New Oil Paintings

I've been painting like a madwoman for the last couple of weeks and have finally finished some smaller oil paintings for Etsy! It's such a great feeling to finish a painting that's been just sitting in the studio for months.

"Ornamentation" (detail)
5"x7" oil on illustration board 2011

"Ornamentation"
5"x7" oil on illustration board 2011

"The Long Walk Home"
5"x7" oil on illustration board 2011

"The Long Walk Home" (detail)
5"x7" oil on illustration board 2011

These two paintings are currently listed in my Etsy shop. I've been looking at so many inspiring things lately: cool paintings, old photographs, oddments and ornaments in museums. Even my dreams have been particularly vivid. It's funny how things stay lodged in my brain and can be seen so clearly, and when I go to sketch them, they just dissipate. I can't seem to focus on any one part enough to draw them. Not for the last time I wish someone would invent a camera to capture a thought--my brain pictures would be awesome. Epic, even!