Felder Ann
I just finished my first commissioned portrait, and it was a stretch!! The difficulty with doing a portrait for someone you know is that it needs to look like them…obviously.
Closeup of Felder Ann
Felder Ann has the most extraordinary eyes. I’m delighted that her parents felt that I captured them in the painting. Unfortunately, the photographs don’t capture the painting very well. New camera, wrong setting…
"Going Home"
I did this painting of “Going Home” a while ago from my imagination. It got triggered when I saw a large woman with her baby on her back during a fire drill in an apartment building in Alexandria, VA. That got combined with images from Saba, an island in the Caribbean, that had stuck in my mind. More and more, I see that I’m moved by scenes of vulnerability and light.
I want to redo this painting in time for the Telfair Museum Show in Savannah, November 11th. This time I’ll get a model (it might have to be my daughter, Katrina – I’ll just fatten her up…more Starbucks).
This is a big show, and I’ve promised myself I’d have a unified look. I’ll post things as I complete them.
Thanks!
Sarah
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Drawings & Noodlings
This is a ten minute sepia sketch of this same model in preparation for painting.
Seated woman
Another ten minute sepia drawing of the model reaching for the chair. This one really captured her profile.
Standing Model
This piece was juried into the Georgia Watercolor Exhibition, a national competition. It's been quite a ride getting this framed painting to the gallery as it got lost in transit almost three weeks ago. The postman remembers delivering it, and the receptionist remembers receiving it but nobody knew where it went. Today, I called to see if anyone had found it, and the woman gasped. It was on the wall and nobody knew how it got there! I may never know what happened but it found it's way just in time as the final jurying is next week.
Just Fishing
Margaret forwarded this to me after I spoke with you this morning
I had no idea how fantastic your work is
You can sense such life in your subjects
What a beautiful gift you have, Sarah. Thank you for sharing it.
Sarah,
Wonderful work! I’ve always loved your style. Thanks for sending and so glad to read about Telfair. Don and I were there a few years go and loved the place.
Betsy
Sweet Sarah-
I love your artwork. You have such a gift. Beautiful portrait! Thanks for sending me this note about your blog!
Hugs to you!
Missy Donna
Sara,
These look great and the portrait is wonderful.
Hugh
Sarah, I love seeing what you are doing at the moment.
Lovely pieces. Good luck at the Telfair Museum Show.
Carole