Not a FISH!!!

11 X 14 acrylic on bristol. I’m not sure if I’m finished. At least it doesn’t have scales. I like to keep it this dark.  I like that effect. I was thinking of matting it on a thick frame I have.  Any opinions as to the mat color?  Dark or light?

Sorry Dr. Dan, didn’t mean to take your clinic hostage. Don’t take the feeding tube out just yet. It’s still a work in progress.  Any ideas? Suggestions, tranquilizers? It was raining and I got busy.

I think I;m done with these guys. If you zoom in by clicking on the image and then click again you get Zoom. I worked some ink patterns into the coral. Just enough to make it interesting but not enough to take away from the fish.  So Bloo, Rex, Betty, and Larry can live together forever or until the frames are separated. But I won’t do that to them. Besides Betty isn’t too popular. She needs the company.

It’s like I took the website hostage. Sorry Dr. Dan.  Still a work in progress.

Also 11 x 14 on bristol board, ink with acrylic background.

3 of 4 Also 11 X 14 ink with acrylic background. 

Did some adjustments. I thought the name was cute. Compensates for the face. You can’t have everything.

This one is the second of a set of four. Looked like a Larry to me.  Also 11 X 14 ink on acrylic background.

A work in progress. Not finished yet.

11 X 14 ink with acrylic background.

By now I must be known as the fish lady. No I don’t live near the ocean, but I am a Pisces. Lets just call it a phase. I think it needs something in the background, I could be wrong.

I tweaked the fish! hope it looks better. Still, it’s a work in progress.

Still a work in progress.

Actually a guy putting the roof on a chicken house. I liked the shapes and thought it might make a strong painting like my subway map. Would you suggest bright colors or bizarre choices within the areas formed by the shadows? Should the shadow lines be different colors or all one color? And one very different color for the monster himself? Opinions will be appreciated – thanks!

Been working on restocking the studio with storage pots.
SO.. the most common question.. “what do you put in them?”
Answers I’ve gotten from clients:
“$50 bills as gifts for my nieces”
“A diamond Tanzanite Ring for my wife”
“Spice mix”
“My earrings”
“Change”

Personally, I keep Kosher salt in one, black pepper in one, sugar by the coffee pot in another, and incense cones in a 4th in the living room
So there really isn’t a specific use for them, which is kind of their best quality.
More storage pots and other handmade pottery can be seen at Dragonfly Arts Pottery

Yes, I’m sorry, another ocean painting. I made this for someone special. He lost it… Probably rolled up in a shoe box in a closet. Maybe if it’s seen  here It  can  be appreciate  by someone other than a closet spider. I value every opinion!  My daughter had a photocopy. My favorite thing is the bubbles. If I could think of a painting I could do and use a lot of bubbles I’ll do it. My intention was for the octopus to look scarier than the lady. He’s kind of cute though. She looks like a lady at the DMV.

Watercolor and gouache painting entered in three shows and ignored by judges. Any thoughts?