Three recently finished works (L-R):
Little Memorial 12: Unicorn Club
Little Memorial 19: Tomorrow's Perfect Circle
Little Memorial 6: Six Ways From Sunday
All acrylic on canvas, 6-9 inches in height.
Introducing the Untitled Girl Project
I am full steam ahead on a new body of paintings exploring the various roles, archetypes, ideals, and social experiments that teenage girls use to figure out who they are. My thoughts and ideas for this work are still coming out a mile a minute and have not yet gelled. I am making a lot of notes, doodles, sketches, and folders full of images to help me along. Mark your calendars: my new project will debut on 2014-04-04 at aka gallery in Oklahoma City.
I have started a Tumblr blog* to help organize some of the visual material informing this new work:
I'll be posting images on a new theme each week. Right now, it's Teen Witch "Week" for the rest of October (archived here). Here are a few selections to whet your appetite for seances, cute occult accessories, go-away lipstick, black lace, white lace, ectoplasm, crystals, and all manner of witchy vibes.
Click on any image to view it on Tumblr. All copyrights remain with the images' respective creators.
* This Tumblr blog is potentially NSFW. Use your best judgement.
Get Cool, Boy
In homage to that time of year in Oklahoma when hot and cool are in constant conflict. Click on any image to view its source.
Boy, boy, crazy boy, Get cool, boy!*
That's When I Knew. Acrylic on canvas, 18 x 18 inches, 2013 by Sarah Atlee.
Got a rocket in your pocket, Keep coolly cool, boy!
complements by Flickr user Susan Sermoneta.
Don't get hot, 'Cause man, you got Some high times ahead.
Untitled by Flickr user Bill Rogers.
Take it slow and Daddy-O, You can live it up and die in bed!
A Dream of the Sea. Oil on canvas, 120cm diameter by Andrew Salgado.
Boy, boy, crazy boy! Stay loose, boy!
Glass Study. Oil on canvas, 6 x 6 inches, 2013 by Jelaine Faunce.
Breeze it, buzz it, easy does it.
ice on a rope by Flickr user Leo Reynolds.
Turn off the juice, boy!
volunteer park conservatory: succulents! by Flickr user Letha Colleen Myers.
A Huge and Fabulous Ralli from this post on theSri Threads blog.
Go man, go, But not like a yo-yo
Impression, Sunrise. 1873 by Claude Monet.
schoolboy. Just play it cool, boy,
Crackers and Bowl
Crackers & Bowl. Acrylic on canvas, 12 x 12 inches, 2013 by Sarah Atlee.
I spotted this lone packet of crackers one day at the coworking space where my studio used to be. It looked so pitiful. I thought, don't worry, little packet of crackers all alone. You may be eaten, but you will not be forgotten.
More food and drink paintings will be on display at Delish! this October at Broadway Wine Merchants in Oklahoma City. Dates and details on the way.
Sushi: White Plate
Sushi: White Plate. Acrylic on canvas, 12 x 12 inches, 2013 by Sarah Atlee.
Part of my new series Delish!
Acrylic paints have the wonderful property of being either transparent or opaque. Typically I build an acrylic painting using multiple layers of paint, either thinned with water or mixed with a medium such as Golden's glazing liquid. I mostly use Golden's fluid acrylics for their high concentration of pigment in a low-viscosity vehicle.
For this piece, however, I decided to make the background and shadows flat, opaque, and graphic in order to highlight the details in the sushi rolls themselves.
More food and drink paintings will be on display at Delish! this October at Broadway Wine Merchants in Oklahoma City. Dates and details on the way.