Reframing Normal when Motherhood isn’t Unicorns and Rainbows
“View from the Front Seat” 8×8, oil on canvas I think I know more pregnant people at this very moment that I have ever known in my life. Not only am I going to be an aunt (times two!) but at every holiday party this season or run-in with a friend or acquaintance there […]
50 Shades of Grey and Other Lessons in Modesty: What I’ve Learned Painting Every Day
When I started painting in college, I was very much drawn to color. My professor showed us paintings of impressionists and moderns which exhibited what she called a “ping” of rich, vibrant, saturated color. I loved the “ping”. So much so that I think for years I used only “pings,” diluted only by own inability […]
Perfectionism and Art: When Worlds Collide
“Blue Eyes” 8×8 oil on canvas SOLD What is the relationship between perfectionism and art? Allow me to digress for a moment and then come back to that. In junior high my cousin Jacqueline and I filled journals with pictures we cut out of teen bop magazine and quotes we got from God-knows-where since […]
Mother and Child Art
“Embraced” 6×6, oil on canvas, $75 [button link=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/embraced/293115″ type=”big”] Buy Now[/button] Another one. This time less obviously religious. I think I’ll be paining mother and child art for a while.
Driving the World’s Longest Bridge
“Open Arms” 8×8, oil on canvas, $100 [button link=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/open-arms/292945″ type=”big”] Buy Now[/button] SOLD My eighth grade teacher made us memorize poems– everything from Tennyson to Shel Silverstein. I know all the words to the one that’s been on repeat in my mind for about a day now. This painting isn’t exactly about the poem. I drove […]
A Very November Christmas
“Advent” 8×8, oil on gallery wrapped canvas, $100 [button link=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/advent/292408″ type=”big”] Buy Now[/button] SOLD Four days before Thanksgiving and the lights on the main road have been up for weeks now. The last thing anyone needs is another Thanksgiving lament– how each year it is more and more overshadowed by Christmas. And although the middle child […]
On Suffering, Joy
“Sorrow” 6×6, oil on canvas, $75 [button link=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/sorrow/290618″ type=”big”] Buy Now[/button] I’m enjoying these Mary paintings perhaps even more than my birds. Again, this one is based on a statue, but the statue’s eyes didn’t have irises; adding them changes things quite a bit. I love the freedom of worrying only about the emotion, shape, and color and […]
Prayer in Spring
“Darting Bird” 6×6 oil on canvas [button link=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/284231″ type=”big”] Bid Here[/button] SOLD It’s cold outside for the first time this year. Really cold. So I’m letting Robert Frost do the talking for me today. And he feels like talking about spring. A Prayer in Spring by Robert Frost Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day; […]
What A Pear! When Daily Painting Means Trying New Things
“Makin’ Groceries” 6×6, oil on canvas [button link=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/283982″ type=”big”] Bid Here[/button] I’ve really enjoyed my paintings the last few days. With Carol Marine’s book still in my head (and sitting on my bedside) I’m eager to try new things, knowing I can always go back to a classic. I’m also making a great deal of […]