Author: Carriellen

A doodle…

I just watched an episode of NYC Arts on PBS. There was a segment on the NYC Ballet school, a segment devoted entirely to the

The Purple and Red Bear

Last night I dreamed about a huge house that I lived in but a bunch of other people were fighting over who would inherit it an

Survival and Guilt

So that bitch, Sandy, blew through New Jersey and ruined a lot of people’s lives.  We survived intact, property and oth

Reading and thinking

I haven’t been making much art lately because I have been too busy reading about art.  I thought I would share some

The still life…I am over it

Remember this?  It’s done.  As done as it’s going to be.  I really do not enjoy realism… too

I harnessed the lizard.

(If the title of this post makes no sense to you, see last post.)  Hey looky there…I managed to climb out of the bl

My lizard brain is clearly in control.

I need advice.  Since most of my art is abstract in nature, there is not a lot of planning that goes on before I sit down

Night Trees

I’ve been working more with acrylics lately.  I’m not used to the sticky plastic quality of the medium but it

Colorful nude

I’ve been in an art slump lately and very distracted by some health issues with our own animals and some rescue issues w

Elusive Cubism…

I’m completely fascinated by Cubism lately.  When I look at paintings like Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Nude Desce