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Black Swan

Working on sketch for my swans I have been doing in black and white. Painting will be 18" x 24", Airbrushed. I have stopped trying to create big canvas. The last ones were 3ft x 4ft each and I felt it was a lot of footage to detail, let alone try to paint a mirror image. The next I will post is a close up of 1 swan which I felt out shines the last (post in a few days). That is 3ft x 3ft. Wanted to do a figure with the swan theme. This is what I am working on. Canvas is 18in X 24in, simple, small space to detail, but enough to express but not over extend. It has been a bit of time since I have been on, this is do to my physical limits. I find it easy to think of what I want to create, but my body, limits me. I was happy to finish 3 canvas's in the month of March. It is now April and I am trying to fill the canvas I have laying around with the ideas that have been in my head for years. It has been 4 years since my operation, I have reach the point where I will get no better and I can't work more than 1 day (This is so I can get out of the house and meet people). I have gone back to the beginning to focus. I thought, Black and white, back to basic. So I pulled out the airbrush, grab 2 colors, and try to climb a few steps.

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Renata Cavanaugh 07 Apr 2013

It is beautiful Rodney

Artist Reply: Working on canvas now, same blend of black and white with hint of orange. Will add as center piece of left and right swans. Then finish as single piece, back ground is set. It feels good to go back to beginning and regroup. I find my art is getting more detailed with less color and less emotion or if you like, thinking. I'm trying to get away from putting so much emotion in my pictures. I got to the point, a sketch had to mean so much, so I stopped sketching. I was putting my emotions and life story on paper and pouring my private life for everyone to see. I would look at it and set myself back. So I wipe away alot of my site and now start again.