Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Styles and experiments

For those of you attached to my usual work and who might be concerned for the turn my experimentation has taken this past week, have no fear, I'm not relinquishing my signature style anytime soon. I get far too much pleasure from that to give it up in the foreseeable future, and have many ideas lined up to still get around to.

I offer this sneak peek of the current piece as proof that I'm still at it. (It's just the upper third of a larger piece in the works right now). And besides, there's Dreamscapes II I'm hard at work at too.

However, I am finding myself struck by random urges these days to play around with things that have not even occurred to me in years. Digging through the garage I came across markers and watercolor pencils and once-treasured-Prismacolors that I hadn't spared a thought for in a decade. Pulled them out, dusted the boxes off, scattered the spiders (who seemed to have decided that my discards were their treasures), and lugged it all upstairs to my studio.

At any rate, thank you for the encouragement for these little artistic jaunts I've been taking the past few weeks. It has been interesting to hear feedback to this recent work.

9 comments:

  1. I like the compositions - and of course your style (as always)
    Rita Ria

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  2. It's wonderful that you're experimenting and that you're able to flow into something so different! I really enjoy your diverse explorations and hope to see more :)

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  3. It's always fun to experiment. I love to see other artist's wip's.

    How did you settle on your signature style? I still feel that I haven't quite settled on mine and it's really bugging me.

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  4. We grow as we try new things, and even revisit past experiences and styles. I look forward to see where you experimentation takes you.

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  5. Umbrellasky - I don't think you can determine your style. It's more the other way around. You just paint and draw and do the art, and eventually your style emerges. It's dictated by what you enjoy doing, your mode of expression. If you try to make a style consciously you'll end up just trying to copy someone else's.

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  6. sometimes taking a vacation helps you better appreciate your home :)

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  7. Hah, yeah, speaking of which, i need one!

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  8. This is coming along nicely Stephanie. I absolutely love it so far.

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