Millie King

In my family My father's mother was a pretty god artist, unfortunately no one ever kept any of her paintings. I only saw one and my father was alos really good at drawing, but as much as I begged him, he never did anything with it, so though I was never encouraged; I am the first and only member of my family to actually go to college, pursue a degree in art and actively work at it. They inspired me in spite of themselves, LOL

I hear you  and am fortunate that my children never touched my art supplies. Unfortunately they do not have any natural inclinations toward art either, which makes talking with them about it impossible.

On another note,  I really love BFK Rives papers, they are archival, heavy, durable, affordable and super versatile accepting many mediums and you can even paint and you can draw or print on the back without any show or bleed through. I use it for all my paintings on paper. You can even purchase a roll. 

Thanks again smb, these lil pieces sure do brighten up a space.

I love to deep dive into a painting, it often developes into a relationship with other paintings, as in this case where one of the versions that reminded me of clothes lines, showed up again in an unrelated, yet similar piece I call Pray. See if you can tell which one sparked my imagination.

Thanks again smb For some reason I love painting on this heavy paper, the way the paint and brush react to it is wonderful.  Also the paintings can be shipped  flat; I prefer not to roll original art.

This one lends itself to other versions too and I took advantage of that and made smaller versions, like these two. Each is a good composition in itself, but make a connected series.

Thank you smb, I do seem to derive the most inner pleasure from doing abstract works these days, however I still am getting inspired to do more realistic ones too and I think I  must just choose one or the other to be more successful.

Thank you Michelle, Tnis was a quickie, very spontaneous. Most of my simpler comps are..

I think there's a lesson here, LOL

On 6/5/2019 at 8:50 AM, smb said:

The only way I can get anything done is to stand up and reach over her!

Ha, She's telling to pay attention to her instead of your computer. My cat will walk across my keyboard. Don't ya just love em?

3 hours ago, Jenny Rolfe said:

This is so good! I love it!

Thanks, Jenny, This all started when someone gave me a huge piece of dark olive color canvas material, so the first painting I did this year was this one and all the others sprang from this.

I think need to make more large paintings like this and when I get the feeling for Hawaii, I will, but with a different basis.

I will most likely use this painting to make a series at some point, as I can see lots of areas to take off from.

23 minutes ago, smb said:

Very good!!

Already edited some.

This is giving me serious chills, I'm not a good swimmer and it looks like that really wouldn't make any difference here.

2 minutes ago, Millie King said:

Wow, I didn't know that...great!!, and thanks yet again. I'll eventually catch up. LOL

So every time I make a version of another painting, all I have to remember is to include tags from any  former versions...goes both ways.

2 minutes ago, smb said:

If you click on the "shadow" tag, you can instantly compare both versions. I really like this new one.

Wow, I didn't know that...great!!, and thanks yet again. I'll eventually catch up. LOL

1 minute ago, smb said:

Interesting piece. Very emotive,

Thank you, now I wonder..., is it the description that's emotive or the painting if you didn't read about it?

6 hours ago, smb said:

Ah! I know the feeling... I can't wait to get back home and get back into some pastels. (By the look of it, I will have to be quick, the way my kids are getting through my art materials during the lock-down?!!)

Wow, you are fortunate, I have 2 children and neither of them are artistically inclined. i must be nice to share that creative fun with them.

23 minutes ago, smb said:

Very interesting art piece!

It is. I was surprised when I flipped the original and saw all the emotion in this view..

20 minutes ago, smb said:

Awesome! I love this!

Thanks, it feels good using more bold marks.

17 minutes ago, Millie King said:

Wait I think I found my problem. Fixed this one, wiol check the others, but I have an interview with an artist this AM, so later then. Thanks for reminding me.

9 hours ago, Millie King said:

I had some red rosin floor paper and just loved the light Mars Violet color. it felt like a really great surface for pastels, so i made a couple of large drawings on it. both are 72"H x 36" W.

The small half body shape on the right was a piece of clay sculpture that had broken apart in firing and was discarded; this is a view from the back of itS. Sometimes the oddest objects fit right in. Then her profile showed up in another painting titled Holding  On.

Yes, I wanted to add more titles, I was able to do that earlier, but somehow now when I use the add image button, there is no textbox for titles, media, size etc and I don'r know what I'm doing differently. I think I must have uploaded from a different link, but I don't remember where I found that one now. I did look for it, but not found. Sorry to be such a ditz here, LOL

I had some red rosin floor paper and just loved the light Mars Violet color. it felt like a really great surface for pastels, so i made a couple of large drawings on it. both are 72"H x 36" W.

The small half body shape on the right was a piece of clay sculpture that had broken apart in firing and was discarded; this is a view from the back of itS. Sometimes the oddest objects fit right in. Then her profile showed up in another painting titled Holding  On.

This painting is 72 x 60 on dark olive canvas. It's another painting that can be hung 2 ways effectively. See Sculpted Image for another view. Having fun with perception.

3 hours ago, Michelle Rolfe said:

nice art  

Thank you.

21 minutes ago, smb said:

I like this!

Thanks, it's interesting how one change leads to another, until the original is barely recognizable, but the new stands on it's own. Also if this is flipped 180 degrees, the figure suddenly appears in a modified form.