New Painting: Organics Sketch 25
Organics Sketch 25
Watercolor pencils on Stonehenge paper
8″ x 8″
© 2011 Marilyn Fenn
My twenty-fifth sketch in this series! Two layers of web in this one, plus a ribbon with balls. I love the colors!
New Painting: Organics Sketch 24
Organics Sketch 24
Watercolor pencils on Stonehenge paper
7.5″ x 7.5″
© 2011 Marilyn Fenn
This is another painting in which the web may look like many layers, but is all one piece.
New Painting: “I Got My Easter Egg!”
“I Got my Easter Egg!” – Organics Sketch 23
Watercolor crayons on Stonehenge paper
7.5″ x 7.5″
© 2011 Marilyn Fenn
The title for this painting is from one of my favorite stories about my husband. At his first Easter egg hunt, being quite little and new to this tradition, he found his first egg and declared, “I got my Easter egg!” He didn’t realize he was supposed to keep looking to acquire yet more eggs. This story is illustrative of the kind of person he is: never greedy, and always satisfied with just enough. :-)
New Painting: Organics Sketch 22
Organics Sketch 22
Watercolor pencils on Stonehenge paper
7.5″ x 7.5″
© 2011 Marilyn Fenn
The web in this piece may look like many layers, but it’s all one piece.
New Sketch: “A Gathering of Small Redheads”
“A Gathering of Small Redheads”
Watermedia on Stonehenge paper
8″ x 8″
© Marilyn Fenn
Here’s my latest little sketch, though perhaps it is more of the germ of an idea for some future work. This one is not typical of the work I am currently doing, but I love the goofiness!
I will be posting more new work as I get the images prepared for the web, so stay tuned.
I think I will have about 40-50 of these small works on paper for sale, as well as perhaps eight new oil paintings and about a dozen mini paintings this weekend and next at our location for the East Austin Studio Tour: The Vortex, 2307 Manor Road.
The Next Body of Work
Organics Sketch 06
Watercolor Crayons on Canvas Paper
6″ x 6″
© 2010 Marilyn Fenn
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. — E Hubbard
The day after the opening of my solo show last October, I was thrilled to stumble on a somewhat new direction while doing some sketches, a direction that it seems I’ve been searching to find for the past few years. Too bad this didn’t quite materialize in time for my show, but I’m sure the approximately hundred pieces of art I created last year prior to the show helped lead the way.
Transformations: The Struggle to Create
“Twisters”
Encaustic and Wood on Panel
12″ x 12″
© 2010 Marilyn Fenn
Creativity is about play and a kind of willingness to go with your intuition. It’s crucial to an artist. If you know where you are going and what you are going to do, why do it? — Frank Gehry
This is a very comforting quote for me. When I paint, I frequently have only a very vague idea or sometimes — no idea at all — of what I am searching for in the new work. I start somewhere, and often, the finished piece is so far away from where it started, it’s unrecognizable. One of my favorite things about working this way is that I discover things — such as shapes and images — that I just couldn’t invent.
New Tornado Paintings
Tornado with Debris Cloud, version 2
Encaustic on Baltic Birch
10″ x 10″ x 2″
© 2010 Marilyn Fenn
I have completed two new tornado paintings; one was the one I started a few weeks ago while being interviewed for a Weather Channel segment about my tornado paintings. It’s changed a lot since it was filmed in progress (final version above; first version below).
6 New Encaustic Paintings
Confetti
Encaustic on Panel
10″ x 10″
© 2009 Marilyn Fenn
This one is very highly textured, and looks really amazing in person.
As promised, here are 6 of my new encaustic paintings — 5 of these were begun at last weekend’s encaustic workshop at Majestic Ranch. I completed them and created one new painting (so far) after returning home.
Am I Done Yet?
“Traces”
Encaustic and Mixed Media on Paper Mounted on Birch Panel
12″ x 12″
© 2009 Marilyn Fenn
I think I started this painting almost two years ago! I was never quite satisfied with it, though. There was something about the left-hand side of the painting that I just could never resolve. In the process of my attempts to resolve the left-hand side, some of the crispness on the right-hand side got literally blown away, since it is encaustic, and I am using a hot air gun to fuse the layers of wax. The air tends to blow the paint around and blend it together, which I used to my advantage in the nuclear bomb, tornado and poppy paintings, but I had carved the stems into this painting, and carefully filled them in with oil paint. Subsequent workings blew those lines around, the little ball-shapes got smushed or distorted, and I eventually put the piece aside until a couple of days ago.
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