Saturday, June 4, 2011

My video Channel on youtube /Link

http://www.youtube.com/user/femmeartistmuse

This is the Link to my channel on Youtube where you can see videos that I created . Please check out my link and enjoy watching my art work .

Joseph the model - oil painting

Joseph the model, oil painting on canvas .
I just finished working on this painting ....Joseph is a great model ..It took several long hours and days  to achieve this painting ...I think it was the most long process that i followed to capture the emotion and the atmosphere ....the loneliness...the sitting still of the model against this calm blue background..When I started this painting, I was not sure how it is going to end up,.It is my first painting of a full figure with that size of canvas .  










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Friday, June 3, 2011

Hooka painting process on wood panel

  The inspiration of this painting  came from my nostalgie to my country....Sharazad goes west ....and evoking memories of the music and dance ...I paint this subject with a lot of emotions...Now the hooka  cafe is very Popular in USA....
I had to borrow the Fez and the musical instrument to make the set up ....





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Thursday, June 2, 2011

Portraits I have done recently

Painting portrait form life models become my passion...To depict the emotion on the faces and to paint a likeness of the model is a struggle and strive but when achieved , it is  a satisfaction ....






My daughter and my Grand-daughter .
This painting was done on early 2010

Portraits- Oil Paintings ...

A drawing process with charcoal vine and pencil

Drawing with charcoal on toned paper


Drawing with charcoal

RED ROCKS- SEDONA-AZ


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Sunday, May 29, 2011

My cactus ....the process






I did this painting in Jerome , Arizone ...The cactus plant was by the entrance of the building where we had the studio .  I got very inspired ...this was the first painting that I acheived in Arizona before I started  to do the landscape there which was really beautiful to paint and to capture the light and sun of the desert .
RED ROCKS -SEDONA-AZ
The painting  is the Red Rock ....I like those red rocks, they are majestic ...

Saturday, May 28, 2011

sculpture - seated girl

still life vase and mandarines

 Still life- Vase with mandarines and grapes .Oil painting on linen canvas  - size: 16"x 20" - ready to be framed to enter a show and ready for sale ...

just finished this painting few days ago. I hope you like it . Usually I spend more time in painting portrait and human figure , but also I enjoy to set up for a stil life  painting in the studio .


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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

HOOKA PAINTING PROCESS ON WOOD PANEL (UNFINISHED)

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THIS A VIDEO SHOWING THE PROCESS I FOLLOWED TO PAINT ON WOOD PANEL .I FIRST PUT  A LAYER OF WHITE GESSO AND I DID DRAW OVER IT AND THAN I PAINTED . THE PART OF WOOD LEFT WITHOUT PAINTING IS GOING TO BE STAINED WITH A THIN WARM LAYER .....YOU CAN SEE THE SET -UP OF THE OBJECTS. I WORKED FROM LIFE ...I LIKE TO EXPERIEMENT WORKING ON WOOD WITH GESSO , IT IS KIND OF FUN ...I USED THE TECHNIQUE OF UNDERPAINTING WITH BURNT UMBER ....I WILL POST THE FINISHED PICTURE OF THE WORK SOON. I HOPE YOU WILL ENJOY WATCHING THE VIDEO AND LISTNING TO THE SONG ......

Friday, May 20, 2011

Oil Painting: winter by the river


I love this painting and the reflection of the sky on the water . I made this painting from a photo that I took during a trip to the river in Cottonwood , Arizona...Plein air painting is more desirable to me, but sometime I do work at the Sudio with a photo reference ...

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Sculpting- clay modeling



















  1. I am working in a sculpture - a girl seated on the floor - I am posting some photos of the process ....sculpting and modeling are very tactile ...one can feel the emotion in modeling a human body ...we are made from clay ...with a spirit ..so in working on my piece , I am really concentrating in the process to create my little" master piece "...Rodin and Camille Claudel expressed their feeling and emotions with a tons of work...they are superb...I visit often the museum of RODIN in Philadelphia ...wow ...I spent hours looking at one piece and I don't get enough....

Paintings

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=989gDa0y0Pk

FROM LOVE TO ART ....TO LOVE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=989gDa0y0Pk


P.S   ALL THE PAINTINGS ARE LARRY'S WORK AND SOME ARE MINE .
ACTUALLY , YOU CAN GUESS....YE AP
THE SCULPTUREs ARE RODIN 's WORK. Le penseur , and the others are for Camille Claudel...
love it!!!!!!!!

to love with art ...to art with love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEO5C6Hdv6g

My journey in Sedona and Jerome in Arizona ...in our studio

Tuesday, May 17, 2011



About me ...........I love to paint out door ....this was in Sedona, Oak Creeck , AZ ...I really forget about everything around me when I paint .......I dont care about heat or cold ....I just want to capture the moment ...I remember that day where we stopped to paint and I did have a better easle on me so I sat down on the grass and start to paint .......oooooops I wished I had a better easle .....I really could not afford to buy a professionnal one in those days .......

Painting in door , in the studio  of Jonathas De Silva , in Boca Raton , Florida ,....This is one of my earliest paintings in Florida in 2006 .  .. with instructions about old master techniques ....doing underpainting with burnt umbers and ochres ..........I loved that technique ... it is my passion .....I had a set up in front of me  ...

video - my drawing process-I create this video to show you the process i follow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgtTzN9l3Dw

My painting process / portrait






Portrait in progress ....I worked in this portrait for few weeks ...I used glazing technique ...I had to wait  for each layer to dry to be able to work over it again and again....