Cello Love

7.5" x 5.5"

mounted on painted panel 10x8

Ballad of the Horns

Ballad of the Horns

20"x16"

I like to go to small musical events where I can get right up front and sketch and photograph the musicians. I will often compile sketches and or photos to create compositions for paintings.

I recently purchased a Wacom tablet that has a screen right on the tablet for more ease in creating new compositions. Today and yesterdays posts are composites of various sketches and photos I have taken. I enjoy creating musical theme paintings it is like dancing to the music all over again.

Strings in Love

20"x16"

acrylic on Canvas

Available on my website

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Dance of Transformation

This is a painting that I just added color to this week.

I decided to post it and yesterdays because my new paintings are not quite done!

See it in black and white on my website temporarily for comparison.

Shared Secrets

Through a Cat's Eye

Through a Cat's Eye

7.5"x 5.5"

Acrylic on Paper

SOLD

Jammin 1

Jammin

7.5"x5.5"

acrylic on paper

$150

Mind Odyssey

Mind Odyssey
10"x 8"
acrylic on Panel

This one will be available on my website after it is framed

Calling in Spring

Calling in Spring
10"x8"
acrylic on panel

Rising to the Surface

Rising to the Surface

12"x12"x 1.5"

This is done on gallery wrap canvas and will be available on my website

Okay so why so many hand paintings you may ask? Well I have been studying Hand Analysis for almost 15 years now. You can read about it at my marydelave.com website. Hands do have stories to tell and as I started to paint a variety of hands I loosened up on literal translations of the symbolism as I have learned it in the hands. I am having fun making up stories in my mind that the viewer may translate in a variety of different ways. It makes it more fun for me.  I do like to hear the stories that others tell about my paintings.

Symbolic Discourse

Symbolic Discourse

7"x5"

Acrylic on Panel

$150

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Enchanted Adventures

"Enchanted Adventures"

10"x8"

acrylic on panel

This will be posted on my website. 

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Untold Stories

This Painting will be available on my website soon

Flight of a Dream

Flight of a Dream

7" x 5"

acrylic on panel

$115

Lyrical Undertow

Lyrical Undertow
7" x 5"
Acrylic on Panel
$115

Night Music

Night Music

14"x 11"

acrylic on Panel

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Dream Time

Dream Time

7.5" x 5.5"

acrylic w/texture on paper

3 hands

3 Hands

acrylic w/texture on paper

7.5" x 5.5"

More explorations in texure

Winged Whispers

This is a continuation of the bird series painting from yesterday. If you put this painting on the right side of "In Flight"  you can see that they are done from the same "under painting" I originally layered paint on a larger piece of paper and then cut it into smaller pieces.

In Flight

This is acrylic on paper with no raised texture. I first work with multiple layers of color in a very loose manner without knowing what image will emerge. I let each layer dry and put a clear coat between them so as to produce color intensity and depth.

8.5"x5.5"

Toast to Mystery

Toast to Mystery

7" x 5"

acrylic w/texture on Panel

$150

Taking Flight

Taking Flight 

7.5" x 5.5"

$150

$5 shipping USA

acrylic w/textured on paper

This one was started at the same day Tree Spirit was (see 2.26.08), but I just finished it.

Blue Jay

"Intrepid Horizons"

20"x16"

Acrylic on Canvas

Here is the Blue Jay that is part of my Shared Vision Series mentioned yesterday. My boyfriend titled it such because Jays are so inquisitive and brave in their opinions of just what they think of you. The human eyes looking through seem to see beyond the horizon. 

OWL

Seeing Through the Dark

20"x 16"

acrylic on canvas

I have a two day show today and tomorrow so I will be posting the larger paintings that I finished this week because I will not have a chance to paint. This painting is part of my Shared Vision beyond the human animal series. I am focusing on birds right now because they are so wonderful to paint. You can see on my website I Now have in the fliers category: Hummingbird, Crow, Snowy Egret, Cardinal, Bee, Dragonfly, Owl and tomorrow Blue jay.  Most of these fliers appear frequently in my everyday life here in Stinson Beach California.  All except the Cardinal and the red color drew me in. We have a wonderful lagoon right next to the ocean that attracts a myriad of wild life. The Audubon Society of Marin is located right next to it. I wonder if I will someday make paint my way through all of the critters around here.

All Night Long 2

Here is the large painting that I painted from the 3rd painting I posted on this blog on 2.19.08 called "All Night Long" You can see this larger painting on my website. It is 24"x1 8" on canvas.

Red Wine Wishes

Red Wine Wishes

10"x8"

acrylic on Panel

Bee's descent

Bee's Descent

7"x5"

Acrylic on gessoboard

$125

I am not quite sure what to say about this one.  Definitely a doodle painting. I am still experimenting with just how much intricate texture I can put into a painting before it is too much texture. This image brings to mind the creative process of entering a honey comb of possibilities.

Hand

Balancing Act

7"x5"

acrylic on gessoboard

$125

This reminds me of woven fabric. It is the results of more experimentations in texture and pattern

Cats in the Bushes

"Cats in the Bushes"

7"x5"

Textured Acrylic on Panel

$125

This was an exploration textures in a new plaster mixture.

I started out with nothing in mind and put texture and doodles on the panel and this is what emerged. After the plaster dried I experimented with a different way of applying color to this technique. 

Musical Progression

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Musical Progression

10"x8"

This painting was started last week not as a daily painting, but I just finished it yesterday and had it at an art show today. I am posting it as my daily painting as I did not have a chance to paint today, I did do some drawings of a band at a party after the show. I would like to play more with using the keyboard as a path or walkway as in this painting.