This pencil drawing from 2019 is one of the whole (un)becoming series. Lately I have been going back to using the very basic materials to draw and paint. Here its reduced to only graphite on rag paper.
15×11 inch in size and it is for sale
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for you, dad (kathy)
Dedicated to my father who passed. It seems appropriate to use graduated colors that are soft and light at the top so that there is a feeling of lifting off/elevating. The child is sitting on a 9 layer rice cake that peels off in layers. Saving the best for last.
Material: Acrylic and Oil on canvas
Size: 36″ x 48″
completed in 2018
love makes everything grow (kathy)
I used nostalgic colors from the 70’s to express a time when Kamaboko slippers were the rage. The spiral pattern on this fish cake is the movement of growing plants. The tiny shoe belonged to a Chinese woman with bound feet. It is a reminder and control and binding does not promote growth.
Material: Acrylic and Oil on canvas
Size: 36″ x 18″
completed in 2017
in love with pencils (anika)
lately I have been going back to using the very basic materials to draw and paint. Here are some drawings I have done in the last year. All are done with colored pencils, graphite, oil pastel on handmade paper.
15×11 inch in size
kid with jello (kathy)
This small painting from 2017 shows one of the kids in a white shirt with rainbow jello. It is already sold.
Material: Acrylic and Oil on canvas
The Container of Essence (kathy)
I was drawn to painting food with red centers because they look like little mandalas.The centers are visualized as the essence and the circumference as grasping, so mandala means grasping the essence. The red dots that are repeated on the forehead and background strengthen the feel of centeredness.
Material: Oil on canvas
Size: 36″ x 18″
completed in 2015