The map of piano locations and the back of "Out Loud in the City"

42"x55" mixed media on canvas to be mounted on the back of the piano.

Painted for the back of the piano, so it can be experienced from all sides, this piece of canvas I taped to the floor of my studio and just had fun.

A map of all the piano locations through out the Indianapolis area can be found here on the Women's Fund GO Ahead & Play Map page.

Also check out this little video to hear and see more about this project.

Have a good day!

-JanettMarie

7 Paintings for "Walk Away With Art"

"Stairway to Heaven"   10.5" x 10" Mixed media on paper

"Bailey and Me"   10.5" x 9" Mixed media on paper

"Martini Moulin Rouge"   10.5" x 9" Mixed media on paper

"Orange Twist"   10.5" x 9" Mixed media on paper

"Alan Harpertini"   10.5" x 9" Mixed media on paper

"Clock Work"   10.5" x 9" Mixed media on paper - SOLD

"Martini Magic"   10.5" x 9" Mixed media on paper

These are the seven paintings I have in the Raymond James Stutz Art Gallery for the "Walk Away With Art" show the month of July.

The idea is this; there are seven artists and each artist submitted seven pieces of art to be sold at $100 each. Patrons buy a ticket here and then on July 26th at the "Walk Away With Art" reception numbers are drawn and the first number gets to make the first pick. And if you are a couple you can buy a ticket for $150 and pick two. Wow, to me that's a pretty good deal.

Anyway, I finished these last week along with the piano's finishing touches.  : )

Have a great day.

-JanettMarie
PS:  That is chickens in the background of the piano movie.

Piano un-assembled June 2013

A little experiment.

Seven paintings tomorrow.

-JanettMarie

Piano Update July 3rd - Angela this is for you!

A couple of images of the piano, still in the shop. For some reason and I don't know why (fatigue maybe) I didn't take a photo after I painted the other leg. Hmm.... I do have an idea so that you all can see the whole piano, but that will have to wait a bit too. I'll tell you this, it has to do with taking a video.

Happy Fourth of July tomorrow!

-JanettMarie

Piano Update June 28th

Counting down, I actually have more of this done than I show here, and I do only have two, yes, two days left.

Oh, Angela, I'm working like CRAZY, to finish this. I can hardly wait myself to see this all together.

The top photo is the piano assembled. The photo on the bottom left is in my studio assembled on a table. The last two photos are the sides of the piece. I actually put paint on the sides a bit today. 

Oh, Monday, Tuesday, one of those two days I will give you the full view.

Okay, gotta go back to work.

-JanettMarie

"Salvo's Martini" ---Sold

8"x6" oil on canvas panel

A finished little commission piece, painted especially for Salvo. This special surprise did surprise him. The painting was still wet on Sunday afternoon and the presentation was that evening! So I carefully put this piece in a cigar box and labeled the outside of the box with little instructions on how to open it.

Here is the photo Andrea took with Salvo and his painting.

Don't you just love it when a plan comes together!

More on the piano later.

-JanettMarie

Piano update June 18th

June 18th, the top panel is pretty much finished. 

This is June 15th, working out a few color combinations.

Last week, counting Sunday, I finished a couple of "must finish" commissions and taught a few painting classes. Now, it's time to finish the piano. It must be finished June 29th, ten days.

Getting the colors figured out and how to control my glitter application and I'm good to go, but it is a process. Today, I will try to work out the color scheme for the lower buildings.

In the mean time, last Thursday Kristen featured me in her weekly blog post. You can check it out here, there may be some things that you didn't know about me.  : )

Catch up more soon.

-JanettMarie
"Go Ahead & Play"

"Like the Wind - Madison Marie" -Sold

16"x12" mixed media on canvas

Madison Marie is so fast in this relay race, she's like the wind!

Who wouldn't be fast with hot blue shoes!

More piano photos soon.

Have a nice weekend.

-JanettMarie 

Piano June 9th

Piano pieces June 9th

Piano update. Today, I put more gesso and paint on the three pieces I have in my studio. Once I get the color established on the pieces I have here, I'll put them on the piano and finish the job.

Before I go for now, I going to put the link to the "Go Ahead & Play" project here. This is why I'm painting a piano.

More later...   : )

-JanettMarie

Saturday's Cookies and Canvas Painters

How about all the creativity going on here. These young painters chose their own colors and bedazzling for the hermit crab shell.

This is Ella with her painting. She named this little guy "Hurry, like hurry up let's go swimming".

Today is the first day of June!

Have a wonderful weekend.

-JanettMarie

"Wednesday the Pieces Come Together"

Here are the three pieces back in their respective places. This is when I stood back and thought "Hmm..." 



I put myself on the floor and I looked at this piano for awhile and this is what I came up with.


Then I stood up and looked some more, and drew some more.
Who is more surprised, you, or me?


This allowed me to know my piano a little more. Now I'm curious as to when this piano was born.

Big day Wednesday. While cleaning and wet sanding this little gem, I had to keep telling myself, "You're painting a piano, not restoring it." I may have gotten carried away cleaning, oh well, it made me feel better.

I'll touch back later, like maybe I should tell you why I'm painting this piano.

-JanettMarie

Piano Project

Sketch on pieces in my studio.

Before photo of my piano.

Piano with large panels removed.

Have you ever painted on a piano before? This will be a first for me.
I sanded and sketched on the big three pieces faux assembled in my studio.
Wednesday I'll get a chance to look at the pieces back on the piano.

More later,
-JanettMarie

"Favorable Friday" -Sold

48"x24" Mixed media on canvas

One big olive martini on a big canvas. This painting has several paintings underneath it.
Here is one version...

Early March version...

You know that was not a bad version. Oh well, do another.  : )

One of the studies from the "After Myrtle Beach" will be showing up in the future, I hope around the August area of time.

Gotta get painting.  Enjoy your day.

-JanettMarie

Before and After Myrtle Beach

"Before Myrtle Beach"

Mixed media on paper (forgot to measure 15"x22" maybe)

"After Myrtle Beach"

Water media on paper (I think 22"x30")

Busy, busy time of year. Just finished the big studio open house last weekend, we had just over 5000 people in our building. Not just people, nice quality people. My sister Suzie shot some video, one of these days I will get it You-Tube-able.

In March, I went to a water media workshop in Myrtle Beach and got myself abstracted. You can see the above before and after paintings. Some of the patrons at the open house thought it was the martini's that caused the crazy looking after painting. It really wasn't that easy. 

Lately, I've been painting larger, and larger paintings take a little longer to finish. My friend Myra, suggested that I show some "in progress" images. She's right, so I will work toward that goal and try not to be such a stranger.

Beautiful day today, enjoy!

-JanettMarie 

"Coffee Kup Hundred and 3" -Sold

12"x16" Mixed media on paper mounted on canvas

Hello, remember me, JanettMarie?

Just delivered this painting today, so I feel it's safe to post now. This coffee cup is a gift and I didn't want to take any chances to let the cup out of the bag!

The background has coffee commodity charts in there. The letters KC is the coffee symbol and the H is for March, so this is really a 2003 March Coffee symbol. TMI, right? Although with all the coffee cup paintings I've done, maybe it is number 103! You know, I think it is, how fun it that!

Have a great coffee day.

-JanettMarie