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State of Weight

Britt — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 09:49:34 +0000

Well, here we go. This is the very first drawing I hope to sell. It’s also the first of what will be a drawing a week that will also be available to find a new home. I haven’t gone down this road before, mostly because I make all my works for me. LOL. That said, money is simply too tight: thus, a new plan of action is required and I would love to see these drawings find a loving home.

State of Weight © Britt Conley

Britt

A Present

Britt — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 06:59:38 +0000

Working on this birthday present for a friend this week and next. The man who made and gave me this incredible teapot for my birthday, just had his as well and this is my gift back to him: my interpretation of his great ceramic work. It really is my favorite teapot in the world. In a day or two, after wrapping up the teapot details, I’ll move into the foreground and then background. It’s been a lovely, fun and frankly relaxing project. Enjoying just tooling about the page gently adding little details. It’s a heavenly way to spend time. More drawings have also been had this week. I’ll be posting the next over the next couple of days. All and all 2012 is starting out rather nicely : )

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Britt

Traverse

Britt — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 04:35:28 +0000

So, here we are… or here I am. I have survived all that has come my way and am now settled in a bit more, relaxed and with time to consider which plans, paths, ideas and journeys to traverse. It’s a whole new frontier for me. I am but a small bug in a vast open land of the unknown. Who’s to say what lies before me… everything, little things, great things? I have finally ordered the supplies needed to get started on my Christmas presents: drawings, all.

These are the experiments in a new medium that will determine how I go forward on the my new massive scaled artworks. Still looking at papers and their nuances. The two big drawing projects, after my Christmas presents are enlargements of some of the daily drawings I’ve done but made large scale and finessed on a beautiful rag paper. The other is drawing music. Something I do quite often. This time in a massive scale. I am really looking forward to getting lost in the sounds and making the shapes and effects of those sounds visible, chewable and feel-able in a sensual way. I can’t wait to see how it all unfolds. Sometimes the best made plans can be transformed in a moment and I hope to have many moments ahead as I focus yet again on creating these new works.

Traverse © Britt Conley

Britt

Introspection

Britt — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 17:51:11 +0000

So we’re coming up on the one year anniversary my almost death, and the string of deaths of several family, friends and closest friend. I have slid so close to cliff of death once but thought twice this year and made it through, unfortunately as I was recovering from my medical issues, hanging securely on the ledge of life, I got an up close and personal view of those I loved being whisked by and flung over the edge. I’m now back to 100% and doing well. But, (isn’t there always a ‘but’), I missed all but one of those funerals and I missed a lot of my year. I went out on my first Spring garden photo shoot yesterday and was struck by the cherry blossoms. The last picture I have in my mind of what my life once was, was the day I last photographed them before all hell broke loose. So for the next couple of weeks you may find me wandering amidst my mind and heart looking for answers, clues, or just taking simple diagnostics. Just making sure I’m ok and still in one piece because as the days draw on until April 2nd I may probably crack here and there, but I will back track and pick up all the pieces that fall, make sure they are ok and put them back in place. I’ll be fine. Always am. That’s what allows me to chew over the process, it can never break me. I’m a big proponent of learning, growing and changing and that is what I’ll be doing. So if you see me delving deep, It’s a good thing, not a sad thing.

So, there you have today’s drawing… Introspection.

Introspection © Britt Conley

Britt : )

Working with what you have

Britt — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 02:40:06 +0000

Being that I’ve been unemployed and laid off for 14 months I no longer have the means for art school or its models to work from. So today I used the ole imagination. It has a few serious structural failures, but aside from that it’s good practice.

Working with what you have © Britt Conley

Britt : )

Jazz Band

Britt — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 07:03:59 +0000

Well, after yesterday’s rather effusive entry I’m ready to move on : ) Visual vocabulary has been percolating for days after setting out to reset my thought process last week. Today I was able to knock out two new drawings that are quite different from anything I’ve done before. The other day I drew a great trumpet motif, today I drew the band: loving the stage life and the song.

The Jazz Band © Britt Conley

Britt

Firebird Suite

Britt — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 03:10:41 +0000

When I was five, six and seven I had a little portable record player. There were ony two records that I wanted to play on it. One was Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite, which was played into oblivion as I danced around gleefully. The other was Chopin’s Mazurkas, which my mother would only allow me to borrow as long as she set it up on the player and I only was able to hear it once through each time she let me play it. I was thinking about those lovely days today and drew this, Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite.

Firebird Suite © Britt Conley

Britt : )

First Dates

Britt — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:50:38 +0000

The great thing about first dates, well, those first dates with someone you are highly attracted to, is their sheer potential. Everyone spends most of their efforts trying not to wear their heart on their sleeve. They look for great places for it, like their pocket. The only problem is that it’s bigger than any pocket can hold and thus sits blazoned for all to see and feel, especially you’re date. But then again that is what makes for a few hours of sheer pure smiling. This one goes out to all of you who love that first date.

Britt

You Holding my Smile

Britt — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:22:51 +0000

A smile is more that an inexplicable upturn of a lip it is the brimming over of inner joy. It rises up without consent and it fills us. Smiles exude a hug, a hand hold and a love. They hold anticipation and thankfulness. But most importantly smiles cradle that joy and brim it over to those we smile towards all before that moment our lips slightly drop and joy begins to trickle away. A smile is a moment and proximity to those we love give us many many more. So smile, give a smile, take a smile. Enjoy.

Britt : )

Form Study

Britt — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 01:52:24 +0000

Context it always fun to configure. A study in form… But adding the feel, like taking a simple form of a woman to a feel of someone who waits for someone is about giving space contex, in this case it means opening a window within that space. A study in form is obvious. Context is what brings something a bit more psychological. Art is not just about viewing, it’s about experience and form in situ and form in context can merge in interesting ways. So I have her patiently waiting and the study is of form within a moment.

Will have to move this one to canvas and do a series.

Britt : )