anita murphy

Started the grisaille of Comfort Zone this week. This is the first pass. Painting is a refound pleasure!

Interesting lesson learned doing this on how colour moves objects within the visual plane.

Its been too long – but I am freshly returned from rainy Spain and ready to pick up my brushes. A couple of photos from the trip – I have a passion for doors and windows and this pair from the Bullring in Ronda particularly attracted my attention. Super blue shadows! The flowers were just…

“Jarhead” – graphite on paper It was a pleasure to do this for a friend. “The devil is in the details, and everything we do in the military is a detail”Hyman George Rickover

I’ve been very bad at posting lately – mainly because I really didn’t feel I had anything to show. However, I’ve been told that I need to post something so I am doing so (and may even post more in the next day or two!). I’ve cut this section out of a pastel that I…

Comfort Zone Solitary Vision I think I am finished with these, at long last! I’m starting to work with pastels with my mentor, Michael Newberry, and am finding using colour again an enormous but pleasant challenge. I hope to post some of these soon. Blue flower, red thorns! Blue flower, red thorns! Blue flower, red…

I’ve been unable to post for the past few days as for some reason Blogger was being censored here! Thrilled to find today that I could log in! Continued work on “Solitary Vision” – nearing completion. Also “Study of a chair” which is preparation for another piece. “Give me the liberty to know, to utter,…

Language… has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.” Paul Tillich “I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind” Albert Einstein

I’m late with posting my resolutions – there are, as usual, many. From using handcream more often and taking my vitamins more regularly to creating a serious amount of artwork. “May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every windowopen to great possibility.” – Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey 1995 “We all need to have…