A Little Help From My Friends

So I may have mentioned I was also in a group art show in town... So here you guys are...

"A Little Help from my Friends"

My Junior year in college ('07) I experimented with painting on linen and incorporating embroidery and multiple layers of canvas... My most successful piece was this one, "Rebbecca Rolfe Learns to Sew"

Anyway with all the turmoil of my life I've decided to got back to that experiment. I have a great fondness for sewing and embroidery and am excited to start this again.

This piece I painted the girl on the main canvas and the hand and birds on a separate canvas, then cut those out and embroidered them onto the main. I made the mistake though of using Cotton Duck Canvas instead of Linen... and may I say that was near impossible... I wasn't able to do all the embroidery that I wanted.

The idea of this piece goes along with what has been happening with me lately. That sometimes you have to start sewing yourself back together, making yourself presentable and feeling good, and while you do that you have to allow your friends to help give you the tools in order to pull yourself together.

Hummingbird Thoughts

Here is another new painting that is going to be in my show called "The Preserve" with Anna Cangialosi on Friday at Starkweather Arts Center.

It's entitled "Hummingbird Thoughts"






12x16"
Oil on Canvas

Well Well

So here's my newer paintings. The photos are a little grainy I'm going to try to retake them today.
This is a companion to my Snake Scarf piece, it is a Giraffe Jacket, which speaks about how people use animals to their advantage. Not necessarily speaking about using animal fur as clothing but as a different type of fashion statement. People cloak themselves in an appearance of "caring" for the environment when many times they are just trying to be in the scene that is cool at the moment. People just go with what people tell them, without getting informed. It's good at the time but once a different fad comes along people won't care any more, they'll take their cloak off and wear something else.

This was in the blank show, it's about the loss of animals, and I used a ghosted red gazelle to communicate the idea.

New Painting

Still working on this, I really like how it's coming out. She's zipping up her giraffe hoodie. It goes with the snake scarf painting in terms of the discussion of how humans use animals for their own benefit, using them in ways the animals are not purposed for, and for only human gain or need. I sould be able to post the finish tomorrow.

Somewhat New Paintings

Here are some better pictures of two of paintings I did last semester, I need to retake the Snake Scarf one because the camera was crooked and cut off the corners.\\

Mini Ostrich
Snake Scarf