Friday, January 18, 2019

I sold a print!



ROSE ROOM acrylic on canvas 12 x 12 x 1.5 inches 2014 In private collection but prints available here:


Sold a print of my rose room recently, how exciting! A room of roses with some weird creepy red lighting coming from a single light bulb. I did 6 of these flower rooms all prints are available for purchase from the same website. All depicting wall to ceiling flowers with a single thing different in each of them. I forgot how mysterious and pretty this one looks. 

Here are the others:


STICKY TOPIC acrylic on canvas 12 x 12 x 1.5 inches 2014



MIXED BOUQUET acrylic on canvas 12 x 12 x 1.5 inches 2014



DAISY ROOM acrylic on canvas 12 x 12 x 1.5 inches 2014



TULIP ROOM acrylic on canvas 12 x 12 x 1.5 inches 2014



POPPY ROOM acrylic on canvas 12 x 12 x 1.5 inches 2014



Thursday, January 17, 2019

Indoor Chameleon In Orange Major



INDOOR CHAMELEON IN ORANGE MAJOR acrylic on canvas 48 x 48 x 1.5 inches 2019 $6500

I finished my painting! This painting took about 4 months. I worked on it everyday for about 3 to 6 hours. Chameleons have the ability to camouflage into their environments which is why I painted it the way I did, although this is more see through than camouflage I guess. Anyway he's just chilling out in the living room there, minding his own business really. Sometimes I imagine myself going invisible in social situations, being an observer rather than the main event. Coming and going in and out of visibility I guess. I left the light on despite it being daylight outside in my painting here. Is it really daylight though? Notice the shadows in the open sky. What else can I yammer on about?


Pretty happy with it, the patterns took a long time!


People like it when I paint translucent things, I know. 


It's just a matter of drawing out the background, then the foreground, then painting in the translucent thing a few shades lighter while taking note of the patterns.


How many shades of orange did I use, can you guess?


Tinier brushes were used to paint the scales.


Hm.


Detail


Playing with sky and dimension.


I guess I could have posted more work in progress shots of this, well you can find those on my @lisangstuff instagram page. I embedded my signature into the hardwood flooring below.


Purchase the painting online here!


Saturday, January 5, 2019

Did the Doggy Underworld painting change in dimension?


I remeasured my painting today and it actually measures 40 x 30 x 1.5 inches and not 48 x 36 inches as previously listed.. OOPS This means it ships in a box and is still available at 


Doggy Underworld acrylic and ink on canvas 40 x 30 x 1.5 inches 2012 $1500

I feel really silly about this because a month ago someone tried to buy it online as it is featured in a curated collection on saatchiart.com but they ended up changing their mind because it was too large to fit on the wall. I remeasured it today and didn't realize it it is actually a little smaller than what I listed it as on the website. There must have been inconsistencies in my listings across all the websites I advertise it on. OOPS Art career mistake and a pretty big one! Did the Doggy Underworld morph dimensions in my mind? Am I going crazy? Possibly so..








Thursday, January 3, 2019

Happy New Year! 2019


Ringing in 2019 with a lot of pattern work, here's what I've been up to. These paintings take a long time. I'm working on a large painting of an indoor chameleon in an orange room at the moment. Below is a link to my youtube channel to find me in video format, you can see more of the work in progress there.



These paintings are time consuming, I don't think people realize how many hours I spend a day painting. Lately it's been averaging about 3 to 6, sometimes 8 but I'm trying to balance it out with more regular exercise and checking in with people so I don't go physically nor mentally insane. I had carpal tunnel really bad several months ago but then learned about the miracle of massage and physiotherapy and now it has mostly resolved, thankfully! I upkeep doing regular hand stretches and painting with a brace now. People seem to think I was born with talent claiming they could not perform such a task. Maybe I am and maybe I'm not, although practice helps anyone. Regardless some do find it easier than others and some do enjoy the process more than others. I do not find music particularly easy for example, I am tone deaf and despite my enforced hours of piano practice as a child I still have terrible timing. When it came to drawing, painting and anything to do with colours however I seemed to be a natural at. I did spend a lot of time alone and art, origami, colouring books, etc. became a great source of entertainment for that. It is my quiet place although I do constantly listen to music when painting. I have a Spotify account and lately it's been a bit of a wormhole vortex of trip hop/instrumental/ambient beats/chill/ambient zone. Maybe it's music therapy for me. I love painting, I could paint for days, it doesn't matter how tedious the work is as long as I get to recreate the beautiful image that is within my head and share it with the world. Sometimes I fantasize about the perfect crime to commit so I could get myself under house arrest for the condition of painting, but I guess I'd go crazy and I wouldn't want to be a burden on anyone either. Painting is serene but lonesome. I've been watching Raiders of the Lost Art on Netflix, stories about artists and their lives and pieces of art that have gotten stolen only to boast the legacy of their careers. Although by this time they are usually long dead : ( Several died penniless, alone and forgotten from the world until years, sometimes decades to centuries after they died. They seemed to work mostly in isolation or circulated within a small group of like minded individuals but the masses did not catch on until years later. I thought it interesting.

Anyhoo, a painting secretly left the market a month ago but I kept it a secret as it was a surprise anniversary gift for someone and I didn't want to blow the secret! I touched up the photo a bit so it looks better online than it has in the past although nothing beats the real thing..

Eyeball Vase acrylic on canvas 16 x 20 x 1.5 inches 2015

What an honour to be embedded in the story of 2 weirdos who found each other! This is actually 1 of my favourite paintings, although at the risk of sounding narcissistic, that list grows longer by the year. I like to try new things, evolve and expand on ideas as they come about. Some work out better than others, however they've also become quite subjective and my mind changes over time. What pleases me most may not please you. I was really happy with the way this one turned out when I finished it.


1 of my darker tone paintings, I paint in bright colours too but I like to experiment. I wanted to keep this one dark. This vase of flowers has come alive it appears, eyeball included. All my paintings have an object, creature or thing looking back at the viewer. I wonder what it means, are they all self portraits one way or the other? I didn't intentionally do this, someone had to point it out to me, for some reason, subconsciously I never feel a painting is complete until I've addressed the viewer, or is it myself as I am painting it? 


More questions than answers here. I added a tail to help it get around. I didn't want it to feel stuck in a place so I gave it a sense of agency. I have a day job too, I'm a visiting nurse, performing nursing acts and teaching people how to take care of themselves, giving people a sense of agency to go on about their lives, I wonder if the 2 are connected. I hope the new owner likes it, it's sitting appreciated somewhere I am sure. How strange it is to part with a painting. It is nice though, knowing I have a place in someone else's home somewhere. Like my mind is expanding, mysteriously in the dark somewhere. It is my belief the painting comes alive in the dark when no one's looking and the lights go off, and if you stare at it long enough it winks!