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“Future Guitar Player” – Acrylic on two panels of stretched canvas. (2007)
This is my second two-panel piece of the movements of a guitar player in the last few weeks. The first one – Guitar Player – was a movement study of my buddy Joe who comes over to jam with my boyfriend Ian on harmonica and I on the flute.
Future Guitar Player is a process piece was a study of the movements of a child learning how to hold an electric guitar. Her father leaned over her to help her get the strap over her shoulder as she sat in the chair.
 
 
Here’s what it looks like next to Guitar Player. That’s Ian in the corner… who is the subject for a few of my pieces (notably Computer Programmer) and the father figure in this the newest piece I’m sharing with you.
I wanted to show the interaction between parent and child… and I ended up painting a series of DNA strands throughout the abstraction between her and him.
[I would love to have a child of my own one day. Maybe in another life... if people do that sort of thing in the next cycle. If there is a cycle. If not, well... I'll just have to keep painting.]
Children’s mural in a 2′x3′ closet space. 2007. (4 hrs)
This kid is like family to me. I’ve painted her a few times in the past. She stays with Ian and I every second weekend… and the flurry of activity while she’s here keeps me hopping. I was not used to children, so much… before meeting Ian. Not really anyway. Meeting her meant the introduction of children and childhood themes into my work, when just immediately prior to meeting her and Ian I was moving further into almost unrecognizable abstraction and far, far from realism.
She had noted early in our meeting that I liked to keep candy and cookies in a particular lower cupboard of Ian’s and my kitchen. I joked that it was the “secret cupboard that nobody knows about”. [My mother had something similar when I was a kid. Everyone knew about it. Everyone snickered about not having any idea about where it was. But everyone knew.]
“Sharon, can you paint me a secret cupboard?” the kid asked. She wanted a mural in her closet. With fairies. And mushrooms. Grass. Insects. A bird. Whee!!
I painted the tree with black and blue luminescent paint so it shimmers as sunlight falls on it. It really brings her room to life.
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by
Sharon in
abstract art,
art,
guitar,
motion,
movement,
movement studies,
music,
new paintings,
panel painting,
process piece,
sharon hodgson
“Guitar Player” – acrylic on stretched canvas. 2007
I’ve included process photos on this one. It’s a two panel piece, each 20″x16″. It’s a study of the movements of my buddy Joe.
For the last seven months or so, he’s visited almost every day. He sits down on the couch, picks up a guitar and starts strumming. It’s been enough to make me pick up my flute after years of not. Joe, my boyfriend Ian (on harmonica) and I jam regularly.
Since this is another study of movement and time, I’ve included photos to add another “layer” to the final work. (The process of creation is important. I’m really getting into the habit of documenting the process.)
It’s a great stress-reliever, and inspires new paintings.
I am the featured artist on Elayna.com from May 1st to May 16th. Fine silk artist Elayna is building an archive of international fine artists, and I have the great fortune of being interviewee number four.
Look forward to many more interesting, talented artist features on Elayna’s site in the future!
Here’s what it looks like next to Guitar Player. That’s Ian in the corner… who is the subject for a few of my pieces (notably Computer Programmer) and the father figure in this the newest piece I’m sharing with you.
