Pencil on paper, 11 x 14
marie@mariefox.com
Monday, July 13, 2009
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Standing figure model, drawing in pencil
I bought a fabulous drawing book recently called "Classic Human Anatomy" by Valerie Winslow. The author is a skilled artist with an encyclopedic knowledge of human anatomy. Really, an unusual combination. She presents the anatomical information in great detail but always with the artist, not the medical student, in mind. I absolutely love this book and am slowly working my way through it.
11 x 14, pencil on paper
marie@mariefox.com
Friday, July 10, 2009
Sounds of the Sea, oil painting, 24" x 30"
Oil on canvas, 24" x 30"
Email: marie@mariefox.com
I loved painting this big (for me) canvas of figures. It was fun including some small still life scenes at the edges of the scene, and using essentially monochromatic colors. Somehow the idea came to me to paint the standing figure listening to the ocean in a shell. So I made the landscape out the window rural, suggesting that the sea is far away.
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Figure model seated on pillow, pencil drawing
Here the model is leaning on an unseen support while sitting on a folded pillow. Some parts of this drawing have a solidity I'm happy with.
Paper on pencil, 11 x 14
marie@mariefox.com
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Monday, July 6, 2009
Figure drawing model seated
Pencil on paper, 11 x 14
marie@mariefox.com
Paul Klee - In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.
Thursday, July 2, 2009
'Asleep' pencil drawing
Pencil Drawing, 11" x 14"
Email: marie@mariefox.com
I recently returned to my first love (in art)- the human figure. The sketches I'll post over the next days are from a drawing class. The model poses nude, but here I caught her sleeping during a break.
Monday, June 15, 2009
Challenge Paintings for June
Our challenge for June was to paint "something shiny from the kitchen". It seems we were all inspired by the magic of reflective objects found in kitchen drawers and cupboards! To see other artists, click on Moses Botkin Challenge link on right.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Where We Are
Oil on Canvas, 40" x 30" $2400 SOLD
Email: marie@mariefox.com
Details of Image Below
This is the first large figurative painting I've ever done. It took months and endured many incarnations, but it is in the end the start of something new for me. I've always loved figure drawing and am trying to apply to figures what I've learned doing still life paintings.
The inspiration for this painting was three life-size drawings I did of myself a few decades ago. I had sat on the floor in front of a large mirror, looking, drawing then getting back into the pose. What interested me was the architecture of the body, the way the torso and limbs embraced space.
For the painting, I combined the three drawings into a single composition, and made the bodies and faces different from me and each from the other. I like the mixed perspectives which remind me of the folk art I painted for 15 years (www.mariefox.com). And the colors seem to work. On to the next...
For the painting, I combined the three drawings into a single composition, and made the bodies and faces different from me and each from the other. I like the mixed perspectives which remind me of the folk art I painted for 15 years (www.mariefox.com). And the colors seem to work. On to the next...
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Carrots & Coffee
Oil on Canvas, 12" x 12"
$120 plus Priority Mail shipping SOLD
Email: marie@mariefox.comThis is one of those paintings that just happened....and I'm happy with it. It seems playful, a good thing. The photo sent the colors in a cool direction. The yellows are really less green and the cup more lavender.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Three Yellow Roses
Oil on canvas, 24" x 30"
Email: marie@mariefox.com
My self-appointed challenge here was to balance a group of cool colored blue and turquoise vases against a strong hit of orange in the fruits. Separating and connecting these areas was the cloth which is also a warm color and different texture from the reflective vases. Although I never really altered the composition while painting, I did experiment a lot with the background colors until I came up with these. Big paintings are great because they're very demanding and I feel I can really 'get into them'...kind of like climbing into them. Oil paint is a lusciously physical thing...and working big means more connection with it, more manipulation and play.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
February Challenge Paintings
Marie Fox, "Soldier Boy, Please Don't Go!" Oil on Board, 8 x 10
$90 plus $8.95 insured shipping via Priority Mail SOLD
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