Producing Lots of Art

I am here, producing lots of works.  Some have been photographed, and await editing.  There will be more soon.  Please come back and see what is new.

Playing in the Studio

Well, the fun paintings are getting done also.  This is a rather large piece, and one of a pair.  Hopefully, it's not like anything seen before.  Then again, there is nothing new under the sun.  It has been fun drawing and painting this piece.  This is day two.  It is keeping me busy, among many other things.

The rest show a variety of fun pieces I have enjoyed making.  Most are from this year.



A Few Here, A Few There

Maybe if a few pieces of art were photographed at a time, I would be able to post with more regularity.  If you want to see the many media I work in, do a Google search for me.  I am learning how to link, and there are 14 blogs to keep up with, on top of other media.  It is a lot of work.  I love it though.

This afternoon I finally attacked another blank canvas.  It is inspired by the location a friend sees regularly, somewhere in Alaska.  Fran, if you read this, will you tell us where?  It's off to an okay start, but it has a way to go. 

These three images are of the stopping point tonight.  My back is killing me, and I can only push it so far.  Besides, it's dinner time.

When One Thing Leads To Another

(Legal stuff:  All images are copywritten by the artist, Robbin Neff, and free for the viewing only.  To order prints at very affordable prices, please contact the artist at robbin.colors@yahoo.com for a quote on the size and substrate of your choice.  All shipping handling will be added, as size, weight, destination and insurances are variable.)



Sometimes one thing just leads to another.  I was trying to download some images of what I have been playing with creating over the past week.  While editing, the results became so fun in itself, I spent more time in Photoshop than creating more.  It was fun, but I want to make time for painting today too.  And laundry.  And floors.  And....

Anyway, here is how far I have gotten.  Let me know what you like.  I would love to hear your comments.

Some images have multiple variations following the original. 

Some are the variation. 

Some are the original.




Blue Moon Original

I love the texture of the moon.  However, this is a colored doodle, 2.5x3", called an ATC.  The inspirations for the doodle included lace doilies, Mexican and Italian ceramic serviceware, and of course, the Universe. 

Circles and repition are wonderful design component basics.   Take a look at the variations in color next.



New design elements are now introduced along with color variations.  Try changing just those two things in a new creation, and see something new in your own creations.

I love blue, so now the piece has come full circle literally and figuratively.  Now, does the viewer like this series?  I shall wait and see.








Frivilous

I am making cards with images of my paintings on them.  This is one.  They are available under the card line Hairy Legs and Knobby Knees.  See more of my cards at www.HairyLegsandKnobbyKnees.blogspot.com.

This is called On Top, another ATC, 2.5x3".  It looks better digitally edited.  Here are a variety of colors.

Ahhh, this is one of my favorites.  It is called Playing Through the Universe.  The variations you see here are some of my favorites also, especially the slips of the image.  So, should the narrow images be called Slipping Through the Universe?  The title change is getting my serious consideration for the slip edits.



 (sorry the focus is off)

(This and the following paragraphs refuse to justify, regardless of attempts.  Please excuse, and consider them justified.  I do like consistency in some places.)

I love the background editing of this piece.  The flowers are so dynamic, they changed the photo editing into a fine art piece.  If this piece were printed full size, it would measure about 45x50".  Here are two color ways to look at the same photo.  Again, these are favorites too.

The original image is of an art quilt I made, called Where Water Comes From.  This is a Hairy Legs + Knobby Knees card, and a bit out of focus.  (Sometimes they just will not cooperate.  It won't stop me.)



Tonight

Yippee!  Tonight I joined the local guild, and was thrilled to be at the meeting.  It was an awsome speaker/artist, who works for the local Cumer Museum (a museum I thoroughly enjoy as often as possible).  If you want to see her wonderful work, especially if you like cypress knees, kayak, and love to venture into new places, you probably will like everything you see. 

The artist/speaker's name is Allison Watson.  Her website is www.allisonwatson.com.  Please, go see for yourself.  She is a multimedial talent.  If you're in the area, come see for yourself.  If not, she has works going on tour through Florida.  This is not the only state she has worked in.

The following are some of my current and past creations.

Want tio See More?

If you want to see more than fine art, check out my fine photogrphy at www.RobbinNeffPhotography.blogspot.com too, or one of these other blogs I have.

www.RobbinNeffArt.blogspot.com
www.RobbinNeffATCs.blogspot.com
www.RobbinNeff2011.blogspot.com (no longer updated, but lots of good images)
www.RobbinNeffQuilting.blogspot.com
www.myshipsevent.blogspot.com

There are more.  I will post those links another time, and try to get the links bar set on all of them.  I have been busy drawing.  Here is are a couple of things I have been drawing just for the fun of it.

I have a book from which the drawings above and below have emerged for you to see.  Shhh, they are timid and may run and hide (lol). 

You can see the words in the book, and the space given to draw in the drawing above.  I know what a sound wave looks like from basic electronics technician class.  So, the yellow line denotes the actual sound wave.  All the rest of it is what I am hearing.  There is no distortion, hence the title is No Distortion.

It is all drawing, pen & ink, and colored pencil.  The one below requested a drawing of a parasite.  I have always been fascinated at the color combinations and shapes of things seen through a microscope and telescope.  Here it is easy to let your mind just play and combine anything it wants to, and every time it ends up differently and fun.

I hope you think so also.

I love to doodle.  Thirty seconds is sometimes all it takes to end up with the most interesting things drawn out.  It is imagination running full tilt, all the way to fun results. 

It begins with a line.  In the case of the blue flower, it began with two parallel lines.  This time those lines became a stem.

You saw it as a sine wave above in No Distortion.

On the right is a feather shape, that is not a feather.  Again it is two lines, fairly parallel with scallops around them.  As I began the drawing discipline of pen control, I had time to put the very fine, .05 lines I had only enough time to do this many corrected.  I wanted to see what the ink would look like colored, so the poppy red (see side at tip) was begun.

Since it insists on being a feather, when I sit down for another pen control exercise, I will carry it on.  When I get to color again, the envelope of 'feather' validation will be pushed to the limits with it. 

Red it may not stay.  Texture and contrast may well change also.  I will post it when it gets there.

My notes are visual, and I was wondering if I was going to this event.  Doesn't it say that, lol?



The Key Tree













Again, visual notes of what the pastor was saying.  Believe it or not, I retain more this way, than if I were writing the notes on lined paper.  Sometimes they are visually interesting.  They are still notes, so they are not meant to make sense.  That makes this format of note taking more fun to take notes.  I share it with you.  For me, the bottom line is, if it sticks in the gray cells, it's a good thing.