Signing On

This blogging is new to me. I thought that it would be nice to share my artwork, references and insights with the world at large and with some friends who have been wondering what I have been up to. Currently, as you can see from the photos, my world is very black and white. I had an idea that I started at 8"x8" and it is now 6'x6'. I just couldn't let it go. It began last year during the winter, when I was looking out my back window. This deer was staring right back at me. I just had to take pictures, which I do quite often, almost daily. The more I looked at the photos, the more the deer intrigued me and I wanted to portray her in the way that I think she sees herself, "Maybe if I stand very, very still, these humans won't notice me.....blend.....blend...."

What you see in the photos is 87.5 hours of design and painting (acrylic on canvas) over many months. I have done other projects in the interim, mainly because eyes can only take so much of the harsh black and white and also I have needed to create artwork for the various shows that I am in over the holidays. My plan is to complete this by the end of the year, which means that I better get painting. I figure that I have approximately 65-70 more hours to go. I also figured that if I started a blog possibly others may be expecting it from me as well....at least a couple of my close friends will possibly be following.

Anyway, check in every once and a while. Hopefully, you will be pleasantly surprised by my progress. I also have one more design complete for the next 3'x3' canvas and am working on a 4'x4' design. In the next canvas, I am not going to tell you what it is that I am painting. You will have to guess as things progress! That should be fun. I am planning on a whole series of these and am looking forward to my show in, say, 2012!