Fresh Paint: Brass Bear

After many years of advertising and children's book illustration (samples of which now can be found only on Amazon), I began this blog in 2007 to showcase small "weekly" paintings sold on eBay. Because illustration work and family responsibilities prevented me from painting regularly, it shortly evolved--or degenerated--to document my progress from illustrator to painter, realist to "more impressionistic realist." Although illustration or painting consistently has been my focus, being a mom has been has been my overriding priority for the past 21 years. As my tenure in that capacity ends (though with periodic lapses!), I continue to develop my new identity as a painter.

"Talent is cheap; dedication . . . will cost you your life"
--Irving Stone

"Jump first, fear later"
--Mike Yaconelli

"... paintings are things in the physical world, made out of colored mud smeared on a piece of cloth or a piece of board, with a stick with hairs on the end. They have a particular address to your body, and none of this comes across in the computer image."
--Robert Hughes, art critic

Saturday, December 3, 2011

Brass Bear

Brass Bear, 10 x 10" oil on canvas panel
Kind of a China theme: panda, Chinese lanterns and mandarin. Some paintings look a little better than they photograph. This is one of them.

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lampros lampinos said...: brass lovely, love the orange; December 4, 2011 10:14 AM
Connie McLennan said...: Thanks. Yes, the orange--you have a good eye.; December 4, 2011 10:47 AM

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