This was one of my paintings in the show. It measures 600mm by 1200mm, quite a large one. Wherever I go of late I've been seeing Chinese lanterns so I decided to incorporate them into a painting. I really enjoyed painting this. I used acrylic paint and lots of layers, building up the colours and adding collage materials, finally I painted in the lanterns.
These are photos of my finished 'Persian nights' necklace made with my fabric beads. I ended up displaying my jewellery on canvases that I painted to suit the individual piece. I was quite pleased with the result. Unfortunately I didn't sell this piece so it may end up in my Etsy store or at one of the galleries.
Back to the Keith Lo Bue workshop. I went junking with Jen and Chris on the Wednesday afternoon and this was my find at The Mill market, a place with lots of individual stalls and great finds. When I showed it to Keith he told me quite a few of his hand made tools came from the insides of an old typewriter, so I'm looking forward to taking it apart, one day.
30 comments:
Congratulations on your exhibition. That lantern painting is just to die for. Beautiful
Your Chinese lantern painting is beautiful, Ro, I love all those layers.
Glad you had such a successful exhibition and good luck for the next one.
Im so proud of you and the exhibition,I know you worked so hard for it and I hope it was all you hoped it would be.Im sure the next one will be even better
Jen
Congratulations Ro! I lOVE the lantern painting! What a great idea about displaying your jewellery against painted canvases! Gorgeous necklace . . . and the banner is awesome too!
Very talented pair you are!
cheers
Maria
Congratulations on your exhibition. I LOVE your painting.
xxxx
I love your blog, I love your colors...so rich! The sepia ones that you did a long time ago were super too!
omgosh Ro, to meet you would be a dream come true! But to see your art in person would be a mind-boggling experience!
(in LaLa Land after this post)
~monica
Ro, the painting of the lanterns is to die for. I love it.
Still cant get my eyes off those delicious fabric beads.. Hope you get to teach them soon.
Whoops - cant believe i missed it Ro, but I'm glad it all went well. The lanterns are stunning - thanks for sharing them.
x mandy
I am so happy your exhibition was a great success! Your lantern painting is wonderful, is light & airy and has a happy feeling to it!
That necklace is wonderful. Gorgeous fabric beads.
Glad your exhibition went well and that your going to have another one. Mine is not far off. Sometimes I get excited and and other times I get nervous.
OMG....your necklace is spectacular, Ro. I really appreciate the close up and the detail. Those beads are just beautiful and are perfectly named.
The colors in the painting are amazing. Is your house full of color, or do you have muted colors on which to display all of this incredible work?
Hi Ro
I have heard such wonderful reports from your exhibition, nice to see some more of your wonderful art here and congratulations.
Those lanterns are delicious.
Thanks for showing all this beauty.
Congrats on the success of the exhibit and have to say the work you created was divine. Great pics of the lantern painting and your necklace is just AMAZING. Your an inspiration RO and thanks so much for sharing
WOW RO!
The Chinese lanterns painting is LOVELY!!!
I am a fan!
AND I love the results of your Lo Bue class!
Cool stuff!!!
Amber
"ONYA" Ro. Well done.
Beautiful painting - beautiful beads. Just wonderful; you are full of brilliant ideas. xo
That piece with the lanterns is stunning Ro,wish I could have been there to see it in person. Funny I just posted a collage I did last summer that the lanterns in it were so important to me. The lovely lighting that they give off! The jewelry is also wonderful,such talent!
the lantern painting is just so colourful and divine
Ro, your lantern painting and the persian nights necklace are beautiful! I'm so glad you had such a successful exhibition. I would love to have been there.
ohhh my first instinct is that its sacriledge to take that apart... a sculptor friend does it alot to typewriters and i am always trying to get them back from her... she likes to tease me! :)
wow - you are one busy woman - painting, jewelry making, altered art - congratulations on your show - it looks like it was fun! and thanks for stopping by and your kind comment.
This painting is beautiful, the red lanterns and the background, and your background too... I also LOVE your necklace! Roxanne
Hi Ro
Love the photo of you and the lovely Patsy outside the exhibition. You both look very happy!
Very pleased you are planning to have another exhibition together next year. I will definitely be saving up my pennies for that one so I can support your art:).
Your Chinese lantern painting is stunning. And you know how much I love your necklaces.
Looking forward (very much) to catching up with you and Patsy on Saturday. Will be in contact shortly to arrange times, what to bring etc. My friend Selda is definitely coming along (hope this is OK).
Have a good week!
Dot xx
Lovely lantern painting and the fabric beads are awesome!
Be prepared for lots of hard work to take the typewriter apart, they are monsters!
xo
Marie
Do you have time to read all these comments? Hope so! Love your picture with Patsy. Your outfit is perfect for your artist self. Beautiful blues. And I want to make some of the cloth beads - the textures, along with the beads at top and bottom - look like a great, fun project. Jeanne
Congratulations on your exhibition! I love the painting, such gorgeous colours as ever. I've recently had an exhibition too and although it went really well I'm in no hurry to plan another one so I admire your tenacity.
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