High School Art

This painting could go along with Coldplay's song now!  I had wanted a experiment around with color and space more.  Again I found a photo in a magazine, thinking I could make this happen.  I loved the monkey.  I enjoyed the texture of the piece.  Later, I incorporated the star design in another painting that turned out well too.

I find all birds beautiful and fascinating.  I could watch them all day long.  When my daughter was a small child, we used to have lunch by a local lake watching the ducks and the birds.  She loved the green ducks.  She wanted this painting for many years, I finally gave it to her.

A copy of another painting, but one I thought was my style.  I loved the colors and the flowers.  I could not resist trying to copy it.

I saw this photo of this bird and my first thought was it was such a little smart-ass!  A turn of the tail to anyone who tried to discourage him and make him feel bad.  I just felt compelled to paint it.  I did not include the background of the photo because I felt the bird should be the center of all attention.

I am not very creative with titles, I apologize.  Sometimes it is what it is.  It is a Heron.  Chattahoochee's Technical College's school mascot, or used to be in the nineties.  A very graceful bird, my mother had several bronze and brass herons around the house to spark an interest in painting one.

It looks dark, but that was not my intention.  I was playing around with blues, I thought they held a certain slumbering feel.  I gave the hair a reddish glow simply for contrast and to give her a living feel.  Some think she's in an eternal slumber that we all must face one day.  It is my only morbid piece.

My very first painting.  The ocean draws all of us to it.  The water, the sands, rocks and the sun provide happy memories for everyone.  I found this photo in my mother's purse and wanted to give her something special.

A final project in high school drawing class.  My idea of was life on the Moon that we didn't know about, this was the eighties.  Life that we know nothing about mimicking our life on Earth.

This is the street behind the art college that I attended for a short time.  this is my first attempt at any collage.  I was kinda iffy about the project, but sis my best effort.  I did not want details, just a mass impression of the subject.

A collaboration with my ex, Hugh Crider