SF Open Studios Hub

Come visit on Friday night Nov.1, to see an Art Exhibit at Dogpatch Cafe and Gallery on 3rd. St., as part of Artspan's SF Open Studios HUB. 

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"She Who Watches..." copyright ©Anahid 

acrylics, mixed-media with copper and shells on wood panel

28"x24"x3"

This is one of two paintings I am exhibiting at this group show. It's a wonderful gallery space with big windows facing west, and it's next door to a cafe of the same name serving nice food.

And our Open Studios are this coming weekend Nov.2 &3rd., 11 - 6 at the Goodman-2 Bldg., 
1695 18th St. (nr. Arkansas), in San Francisco.

My art exhibit in Berkeley, California

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....

Wood and Water...

©Anahid -2010  'Waves and Patterns' 

acrylics and prismacolor pencils on wood panel, 12"X18"

 

©Anahid 2010 - Wood and Waves'

acrylics and mixed media on wood panel, 11"x16"

You might wonder where the wood comes in...it's interesting to note that the patterns in wood are the same as patterns in water. I discovered this when I followed the patterns of the wood pretty faithfully and it turned into waves. So many of the patterns in nature are similar this way....