Cinnamon and Tulle Red Party Dress Painting by Nancy Medina

 Cinnamon and Tulle Red Party Dress

by Nancy Medina

36X24

Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas

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Cinnamon and Tulle Red Party Dress is the newest bit of haute couture in Flower Mound Studio this week, as my dress collection expands! My first year of college, the counselors all said to take a variety of courses in everything you are interested in before deciding on a major. Having drawn the female figure and dresses for most of my adolescence, I decided to dip my toe into Fashion Merchandising 101. I loved the field trips to Market in Dallas, seeing the models who towered over we normal folks with their ultra thin, ultra long arms and legs and their clownishly exaggerated makeup for the bright lights and cameras. And the idea of being able to see all those floors and floors of clothes before they ever made it into the stores was a bit of heaven on earth! Today I went to the book store and found some awesome second hand books on drawing the female figure, and fashion from the 1950s. It's like Fashion 101 all over again in Flower Mound Studio!

 The dress code tonight in the studio is formal!

Rain Dance in Red Original oil painting by Karen Tarlton

Rain Dance in Red

16x20

Oil

"Two roads diverged in a wood,

 and I---

Took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference."

~Robert Frost

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Ardent - Palette Knife Oil Painting by Judy Mackey

"Ardent"

6 x 6 inches, Oil on Board

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I've been painting angels and angels and angels it seems and this one was going to be a study for another "couple angel".  I had it sketched with my brown pencil but I didn't quite like it....it sat around in my stack of 6 x 6 boards waiting it's fate.  

So this afternoon as I was looking for another board to tone to get ready for more painting I grabbed this board and was going to wipe the pencil sketch off with some turpentine when I realized that the posture of the two was rather nice.   I outlined it with some brown paint and then the next bit was to put down red for the dress - suddenly it came alive.  I didn't want to mess with it and lose that "feeling"....because it was when I painted the red the word "Ardent" popped in my head.

This painting came together so quickly and I'm really pleased with it...I hope you will feel the same way too.