Model in Strong Light

Another figure study, and its warm light has me looking forward to my trip to the Bahamas tomorrow (especially since it will be twenty below zero here in Vermont tonight!) I be posting what I'm painting every day in Hope Town, so keep tuned...

Model on a Victorian Sofa

A piece of furniture that can definitely hold it's own against a figure.

Sunday Sketchbook: Figure

I'm always ready to move off the figure, and into a composition that includes a wall, chair, floor, or foreground.

Blond Model with Ponytail

This study from a night figure session has a much wider palette, and very different mood,  from yesterday's painting.

Journal: Self Portrait by Bathroom Window

A day of changing weather both outside and inside the studio (where I have learned it is best to ignore storms, droughts and freezes, and just keep painting).

Figure by a Window

An exercise with my "Color for Painters" workshop, focusing on how far we can stretch a pair of complementary hues (in my painting, violet and yellow.)

Sunday Sketchbook: Figure

A rocking chair and model strike a pose together.

Purple Pillow

A Danae pose, but with a shower of spot light rather than shower of gold from Zeus.

Striped Scarf

Odalisques never seem to go out of fashion...

Model with Pink Scarf

Another pose from the same life session as yesterday's post, reading again but sans black socks.

Model with Black Socks, Reading

I'm going to an evening life group again, and find that working from a model is both the best discipline and the best fun--how many times can we say that about an experience?

Red Dress, Batey Libertad

Another patient poser, this time in my son Colin's baseball hat.

Sold as a donation to the Batey's clean water project.

Sunday Sketchbook: Memory

A recent flurry of scrabble activity here has me thinking about my Mom (gone now thirteen months from today) who loved the game--and was very willing to sit still while I drew her concentrating on a move.

Two Children in Sunlight

A study in three colors ends a week of thinking with my class about the mechanics of painting.

Morning Market, Provence

A Sargentesque approach to my memory of the Saturday morning market in Apt.

Nate Sleeping

I'm in Washington, D.C. now, teaching, visiting family, and revisiting the past--including this painting of my son from a far away quiet afternoon.

Model on a Striped Rug

Whenever I paint the figure, I always think, "Why don't I do this more often?" Trying to hold together all these notes and chords of color and line is nerve-wracking and exhilarating--and as close as I'll ever get to my fantasy of being the girl singer in a rock band.

Sunday Sketchbook: Figure

"The mirror is not you...the mirror is you looking at yourself." What I take from George Balanchine's words is that we are more than what others see in us--and more than what we see of ourselves reflected back from others.

Sunday Sketchbook: Figure

A person I can't remember at a meeting I've forgotten. Memo to self: this coming year, always carry my sketchbook.

Woman in a Garden

Now that I'm home again in my studio, here's one last painting (an experiment in the style of the "Douanier Rousseau") brought back from the past before I dig in for a new series of work and a long winter.