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Peeking in on the new Frida series...

2/13/2019

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Well, I am twelve pieces into the series and it has changed quite a bit and is still developing.  When I first started I was working more with my fashion illustration style, using a red dress and stylized Frida motif as the unifying elements. 

​And then...my book arrived in the mail;
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This book is unique because the majority of the book is her actual diary- sketches and doodle, musings and stream of conscoiusness writing...but in SPANISH.  Luckily, the back of the book is all the translations of the material.
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What happened next was...I started to do portraits of Frida and stopped with the fashion illustrations. You know...I had thought in January that I might work with the idea of fashion sketches all of 2019 but truth is...it didn't fit for Frida.  I wanted to create images that included more of her face.  

This was the first piece showing the change in direction;

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And something just kinda clicked.  When the art flows from my brain to my hands more fluidly...then I know that I am on the right path.  If I find myself sitting and thinking too much instead of 'doing' then I know that it is time to switch it up.  And it was.  

​So I kept making portraits;
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The thing with painting is...for me at least...it is more of a push-pull relationship.  When I work in watercolors, which I often do, the watercolors are less forgiving...so I make the work in 'one pass'.  I either get it right or I don't, I don't keep re-working the piece.

When I work with thicker paint I always go with acrylic.  I love how fast it dries, so if I want to change something I just let it dry then paint right on top.  I love the smell of acrylic paint- I love the way it glides on the surface.  I just love it.  

But...I also had fun spray painting last year with some of my themes, and I still had spray paint and stencils so...this happened;
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​...and that is where I am right now with the series.  Frida portraits on colored backgrounds, spray paint, her words scribbled on the surface- then sometimes sanded back...that is what I am doing- for now.
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