Author: Denise Hopkins

Madonna, Mother and Child Art– April Challenge Day 5

Blue Madonna, Mother and Child 12×24 acrylic on canvas $225 SOLD This Madonna emerged after layers and layers of lines and textures– I set out not to create a work of art but to pray.  It started as a horizontal painting, the lines across it vertical, full of tension and confusion.  When the image of mother […]

Fly Away 3- Another Pelican Painting- April Challenge Day 4

Fly Away 3 6×6 acrylic on canvas $75 SOLD I’m tired.  I’m teaching painting classes and trying desperately to work on my own art. I’m taking care of my son full time.  It’s only day 4 of my 30 in 30 challenge for the month of April, and I’m struggling.  Cutting it close.  My pelicans […]

Fly Away 2, Pelican painting- April Challenge Day 3

Fly Away Pelican 2 6×6 oil on canvas $75 SOLD Okay.  Another pelican painting.  Expect a lot of them this month.  I rode the causeway early yesterday morning and was greeted by six pelicans flying in the opposite direction.  This is rare.  I never see more than two flying together and even a couple is odd. […]

Mother Child Art- April Challenge Day 2

Mother and Child 1 $75 Click to Purchase I’ve been working on a series of “little madonnas”.  Some are based on real faces in which I reference photographs.  Others are abstracted, created in my imagination, and, I’d like to think, expressive and raw (will be posting these soon).  This one is based on a couple different […]

Pelican In Flight– April Challenge Day 1

In Flight 6×6 acrylic on gessoboard $75 click to purchase I’m beginning my thirty paintings in thirty days with this little guy who is flying on top several failed paintings.  I can’t even remember what the surface originally looked like, but I love the way you can see some of the darker layers underneath the yellow/orange/pink […]

The Encounter

Encounter, 8×16, acrylic on wood Mary, as in “Blessed Virgin,” never meant all that much to me.  I hung around Catholic circles most of my life and saw her pious, blue-eyed face plastered in various corridors of my life– a statue at my grandmothers house, prayer cards slipped into my purse or pocket, jewelry, my […]

Pursuing Pelicans (yet again)

Still Pelican 12×12, acrylic on gesso board I love pelicans in flight, their graceful navigation of skies often culminating in a nosedive marked by tenacious precision.  But the still pelican is potential.  Power and grace not yet unleashed.  The still pelican is possibility. When I lived in New Orleans, I’d drive down bayou St. John […]

Fly Away

Fly  Away, 6×6 acrylic on canvas $75 SOLD   Years ago, before my pelican obsession, a friend of mine asked me to do a pelican painting for her husband.  She said he loved pelicans in flight. I did the painting, but don’t remember being overly excited about it, and I shudder to think about what it […]

Blue Oyster

  Blue Oyster, 8×8 acrylic on canvas $100 SOLD I’ve been wanting to paint oysters for quite some time mostly because of the subtle colors you can find in their shells and slimy insides.  Unfortunately, when I was ready to paint one, none were actually available to me.  In the future, I see myself going to […]