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Set Me Free

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Set Me FreeEarlier this year I was involved in a group show. As part of the show, we were asked to create a 12″ x 12″ image around the theme: Set Free.

This became a traumatizing assignment for me because I had been feeling very trapped, stuck, immobile and longing to set myself free for the last few years… It was, and still is to some degree, difficult for me to wrap my head around what freedom would look or feel like! So, I decided to do a self-portrait that captured my anxiety instead, and my need to be set free. I may allow myself the freedom to play around a bit more with the images floating over my head. The shapes represent the logistics and puzzles that I need to sort out…

 

Lost in My Mind

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Heather Carr painting acrylic lost in my mind girl lady woman sad melancholy thoughts daydream I finally got a decent photograph of this piece… so here it is!  Lost in My Mind, a self-portrait.  I finished it in late winter.  My inspiration was a sketch I found by Klimt.  The painting is acrylic on a 30″ square canvas.

Heather Carr detail painting lost in my mind acrylic melancholy thought daydream

You can see a one minute movie of this piece as a work in progress (as well as work on another piece) >>> here.

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Vanishing – An almost finished painting…

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Heather Carr acrylic painting girl woman self portrait skeletal skeleton sad
I’ve been working on a bunch of paintings.  It’s killing me that I haven’t had time to post them… And, for the next three weeks I’m going to have very little time for painting…  argh!  I’m not going to think about that now…

This is what i worked on last Friday…

Above: detail from, Vanishing, a self-portrait

30″ x 30″ acrylic paint and markers

Here’s some process pics and the almost finished piece:

Here is the almost completed piece, there are just a few things that I want to tweak: Heather Carr acrylic painting girl woman skeleton skeletal sad

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Flightless

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Often the only time that I have for painting is on Fridays.  When it’s time to put the brush down, it can be hard to set it aside.  I have 4 or 5 hours for some good tunes from my headphones, some creative chit-chat with my studio mates, and a chance for the things in my head to come to life on canvas.

Today, I’m presenting you with my first  finished work of 2012.  It’s a bit of a self-portrait, inspired by a friend’s vacation photo of a flightless cormorant.  If you are not familiar with them, flightless cormorants live solely on the Galápagos Islands.  Their wings are too sparse, and their bodies too heavy, to fly away.

Here is my underpainting:

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This is the work in progress:

Heather Carr paintingAnd, finally, the finished piece. Flightless, by Heather Carr

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