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Packaging a Painting for Shipping
May 15, 2012Shipping a stretched canvas painting cross-country can be a little bit daunting. How do you pack it to insure that your painting arrives completely intact without any damage? That was a questi...
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Another Recent Work: “Sun Rose”
May 9, 2012"Sun Rose" Oil on canvas 36" x 36" © 2012 Marilyn Fenn This is the second of two paintings made from sketches based on the sculptural works of Lee Bontecou. For this one, I decided I neede...
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New Painting: Energy Renewal
April 2, 2012"Energy Renewal" Oil on canvas 24" x 24" © 2012 Marilyn Fenn I started this painting last week, based on the sketch below. The sketch itself is based on a sculpture in tan canvas and black...
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New Painting: Woman Chained
March 22, 2012"Woman Chained" Oil on canvas 24" x 24" © 2012 Marilyn Fenn "Woman Chained" - a gift from the muse... I'm not used to having a complete idea for a painting when I start to work. And c...
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New Painting: Mo Teef
March 12, 2012"Mo Teef" Oil on canvas 12" x 12" © 2012 Marilyn Fenn There's a barbeque joint in downtown Austin called House Park Bar-B-Q whose motto is "Needs no teef to eat my beef." This title is...
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New Painting: Frack This!
February 22, 2012"Frack This!" Oil on canvas 12" x 12" © 2012 Marilyn Fenn I didn't paint this to be about fracking, but I had just read an article about it, and the title seemed to fit this piece. I try t...
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New Painting: Flamingo Mallets
February 14, 2012"Flamingo Mallets" Oil on canvas 12" x 12" © 2012 Marilyn Fenn This is, for all practical purposes, my first red painting (I have one other in progress, and I did two small ones in acr...
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New Painting: Sugar Max
February 13, 2012"Sugar Max" Oil on canvas 12" x 12" © 2012 Marilyn Fenn I wanted to do one more new painting before hanging the show at Austin Art Space. I started this one with the intention of cre...
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New Painting: Kelp Nouveau
February 6, 2012"Kelp Nouveau" Oil on canvas 12" x 12" © 2012 Marilyn Fenn Here's another piece I started last fall and thought I was finished with, but recently I decided I wasn't really happy with i...
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New Painting: Talk About Art!
February 4, 2012"Talk About Art!" Oil on canvas 12" x 12" © 2012 Marilyn Fenn And now for something completely different... I haven't lost my mind, really. But, this is not quite like anything I'...
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New Painting: The Valley of O
February 2, 2012The Valley of O Oil on canvas 12" x 12" © 2012 Marilyn Fenn It's kind of amazing to me what can happen in the studio of an abstract painter. If you let the painting talk to you, you ...
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Another Recent Work: “Sun Rose”
New Painting: Energy Renewal
New Painting: Woman Chained
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