Colorific Experiences

Happiness is…
Claire de Lune and the smell of these :)

Lots of little ones / 

in day-glo red-violet tones /

brightening my path :)

The eyes have it…

Eyes can make or break a figurative painting. Eyes can be rendered in detail and hold enough power in the painting so the other features can stay less developed. Of course, painting an eye to make it look round can be a challenge…then there’s the highlight, and the fact that eyes play a large part in getting a likeness…

Lovely and fragrant
Painting them is another
thing altogether!

Deep blue skies, green trees
As I zip and zag around
Curvy mountain roads

:)

The Wipeout…

Struggling with something, having painted and re-painted the same area a few times, and there it is… Time. Time for what? Time to wipe it out and start over!! Being able to do that, being ‘okay’ with removing several inches of near-perfectly color-matched paint signals growth for me. I am not afraid to wipe it off and start over; even if I got some part right, I know I can do it again. I am not afraid of ‘wasting paint’ because I know it’s not a waste if I learn from it. I am not afraid of how much work (and time) it might take to get everything right. Speed-painter I am not, and it’s okay…

(As of this post, the majority of this subject has been wiped out at least twice…)

Because the COLOR
literally stopped me in
my tracks- Must Paint Them!

So…whose favorite color is violet? :)

Red & green for spring :)

Looks like spring :)

Camille Billops (1933 - ): #BHM #Art

- Billops’ career has consisted of printmaking, sculpture, book illustration and filmmaking. She obtained her B.A. degree from California State University as well as her M.F.A. degree from City College of New York in 1975.

Her primary medium is sculpture, and her works are in the permanent collections of the Jersey City Museum in Jersey City, New Jersey, and the Museum of Drawers, Bern, Switzerland. Billops has exhibited in one-woman and group exhibitions worldwide including: Gallerie Akhenaton, Cairo, Egypt; Hamburg, Germany; Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Gimpel and Weitzenhoffer Gallery and El Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia, Cali, Columbia. She was a long time friend and colleague of master printmaker Robert Blackburn, whom she assisted in establishing the first printmaking workshop in Asilah, Morocco in 1978.

In 1975, with her husband, Black theatre historian, James Hatch, Billops founded the Hatch-Billops Collection. This impressive African American archive is a collection of oral histories, books, slides, photographs and other historical references, and major research resource on the cultural life of more than 1,200 African-American writers, performers and visual artists. They have also co-published Artist and Influence, an annual, in 1981;as an extensive journal of the African Americans in the visual, performing and literary arts community.

Click on the photo to learn more about the Hatch-Billops Collection.