Serena Epstein » tree http://serenae.com Freelance Creativity Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:46:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 New paintings! http://serenae.com/2009/09/29/new-paintings/ http://serenae.com/2009/09/29/new-paintings/#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:24:30 +0000 Serena http://serenae.com/?p=959 As well as setting a really dangerous precedent of two blog posts in one week, I’m also getting into the bad habit of posting a lot of images and very little text. I’ll try to get better about that, though I secretly believe that people are, in general, too lazy to read lot of text anyway.1

As promised, here are my four most recent paintings. They’re actually finished, which is more than I can usually say! We’ll see about continuing this trend.

imaginary portrait, blue

Everyone should have blue skin.

spring

spring

summer

summer

fall

fall

Voila! I’m going to save up for a couple of canvases2 so next time I don’t have to paint on paper.

  1. Have I lost you yet?
  2. Did you know: en française, ‘canvas’ is ‘toile’. Not to be confused with etoile or toilette.
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DAY 1:   Word-image association

As you can see, there was quite a lot of work to be done. However, through persistence and good luck, the final results were spectacular.

DAY 3: Field Trip… Practicum in flora-related empathy

Says Jim, “This is my favorite tree. I love this tree.”

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