Solo show Oct 7, paintings #3 & #4

King of Hearts, 16x20"  They're called Cavalier King Charles Spaniels for  reason. Relativity series







Gene Pool Roulette, 18x24"  The DNA that buoys one person up, may drag another under. Beware the ancestral undertow. Relativity series

Origins and Derivations, a solo show of paintings by Virginia Parker

Artist reception next Friday, Oct. 7, 6-8pm

OCAF Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation

34 School Road, Watkinsville, Ga, 30677

706-789-4565

ocaf.com

Hot Off The Griddle

Worked on Sanctuary, mostly the two large scale painting on either side of the center. Subtle suggestions of features for the faces, glory hallelujah blue on the virgin's robe, shadows under the feet. It's very nearly done, and what a pleasure it's been.


Took a final photo of Gene Pool Roulette. Time to start uploading new works to the website, but I still don't have a title for the portrait series, so for now I'm going to create a new portfolio group called 'Hot Off The Griddle.' Or maybe 'New Works.'



I have three on the drawing board - literally -  one for the portrait series (me and Emily looking at a tree that fell on our house), one that's a companion to Sanctuary and one that's Robert in Gripland.

puddles vs portraits

Worked on faces and hair, but mostly the water's surface.  Love painting water. Next time I do H2O, I'm leaving the pesky people out.

water abstracts

Worked mostly on the bodies under the water - like painting little abstracts.  Feeling good about it but longing to get far enough along to do the shimmer on the surface of the water.

progress on two portraits

I ended up painting another layer of water yesterday morning. Next time out I will begin the scumbling, and the time after that glazes. At the very end I will make those delicious fractal patterns of light on the surface. Meanwhile, I'll also plug along on the faces.

Yesterday afternoon I worked on the skeleton suit, skull mask, jeans and sneakers of Death and the Lion.

I'll be painting details of the ground cover alongside the sidewalk today, and add to the texture of the sidewalk itself.

Gene Pool Roulette, or Undertow

This speaks to me about the maternal - the womb where it all  the begins. Robin, who's wearing goggles and underwater, suggested the title Hereditary Undertow. Hmm.
Did one version of the face on the upper left and then scraped it of
 Really struggled with Emily's face in the upper left. I had to wipe off the first attempt completely. Put in a shape that seemed so wrong. Once it was dry I re-drew the chalk grid in that one place and that showed me it was about fifth too big and wrongly positioned. Placed the eyes nose and mouth with chalk and painted for about three hours.
This is the second version and I feel like it's going to work. I can get there from here. I am reminding myself that I paint like I write - rough start, then lots of editing and fiddling until layers of detail make it worth seeing.


I am saving all the water detail for desert.