Wednesday, March 5, 2008

I Am Lazy In Spite of Myself

Well, I can blame the fact that we all had the flu, or that I'm busy with work and my other work, or being a mom, or whatever... But I'm pretty much just lazy, as much as I hate to admit it*. So on a day where I actually get have a moment to update on creative goings-on (or is that going-ons? Grammar, sheesh), I'd much rather continue painting.

Enough of this silliness--here's some stuff to look at!



Plague House continues--I roughed in the other girls' faces yesterday...

And here's a new one I started for my June show: "The Winkle Picker" (very much in progress) oil, 8x10 inches.


And here's that still-untitled piece, with the progress I made today: It's giving me fits, and I think I'm overworking the hands, but I guess I have to let it take the direction it's going. It's so hard to control paintings--they wander where they will.


And here's two little pieces I started for Etsy--they aren't done yet, so it'll be awhile before they're listed.




*Lazy about updating blogs and photos (and housekeeping, and domesticating) and such, I'm not much of a lazy painter, though. Thank heavens.

8 comments:

Sandy Mastroni said...

these paintings are great . I especially love the last one you posted . what is the red mark on her ? what is the story to her ?
very interesting .....

amy abshier reyes said...

Thanks so much!
As for the red mark in that last painting:
It's the hole where her heart should be. I think she must have given it to someone, but these stories always tend to evolve as the paintings progress.
We'll have to see!

Black-Eyed Suzie said...

Your work is lovely! It reminds me of a lot of what I reading these days...long, sad, somewhat gothic,, victorian novels and plays. Love it!

amy abshier reyes said...

Ooh, thanks! I've been reading a lot of the same--I think it's been this awful, long, dreary winter we've been having. Give me melancholia!!

Christine said...

The last two I absolutely love!! One of these days I will own one of yours:)

amy abshier reyes said...

Thanks Christine! Hopefully I can finish those darn paintings sometime soon--I haven't been able to spend much time on them.

natasha said...

um....whoa. really gorgeous. mary cassat would have loved your work.

amy abshier reyes said...

Thanks Natasha! I can't imagine what Ms Cassatt would say about my work though--she'd probably rap me over the head with a paintbrush and tell me I needed discipline, or something!