Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightening to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.
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Back to Basics: Color, Part One
April 17, 2013Have you ever found yourself making paintings in which the color is just not right? I’m not too used to that — my teachers were calling me a colorist as soon as I started using color over ...
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Embarrassingly Twee
April 4, 2013“Embarrassingly Twee” Watercolor on Portofino paper 6″ x 6″ © 2013 Marilyn Fenn
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“It’s Spring!”
April 3, 2013“It’s Spring!” Watercolor on Portofino paper 6″ x 6″ © 2013 Marilyn Fenn I usually consider that spring has arrived when our neighbor’s gorgeous saucer magnolia tree blo...
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60th Painting of the Year
April 2, 2013“Not-So-Daily Painting 2013-60” Watercolor on Portofino paper 6″ x 6″ © 2013 Marilyn Fenn OK, so most of them are small or very small little watercolors on paper. I am trying to do...
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New Watercolor: “Another Link in the Chain”
April 1, 2013“Another Link in the Chain” Watercolor on heavy raffine paper 6″ x 5.75″ © 2013 Marilyn Fenn And another mini-watercolor painting.
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New Watercolor: “Easter Zoetrope”
March 31, 2013“Easter Zoetrope” Watercolor on Portofino paper 6″ x 6″ © 2013 Marilyn Fenn A little confection for Easter.
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Start of a New Series: “Fragments”
March 30, 2013“Fragments 001″ Oil on canvas 5″ x 7″ © 2013 Marilyn Fenn This year (so far), I am experimenting with lots of ways of finding images and lots of ways of painting them. This is...
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New Watercolor: “Splat!”
March 29, 2013“Splat!” Watercolor and gouache on Sennelier cold-press watercolor paper 12″ x 12″ © 2013 Marilyn Fenn I thought I’d try out the Sennelier watercolor block I discover...
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They Can’t All Be Perfect
March 28, 2013“Wheeeee!” Watercolor and gouache on heavy Raffine paper 5.25″ x 5.5″ © 2013 Marilyn Fenn From earlier this month — I almost had to throw this one away, but I think I mo...
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New Mini-Painting: “We’ve Got Company!”
March 8, 2013“We’ve Got Company!” Watercolor on 100 lb. Raffine paper 6″ x 5.75″ © 2013 Marilyn Fenn
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“Another New Mini-Watercolor: “Orbit”
March 7, 2013“Orbit” Watercolor on 100 lb. Raffine paper 6″ x 5.75″ © 2013 Marilyn Fenn For this painting, I picked a set of colors that were more subdued than my usual bright fare; I̵...
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Recovering a Watercolor Painting – “Dunk”
March 6, 2013“Dunk” Washed watercolor on 100 lb. Raffine paper 6″ x 5.75″ © 2013 Marilyn Fenn The problem with working in watercolor is if you get the colors wrong, there’s not a lot...
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New Painting: “You Are Here”
March 5, 2013“You Are Here” Watercolor on 100 lb. Raffine paper 5.75″ x 6″ © 2013 Marilyn Fenn
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Ear Worms – We Will Not Let You Go (Let Me Go)
March 4, 2013“Ear Worms – We Will Not Let You Go (Let Me Go)” Watercolor pencils on 100 lb. Raffine paper 6″ x 5.75″ © 2013 Marilyn Fenn After the crazy looseness and unpredictabilit...
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Fraccidental Painting Series
March 3, 2013“Fraccidental Painting 010″ Watercolor and ink on watercolor paper 7″ x 5″ © 2013 Marilyn Fenn A few weeks ago, I started 3 new series of very small works on paper. The first ...
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One More New Painting: Yabbadabbadabacus!
February 3, 2013“Yabbadabbadabacus!” Watercolor on heavy Raffine sketch paper 6″ x 5.75″ © 2013 Marilyn Fenn I started 3 more small sketches for watercolor paintings in the last day or two, erased one of them, ignor...
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Another New Work on Paper: Octopus’s Garden
February 1, 2013“Octopus’s Garden” Watercolor on heavy Raffine sketch paper 6″ x 5.75″ © 2013 Marilyn Fenn Here’s another new one this week continuing in the sort of hippie theme. :) I feel like I’m on ...
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New Work on Paper: Woolgathering
January 28, 2013“Woolgathering” Watercolor media on heavy Raffine sketch paper 5.75″ x 6″ © 2013 Marilyn Fenn I had a lot of fun with this one. Stayed up all night working on it, and then worked o...
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New Work on Paper: The Caterpillar’s Lair
January 27, 2013“The Caterpillar’s Lair” Watercolor media on heavy Raffine sketch paper 6″ x 5.75″ © 2013 Marilyn Fenn Here is another small work on paper. A bit fanciful, plus I was i...
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New Work on Paper: Hippie Nouveau
January 26, 2013“Hippie Nouveau” Watercolor pencils on heavy Raffine sketch paper 6″ x 6″ © 2013 Marilyn Fenn So far this year, I’ve been working on some small studies for larger works....
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Progress Photos from the Painting “The Cosmos Made Conscious”
January 17, 2013“The Cosmos Made Conscious” Oil on canvas 24″ x 30″ © 2012 Marilyn Fenn This painting started as an attempt to capture the beauty of a passion flower, and ended up as something completely different....
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Progress Photos from the Painting “Food Forest”
January 9, 2013“Food Forest” Acrylic on canvas 24″ x 30″ © 2012 Marilyn Fenn Several people have told me how much they like seeing progress photos of paintings. Soooooo, I thought I’d...
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New Painting: Not-So-Daily Painting 2012-008
November 22, 2012“Not-So-Daily Painting 2012-008″ Ink and watercolor pencils on heavy Raffine sketch paper 6″ x 5.75″ © 2012 Marilyn Fenn Happy Thanksgiving! I wish all my friends a wonderful day with lov...
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New Painting: Not-So-Daily Painting 2012-007
November 21, 2012“Not-So-Daily Painting 2012-007″ Ink and watercolor pencils on Portofino hot press watercolor paper 6″ x 6″ © 2012 Marilyn Fenn Here is another in the series Not-So-Daily Paintings/Drawings (inspire...
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New Painting: Not-So-Daily Painting 2012-006
November 20, 2012“Not-So-Daily Painting 2012-006″ Ink and watercolor pencils on heavy Raffine sketch paper 6″ x 5.75″ © 2012 Marilyn Fenn Here is the second of my latest works for the series Not-So-Daily P...
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New Painting: Not-So-Daily Painting 2012-005
November 19, 2012“Not-So-Daily Painting 2012-005″ Ink and watercolor pencils on heavy Raffine sketch paper 6″ x 5.75″ © 2012 Marilyn Fenn Last week, I resumed working on my Not-So-Daily Paintings/Drawings ...
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East Austin Studio Tour 2012 – Day One
November 11, 2012Today my friend Jill and I spent about 5 hours visiting all the painting studios (and more) at Pump Project, Pump Project Satellite, and the Bolm Road complex (which includes Big Medium, Pigoata Stud...
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How to Destroy (and Recover) a Painting in 10 (or so) Not-So-Easy Steps
November 6, 2012“Mollycoddling the Collywobbles” Oil on canvas 18″ x 18″ © 2012 Marilyn Fenn This painting started out very differently than it ended up. In a month full of daily interruptions (far more then the us...
Read more10 New Encaustic Paintings in About a Week
I've been working on a complicated 20-panel oil painting for most of the year, which is getting close to completion (for an October show in Ft. Worth). On Friday, July 18th, I had the need to loosen up, so turned back to encaustics, which are just naturally a looser kind of medium. Here are the rest of the 10 new pieces, in top to bottom reverse order of completion:
Paintings in the Netroots Nation/Texas Kaos Show
"What Have We Become?" |
9 Digital Prints with Encaustic on Masonite with Chain Links |
~34" x 37" |
© 2008 Marilyn Fenn --
Here are pictures of most of my pieces from the Netroots Nation/Texas Kaos show.
Art Opening of Netroots Nation/Texas Kaos After Party & Art Exhibit
What a great show! My large piece "What Have We Become?" was prominently featured on the main wall and was big hit with the Netroots Nation folks. One guy even gave me a huge hug when he found I was the artist of that piece. I had my 5 paintings of nuclear bombs in this show, along with the piece mentioned above and a image transfer/encaustic piece of "Chernobyl."
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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