Fight or Flight
“Fight or Flight” 30×24, oil on canvas $337.00 [button link=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/fight-or-flight/251566″ type=”big”] Buy Now[/button] SOLD I started this pelican painting weeks ago, and just like the last piece I wrote about, it started off magically. In mere moments I had shapes and colors I loved.
Blobs and Scratches, Blue Heron Painting # 2,537
“Watchful” 18×24, oil on gessoboard, $262 [button link=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/watchful/251227″ type=”big”] Buy Now[/button] Blue herons in my dreams. Never moving, always still. This one started so magically. In ten minutes I had a loose sketch– thin paint that flowed across the canvas. But real paintings can’t take ten minutes. Impossible.
The Art of Parenting: You Win Some, You Lose Some, and Then…
“When He Looks at Me”, 8×10, oil on canvas My mom has a friend whose daughter had triplets. Triplets. They came over today. It took both mother and daughter to carry in three fancy- looking baby carriers which they then sat down on our kitchen floor. Three sets of wide-eyed, incredibly calm eyes looked […]
Bend Don’t Break. Focus, Direction, Vision
“Focus” 24×12, oil on canvas, $225 [button link=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/focus/330235″ type=”big”] Buy Now[/button] I’ve worked on this one on and off for weeks now, sometimes for as little as ten minutes. It’s darker than most of my paintings. More monochromatic. I used the palette knife again, enjoyed piling on the paint in thick layers, amused at the […]
Visions and Revisions
“Love Song” 24×36, oil on canvas SOLD There’s this story about Picasso. I’m not sure if it’s true or not, and I have mixed feelings about it. A woman spots Picasso at a French cafe. She excitedly recognizes him and asks if he will do a small drawing for her. He quickly sketches a […]
Art and Warring
“Waiting for the Muses”, 22×28, oil on canvas, $312 [button link=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/waiting-for-the-muses/243429″ type=”big”] Buy Now[/button] This one has been a long time coming. In the mess of my separation and still eventual divorce, I have things, objects, that don’t quite have a home in this temporary space I’ve found myself– someone else’s home. Old paintings. Paintings whose […]
Palette Knife through the Heart
“Diving In” 18×24, oil on canvas, $260.00 [button link=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/diving-in/240781″ type=”big”] Buy Now[/button] I love painting small and often. In fact, not producing a painting a day for the last month and half has left me feeling unproductive even though I’ve put in at least close to the same miles on the canvas. Is […]
Always Sketch First and Never Say Always
Mockingbird 1, 6×6, oil on gessoboard, $75 [button link=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/mockingbird-1/239229″ type=”big”] Buy Now[/button] SOLD Mockingbird 2, 6×6, oil on gessoboard, [button link=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/mockingbird-2/239231″ type=”big”] Buy Now[/button] SOLD Hemingway wrote that writing is easy, you just sit at a typewriter and bleed. Painting is easy too. I’ve been away for a while. Not actually away, but away from […]
Out of the Mouths of Babes
“Green Feathers” 6×6, oil on gessoboard, $75 [button link=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/green-feathers/236091″ type=”big”] Buy Now[/button] This is a Cuban Tody, a beautiful little bird I discovered a couple days ago as I scoured through images of different bird species online. I’ve said it before, but I’m a bird watcher. I watch them in my backyard, on my drives […]