New Painting: Frack This!
"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 to keep politics out of my paintings, but they seem to creep into my titles.
Or I could have called it something about "pressure." Whatever. See full post »
New Painting: Flamingo Mallets
"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 acrylic on paper -- just sketches -- over the years, but those hardly seem to count). When I take a look at most of the art I have done, a few have red in them, but most do not. See full post »
New Painting: Sugar Max
"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 creating a 4th more geometric style work like the ones that started me off on my latest series of abstracts: "It's Awash," "Paradigms Lost," and "High-Risk Pool." A few rectangles into the painting, and I couldn't restrain myself any longer...I had to make this one more fluid and free. Then, my husband brought home 4 brownies for me from a meeting with our neighborhood organic gardeners, no less. I ate them all over the course of the evening/night, and stayed up into the wee hours to finish this piece! Wheeee! See full post »
New Painting: Kelp Nouveau
"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 it, so I reworked it into this. See full post »
New Painting: Talk About Art!
"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've done before, except for maybe one or two very old crazy abstract works...but not really even like those. See full post »
New Painting: The Valley of O
The 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 can discover what it wants to be. See full post »
“For the Love of Art” Exhibition at Austin Art Space
I will be the guest artist at Austin Art Space during the "For the Love of Art" exhibition, which will be on view for most of the month of February. :) I will be showing ten of my latest abstract paintings—all new work that has been created since late last fall.
I invite you to come out for the opening. I will be there on Feb. 9th, 6-8pm, Austin Art Space. If you'd like to meet me there during gallery hours on another day, just let me know. See full post »
New Painting: Ovation in Pinks
Here is the first painting I have completed this year. It started as something even more abstract back in November, but I couldn't quite resolve it into a work I truly liked back then, so I worked it some more, and now it has become an abstract floral work. I really love how it came out! See full post »
New Art Site Design, New Blog Location and New Online Shop!
In December, I decided to separate my blog and shop from the main art site. I now have one site just for my new art; a second site for my art blog and other related information, and a third site just for the sale of my artwork. Each site links to both of the others at the very bottom of each page, in the little footer links. See full post »
New Painting: Hortical Mambo
"Hortical Mambo" |
Oil on canvas |
16" x 20" |
© 2011 Marilyn Fenn |
Another little breakthrough!
I worked on this until 2am one night last week, then evaluated and made more changes the next day. I ventured way out of my comfort zone in this painting, color-wise and otherwise, but in general I like the direction.
Ostensibly, this is a painting of flowers, but the idea of flowers is really just something to give a bit of shape to the stuff of the painting--the paint, the colors, the shapes, the interactions. See full post »
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