Poetry Book Cover!

I am delighted to have one of my paintings grace the cover of a collection of poems by Su Love (formerly Su Smallen). The book, called Weight of Light, is due fresh to the stores by Green Writers Press next month!

According to Green writers Press: Su Smallen is the author of six collections of poetry. Her first collection, Weight of Light, was nominated for the Pushcart Press Editor’s Book Award, and Buddha, Proof was a Minnesota Book Award Finalist. Su was awarded the Jane Kenyon Poetry Prize, several fellowships and grants including from the Jerome Foundation, and residencies including with the St. Croix Watershed Research Station. With Laurel Poetry Collective, she published books and broadsides for ten years. Su was a professional choreographer and dancer, and her poetry has served as scores for dance and film, including Miracle of the Spring.

Sue will be reading from her newest Green Writers Press poetry collection entitled Kinds of Snow on April 15th at Green Writers Press. More info can be found on her website: www.susmallen.com

The painting was a large one I did when going through the thickest part of a divorce. A woman almost obscured by a swirl of maps stands in a dark, book shelf lined, space with a dripping red object in her hands. If you want to know more, I can tell you.

Meanwhile please go out and buy the book! Thanks- Tilly

This teacher loves her apples

Part of the hurdle of my art class is the inevitable "paint me an apple" assignment. This is closely followed by a random paint-color-matching test, and then, only then, can the student propose their own subject for a painting.

It's that time of the semester now!!

Hunting Game

latest version of work in process

Detail of Peahen

Detail of Peacock

I am full of a flurry of inspiration with a need to capture the daily parade of peacocks that I have lived with for the last 8 years at school. Soon I will be moving away and I want to take a little something of this visual miracle with me. But it is harder to paint a peacock than I thought. Every attempt looks too illustrative and gawdy. This is my 4th revision.

how I start

 In the beginning I throw everything out on the paper...

 Then I go outside and watch them

I feel like a hunter!

Pendant portraits finished, for Class Act series

Jay L. Chaplain and writer

I finished a portrait of another colleague as part of my #classact series highlighting the environments of exceptional teachers that I have worked with. Jay no longer works at the school but he contacted me with an interest for the commission when he saw his wife Julie's painting that I did last fall. It was fun working the two images to relate to each other across the distance of two frames. Incidentally it seems this style of portraiture, (painting a couple in a pair of pendant frames),was invented by great grandad Lucas Cranach the elder back in the 1500's!

#followinghisfootsteps

#famillytree

#portraiture #arthistory

Pendant Portraits