WHAT’S NEW?
In January, doing my customary 30 Faces/30 Days challenge with Sktchy, I found myself tearing up and reassembling portraits and ended up over the first three months of the year (before and after a successful knee replacement!) creating a dozen pieces. They include collage, ink pen, markers, watercolor, pastel pencils, acrylic paint, and water soluble pastel crayons - everything but the kitchen sink! - mostly mounted on small stretched canvases.
It’s been quite a year, with a lot of drawing and 22 mixed media and oil paintings added to the catalogue. I have completed the Local Artist Portrait series with the 13th canvas and they will be displayed at the Ukiah Public Library in May-June. Today I embarked on yet another 30 Faces/30 Days drawing challenge.
I just dropped off these three canvases at Ukiah’s Medium Gallery for their Storytelling show which will be up during January and February. All are available for sale and I am volunteering to donate 70 % of the price to the non profit owner of the gallery, Deep Valley Arts Collective.
Velocity Lakeville Hway #2
The ongoing Local Artists portrait series continues apace, with several more completed and a few more in the pipeline (reference photos received or pending). The exhibit at the Ukiah Public Library is set for May and June 2023.
Meanwhile, during the course of a public multi-artist marathon to raise funds for local arts organizations (I drew for 24 hours….) I had a lot of reference photos prepared to work from, and two in particular from the Museum by Sktchy app of fractured figures were a lot of fun to work from in ink pens and markers. I think I will look into creating my own images to work from this way.
Nature and Nurture: Artist Danza Davis and her twin Aria
Shattered 1
Shattered 2