by Barbara Downs | Jan 10, 2014
In my last blog post, I hinted that I might paint some faces, and I have indeed done so. I’m not so interested in painting faces on the large-scale figure paintings because a face grabs all the attention. But I am certainly interested in faces, so here’s...
by Barbara Downs | Aug 31, 2013
Although I’ve been spending most of my time on the large figurative paintings, I am still working with bird imagery and other pieces based on the natural world. I just finished this drawing, Heron Double-Take. Thank you, Susana Arias for this LARGE sheet of...
by Barbara Downs | Aug 30, 2013
With Open Studios a month away, this is probably the last of the big paintings that I will complete for the time being. This painting went through the most drastic changes of any of this series. It hung on my wall for several months in a very different iteration,...
by Barbara Downs | Jun 16, 2013
I now have these twelve of large-scale paintings, all completed over the last year. They all are acrylic/mixed-media on unstretched canvas, approximately 6’x9′. Falling and Fallen, acrylic/mixed-media on unstretched canvas (hung directly on wall with...
by Barbara Downs | May 17, 2013
I have many thoughts about my current series of large-scale paintings, but I’m going to limit this post to the topic of mark-making as it relates to scale. I started thinking about this perhaps a year ago, while I was working with small encaustics but...
