Art Everyday Art

Better Late Posts Than Never Posts?

2010-07-06T21:40:00.009-05:00

Been a while. I've been drawing a little something almost everyday since December 28, 2009 and will try to post something almost everyday now that more than half of 2010 is gone.

December 28 and 29, 2009

The 30th and New Year's Eve at Sam Bass Community Theatre. So much fun!

So blessed to have had you in my life, M.M. 1957-2001.

2010-01-04T01:15:00.012-06:00

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In the Secret Language of the Mysterious Drowning Horses,

I love you and always will, M.M.

ps: Rilly.

Eating like a Maniac

2009-12-16T12:14:00.004-06:00

Another daily artwork from nearly three years ago. But it is a good mirror of what I am feeling these days. This is titled "Dear Dymo".

Tree Lizards in Love

2009-12-16T11:26:00.004-06:00

Here is the couple I saw hanging around on our patio or on a wood pile quite often. Another favorite place of theirs was the trunk of an Ash tree. They also liked the top of the patio table under and around the potted tomato and pepper plants I was growing there this past summer.

Waiting for Spring to reappear

2009-12-15T13:54:00.004-06:00

I'm already tired of this dreary weather. I know we will have a brief wonderful Spring season followed by punishing Summer heat. I do love the Spring, watching the lizards come out to sun themselves. Have a couple of these little guys that I frequently see hanging around together. I think they are a couple and not both guys after all. Last Summer I saw a few tiny little copies of this lizard bravely making his or her way across the patio to the shade of the crepe myrtle.

"A Reptilian Haiku"

2009-09-21T18:56:00.008-05:00

Mixed media on cotton stained with tea and rust. August, 2009. It's on view now until September 29th at Women and Their Work Gallery in Austin.

Mothers got the Back to School Blues

2009-09-02T01:18:00.003-05:00

And my kids aren't even in school anymore.

Scrap Book Fever!

2009-09-02T01:03:00.004-05:00

Have you been to a craft store lately? Wow! Scrap-booking is every mother's passion.

This drawing/collage is from early 2007.

"Designing for Gwyneth Paltrow" or "He Longs for Skin"

2009-09-02T00:36:00.014-05:00

Part of my original everyday art drawings from early 2007. I draw something everyday, just haven't posted in quite a while.

Shirley and the Inkspots

2009-08-19T14:39:00.010-05:00

Sleepy sketches, usually at night. Looking at Shirley or the TV while drawing. Not looking at the paper surface while I draw, so figures float around the page, overlap, have different angles and different energies than I first envisioned. So far I am pleasantly surprised by all of these light-weight drawings.

"Sasso,Carta,Forbici (Rock,Paper,Scissors)"

2009-08-04T13:00:00.010-05:00

Mixed media on found wood with found objects from Texas, New York City, and Italy.

approximately 30" w x 11" h x 2" d

“Sasso, Carta, Forbici (Rock, Paper, Scissors)”

addresses the Scientific Law of Conservation, that matter can neither

be created nor destroyed, and also gives a nod to the spiritual idea of

reincarnation and rebirth through that same principle. The classic game

where one opponent can always best the next is repeated in nature and in

human history: the roots of trees from which paper is derived can crack the

mightiest mountains. Human hands forge swords of metal and rock mined from those

mountains, and swords have shredded declarations of political or

religious liberty throughout the ages. Like the tiny seeds from which the trees

sprout, the seeds of political, philosophical and religious ideals carry on and

so do we. I prefer using found objects in my work to bring together the ideas

they suggest to me, a sort of visual poem. Like a poem, it will mean

something different to each viewer and I offer it thus for your own

interpretation.

where are they now my two loves

2009-08-02T00:11:00.008-05:00

I miss my children.

"Dad as a Skate-Boarding Bird"

2009-07-31T16:15:00.005-05:00

I love my children's art. I treasure it and hold onto it much too long. I gave Emily a big journal and had her scribble in it before she could even talk. This drawing (water-color marker on old computer paper) is still pinned to my studio wall. Emily drew a picture of her Dad as a skate-boarding bird. And he's hot! Or maybe skate-boarding was hot. Or, more likely, it was hot outside and they were on the floor drawing instead of playing on the swing set outdoors with the cat and rabbit and dog running around. We owned no video games so they were destined to grow up with a cruel mom who made them draw and read and sculpt things out of foil and twigs.

"mine becomes yours"

2009-07-29T16:43:00.001-05:00

This was a restaurant scribble by Will from long ago, maybe on a cup or a napkin. Still, I find it especially poignant today. It seems to be about falling in love, about sharing, about giving and taking. I learned today of the death of a dear friend's cat, and I am reminded of all my loved ones who have passed. Energy is neither created nor destroyed, so ours becomes the Earth's, and the Earth's becomes ours.

"Iceland Girls"

2009-07-28T11:51:00.005-05:00

This is from March, 2007 from a series of drawings I did while falling asleep. I think that's why I wrote "I'll be dow there first thing in the morning".

I still try to draw while I'm falling asleep sometimes, this drawing is my favorite so far.

"Yellow Dog"

2009-07-27T18:47:00.004-05:00

This came from my original set of art everyday drawings in 2007: make a drawing, no matter how small or quickly it was drawn, and post it just to feel I had accomplished making some art that day. My objective was also to incorporate found materials everyday, to be inspired to look at things differently. Indeed, every drawing is stamped with a found object... an Italian office stamp that doesn't even go past the year 2000, so I had to write in the last digit "7" on these drawings.

Prized Possessions

2009-07-05T10:28:00.006-05:00

Two of my favorite paintings are these paint-by-number copies of "Pinkie" (Thomas Lawrence,1700's and "Blue Boy" by Gainsborough from around 1770). They hang side by side in the Huntington museum in California. They are among the first paintings I was introduced to in art class back in 1960's elementary school. Yes, they even taught us art history then in public school, though it was mostly with small color print reproductions of famous paintings. So these are especially beautiful, kitschy, sentimental to me. Oil on pressed board, 18" x 22" framed size. I bought these paint by number paintings at a flea market with my Dad circa 1975. Best part, they only cost 50 cents each. What a deal!

A belated graduation gift for Will from Aunt Susie. A wooden box to fill with his favorite things.

2009-07-03T12:29:00.004-05:00