"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

"White Martini" --big #1

15"x11" mix media on paper

It's a "White Martini" and it's a bit bigger at 15"x11". This painting is oil paint, oil pastel and glitter on the arches oil paper. I mean like a paper that you're supposed to be able to paint with oil and not have to gesso it first. This is a test. Time will tell how it takes the oil paint. I've painted on paper with oil and no ground before and found the oil bleeds out of the paint into the paper.

Today I had the pleasure of painting for Vivian's birthday party. Vivi is 6 today and most of her friends are 4, 5 and 6. I think we had one 3 year old. This is one of the best age groups I have painted with. They really know how to have fun painting. It was also the first time I've had painters finished their paintings before me, and I was supposed to be teaching them. Who was teaching who today? Lots of fun! Thanks Vivian and Melody (Vivi's Mom).

-JanettMarie

All together- 30 Paintings in 30 Days - Jan 2013

January 2013- 30 paintings in 30 days

 My grid for the 30 day challenge is above and if you click here you will see a short video of all thirty paintings in order of creation.

-JanettMarie

"Petite Martini" ---#30

7"x5" mixed media on paper

The last painting for the 30 paintings in 30ish days, and the last painting on the 8 paintings grid.

Happy Friday and happy first day of February. It has been decided, February will be big paintings month. That means the 4 foot by 2 foot martini painting will be next!

In the meantime, the next post will be a grid showing all thirty paintings and a link to the challenge of all the thirty day painters.

-JanettMarie

"Manhattan Night" ---#29 -Sold

8"x6"x1.5" mixed media on canvas

Oh my goodness, what happened to Wednesday! May have been that "Manhattan Night". Just kidding, I had a pretty busy day yesterday and this painting was not ready to post. Some things take time.  : )

This little guy is not quite the 4 foot by 2 foot painting. It is the warm up for the larger painting. This little 8 inch by 6 inch gave me a chance to experiment with some of the techniques and materials that I want to use with the larger painting. Maybe February will be "Big Painting Month".

I have one more spot left on the sheet of paper of martini paintings. I have the last one started and I will photograph the full page of 8 before I individualize them (tear them apart).

More later!

-JanettMarie

"Martha's Tip Top Lemontini" ---#28 -Sold

4"x2" mixed media on canvas

This is the last tall itty bitty canvas that I have, so it's time to make 'em large. Paintings that is.

Martha had a Lemontini a couple weeks ago at the Tip Top Tavern, I have a photo of the martini. It doesn't look exactly like this, but I did use the photo for inspiration. Does that count?

Today I started working on a couple larger paintings. I hope to share one of those with you tomorrow.

Two more days to make thirty!

-JanettMarie

"Lefty" ---#27 -Sold

4"x2" mixed media on canvas

"Lefty", yes another martini. Anyone sick of these martini's yet?  This is a small 4 inch by 2 inch canvas. Today, I started on a 4 foot by 2 foot canvas. I hope to have it finished to be part of this 30 paintings in 30 days series. Three more days, I think I'll be able to have it finished.

The mixed media on this itty bitty is, yes, more glitter and some pearlized pigment. I got the pigment some time ago out of curiosity, so I've just started experimenting with it. I'll keep you posted!

Have a good night.
-JanettMarie

"Totally Cool" ---#26

7"x5" mixed media on paper

A crazy "Totally Cool" martini for a Sunday night. Yes, this is number 26 of the thirty paintings for January. I'm starting to wonder what February should bring. Hmm....

Have a good week. I hope to make another painting tomorrow!

-JanettMarie