Flowers in her Hair, redhead woman, abstract female figuration, woman art, contemporary figure painting, original figurative art

Flowers in her Hair, Contemporary Figurative abstract painting of redhead woman musing
12" x 9" Acrylic, pen, collage on archival printmaker paper. $75 plus $10 shipping in US.
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A Moment, figurative painting of seated woman, profile portrait, female figuration, contemporary figure painter, woman art, seated girl

A Moment, Contemporary Figurative painting of seated woman in profile, 14" x 11"
$300 Pencil and Acrylic on archival printmaker's paper  SOLD
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It was fun combining water-soluble pencil with acrylics on paper. It all works differently than on canvas.

Nude Woman Reclining, figure study, female figuration, contemporary figure painter, woman art, classic seated nude, naked female,

Yellow Nude, Figurative Painting of Woman, Acrylic on Stretched Canvas, 20" x 20"
Edges painted black for hanging without frame
$490 plus $20 shipping in US. CA residents, please add 7.5% sales tax.
International shipping available. Email: marie@mariefox.com Click image to view larger SOLD

Figurative study of woman, figure study, figuration, woman art, contemporary figure painter

Blue Eyes, Acrylic on Stretched Canvas, 12" x 12" Not for Sale
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I made this as a study for a larger painting. She's strange but pretty in her own way. Slightly abstract.

Seated figure model drawing

Pencil on paper, 11 x 14
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Figure lying down, drawing, pencil on paper

Figure drawing, pencil on paper, 11 x 14
SOLD to a collector in North Carolina
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Thus far in my figure drawing class, I've been drawing by observation, rather than by knowledge of anatomy. Eventually, I'd like the anatomical structure of the body to inform my drawings, along with observation of what's on the surface. To that end, I've been studying from a set of CD's called "The Structure of Man - Learn to draw the human figure from your mind". The author, Riven Phoenix, approaches drawing of the human form as an imaginative exercise, as if the artist is inventing the figure from scratch. His is a novel approach which I hope will improve my understanding of the human figure.

Drawing of woman, charcoal

Pencil on paper, 14" x 11"
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Pencil Drawing: Woman Seated on Stool

Figure drawing, charcoal on paper, 14" x 11"
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Happy news! My painting Sounds of the Sea was just accepted for a juried exhibit, California Open Exhibition, at TAG Gallery in Santa Monica, California. The show runs from August 19- September 5. (Click title or scroll down page to see the painting.) This city was home to me for five years, and I'm very pleased that my art will be traveling from New England to pay a visit. Hey, those girls might just take off for the nearby beach and ditch that shell. Why not listen to the real waves....and splash in them!

Figurative art, woman on elbow

Pencil on paper, 11 x 14
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Jim Dine quote about drawing:
… I knew drawing was essential to me. It kept alive the need I had for family. It gave me a line of tradition that led me back to artists I admired, not just Rembrandt and Picasso, Matisse and Degas, but others who are dismissed but who gave their lives to drawing.

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
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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
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'Asleep' pencil drawing

Pencil Drawing, 11" x 14"  
SOLD to a collector in New York

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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.

Dance Class

Drawing on paper, collage 16" x 20" - SOLD to a collector in Vermont
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Dance Class is a drawing-collage I created a few years ago in response to a class assignment requiring multiple figures in a single composition. Since I had no models, I imagined and drew dancers in a mirrored studio. Before starting the drawing, I ripped up newsprint and glued it randomly on Bristol board to create a surface irregularity. I then drew the imagined figures in a box-like space (opened visually by the mirror) using graphite, color pencil and watercolor. My drawing of the dancers was kind of clunky, but I like the texture of this piece, its lack of sharp clarity and its sense of jumbled parts.

Dreaming and Drawing

Drawing on paper, 16" x 20"
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I've been thinking about what it is I feel passionate about that makes me want to paint or draw. In my last post, I mentioned that pears remind me of my interest in human figures. So I thought I'd post this drawing I did several years ago in a class. The assignment was simply "twins". I had no clue how I was going to fulfill the assigned task so I simply started drawing my friend as he himself was drawing. A while later, he lay down on the couch for a nap...and the idea of twins came to me - of consciousness and unconsciousness, the conscious and subconscious, dreaming and waking. What I like best is the link between dreaming and creativity, the incubation of an idea versus its creation or execution. I know I've had some of my best artistic ideas while in that state just before awaking. In the drawing, I emphasized the diagonal line between the sleeping-dreaming head along the arm to the hand that is drawing. I love it when these wonderful juxtapositions happen!

Besides the "twins" content of the drawing, I like the subject of the human form. If only I could find someone to model for me....other than a pear!