02/01/2021 Power Apple

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

01/31/2021 Provenance Book

 Last night and today I’ve been creating an analog catalog (alliteration!) of my work to date in response to a suggestion that I keep a journal of uncensored notes on each piece as I do them. So of course, like a perfectionist, I felt I had to start from the beginning and get all of them. I’m sure I missed some, but I used the pictures on my phone to try to catch them all, cutting and pasting them into a Moleskine book. I love cutting and pasting! My kindergarten skills are fierce. 

01/30/2021 Nyah

 I put it back up on my social media. I did it like this: 

I also like this one, but didn’t post it.

01/29/2021 Pumpkin seeds

 

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)

1/28/2021 Woman—In Progress

So this painting seems to want to be one of a series. Not much progress today in terms of change to the main image. today’s work is behind the scenes, including time spent creating the other images, messing around in ProCreate, and experimenting with lightning and star sparkles. Here’s a detail:

01/26/21 Untitled—In Progress

 

1/27/2021 Untitled—In Progress

I am working on a number of pieces with the idea of celebrating the mature woman’s body and perhaps imagining a right of passuage where to attain such a body would be desired, celebrated, and admired because those who attain such a likeness, akin to that of the “earth mother” archetype, would be seen as having achieved a level of greatness, like “leveling-up” in a game, because they more approximate Her. What if the proven, survived, mature woman’s body were prized over that of the unproven, inexperienced, nubile female body? So, just showing part here as it’s in progress.