6 x 6 @ 110

Today I'm dropping off my two small paintings for the 6 x 6 @ 110 exhibition at Gallery Main Street in Downtown Tyler, Texas. The exhibition opens Friday, June 6 with a reception at 6 p.m. This is an opportunity to buy a 6 inch painted (or otherwise arted-up) canvas from a local artist for only $20. All the proceeds benefit the gallery which supports the art community in east Texas. It's a good thing!

Enough Candy for Now

Ha! Who are we kidding? I love candy too much to give it up. Even as I type these words I'm eating my favorite, Jolly Rancher Jelly Beans (pictured above) But I am definitely tired of painting candy, for right now at least. Especially the kind with writing on their wrappers. That wasn't as fun as I thought it would be. (It wasn't fun at all)

These are the last three paintings from last semester. I didn't actually finish them for the class. I just finished today. Edges are painted a clean white. Wires are strung on the back. I'm FINISHED!

All of these candy paintings are quite small. The largest doesn't even measure two feet long. I made the canvases of scrap lumber I found in the studio, thinking it would be fun to have some small pieces going while I made the "real" paintings. Well, I only finished 2 "real" paintings and these four smalls. Believe me, the small ones take just as much time as the big ones.

I never meant for them to hang together permanently, like a group, but I do want to see them grouped together sometime. I'll have to wait until the peppermints come home in August. (If you want to see them go to the Meadows Gallery at UT Tyler - it's free - and see the three works I have there, along with a lot of really great work by my fellow classmates) Until then I guess I better learn to do one of those photo collages.