Acrylics Alert! - Addendum

Just had to share this!

After posting this painting, I went to visit some of my favorite blogs to see what's been going on there while I was out of the blogosphere.

And - lo and behold, I was astonished to find the soul mate of my cheery guy, in a wonderfully powerful painting done by Bonnie Luria of the St. Croix-nicity blog.

You have to see it to believe it.

I am still speechless.

Through the Fire

OK, OK, so I've been absent from the blogosphere for a while. A couple of weeks, perhpas; no - actually a whole month!

Whoa - has it really been that long?

To those of you who wonder (to the extent of emailing me or leaving concerned comments, pondering whether I have escaped to Aruba or broke my painting arm): No Caribbean escape for me, nor a broken arm. Just been going through some down time, artistically and motivationally and younameit-lly, y'know, the tortured spirit of the artist and all that. Not fun, but - it's sometimes essential to go through the fire in order to regenerate. Just call me Phoenix.

Needless to say, I haven't been painting much during that time, except for a couple of attempts that turned out, hmm... shall we say not overly presentable to my distinguished blog readers.

Even the results from our figure drawing class show my lack of inspiration.

Don't believe me?

OK then - here's my attempt at painting The JohnnyB's niece. She's this real cool teenager who's very deep into her Goth era. No, she does not have purple skin nor a flat face. Told you I'm lame these days!!

But - last week I snuck into my studio and started a major spree of tidying up and organizing and shuffling things around, which is always a good way to enhance the creative appetite and cleanse the soul.

I'll be back - hopefully sooner than later. And yeah, much better.