It's been awhile...

I have seriously neglected this blog and have been working on new work...It is a slightly different way of looking at landscape...there was something lacking in my previous work and felt that I wanted to pursue a way that to me was more exciting..exciting I mean, new ideas coming to me, composition, color...the subject of what I paint is there I think it will always be there, which is light and how it is silhouetted in nature and how it, the light, can be interpreted...this is a new series that I am confident about and once I have pictures taken I will post them here...Why the change? there isn't a significant change more of a tweaking if you will...It is where I am right now as a painter and something was said to me not long ago that stuck with me, actually it made me question my abilities, We artists are a sensitive bunch...so I figured by now why should I care, I don't...but it did make me a more thorough artist..that everything I make, paintings, drawings, jewelry, crochet scarves, blankets, and anything I can get my hands on will be done with the greatest integrity...It does have my name on it after all...In the coming month I will open either on my website or blog here, a sales addition, where I will be selling small format paintings, which is where the paintings are at now, sizes 4"x4", 5"x7", 6"x8", 6"x6", 8"x8", 8"x10"....all affordable priced...Please visit my newly designed website or post a comment here on my blog...
thanks for visiting...Brenda

New Website!!!

I have a new website at www.brendaedwardsart.com. It contains my paintings from 2007-2009, I still have many more images of paintings to include (still in progress). Also contains my pastel drawings and photographs..MOST everything on my website is currently for sale, this includes paintings,a lot of the smaller work, pastels and photographs... just e-mail me for prices...I am happy with it..I can't believe that I did it myself, design, uploading images...I hope everyone will visit and comment, either by e-mail or comment here on my blog...I didn't realize how hard it is to maintain everything, website, blog, promotion of my work, the business side of being an artist, what they don't tell you or lightly touch upon in art school...when I would much rather be in the studio and have someone else take care of all of it...but I certainly learned quite a lot and I am glad that I did it...
Hope you visit!
Brenda

Influences

 I have been working on a new series of pastels today and they are based on the autumn colors...warm yellows, shades of oranges, vibrant reds, so much lush color...I have a book of Wolf Kahn and whenever I need to look at something new, I look at this book...His use of color and expression of shapes juxtaposed to each other is something I admire...Other artists I look at, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, JMW Turner, I saw his work at the Met when they did a full retrospective and it was amazing!!! Have to see it in person..there is a show on now at The Everson that I am going to next weekend,  
From Turner to Cezanne...










Wolf Kahn, Very Pink Sky, oil on canvas,2008

J.M.W. Turner, Shade and Darkness-The Evening Before the Deluge, oil, 1843

Jackson Pollock, Mural, oil on canvas, 1943

My research has been on Pollock, I could teach a class on him..

Works in Progress

Pastel on paper, 18"x24"

Small pastel and charcoal drawing on paper..

 

small pastel and charcoal on paper, diptych

these are two in a series of 12, 10"x30" oil on canvas, working on glazing at the moment, one of these paintings in this series will be in a juried show next year...

  more images coming soon...

New Work

I am currently working on two new series..there are 10 paintings in each new series..one series, no title yet, but may go under my ongoing series, Evolution...the paintings in this series are all 10"x30," oil on canvas..the second series is the one I have spent most of my time and energy on. when I say energy, I mean thinking about it all the time and what comes next, thinking back and forth between the paintings and trying to make them stand on their own, each painting is a different visual experience while keeping the series cohesive..I am still a ways off..but I think it is time to wrap things up with the series and get them out of my studio, I could use the room, and into a gallery..and sell them!  My new series in the horizon are in pastel, large or small in size I have yet to decide..
I will post images soon!