2/5/2021 All The Brushes (ProCreate)

 

2/5/2021 Flower Power (and Myrtle) ProCreate Brush(s)

 

2/5/21 Old Beach ProCreate Brush

 

2/5/2021 Spectra ProCreate Brush

 

02/01/2021 Power Apple

 Playing with ProCreate’s default ‘vintage’ brushes...

01/28/21 Woman (series)

This series uses a full-figured white middle-aged woman as a paper doll to explore the reception of the appeal of such a woman in late 20th century American culture and the Goddess archetype. 

I grew up entrenched in “thin/young is beautiful” socialization and am now curious about the disconnect between who I was, what body type and age I learned were “acceptable,” and my own current body.

I’d put these images up on my social media, but this morning I took them down as they weren’t getting much of a response and I am not confident enough to keep them up there.  I guess they were too personal and despite my pleasure in them, apathetic response was a little too painful. Yes yes, all my art needs to be just for me. I know. There’s a dopamine hit from people’s “likes.” And I’m an affirmation junkie. But this site is for me (and you, dear viewers, though I know there are precious few of you), and so we shall gently hold them here.

They are:

Woman Marketed (the one with the mannequin)

Woman Ignored (yoga pants!)

Woman Unveiled (unadorned)

Woman Revealed (the unseen)

Temple of Venus

 

01/07/2021 Grandma’s Porch Bear

Darn. Looks like a stray pink swish got saved. Will fix and replace. SMH. 

Completed,  along with some laundry, a basket of apples, deer, and the infamous bear my grandmother chased from that back porch with a broom!

Tree movement, glowers, shadows, clothesline, deer...

 

12/28/2020 Scrooge’s Bedchamber

 

12/28/2020 The Hanged Man

 

11/22/2020 Mom’s Red Apple

 

11/14/2020 Gingko + apple

Original artwork is a 3x4” acrylic painting I did today of some gingko leaves. I love gingkos and their clear yellow color in fall. They’re the sole surviving species of an ancient group of tries that were around before and during the time of the dinosaurs. So when you see a gingko, you are sharing the experience had at some time by a dinosaur. How cool is that?

11/11/2020 But Row Toward Shore

 

11/09/2020 Mind The Glass...apple

What’s with the watermark? I’ll tell you:

I’d created the image in the this apple on the night US 2020 presidential election was called by the media and Kamala Harris became Vice President-Elect. I posted it on Facebook to FanFARE Themed Art page and shared that to my personal page and to a Group I follow of fans of Glennon Doyle’s latest book (Untamed). The post received hundreds of likes and had some 40+ comments, several advising to watermark and offer prints...which I spent today doing using the clunky but free platform of my Ko-fi site’s Shop. I pretty much spent today being a little freaked out and wrestling with this stuff. Eeek!

11/08/2020 Old Apple on IKEA Lap Desk

 

11/05/2020 Chop

 

09-07-2020 square brush

 Oops—this was supposed to be posted Wednesday instead of a 2-fer Tuesday, which means you saw this yesterday  Sorry about that. I’ve got no buffer now so I don’t have something else to post instead. Whatever I do today is what you’ll see tomorrow. I need to do several a day for a while to build my buffer back up so I can have free days when necessary. 

08-17-2020 Pazazz

 

8-11-2020 Capsule