set up.  For now I will have to settle with 8x10 and 5x7.

Newest Painting

Waiting

Acrylic on 11x14 canvas

 I'm finishing up this piece (Waiting) and I have about a million other ideas because of it.  I love it when inspiration works like that.

  I want my very own carousel, and her sweater.

This is the sketch for her face, I usually end up preferring the sketch to the painting.  Everything I'm painting lately is pretty nostalgic; me thinking about when I was young. I really liked the old quarter-a-ride carousels that were outside of stores.  What the heck happened to them? They were always so brightly colored and the horses were either horribly ugly or little mini works of art. I loved horses and carousels when I was young.  I had the prettiest porcelain carousel horse, hand-painted.   I really want to get another and paint it, or make my own out of paper mache and paper clay, hrm, never enough hours in the day. 

Inspired by Anahata Katkin / Papaya!

Halo of Roses

Digital Painting/Collage

This is a photoshopped painting/collage of my paintings, except the labyrinth image, that came from Dover. I've had this girl half painted laying around and never knew how to finish her or what else I could do with her, so I scanned the painting and this is what I came up with. I borrowed a lot from Tattoo Nouveau- hair roses mandala background. The composition is inspired by the gorgeous work of Anahata Katkin.

Anahata is one of my artist/designer crushes. When I grow up I'd like to have a freakin' awesome inspiring art bizz like Papaya! I'm always wowed by everything the Papaya team does, especially anything paper. I'm a wrapping paper & stationary & office supplies nut-especially when its pretty-pretty.




detail view: layers texture layers color layers!

enchanted cottage

Photography by Steven Randazzo

Robin Brown's enchanted cottage, wow.
lovelovelove
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