One of the recurring themes in my art is looking at life
with the eyes of a child. I try to feed
my inner child inspiration and nurture her so she is always with me, alive and
healthy. I remember in grad school at UCSD I did very large oil on canvas that
was strongly rectangular about playing jacks as a girl with my cousins in
Montclair. There are balloons in the background and a large brown hand in the
foreground is throwing jacks in the air.
It is mostly a red painting. I equate red with fun and excitement. Now I am working with a very oily material that
I can layer up on paper—Sennelier Oil Pastels.
They were a gift and what a gift! I love that set of pastels but at
first found them on the overwhelming side. I find them much easier to work with
using an actual oil pastel pad as the support. I typically work with them for a
while and then put them back away so they last so I’ve had them over a year now. Lately I’ve been incorporating them with
chalk pastel pencil which is a slightly tricky technique but it creates very
interesting densities and textures. The
other theme I like incorporating into my work is movement—I think there is an
animator or filmmaker living deep inside me whose only escape is within my
paintings and drawings. I enjoyed so
many rides down winding, hilly country roads and would often have a pinwheel
with me, hanging it out the window. This
drawing brings together the idea of movement with the inner child. It is called Pinwheel and it is a nostalgic
look back at those road trips to the Jersey Shore and elsewhere.
When I first became a blogger it was difficult to know if I had readers and visitors coming to my blog. I’d post and be met by the sounds of crickets. Then, I branched out into the world of the blogosphere, a world I didn't know really existed. From my ventures, I met a lot of interesting bloggers. I've started following and commenting on numerous blogs, for you see, prior to my outings, I too was out among the crickets. Lurking about but seldom saying anything. A fellow blogger I've met through my journeys around the blogosphere is Melissa Maygrove . She had the brilliant idea to have a Follow Fest , where we share about who we are, what we do and most importantly, how you can connect with us further. It is my intention through joining Follow Fest, that I’ll connect with many more readers and people interested enough in what I do to want to learn more by following. So, here goes my entry for the fest. Name: Stephanie Rose Bird Fiction or
Comments
Post a Comment
Go ahead. Make my day by leaving a comment.