"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

"149 Bleecker Street"

20"x20" mixed media on canvas

It's seems to me that listening to the blues while sipping a martini only makes sense.

It's Friday! Have a nice one.     : )

-JanettMarie

"Gray Goose" or "Grey Goose"

12"x11" Mixed media on paper 

You guessed it, another martini painting. Is it one martini, two martinis or three?

More later!

-JanettMarie

"Four is More" -Sold

about 12"x11" mixed media on paper

This painting I was trying to be a little calm. Calm colors and hopefully a calm feeling, and it is loaded with olives. If that is what those big dots are.  : )

Just before the big snow hit our city yesterday afternoon, I got to paint kitty's with some young enthusiastic artists. We finished just in time to beat the snow and oh we had a wonderful time. See for yourself!

We are hoping for Spring.

Here is Rogue, she followed right along with me, right down to the fish tag on here orange kitty's collar.

Enjoy your day,

-JanettMarie

"Happy St. Paddy's Day" -Sold- Retitled "Beam Me Up Scotty"

about 12"x12" watermedia on paper

Green as promised, and a little bit of blue, some yellow and more.

Yes, another martini and it's taking off!

-JanettMarie

"Sunny Lounge Martini" -Sold- Retitled "Santa Fe Martini"

about 10"x10" watermedia & graphite on paper

A cocktail loungey type painting. It's soft and smooth except for the occasional bumps in the road.

Yes, there is a martini in there, use your imagination.  : )

Another tomorrow, I have pretty good internet again.

Oh, I should have posted a green painting, but I don't have a photo just yet. Rain check?

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

-JanettMarie

"The Stroke of Midnight"

about 11"x5" mixed media on paper

How about this one? A little different for me. It has my collage papers, acrylic "skins", string, ink, oh my! A lot of fun. The black is a piece of archival mat board. Go figure, I would have never thought I'd do something like this. My world continues to expand.  : )

-JanettMarie

"Asian Dream"

6"x6" (maybe) aqua media on paper

Hello, it's been a while, busy month and, I hate this part, I was sick for a while and it was hard to get motivated to do anything. Yes, who hasn't been ill this winter season?

Good news, I took a workshop last week and learned so much about collage. Yes, collage and no I didn't already know how to do it, so glad  to have taken from Carrie Burns Brown.

This piece, "Asian Dream" is actually an exercise using color families and assembly of the artwork.

I have another piece to post tomorrow, then I may disappear again for a week, but more of that tomorrow.

-JanettMarie

"Fat Twosday" --- big #3 -Sold

14"x18" mix media on canvas 

Happy Mardi Gras! The festive look of this painting is just right for today, Fat Tuesday in New Orleans.

Not as big as the last painting, but it is bigger than the itty bitty's I painted last month.

Saturday, "monsters" was the theme with the young painters of Cookies and Canvas. I love all the creativity going on here.

A lot of monsters here!

Three monster painters.

Regan with her monster. 

Everyone learned what Cyclops means. One-eyed monster.  : )

-JanettMarie

"Cherry Martini" ---big #2

4 feet by 2 feet mix media on canvas

Big martini anyone? Finished the 4 foot by 2 foot painting I've been talking about since January. And because I know Myra will want to see how big it is I took a photo of the painting leaning against the door of my studio. Since the above photo doesn't give the work justice, I have a close-up or detail of the glass.

For size comparison

Detail of "Cherry Martini"

Have a great day!

-JanettMarie

"City of Suspended Disbelief" -Sold

40" x 54" mix media on canvas

Painting finished and delivered. Yes, it's a big one at 40 inches by 54 inches and 1.5 inch deep.

If you look closely, on the bottom left side is a tiny house, it's Vicky and John's house. Also in the painting is a milk truck, little did I know that Vicky's daughter drinks 4-5 glasses of milk a day. Wow, how cool it that? Perfect home for this "wobbly buildings" painting.

Below is a photo of the painting in it's new home.

And, did I mention there is glitter in the sky?

-JanettMarie