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).
Interview with the Weather Channel
“Most storm chasers use a camera.”
– a guest at one of my studio tours
I have some exciting news! I was interviewed last week by the Weather Channel. They plan to air a little feature on my paintings of tornadoes sometime in April at the start of tornado season. The local cameraman who works for TWC came to my house/studio, set up lights and interviewed me about my paintings and why I paint tornadoes, and also shot footage of me starting a new tornado painting to demonstrate my process.
My Art Featured on the ArtBizBlog
“Tornado – Ames, IA – March 30, 2006″
Encaustic on Masonite
8″ x 10″
© 2007 Marilyn Fenn
I’m please to announce that Alyson Stanfield, art marketing consultant, workshop leader, and author of “I’d Rather Be in the Studio!” has selected one of my tornado paintings for her Deep Thought Thursday blog. See my art, read her post and add your comment at ArtBizBlog.
Visualizing Success
“Tornado – Erie, KS – November 27, 2005″
Encaustic on Masonite
8″ x 10″
© 2007 Marilyn Fenn
I have thought of creating a painting based on this one, but much larger than it’s 8″x10″ size, and more abstracted. It could look something like this.
East Austin Studio Tour 2007
The tour this year was great. Even with a little rain on Saturday, over 110 people did make it to my little home studio for the tour. I believe most of the people who came had specifically picked out my work to come see. Considering there were about 210 artists and over 100 studios on the tour this year — and that my studio in not located in the thick of East Austin — I’m very happy that many people managed to make it here.
Marilyn Fenn Newsletter – 7/24/2007
In this issue:
- Austin Visual Arts Association 30th Anniversary Show – Closes July 30th
- More New Artwork
- ArtBlog for Latest News
First Atomic Bomb Tested on This Day in 1945
“Atomic Bomb Buster Jangle Charlie”
encaustic on masonite
10″ x 8″
© 2007 Marilyn Fenn
I suppose that sounds more like a political statement than one on art, but as I’m working on a large series of paintings of nuclear bombs, it really is a statement about my art.
I envision painting about 100 paintings of nuclear bombs, which would be just a drop in the bucket compared to how many nuclear bombs exist on our planet today.
OK, so it’s a little political, too, but that’s not what I’m here to talk about.
New Work: Mega Tornado!
“Tornado – Stoughton, WI – August 18, 2006”
Encaustic on Masonite
8″ x 10″
© 2007 Marilyn Fenn
I actually started this one prior to the one in the previous post (below). This was the first of the tornado paintings painted into a rough and very absorbent watercolor paper mounted on Masonite.
New Work: Tornado Over a Lake
“Tornado – Big Pine Key, FL – April 14, 2005”
Encaustic on Masonite
8″ x 10″
© 2007 Marilyn Fenn
You can see I’ve gotten comfortable with the encaustic process again, as this little painting (which I love), has gotten more away from abstraction than the three previous ones (below).
This one was painted into rough watercolor paper mounted on masonite. This paper really soaks up a lot of the wax paint, so many more layers were required to achieve the effect I was looking for.
New Work: A White Tornado
“Tornado – Erie, KS – November 27, 2005”
Encaustic on Masonite
8″ x 10″
© 2007 Marilyn Fenn
Here’s another — a really huge tornado. I love how the diagonal lines worked out in this piece. It is again, one of those paintings that’s truly paint first and an image second.
I imagine painting this again in oil, about four times as large, and really abstracting it away from the ‘image’ of a tornado — just abstract shapes of color and texture.
I hope you get a chance to see this painting up close and personal — it is full of beautiful little passages of paint. Come to my studio for the East Austin Studio Tour this coming November or call me to make arrangements to see this in person. Check my website for contact info:
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