I’m just sending off a small lotus painting that I made for my cousin-in-law Laura. It’s 6″ x 6″ on a cradled Ampersand panel.
Laura’s Lotus, 2014, acrylic on board, 6″ x 6″
And here’s a photograph of an installation of panels custom-made for an unusual alcove in a very modern living room:
Blue Flags, 2013, each 6″ x 6″, acrylic on board
And here’s a little tribute to the Boulder wind. There are many ways to explore color…
The winter blues keep catching up with me this week, with a long stretch of cold, icy, grey days and a barren landscape and a lot of insomnia and anxiety about work and income. Color to the rescue.
Valentines:
Copper Heart
Postcard Hearts
The finished lotus:
Lotus 1
Some stitching picked up after a long dormancy (I beaded the center medallion years ago, added the shisha mirrors, and will add more embroidery and silk panels for a finished wall hanging):
My small but serviceable studio is about 4.5 miles from where I live, and there’s a lovely trail that goes most of the way; on nice days, if I don’t have a lot to carry, I walk. There’s a large flock of Canadian geese that gathers on a pond along the trail. I’m very fond of them.
In the studio I worked on a painting that’s been sitting dormant for a while. I guess I can’t deny that it’s a decorative painting, but I don’t really mind that at all. I love the iconic graphic lotus patterns that have been around for centuries in Indian textiles and they’re very fun to paint. It still needs a day or two of work but here’s the current state of it:
I was at a good stopping point but had too much paint on the palette to throw away, so I pulled out a sheet of watercolor paper and made this, which I like very much: 
And here’s one more “imaginary landscape” that echoes that wintery pond where my geese like to do their networking.
Elaine Lipson Art 