If Wishes Were Horses, Beggars Would Ride

As requested, here is a better view of the sculpture from the last post.  My sculpture instructor and Mentor Madeline Wiener would be ashamed at the condition of this piece but she was and still is a fabulous teacher and mentor.  She now conducts the Marble Marble workshops in Marble Colorado where students come from all over the country to work on a piece of pure white marble from the quary that most of the monuments in Washington come from.  What a great experience to carve stone in the woods in the mountains of Colorado!  There are other sculptors that join her in instruction and of course they are all stellar as well.  I actually had the pleasure of learning directly from her in her garage in Aurora Colorado. What a great teacher and such lovely person.

Personal Critic

Well, lest I get too comfortable or confident there is always
a critic to sit atop my artwork and offer his personal opinion.
LOL!  This is an old piece in alabaster that sits in my front yard. It's getting pretty sugary now. I can't believe all the hours I spent wet sanding a perfectly smooth shine on this at one time.
This is titled "If wishes were horses..."   I don't know the name of the critic.

Go BIG or go home?

I'm thinking this still needs work.  What are your thoughts?  This is 36"X48" gallery wrapped canvas.
I went with a little more structure instead of the atmospheric color fields without boundries I've been leaning toward.








This is the step before

Actually, I think it looks better in this position.

back to work!

Progression of the abstract I started a couple of weeks ago.

Thought for the new year!

 "Life is not the way it's supposed to be.. It's the way it is.  
The way we cope with it, is what makes the difference.

No matter how badly last year treated you, just walk tall with your head high! LOL! Gotta love this guys Attitude! I've been moving back to TX from CO so am a little distracted from painting. Be back to blogging soon!   Love and Cheer, Tonya

Apple of my eye

this is from a Saturday model session

It's all good!

Well, I may not be finished but the panic is over!  I am back to loving the elements of this painting and there is a lot more depth and interest now.  The blue reads like a light on my monitor whereas in person it reads more as a dark.

Colorado Monument reworked. Dumb things artists do!

With all that I have on my drawing board and easel, what do I do? I go back and probably mess up a perfectly good painting that was just fine left alone.  I kept thinking everything was making my eye run off the page so I "fixed it".  LOL!  I may have to go back and unfix some of it tomorrow.

Back to work on what's in the works!

This is what's on my drawing table and easel.

The top is a water media beginning drawing on "Yes" watercolor canvas (love these canvases!) 24"X39"



Next is a watercolor and gouache on my favorite bristol plate paper.  21"X 11".



Last an abstract beginning in acrylic and mixed media on Bristol Plate paper.  22"X 28".