Twilight

 

"Twilight" - ©Anahid - 2015 - acrylics, aqua oils and collage on canvas

This is the fourth painting in the Shadows series. At least it started out as 'shadows' but it evolved into Twilight— two people and their dog walking on a beach at twilight overlooking San Francisco and a bridge (we can't be too specific, since this is not a graphic representation, but an inspirational one).

This painting was painted over another painting from many years ago, which I did not particularly want to keep— it happens that way sometimes, because of space limitations etc.

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Open Studios 2015 

Goodman 2 Building

"Remember" ©Anahid, mixed media on found wood

 Visit our building, see the art and architecture of Goodman 2. 

Art Exhibit at SF Zen Center

Modern Mystical Art by Anahid

The Yellow Path - ©Anahid 2013
Acrylics on wood panel
18"x24"

 Exhibit will run July 1 - 31, 2014 

  SF Zen Center,  City Center Lounge

300 Page Street, San Francisco, CA

Reception: Frdiay July 11

7 - 9 p.m.

http://www.sfzc.org/cc/display.asp?catid=&pageid=4298

All are welcome!

Art Show at the Collage Gallery

"Bodhisattva Altar"

©Anahid, 2014

mixed-media assemblage box

Anahid is artist of the month at the Collage Gallery in Potrero Hill

Exhibit runs April 1 - 29, 2014
Opening Reception: Friday April 4, 2014
6 - 9 p.m.

1345 -18th Street, (near Missouri)

San Francisco, CA 94107

(415)282-4401

www.collage-gallery.com

Art making connects me to my soul and spirit

and I hope the viewer can do some of the same.

Art Exhibit Tonight!

Here is a link to the event on Claremont's website:

http://www.claremontresort.com/club/event7.shtml

"Sweet Dreams" - ©Anahid -2013

acrylics and sand on canvas, with painted wood, 26"X30"

SF Open Studios

The artists in our building (Goodman-2) finally got it together to have open studios again in our beautiful building in Potrero Hill after many years....

The Root of Being

©Anahid 2012 - acrylics, oils and sand on canvas, 36"x24"

The heart is the root of being. It is the first organ that develops in the fetus. The roots of a tree, a human heart.... I like making connections between nature and our lives as humans. I like to make connections because I see these patterns in nature that repeat themselves everywhere, in leaves and roots as well as in our brains and our circulatory systems. We seem to be all part of a mysterious pattern of growth. 

This painting came out of a drawing I did last spring after my husband had an open heart surgery.

I was doodling in my little sketch book with my favorite 4B pencil, trying to deal with what was going on without going bonkers. Although I liked the drawing a lot, I didn't come to paint it months later. I often go through and look at my various sketchbooks, new and old, to see which idea I want to develop or to make into a painting, which isn't always the case.

©Anahid 2011 - the root of being

graphite on paper - 4"6"

Contemplation-2

©Anahid 2012 - Acrylics, graphite and inks on wood panel with wooden frame.

This piece is a variation on the first Contemplation collage I posted in November 2011.  This is how this image of feminine contemplation/meditation evolved first from a sketch inspired by a sculpture, to a mixed-media collage and now a simple and understated drawing/painting on wood. This is not a painting though in the usual sense, the acrylics are used like watercolors, very thin and watery so as not to overwhelm the drawing element. I am usually very fond of intense and saturated colors layered on top of each other, but here I enjoy the simple line drawing as an expression of her serenity. We all need some serenity in this crazy world.

I don't know yet if I'll continue this particular series or not, we'll see what the muses bring....

She Who Watches - the evolution of a painting

©Anahid-2011 - 'She Who Watches' -mixed media on wood with shells 28"X24"

(click on image for a larger view)

This piece started with a pencil drawing I had done a few years back of a woman pushing back her covers like she was getting out of bed. One day I was looking through my sketchbook and thought it would be nice to use that drawing in a painting. I had a large piece of found plywood that lends itself to collage and assemblage of all kinds. 

So I traced the drawing onto the wood that had been gessoed white on the top right hand corner; the rest was gessoed with clear gesso so as as to retain the natural wood grain which inspired some of the painting, and the rest of the elements just kind of fell into place one by one.