I have been concerned about reconciling my work to the art world. Currently hyperrealism is in and my personal style doesn’t mesh with that. Having worked so hard to develop my personal style I don’t want to surrender it in an effort to maximize my marketability. I can paint photorealism but I prefer the style…
Breana Image by Jennie (c). today I worked almost entirely on the face. I brought up the colors, freshened the different levels then focussed on refining the shape. some of this was done through tone and some through shade. I wanted to bring some warm light and different values in so I worked from my…
Breana Image by Jennie (c). This is a work in progress portrait of a friend. it has been constricted as a miniature and painted in a period style. This is because this girl as well as myself, are in a historical recreation group called the SCA. I would call this work about half done, it…
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I have moved my feeds from feeddigest to feedburner because it has better features and feed formatting. I will be doing some modifications to the feeds themselves but the addresses will stay the same. they are better addresses too. Autodiscover and the links on my new blogs have been updated. I will also soon update…
Shopping Addiction Image by Jennie (c). This work is in response to the challenge of using non-art materials to create a piece where the materials and final product reflect the meaning. The kit I used were household pins, scissors, branded suit bags and branded shopping bags. The meaning is the importance we attach to labels…
Family Dinner Image by Jennie (c). I finally worked out what to do for my non art materials product. Part of the kit involved family photos and thread. The topic was ‘Domestic Space’ So, I needed to think about what Domestic space means to me. For me its always about the kitchen. the kitchen is…
Map as Ground Image by Jennie (c). I am avoiding doing my next assignment… This is my most recent. the requirement was to create an image of the site (our backyard) using a large fold out map as the ground. I decided to echo the composition in my pen studies and keep the man=made elements…
I have created new RSS feeds through feedigest. They now auto discover and support both atom and rss. the link to the other feed is still available on each page as well. The dates will be a little screwed as all of the posts have just been added to the feeds but they will update…
Images by Jennie (c). These are part of my mapping assignment. I admit that I had an enormous problem with these. at first I thought I needed to do some plein air works. then I read the instructions more closely and realized that I needed to map sections of my site but to focus on…
Jennie's Palette 