Close up Portrait,
Martha was painted during my filing for divorce. The figure is in an angry wound-up pose, with arrow in hand, ready to release if pushed any further. It was a loose sketch painted in traditional oils. The face was changed to a mask because I was having to contain my anger at the time to thwart danger in the situation—hence the arrow behind the back but the mask of accommodation. The name is a play on Martha Graham (dancer) and Martha and the Vandellas (the singing group). The blue swirls on top of the red dress also are an attempt to pacify my anger with purer thoughts and activities. Original is a 36” x 48” oil on canvas. This is a cropped portion of a large painting.
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Woman in front of tropical sea with her hands outstretched
This is a painting I did of the famous Heather awhile ago… / since then i’ve revamped it and all that jazz :) so its very different than how it begun :) / I hope you like it Heather! / You are so inspirational to many of us here, and i wanted to do somethin for you, and bein that i’m not good at much other than art lol…i did this.. / I do hope it makes you smile! :) / Take Care Chicky! / xoxox thankyou for taking the time to view my art and (hopefully) comment… / please have a look at my other artwork… / hope you enjoy! :) /
I like to think of the ??? on the right side as someone riding off, or running off. It leaves a lot of story to be told.
Yeah i know a bestseller for sure LOL!!! Self portrait
Cannon Beach, Oregon / Feb. 2006. © Larry Stewart 2007 / No unauthorized use allowed
Not about me being bitter .. sometimes paintings, or etc., are not about the author (of the story) , but, about someone else. Or, if they are still about their creator, it is about their capacity for empathy This is bitterness, tinged with sadness; or, vice versa. The point where a person (this time a woman) realizes that they’ve swallowed so much crap from so many people, that crap is what they’ve become. This is the point beyond vindication, beyond who else is at fault, when one must learn to forgive or perish. Self realization, when one’s self is not in a pretty mental or moral state, when one has grown socially malignant, is never an easy task; but, it is so worth it. Especially in the cases of divorce with children. You may have been wronged, you may be be lied about, and it’s okay to need someone to listen to you about that. It’s not okay for it to be your children. They are not weapons of warfare; they are creations of acts of love. ahem For the argumentative: they are meant to be acts of love. If it was not love that created them, that’s hardly their fault, now is it? So, back to the point: If you give into bitterness, you destroy yourself. Maybe you destroy your marriage that way to begin with; maybe you destroy your children, relationship with your friends, etc. along the way. What you do not do is cause any significant harm to the person you are bitter over, by spilling vileness out from between your iips or acting in a nasty manner. Even if you are telling the truth, acting upon real injuries inflicted, it’s not good for you, for your kids, or for anyone else. If you are lying, well, that just makes it worse. Think about it, please.
Okay, this will be the last one I post of the two of us from this particular session. I think….:)
Self
Near Hell Stones and Hardy’s Monument, Portesham, Dorset
This is one of the first portraits I did, for an assignment, when I was taking the NYIP course. Yep, it’s my beautiful mom! :) I just added the texture now.
Self and texture
I had used this background of mine, taken in Kauai, with another image just a couple of weeks ago, but I decided I didn’t like that compilation, so I took it down… So let’s see how this one goes…:)
Texture from CG Textures
I got the awesome textures from stock.xchng.
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