People who love color are drawn to abstracts because they celebrate color without being tied to reality. I discovered the work of Evalyn Boyd recently, and now I’m excited to learn more. Here’s my first.
Acrylic & graphite on 9″ x 12″ canvass, $95. All proceeds to color-blind voter registration.
Lila has come a long way since I snapped a photo of her learning to read, from which I painted this picture. She’s graduating from high school in June, and has decided to go to North Carolina State University in Biomedical Engineering next fall. Hooray for women in science! Then and now ….
Lila was eight when I took the photo on which this painting is based. She was walking in the woods with her brother Soren (our step-grandson). Now Lila is choosing a college. A magnet on our refrigerator says, “Cherish family, the days are long, but the years are short.”
These figures were my final assignment for a class I just took on sketching people. It’s challenging, but art comes alive when you populate your scene. Sketching moving people is too hard, so I snapped photos on my phone and drew from those, first in pencil (making corrections, especially in proportions), then in pen, finally adding just a few colors, mostly magenta and turquoise.
