The majority of artists do not paint for their audience. They paint what inspires them at the moment, with the hope that someone will enjoy viewing the art as much as they enjoyed creating it.
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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.
New Painting: Hortical Mambo
"Hortical Mambo" |
Oil on canvas |
16" x 20" |
© 2011 Marilyn Fenn --
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.
New Painting: Frogs and Snails and Wiggledy Tails
"Frogs and Snails and Wiggledy Tails" |
Oil on canvas |
18" x 18" |
© 2011 Marilyn Fenn --
I got enchanted with the idea of using flowers as a way into shape creation for continuing my abstract paintings, but I was seduced by the representation of the irises and alstroemeria. The vase in this painting is part representation, part abstraction.
New Painting: Clobbered by Picasso
"Clobbered by Picasso" |
Oil on canvas |
12" x 12" |
© 2011 Marilyn Fenn --
After copying a Picasso last week, I started seeing so many things differently! Palette, shapes, composition...my copy of his painting in among my own paintings made my work pale in comparison. :(
OK, well, no surprise there.
New Painting: Beast of Burden
"Beast of Burden" |
Oil on canvas |
6" x 6" |
© 2011 Marilyn Fenn --
This is kind of a goofy little painting that I was really just noodling around on. It reminds me of the little donkeys I saw in Morocco being led across the desert or in the medinas, stacked practically to the sky with all sorts of household goods, water, cans, people, rugs, etc. Mighty little fellows.
I am an abstract and representational painter. I paint primarily in oil, but I also work in a variety of other media. This is my blog; my art site is at Marilyn Fenn Studio, and you can purchase my art at Marilyn Fenn Shop.
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