Shayla Maddox

New Color Studies

Saturday, April 04, 2009

Now available in my Etsy shop.

Yeesh, I've been workin' lately. I need to start clearing out my studio to make room for bigger (meaning, huge) commission and show pieces that I'm starting. I haven't done two 4ft x 5ft pieces at the same time in my little apartment, since.... well, since last year, for my last show. Somehow it's baffling that I was able to do that at all, especially since I have more room now! Ah well. That's the fun of it. Although, I may have to delay any other commissions that size until after the show, unless we move into a bigger place. Woo studio fun! I still have to fit smaller, but still large show pieces in there too. Hmm.

Oh, the "problems" I have. Totally awesome.

Labels: color studies

Whoosh

Wednesday, August 06, 2008

The sound that my new schedule makes. I now have to move at hyper-speed in order to get everything done before *the big show* in November.

Lookie, a new color study:

Available in my Etsy shop.

It's one of two that I worked on along with a new Orange painting that I'm finishing up. I don't know that I'll be doing more (color studies) than that, because of my previously mentioned Whoosh Schedule. I have to streamline my whole process here. There's a lavender moon painting floating around my head that needs to come out and get on canvas soon.

Very soon.

[whoosh]

Labels: color studies, etsy

From Orange to Blue

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

...shown with the lights off...

Pale Orange & Yellow (color study) now available.

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Glossy

And also glassy, but I took these pictures before that happened.

I will list this in my Etsy shop tomorrow, Wednesday.

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Lavender & Orange

Friday, May 23, 2008

:oD

I like this one.

This was a study for a larger painting I've been working on for a while. I'd been delaying on finishing it because I wanted to get a few things right without messing up what I'd already done. (No 'undo' button on paintings!)

I think I've figured it out. At the very least, I feel more confident continuing it. I already love the main piece so much that I think I'm going to keep it.

That uv image is killer. I'm really happy with how the colors look.

Here's the Etsy listing: Lavender & Orange

Labels: color studies

glow, baby, glow

Friday, May 16, 2008

Just listed on Etsy:

Fun little color study. :o)

This one is "purple & gold," which might seem confusing since there are clearly other colors involved, but, you see, it was the purple and gold that I was learning about. That, and how this particular UV pigment works. I think I was studying "antique" rather than a particular color.

Anyway, this was made with the strongest glow pigment available. That picture was not even taken with all the lights off. I could have taken it with the lights off, but I wanted to show you how well it glows even with the lights on!! Supposedly it glows for over 12 hours straight, although I don't even know how I would test this, since it's not even dark out for 12 hours.

You know what that means, right? That means that it should still be glowing by the time the sun comes up, so it should never *not* be light reactive! Hee...

Who needs fireflies? [hey, that gives me an idea for something...]

Labels: awesomeness, color studies

No circles?!

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Have I completely lost my mind?

I had this really cool idea for something, but since "yellow and white" seemed like a difficult thing to paint, I figured I should experiment first. I'm happy with the results, and I'm super excited to start my large version. I didn't intend this specifically, but I find it interesting that it looks like a plumeria. (My favorite flower.)

I was telling Colin that, it's not that it doesn't have a circle, it's that the circle exists outside the edge of the canvas. :o) (Or maybe that's just me.)

The full listing for this Color Study is in my Etsy shop.

Labels: color studies

Some color.

Thursday, February 21, 2008

I've actually got 9 (!) paintings going right now. I think it's a record. Well, actually, the two color studies above are nearly finished, so really it's 7.

They're both studies of larger paintings that are also nearly finished. Yay! I'll list them (with the full set of pictures) in my Etsy shop tomorrow. I just added a little glass to them, for even more fun.

Of course, now that I've expanded my studio, I'm bursting out of it. I knew this would happen. The more space I have, the more paintings I start, and the more space is taken up.

Hurrah.

Labels: color studies, etsy