Exploring #newdirections in the studio.
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#painting #contemporaryarts #australianartists #collingwoodartists #androgynous #women #nostalgia #memories
#Lights on, #lightsoff
#Lighting changes everything and brings paint to life. Three years in, and I’m almost finished with this painting. I played with the lights tonight, off ... on ... off ... in my studio and made my #ghosts come alive ❤️ so close to being done with this one ... hard to believe ..,
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I’ve been trying not to post, lately, too many photos of the large painting I’ve been working on for the past few years. I’m in the final stages of refining and correcting now, and differences in the overall painting are hard to see on a screen and to a general audience. I’m afraid I’ve been boring, posting about this one painting so often. So I’ve tried to hold back in hopes of sharing an image of it finished.
But ... 😂 ...
I want to put the Christmas tree on the wall where I have been painting this painting. So I moved the painting to the wall opposite. In the 2 years I’ve been painting this, I’ve never moved it to work on it in another light. The thought hadn’t even crossed my mind. I don’t know why!
I prefer not to work in direct light. I find the challenge of making colors luminous in darker light (without making them garish) an ambition worth pursuing. If done right, the colors will “float” on the canvas when lit in certain light.
But when I moved this canvas to the other side of the room under direct light, the effect was incredible! All those hours, days, months, years of layering faint, thin glaze over thin glaze, seeing such slow progress, are finally paying off! Those colors! ❤️
Of course, this painting is not finished. I’m now working from right to left back over the painting, fixing, correcting, balancing out the colors and contrasts. But I had to share this because I think this is a difference you can see!
#painting #sundaypainting #women #portraitpainting #largescaleart #largescalepainting #studioprogress #artiststudio #birds #doves #cocktails #humannature #civilrights #progress #australianartists #melbourne #melbourneartist #aubreyrhodes
It’s come down to this. The two of us having a face off. She’s the last of the birds. And once shes’s done, it will be time to tighten the painting as a whole. Getting close now ...
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#lastbirdstanding #inthestudiotoday #painting #paintingprogress #artiststudio #behindthescenes #largescalepainting #painter #melbourne #australia #collingwoodartist #doves #birds #women #melbourneartist #aubreyrhodes
In times like these, what else can you do but get weird? Well, I was already weird, but anyway ...
#apainterslife #adayinthestudio #insidetheartiststudio #meta #womeninart #ingridbergman #largescalepainting #portraitpainting #women #people #laughing #smiling #lips #paintingprogress #process #processpainting #coverart #morethanapainting #cover #face #melbourne #australia #artist #art #mowmow #australianartist #melbourneartist #aubreyrhodes
Friday afternoon, feeling silly in the studio, #painting birds. Still ...
#studioprogress #paintingprogress #insidetheartiststudio #doves #dovesofinstagram #largescalepainting #Friday #fridayfeeling #womenempowerment #womeninart #melbourne #australia #melbourneartist #facecovering #coverart #maskart #masks
Closing in on the last of them ...
#inthestudiotoday
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#australianartist
I’m trying to keep my mask site and my artist sites separate, but when people send me photos like these of adorable little munchkins in my masks, I just have to share from my @mow.mow.20.20 page 😍
Look at these wee little Wonder Women! Love photos like these. Thanks for sending them in! MOW MOW has 25 different mask designs based on the paintings of #melbourneartist #aubreyrhodes in 4 different sizes! Find yours at www.mowmow.com.co and follow the artist in her studio @aubreyperry08
#artonyourface #wonderwoman #maskart #facemaskart #australianartist
Some of you may already be privy to this info, but for those who aren’t, I thought I’d share. For the past couple of months, I’ve been making face masks based on my paintings. Until now, I’ve been very resistant to “merchandising” my art work and don’t see myself doing anything beyond this. But this felt like something more important than t-shirts and refrigerator magnets and coffee mugs. During pandemic times, a face mask seems a worthy cause.
So I made a few for myself and my husband and daughter. And then friends saw them and wanted them and encouraged me to sell them, so I got a website up and running, and I’ve been selling my masks for a little while now.
And I’ve been shocked by the enthusiasm, encouragement, support and purchases! My masks, called MOW MOW masks, are now all over AU, in the US, the UK, Ireland, the Caribbean, and Mexico!
It’s been pretty amazing. For those who want to follow the mask journey, you can follow along at @mow.mow.20.20
I post the selfies there that people send me of themselves in their masks. It’s fun to see the way the paintings/masks take on different personalities on the different people who buy them.
Anyway, follow along there if you like. I’m posting some screen shots here of the MOW MOW Instagram pages. You can also visit the MOW MOW website if you’re looking for a mask of your own at www.mowmow.com.co
#artisticexpression #melbourneartist #australianartists #fineartpainter #facemaskart #artonyourface #covidart #painter #aubreyrhodes
Moving more quickly with the #birds now. Saving the big one for the end. Whenever that is. I’ve been working on this #painting for over two years now. But there’s an end I feel approaching me. #australianartist #melbourneartist #portraitpainter #artistprogress #studioprogress #paintingprocess #artiststudio #womenpainters #womeninart #civilrights
On to the birds. Saving the big one for last. #australianartist #australianpainter #portraitpainting #doves #studioprogress #artiststudio #civilrights
Long day in the #studio today #painting Love the #afternoon #winterlight #melbourne #melbourneartist #australianartists #paintforlife #paintingprogress #artistsofinstagram