Painted Ta-Tas for a Good Cause

This past week I finished a project I've been proud to be a part of. Breast Impressions is a cause to support Breast Cancer education, prevention and treatment. Founder, Judi Grove has enlisted many Roller Derby Leagues to participate in this amazing program and this year she is working with Roc City Rollery Derby, of which I am a member. Breast impression casts were made of 14 of our skater members and then passed out to various artists around the community as well as a few of us skater/artists. I was fortunate enough to get the chance to decorate Ta-Ta Payne's breast impression. Ta-Ta is one of Roc Derby's finest jammers on the new team, The Rotten Chesters. That's my team as well, so I was thrilled to be able to work on a fellow team members boobies!

The breast casts are now coming in from all of the artists and it is absolutely amazing how beautiful and different each of the pieces are! At our end of season bout, appropriately titled "Bouting for Boobies", each piece will be auctioned off and all proceeds will go to the Breast Impressions organization for Breast Cancer Awareness.

To learn more and see many more of these beautiful pieces of art, go to: http://www.breastimpressions.com/ I'm so thankful to have been a part of this process! Four of these artworks will be chosen to appear at the Memorial Art Gallery here in Rochester NY, a huge honor in itself!

Dream Blossoms

I'm currently working on a series of large acrylic on canvas paintings I call "Dream Blossoms". I've labeled them such because my reference is actual flora but in the paintings, the flowers appear dreamlike in their intense color, arrangement or details. Sunflowers with jewels instead of seeds. Japanese lanterns that sparkle and glow as garden lanterns. Cactus that seem to dance along the desert surface. I enjoy the whimsical details that reveal themselves as I paint. I may have a vision of what the finished piece will be as I am painting but the end result is always more colorful and lively than I imagined.

The giclee prints I have of these paintings are retaining the brightness of color and detail of brushstroke. I'm very happy with the outcome. I'm beginning to hold on to the originals as I work towards a showing of the series. They bring so much life to my already colorful walls in the meantime. They will be missed, but I look forward to the opportunity to share them. I have received very positive response on the series so far. Next up, a giant Gerber Daisy!