Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Chinatown, San Francisco

I just finished Chinatown, San Francisco.  It is a mixed media piece that is painted on Chinese newsprint and features the beautiful red cloth/paper lanterns that hang over the streets of Chinatown in San Francisco.  I was drawn to the brilliant reds and yellows of the lanterns and banners as well as the chaotic atmosphere of the crowded streets.  I hope you enjoy it!

Thursday, January 19, 2012

January Sunshine

Today is a cold, gray wintery day in Ohio and my mind keeps going back to this past summer when I traveled to the Italian Amalfi coast.  The steep hills were terraced with beautiful lemon groves laden with huge bulbous lemons.  My senses were overwhelmed: bright yellows,  sap greens, citrus perfumes, blue sky. My taste buds popped with the sweet and sour limoncello syrup.  I tried to capture this feeling in Limoncello, a painting I finished a few months ago.  If you look closely you will see the yellow netting of the lemon bag incorporated on the cut flesh of the lemons, and the lemon label in some of the leaves.

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Happy New Year!

This year starts off with a bang for me professionally, as my new website has officially launched!  You can see it with the link above:  www.bevdarwin.com.  It was designed by Evelyn Davis of Davis Walker Creative and is based on my signature used for my paintings. I hope you like it.  The home page rotates to a different painting each time you visit the site.  Gallery One is a collection of my thesis paintings and Gallery 2 is a collection of some of my 2011 paintings.  I have posted one of my 2011 paintings, Desert Reef, on this blog.  It is my response to a trip to Arizona this year.  As I surveyed the desert landscape, the cacti reminded me of underwater staghorn coral reefs.  The two environments couldn't be more different, and I thought the juxtaposition of the two would be fun and visually compelling.  Enjoy!