Miniature Painting - Fashion

Miniature Painting - Fashion
Originally uploaded by Benita S.

Title: Fashion
ACEO Size 2.5" x 3.5"

Study of a Woman #52

Study of a Woman #52
Originally uploaded by Benita S.

Mini OSWOA Painting 6" x 4"
Mixed Media

Naughty fairies card illustration - Arethusa 500w

Naughty fairies card illustration - Arethusa 500w
Originally uploaded by Benita S.

Mixed Media on paper

Woman: Forty

Woman: Forty
Originally uploaded by Benita S.

Watercolor and ink on paper.

Completed this one last night. Probably won't add it to my website. This one will go straight to auction. I like some aspects of it and some I don't. Thats usually how I feel about my own work though so nothing unusual there. lol

Abstract Figurative Painting - The Dancer

Title: The Dancer
Mixed Media on paper
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New Abstracts and Cityscape Paintings

Title: Fear
Mixed Media (watercolor, gouache and ink) on paper
9" x 12" - part of the smallworks series.

Title: See That
Mixed media (watercolor, gouache and ink) on paper
9" x 12" - part of the smallworks series.

Title: Market Day
Acrylic on hand-stretched canvas
24" x 24"

I won't have access to a computer from June 14 - June 23. I will, however, be painting during this time so check back after this date for several new posts!

New Mixed Media Work Added to My Website

Black Hat One

Mixed Media on Paper

Blackbird on a Wire - Mixed Media Painting

Blackbird on a Wire - Mixed Media Painting
Originally uploaded by Benita S.

"Blackbird on a Wire"
15" x 11" (38 cm x 28 cm)
Mixed Media - Watercolor and Ink on paper

The blackbirds have returned. I have quite a few this year. Unfortunately, my cat has already managed to catch several of them when they found their way into my new studio somehow. They always bring with them a certain mood that is hard to explain. Winter is almost gone and the trees are starting to bloom but much is still bare from the winter. I tried to capture that moody feeling I get in this painting.

Miniature Abstract Watercolor Painting - "Rebecca"

Miniature Abstract Watercolor Painting - "Rebecca"
Originally uploaded by Benita S.

"Rebecca"
6" x 4" (15.3 x 10 cm)
Watercolor and Ink on Paper

Hand Pulled Print - Primitive

Hand Pulled Print - Primitive
Originally uploaded by Benita S.

"Primitive"
7" x 5" (18 x 13 cm)
Linoleum Block Print (Lino)
Series III - 1 of 1

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My daily painting today is not a painting at all, it is a lino block print instead. I started this theme several years ago when I was still in college (no I will not tell how long ago that was lol). This is similar to the idea I had then. My intention was to keep this primitive. If you are not familiar with lino block prints, it is simply a linoleum block that is hand carved and then a print is "pulled" from that carving. Most of the time it requires several steps of carving to complete a print. This one was kept fairly simple by using only two colors of ink.

Daily Paintings - Three Small Watercolors / Mixed Media

I have been a little "under the weather" for several days now but I am just not the kind of person who can sit still. If I'm not asleep I have to be doing something. So I have worked on a few small paintings. Here are three of them.

"On a Good Day"
Watercolor on Paper
6" x 4" OSWOA (15.24cm x 10.16cm)
Smallworks Series
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"Somewhere Else"
Watercolor & Gouache on Paper
6" x 4" OSWOA (15.24cm x 10.16cm)
Smallworks Series
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"Smoke & Mirrors in Miniature"
Watercolor and Ink on Paper
2.5" x 3.5" ACEO (6.35cm x 8.89cm)
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Ink Drawing - Quitting

Title: Quitting
Ink on Bristol
4" x 6" OSWOA

Daily Painting - We Are All The Same

"We Are All the Same"
Watercolor & Ink on Bristol
6" x 4" (15.24cm x 10.16cm) OSWOA
Smallworks Series

This one is part of my Smallworks Series and not a study like most of my smaller pieces are. It is based on my feelings, especially frustration, regarding the different aspects of bigotry in its many forms.