I'd bought this little doodad at a thrift shop. Started painting it last night and realized something was needed to show the scale of it. Hence the pushpins.
Sunday, September 6, 2009
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About Jala
- Jala Pfaff
- Boulder, CO, United States
- I'm a painter (and writer and Spanish instructor) living in beautiful Boulder, Colorado. I studied classical art in an ARC (Art Renewal Center) school, Colorado Academy of Art, full-time for two years, in order to benefit from the rigorous atelier-style training. I am currently dedicated to exploring abstract and semi-abstract art, working in oil and also in soft pastel. I firmly believe that all human beings are creative, whether or not they have yet found an outlet for the innate creative urge, and that the creative arts are the highest form of human expression. Email me at: jala[at]jalapfaff.com ...Please also visit my website: jalapfaff.com ...ALL CONTENT IS COPYRIGHT
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8 comments:
This is wonderful. I love the edges, the colors, the ease with which you give the objects shape. And it's just really darn clever.
lovely work with wonderful colour handling, and somehow it is a surprise to see how small it is too. Jala do you set your still life up with dark backgrounds and controlled light?r
It's hard to decide if your colors are brilliant or your brushwork.
It's a tie.
This looks so effortless and fresh- you have a way of identifying objects to make them seem very familiar without over-explaining them.
And Lynx is self explanatory.
Nice little painting and mixture of hard and soft edges. And those pushpins are such a surprise!
Thanks, Dar! Funny you say "ease," because I struggled and struggled for hours with this one...in order to get it to look quick and carefree. So ironic.
Hi Rahina - I paint at night, so that means I have to do the controlled spotlight thing. I have a daylight-equivalent (cool) bulb in it. The background color I choose always depends on what kind of look I want with the subject matter.
Bonnie - You're too sweet. Perhaps as sweet as Lynx. !!! See my note to Dar above about "effortlessness"!
Hi Donald - Thank you for noticing. I was trying to really make the painting about edges. I agree that the pushpins kind of "made" the painting in the end!
Lovely painting, Jala - the pushpins are wonderful.
oooh I love this painting and the push pins too!
Hello Jala, I love this painting; how you painted it, compostition/design, choices of objects. It' really sings for me
(also so enjoy your cat stories)
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