Leaving the Rocky Road Behind Sandra Wagner 45 x 15 inches ARTIST STATEMENT My inspiration was from my stash and my hand dyepainted fabric that was used for the road and the background. These past two [...]
Red-violet Riot Barbara D. Kibbe 45 x 15 inches ARTIST STATEMENT Red-Violet Riot plays with the tints, shades, and tones of red-violet as well as shadow and light, with the help of layered prairie points. It [...]
Mama's Purple Couch Marlyene Schwartz 45 x 15 inches ARTIST STATEMENT When I was seventeen, my mother bought a huge purple couch. She loved purple! That purple couch held the place of honor in our family [...]
Amethyst Geodes in Violet #13 Lin Schiffner 45 x 15 inches ARTIST STATEMENT Being an avid color enthusiast, Prism Play instantly sounded fascinating. The challenge of making a monochromatic work was also intriguing, having done so [...]
Violent Violet Martha W. Ginn 45 x 15 inches ARTIST STATEMENT Violet is not a color I ordinarily use in my art, and although the word seems to refer to flowers, I imagined a stormy sky [...]
Violet Reaction Susan Gibson Kelly 45 x 15 inches ARTIST STATEMENT Contemplating the violet color card, I decided to try something less representational. During the past couple of years, through the on and off periods of [...]
Eyeful of Iris Sue Siefkin 45 x 15 inches ARTIST STATEMENT Lush, curvaceous, and sensuous, irises are indeed an eyeful. The sinuous shapes and color variations of the iris, together with my assigned card for the [...]
Midnight Watch Ricki Selva 45 x 15 inches ARTIST STATEMENT He watched their fluid forms slicing through the night racing the boat racing each other sleek forms sheathed light As I rarely work with monochromatic [...]
Blue Violet Hand Sandra Bruce 45 x 15 inches ARTIST STATEMENT Blue-violet is my favorite color. I was drawn to this 15- by 45-inch format, which is such an interesting and challenging space to work in. [...]
Rennie Mac All Over Carole Rossi 45 x 15 inches ARTIST STATEMENT I fell in love with the work of late 19th/early 20th century Scottish architect, designer, and water colorist Charles Rennie Mackintosh when visiting Glasgow [...]