The final version I’m really proud of.
Author: Allyson
In Fresh Air
Coffee filter paper flowers.
A Royal Portrait
Below is the sketch page on the right, then the final canvas drawing on the left. This is the second painting from these sketch ideas. I may have been thinking about alien rulers / destroyers or something. Whatever it was, I love the results.
Possessing
A spray painted background. I free handed this one and see different things when I look at it. Dancing with a ghost. Trying to kill a ghost. Being taken over by a ghost. Fending off possession. Something like that.
By Any Means
Spray painted background then free handed the rest. I have been stuck on a title, but think I’ve settled on “By Any Means” as in answering the question “how are you getting by?” Wondering about just how much it takes to stay propped up and moving through this life. Title might change but it works for now.
Blue
A pen pal of mine was so generous in sending me extra paint and fresh canvas she wasn’t using (she remembered I said I don’t purchase them often). As a thank you, I said I would paint her something and send it her way, shipping tomorrow. I looked through an old photo book I have of American landscapes and loved the blue mountain look on the horizon of the photo on the left here. My painted interpretation looks different but I wanted to bring out the parts I loved most about the photo. This was fun.
Happier Listening
I’ve done a few scrap book pages just to try my hand at it. This one is the most positive one of the bunch so far. The way things are going, it may be the only for a bit.
Changing Views
I used the mats from these 8 x 8 frames I bought for my coffee filter flowers and covered them with the remaining filter scraps. I had a few mirror shards left too and threw them in a few of these. Trying to turn something unwanted into a little less useless. I’m hesitant to start anything else now. Lack of time with work and the pointlessness of this day to day thing is weighing down.
The Ending Must – New Album
Desperation to understand and the loss of hope is at the center of this album. Often there seems to be just inaction and unwillingness to risk a change when it comes to fixing problems in this world on top of very little will to fix what we can within ourselves (if we dare to see a problem at all). There may never be enough devastation or despair to move things along, but I hope to be wrong. I hope there’s an end one day that makes the difference.
Also available via most streaming platforms.See What Goes Wrong
This painting is small, 6in x 4in I think. Not sure I even have it anymore, but I think I understand what I was trying to say now when it was made. It is painful watching efforts come to nothing again and again. Things go wrong, then keep going wrong whether one can handle it or not. I hate it here most of the time, for real.
Allyson Marie Arts 