Painting Journal: Arizona

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Friday, April 18, 2008

"A Veil of Spring Flowers"

April 20th I made the final resolution for both concept and painting. I have made changes all over to drape the wild flowers like a veil over the rocks.

" A Gown of Spring Flowers" is acrylic on canvas 16" x 20" , for sale $350

"A Gown of Spring Flowers" is a painting that kept defying resolution. I think I would have it and there was a voice asking why did you do this. It doesn't have the whimsy of the two other 16" x 20" painted on our trip to Arizona. I took it to the Albany Group to share yesterday. Shirley Hilts thought it just needed a little transition. Well I worked this morning to give the rocks more dimensionality and I tried to make the flowers flow over the landscape like a silk veil. The eroded Colorado river bank had a face and then it came to me. Mother Earth cracked and pebble pocked was dressed in a royal veil. This fantasy was what I was doing all along and hadn't admitted it. Now it has a whimsical concept like the other two paintings - "Jagged Mountain Combing a Head of Cloud Hair" and "Reed Dragon - The Protector" To see all three paintings look at my blog gallery http://widlerwenzelarizona.blogspot.com/

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Invitation to my blog of Arizona Paintings 2008

My new blog is a gallery of paintings that I did on our March trip to Arizona. I wanted to view them all together in the order I painted them to see how they flowed.

Your are welcome to browse just for the fun of it. Although it isn't my primary goal to make something for sale, if you want to buy, I am willing to part with them. The act of making them is about 90% of my involvement. Prices are listed at the first listed near the end of the posts. http://widlerwenzelarizona.blogspot.com/
"Rain" has linked to my new blog and has written about her many years of living with my paintings in her blog http://rainydaythought.blogspot.com/