Life Blows

 

Memories, part 2.

Memories

 

Another foray into sequential drawings.  

Protected Child

 

I remember this sketch.  I remember trying a painting from it but nothing good came of it.  I remember that wish we all have to protect our children from all harm.  And that maddening knowledge that we can't. 

Catching up

Difficulties with Blogger made me post on FB but not here.  Time to catch up with the next few images from my old notebook.

On Friday, I posted this sketch.  Done from a sculpture a few years ago at Mass Moca.  I remember a series of very realistic tigers studded with arrows.  It was quite impressive.   

Monday, I posted this early abstraction.  2 Spirals.  I went through a period of spirals and still enjoy looking at them.  Here is below a drawing I did from that sketch, in oil pastels:

Tuesday was the turn of this page:

It shows an early effort at incorporating comics and children's books.  A potential page for Mothers Can't Get Sick were I do do it again.  

And earlier tonight, I posted this sketch of a beautiful statue in Paris and sketched quickly later on from memory:  

Thanks to Google I was able to find that it is by sculptor Baltasar Lobo:

Absolutely no continuity in these images.  I am posting chronologically and they do happen in that order in the notebook.  

Variation on theme

 

Trying out an interpretation of yesterday's drawing.  

Motherhood again

 

In honor of my dear daughter's birthday, a Mother and child from an early Flemish painting.   The original painting is so beautiful!

Queen and Child

 

Trying out a different color harmony.  Should try that again sometime.  

Family Picture

 

In honor of Father's Day weekend, here comes the Green Family.  

protecting a child

 

Enormous desire to protect.  Overwhelming knowledge that one can't. 

Heavy Load

 

That is how it feels sometimes...

A Hug

 

Being a mother is very hard.  At least for me.  Moments like these are rarer than they used to be.  I cherish the memory.  And when they still occur. 

motherhood # 6

 

Still on motherhood theme.   Mother bear.   Micron pen and photoshop. 

from my other world

 

Still on the motherhood theme.  Variation # 5.  For fun.  

motherhood. variation#4

 

Was going to take a weekend break.  But this one was next in line and Sunday is mother's day...  

variation # 3

Motherhood again.  ink and colored pencils. 

variation on a theme

 

This image is begging to be visited over and over.  

motherhood

A second drawing from a detail of one of Vivian Maier's photographs.  There will be more.  I am intrigued by the possibilities of using the same basic inspiration and go from there.  (pen and ink and colored pencils.)

mother with lots to carry!

 

This is another drawing from a photo by Vivian Maier.  A detail from a picture of a whole family with lots to carry.  

preparing for show 5

mother and child
collage and acrylic on board
12x12

now all the pieces for the show are ready to go: signed, varnished, and all pieces on paper framed. the list went to Jon Gernon at the gallery and he is planning to post all images on the website at some point.
here is the site of the Clement Art Gallery: http://clementart.com/

Mother's day.

flower stand
collage
7.5x3.75