the end of the canvas studies

In future, all of my preparatory studies will be on paper rather than canvas.  You can see the handful of  remaining canvas studies here. 

Working out the Green, a series of 12x12 oil sketches

Turn, 18x36 inch oil study

 

 

 

My Year on Broadway

My Year on Broadway (2012) oil on canvas 30x40 inches $2400

Stillness Rushes

Stillness Rushes  20×20 inches.  oil.

Genie Maples painting

This is part of my new series of affordable mid-range work.  $800.

Breadth of experience

I’ve been painting very full work lately.  Layers and layers.  Vivid colors, complicated compositions, lines swooping, patches of color echoing across the canvas, patterns playing out and morphing, full, full, full.

Until.

Until I take a breath and paint from stillness in the middle of the night, down so deep in myself that it seems my hand is moving with all the speed of a glacier, and that is the right speed for what I have to say, because there is so much carried on the brush on the way to canvas.

Genie Maples oil sketch Critical Mass #1 (2012)

 

 

Genie Maples oil sketch Critical Mass #2 (2012)

Genie Maples oil sketch Critical Mass #3 (2012)

And I can breathe again.  I am here.

~Genie

 

5×4 feet

oil on linen

colorstudy 2012C Genie Maples oil 36x18

10 x 20 color study

untitled study - 10x20 inches - oil ©2012 Genie Maples

Three new little paintings

Turnstyle 10x20 oil ©2012 Genie Maples

Here and There - 12x12 - oil ©2012 Genie Maples

If I Were a Child, 12x12, oil, ©2012 Genie Maples

 

The Year I Caught a Fish - oil on linen - 60x60 inches ©2012 Genie Maples

new painting But I Like Her

But I Like Her - 12x36 inches - oil