New Figurative work

Here are some new pieces Evan and I finished this summer.

Here’s one of Dexter and Tiffany (great models) who were my characters for Adam and Eve.
This painting is called “Restoration” and is about human kind being healed and freed from sin, sickness, and death at the end of the age, and having unlimited love, life, and creativity unleashed.

Evan’s piece is titled: “How can I stand here with you and not be moved by you? I want you, why am I scared?”
I don’t want to speak for Evan, but I would wager that this painting is about facing fears. It’s a powerful painting that makes me think of the fears we have about trusting and fully surrendering our lives to our Creator.

One of Alisons new paintings and my interpretation of it;)

It represents us humans resting in the spirit of Gods love for us. When we realize Gods love, it produces rest. When we are able to rest, we produce fruit, a metaphor for bringing love into this physical realm of reality. Not just love as a thought, but as an action verb. Loving and helping others, thinking of others needs first etc..
The painting is cyclical because when that happens it produces more rest(rest from fear,stress and worry, which ultimately is all just based in fear) which in turn produces more fruit.
If you notice behind her neck there is sort of a pipe that is coming into her and shooting out light from her head. That represents us being a conduit for Gods love to flow through us.

pastels

i’ve just started a pastel drawing as a kind of study for a painting.  it’s part of the ’sides of adam/ faces of eve’ series i’ve been working on for the past couple years.  i’ve never really done any elaborate pastel work with the figure (just little bits here and there when teaching), so this new experiment is presenting me with fun and frustrating challenges.   i’m using a combination of blick pastels and nupastels, but they’re proving themselves to be very powdery, not creamy enough for my liking.  if anyone knows of a pastel that might be cheaper than rembrandt brand but comparable in quality, your recommendations would be more than welcomed!  thanks in advance!

alison

here’s what i have so far: 

Chalk art from Saturday.

Here are some pics of the chalk art I did Saturday at the Sayler Park Harvest festival. I did Picasso’s “Old man with guitar” It turned out to be a great time with wonderful weather. I really hope to be doing some more sidewalk art, it was really fun and rewarding. Look for more of these from me in the future. Enjoy!
In progress:


A little faded after the kids walked and rode their bikes over top!

WIP, as I promised.

We have to start the week out right. Here are some WIP that Alison is working on.

New wedding paintings

We have started working with photographers and doing paintings of their wedding photographs. Here is an example of a painting I did of a photograph taken by Neysa Ruhl. Its almost done, let us know what you think!