Love, Lucy

I'f fallen in love with still life.

Peggi Kroll-Roberts is one of my all time favorite artists. I've been fortunate enough to take a weekend course by her......and I am signed up for another in April. She has an AMAZING eye for color, shapes and most importantly values.  The term "value" means the relative lightness or darkness of colors. Values range by the amount of grey in a color. She teaches that as long as you have your values right, your colors can be off. Her painting style is so unique and inspiring to me. I always attempt to duplicate on canvas what my eyes see.......and then I get frustrated because I cannot do so and then I fail to complete thepainting. After a couple classes with Peggi I started seeing things much different than before. Instead of the overall picture, I saw shapes and how they correlate to one another, as well as light and darkness and how they play off eachother. 

I am counting the days until her next workshop, at the Knowlton Art Gallery in April. 

This was one of the paintings I completed in her workshop. I gave it to my friend Natalie as a gift for her kitchen wall. 

I will add a clearer pictures later as well as other paintings i've done under her instruction :)

We live in a house of color.

This is a photo of a wall in our dining room. The olive green hutch was given to me by a dear friend of a dear friend. It has alot of meaning behind it and I fell in love with it the moment I laid eyes on it. I will never repaint it and it will "go" wherever I lay my head. 

The color of this wall started out white, then to crimson red, then it was a burnt orange, then old gold, and finally to this dark Gray. I feel that this color offsets all artwork quite nicely.  I will soon change it to a dark dark ink blue, almost black. The walls in my house have been repainted so many times that the walls are closing in on me. My father teases me that my house is slowly getting smaller.

So be it.

Color makes me very happy.

Hello, blog......its me Lucy.

My hiatus is over. While I was off getting married, then back home to get settled for the holidays........my blog was very much neglected.  My few dedicated readers have been on me to do an update.......so here I am. I'm back.  Although life happens and free time is hard to come by, I find time to create. If I didn't I would go crazy.

The painting below was done on an oval birch plaque, backed in the most beautiful red felt. I've named her Delilah. I am going to start naming all the women in my artwork names I wished I had for my very own. Although I love the name Lucy, it was given to me years ago. 

Everyone, meet Delilah. Delilah is a gypsy.

 

I have always been fascinated with Gypsy's. Their free-bird ways have always seemed so very glamorous to me.  I often wish I were a Gypsy of days gone by and my good friend Lorena agrees.