Marie Fox Painting A Day

I Am Here, Figurative Oil Painting 24 x 24 woman at the sea, female figure ocean waves

noreply@blogger.com (Marie Fox) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:35:00 +0000

I Am Here
Oil on canvas, 24 x 24 in. $400
Email: marie@mariefox.com

I liked the pose of this figure and eventually arrived at the idea of painting a stormy sky and ocean behind her. It's something I'd do if standing at the edge of the sea on a windy day. It's exhilarating to feel the force of the wind on one's body, so long as there's a sense of safety. Woman, wind and water.

Woman at Beach Reading, Figure painting, original oil 18 x 24 figurative canvas

noreply@blogger.com (Marie Fox) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:13:00 +0000

"At The Beach"
Oil on canvas, 18 x 24 $450 SOLD
Email: marie@mariefox.com

After completing this painting, I felt it had a very peaceful feeling about it. Perhaps its because I know the serenity of a beach and a book. As winter approaches New England, I trust I'll be spending my imaginative time at the beach with paintbrush in hand. While living in Santa Monica, on the occasional hot day, I'd stay cool by painting snowy folk art landscapes from my memory. Ah, the reality of the imagined....

Red Flowers & Valentine Heart: Oil painting 11" x 14" still life, yellow rose gerber daisies, colorful glass vase, painting a day

noreply@blogger.com (Marie Fox) — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:15:00 +0000

"Flowers and Heart", Oil on canvas, 11 x 14
$90 View or purchase at Etsy
Email: marie@mariefox.com

Another remake of an earlier painting. When making the color and composition changes, I'm often oohing and aahing as the color and design elements rearrange themselves to create something entirely new. I'm always amazed at how colors become something other than themselves when placed next to or surrounded by other colors. The mystery of visual perception.

Cowboy Boots Painting: 24 x 30 oil painting, vintage cowboy boots, still life womens boots, cowgirl red tail birds, butterflies leaves

noreply@blogger.com (Marie Fox) — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:28:00 +0000

"Light On Her Feet", 24" x 30"
Email: marie@mariefox.com

I'm honored that this painting was accepted for the "Boots To Heal" Exhibit at Morton Street Gallery in Richmond, Texas. The show runs through November 14 and benefits the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

These boots make me feel like dancing! I absolutely loved painting these boots. I pretty much painted non-stop for a day and a half on this canvas. The boots are depicted larger than life. Painting big keeps me from tripping over ant-hills of tiny busy details. And up close, the image achieves a certain abstraction. Enough talk - time to go dancing!

Flour Scoop: Oil Painting 8" x 10" still life kitchen art, reflective silver, colorful small painting

noreply@blogger.com (Marie Fox) — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:52:00 +0000

"Flour Scoop"
Oil on canvas, 8 x 10 $100 plus 8.95 shipping
Email: marie@mariefox.com

I jazzed up this little painting I'd done before by adding strong pure color to the pieces of paper. I also darkened the table top and added lighter reflections in the silver cup. I do love working on a painting when it is dry. The brush drags across the surface in a wonderful way.

Red Napkin colorful original oil painting of still life: Botticelli Primavera, pitcher, olives, linen fabric napkin

noreply@blogger.com (Marie Fox) — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:13:00 +0000

"The Red Napkin", version 2.
Oil on canvas, 16 x 20
Email: marie@mariefox.com

It seems that I'm always reworking my paintings. But that's okay - I do enjoy it and I think there's a good reason to do it. This week, as I repainted "The Red Napkin", I realized that the 2nd go-round is really quite different from the first. When I'm painting the original version, I'm the one in charge, telling the paint, composition, colors, objects what I want them to do. Done. Then weeks go by and the painting starts asking me for more. The second version is the painting talking to me, telling me what needs to be done. Corny, but the process does seem to work this way for me.

By changing the border of the calendar on the wall to a dark red, the Botticelli girls celebrating Primavera (original is at the Uffizi, Florence) assumed more importance in the composition. I like the way their softness contrasts to the hardness of the pitcher but imitates its curves. I removed the potato at the far left and intensified the shadow of the pitcher.

TAG California Open Exhibition

noreply@blogger.com (Marie Fox) — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:55:00 +0000

Great news! I learned yesterday that my painting "Sounds of the Sea" won First Place and $500 in the TAG California Open Exhibition in Santa Monica, California. My friends Perry and Kathy Anderson accepted the award on my behalf at last night's reception. They reported that close to 1,000 people appeared at the gallery during the 3 hours they were there. I do wish I'd flown across the country to attend my own party! Ah...next time.

My husband's title for this scene of a woman listening to the ocean is "Girl on her Shell-Phone".

Email: marie@mariefox.com

Teenager Asleep in Window Seat, original oil painting of sleeping child

noreply@blogger.com (Marie Fox) — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:30:00 +0000

Oil on canvas, 18" x 24"
Email: marie@mariefox.com SOLD

Limes on Plate, daily painter oil painting still life of fruit

noreply@blogger.com (Marie Fox) — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:22:00 +0000

Oil on canvas, 8" x 8"
$130 plus $8.95 shipping via Priority Mail - SOLD
Email: marie@mariefox.com

This was a fun little painting to do mid-summer. Now maybe I'll go make a gin and tonic - and give my models a squeeze!

California Open Exhibition

noreply@blogger.com (Marie Fox) — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:24:00 +0000

I'm excited that my figurative painting "Sounds of the Sea" and name were included on the invitation for the TAG Gallery juried exhibit in Santa Monica. Second row, far right.

Email: marie@mariefox.com

Seated figure model drawing

noreply@blogger.com (Marie Fox) — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:01:00 +0000

Pencil on paper, 11 x 14
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Figure lying down, drawing, pencil on paper

noreply@blogger.com (Marie Fox) — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Figure drawing, pencil on paper, 11 x 14 SOLD
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Thus far in my figure drawing class, I've been drawing by observation, rather than by knowledge of anatomy. Eventually, I'd like the anatomical structure of the body to inform my drawings, along with observation of what's on the surface. To that end, I've been studying from a set of CD's called "The Structure of Man - Learn to draw the human figure from your mind". The author, Riven Phoenix, approaches drawing of the human form as an imaginative exercise, as if the artist is inventing the figure from scratch. His is a novel approach which I hope will improve my understanding of the human figure.

Oil painting of woman at beach; figurative art, self-potrait

noreply@blogger.com (Marie Fox) — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 03:27:00 +0000

Oil on Canvas, 24" x 20" - $500 SOLD
Email: marie@mariefox.com

Twenty years ago I painted myself in this pose, wearing a pink bikini. To create a "self-portrait" for my painting challenge group, I added my right hand holding a book and invented the beach scene. Soon the painting became a story, it seemed, about someone else. She's at the beach in her red bikini. She was reading, but her book has dropped back to rest against her leg. She's probably daydreaming, as one does at the beach. And there's that guy just beyond the top edge of her book. And a sailboat racing by. And it's summer...

Her Top Drawer, Oil painting, 24" x 20"

noreply@blogger.com (Marie Fox) — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:42:00 +0000

Oil on Canvas, 24" x 30"
$790 View or purchase at Etsy
Email: marie@mariefox.com

This painting has gone through several incarnations. When I first named this painting The Maiden, my narrative focus was the medieval woman portrayed on the postcard. The painting looked empty so I added colored paper and envelopes "behind" the fabric to increase the trompe l'oeil effect. I had found most of the objects in a drawer of an old bureau in the attic. They seemed to have a story to tell.

Drawing of woman, charcoal

noreply@blogger.com (Marie Fox) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0000

Pencil on paper, 14" x 11"
Email: marie@mariefox.com

Pencil Drawing: Woman Seated on Stool

noreply@blogger.com (Marie Fox) — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:33:00 +0000

Figure drawing, charcoal on paper, 14" x 11"
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Happy news! My painting Sounds of the Sea was just accepted for a juried exhibit, California Open Exhibition, at TAG Gallery in Santa Monica, California. The show runs from August 19- September 5. (Click title or scroll down page to see the painting.) This city was home to me for five years, and I'm very pleased that my art will be traveling from New England to pay a visit. Hey, those girls might just take off for the nearby beach and ditch that shell. Why not listen to the real waves....and splash in them!

Figurative art, woman on elbow

noreply@blogger.com (Marie Fox) — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:49:00 +0000

Pencil on paper, 11 x 14
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Jim Dine quote about drawing:
… I knew drawing was essential to me. It kept alive the need I had for family. It gave me a line of tradition that led me back to artists I admired, not just Rembrandt and Picasso, Matisse and Degas, but others who are dismissed but who gave their lives to drawing.

Standing figure model, drawing in pencil

noreply@blogger.com (Marie Fox) — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I bought a fabulous drawing book recently called "Classic Human Anatomy" by Valerie Winslow. The author is a skilled artist with an encyclopedic knowledge of human anatomy. Really, an unusual combination. She presents the anatomical information in great detail but always with the artist, not the medical student, in mind. I absolutely love this book and am slowly working my way through it.

11 x 14, pencil on paper
marie@mariefox.com

Sounds of the Sea, figurative oil painting, 24" x 30", two women & sea shell, Italian landscape & interior, almost nude females

noreply@blogger.com (Marie Fox) — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Oil on canvas, 24" x 30"
Email: marie@mariefox.com
$2400

Good news! This painting was just accepted in the California Open Exhibition at TAG Gallery in Santa Monica, CA. The juror of selection was Michael Zakian, Director of the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University. The show runs from Aug 19 - Sept 5, 2009.

I loved painting this big (for me) canvas of figures. It was fun including some small still life scenes at the edges of the scene, and using essentially monochromatic colors. Somehow the idea came to me to paint the standing figure listening to the ocean in a shell. So I made the landscape out the window rural, suggesting that the sea is far away.

Figure model seated on pillow, pencil drawing

noreply@blogger.com (Marie Fox) — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:00:00 +0000

Here the model is leaning on an unseen support while sitting on a folded pillow. Some parts of this drawing have a solidity I'm happy with.
Paper on pencil, 11 x 14
marie@mariefox.com

'Asleep' pencil drawing

noreply@blogger.com (Marie Fox) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:34:00 +0000

Pencil Drawing, 11" x 14"
Email: marie@mariefox.com

I recently returned to my first love (in art)- the human figure. The sketches I'll post over the next days are from a drawing class. The model poses nude, but here I caught her sleeping during a break.

"Where We Are": large figurative oil painting, women at beach, colorful

noreply@blogger.com (Marie Fox) — Tue, 19 May 2009 23:13:00 +0000

Oil on Canvas, 40" x 30" $2400 SOLD

Email: marie@mariefox.com

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This is the first large figurative painting I've ever done. It took months and endured many incarnations, but it is in the end the start of something new for me. I've always loved figure drawing and am trying to apply to figures what I've learned doing still life paintings.

The inspiration for this painting was three life-size drawings I did of myself a few decades ago. I had sat on the floor in front of a large mirror, looking, drawing then getting back into the pose. What interested me was the architecture of the body, the way the torso and limbs embraced space.

For the painting, I combined the three drawings into a single composition, and made the bodies and faces different from me and each from the other. I like the mixed perspectives which remind me of the folk art I painted for 15 years (www.mariefox.com). And the colors seem to work. On to the next...

Red Shoes: still life square oil painting by daily artist, colorful

noreply@blogger.com (Marie Fox) — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:11:00 +0000

"The Red Shoes", 12 x 12, oil on canvas
$120 Plus $8.95 shipping SOLD

Carrots, Coffee & Orange: oil painting 12" x 12" square, fruit & vegetable still life, kitchen art, coffee mug, orange and blue, Marie Fox

noreply@blogger.com (Marie Fox) — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:43:00 +0000

Oil on Canvas, 12" x 12"

$120 plus Priority Mail shipping SOLD

Email: marie@mariefox.com

This is one of those paintings that just happened....and I'm happy with it. It seems playful, a good thing. The photo sent the colors in a cool direction. The yellows are really less green and the cup more lavender.

Three Eggplants: Colorful oil painting still life of garden vegetables

noreply@blogger.com (Marie Fox) — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:00:00 +0000

"Huddled Eggplants"
Oil on canvas, 11" x 14" $120 - SOLD
Marie Fox