Another kind of creation...

This street car is not named desire. It has no name. This is a water color that orignated from a photograph that I took when I lived in New Orleans. Ahhh what a town! It is almost Mardi Gras you know... Should I hop on a plane and join friends?...sooo tempting! Then again, that is not what I should be talking about here :-).

This work hangs on the wall of dear friends that I met and grew to care about while living in New Orleans. I just like street cars. They are such an interesting way to travel. Not quite a train, not quite a bus. Lots of rattling and charm.
I took a picture of the street car that passed by my apt. I called # 930 my car. The funny thing is - years later I saw a picture in a restaurant that was car #930 with the same tree in the background. If I could have bought that black and white print I would have.

I would really love feedback on this one. Often it is the only one that people make note of when they visit my gallery. I don't know why? And to add to this intriguing bit of information. Men notice it. Women do not. It is just interesting and I wonder why. ... Any insights or comments - feel free to share!!!

A colorful face this time....

This piece is a demonstration of how much I love working with colors!!! As well as how much I like drawing faces. Perhaps this is why I am trained to see 'faces' in other things.

It must be in my blood or a genetic trait. My sister is an amazing portraiture artist. (See http://nadinerobbinsportraits.com/ OR http://nadinerobbinsportraits.blogspot.com/)

Of course artists have different styles and forms of self expression... but I have to say that I consider myself a wannabe artist :-) compared to her. However, as you can see this doesn't stop me in the slightest from having the urges to draw, being attracted to color and wanting to learn more about different formats.
I feel that formats are often 'different vocabularies' in art. Right now I feel comfortable with pencil and oil pastels. And just like my french.. I am a bit rusty in watercolors. I can't speak a word of Russian or of 'oil painting' .

Will be sharing more of the work with pencils in a next post.

One more face....

This face is a little less obvious and some folks will have to 'stretch' to see it and some will not see it at all.

And actually if I look closely I see two faces. One under the horizontal branch on the right hand side. Almost looks like a smiling ghost or smiling skeleton face. The other is made up of the two snow covered rocks (in the middle - under the horizontal branch). It appears to be more of a creature of some sort - almost alligatorish. The brown bit of rock in the middle not covered by snow is the 'mouth' or part of the snout. The snow on the rocks makes it look like the eyes are only somewhat open - heavy eyelids in a way.

Yes I know.... a very vivid imagination!!!

My next posting will be more of my artwork...