Two Eyes, Two Ears, and a Mouth (Portraits)

This Fine Art Friday collection celebrates contemporary portraits.  What I enjoy is the diversity of genre, size, and medium.  Each one of these artists had an idea regarding a portrait/face and made it their own creative statement.


Updates and News:
I found an art team on Etsy that celebrates small format art.  An SFA is no larger than 14" square but carries a visual punch.  You can see some examples in the above collection


A couple of new followers, thanks so much for the support, here are their links to see their latest work:


Jennizart
Dixsterlingdesigns

Original Ocean Painting

I wanted to capture the quite solitude of the ocean in the evening with this 5" X 7" small format painting. I love color especially the vibrant color of the ocean on a sunny day but this was my effort to bring the colors and values to reflect a night time sea.

Capturing Clouds

 

"Big Day" San Clemente, California Landscape

 

The focus of this painting is clouds and their movement against the sky....  The painting is representational but I enjoy the fun abstract shapes that fill the heavens...

 

The last few paintings have been in a small format 8" X 10."  I think I'll go a little larger with the next work....



Light In The California Landscape

California Landscape (Capitstrano Beach Area)

I was attracted to this scene because of the light.  I enjoy trees (they all have different personalities) but it was the shadows and light that I wanted to describe.   Also as the trees branches are moving upward there is this light and color that brush the tips…  It’s curious how one scene will grab you over another…

I was also working with the upbeat under painting and I wanted that hint of color to be part of the process…  It always a pleasure for me when light, dark, color, and composition come together.    



Original Acrylic Still Life by JC Strong

"Brent Gave Her Roses"

I hope everyone had a good weekend. Initially, the painting began with a lighter middle valued background but it just didn't seem to do the roses justice.

The roses were a fun and fabulous gift and they had lots of oomph. So I tried making the background luminous with darker values and color. It seemed to bring out the roses and give them more spirit and punched up the golden tones in the roses.

I'd been reading a book about the artist Robert Motherwell
an American abstract painter. His images have big blocks of color, texture and they are huge. I think his strong color sense kind of slipped into this painting.