Sometimes I use a good name to lead the viewer to a conclusion. This painting is a dance of two personalities. The hair is flying free, the women are happy. Is it mom and daughter? Is is grandmother and daughter? Is it mates? Or is it two friends? Really, the androgynous artworks are for you to decide. I often use different shades of black to represent power. This black in the artwork, is called Pavement Black, it has a softness to it because it is a faded black. The two ladi

Anoki in Blackfoot means “Actor”. Anoki, Blackfoot cat artwork by Cecile Grace Charles This artwork is Blackfoot Theme, it is one of a Bakers Dozen (13) of Native American Themed Cat Artworks. Each one taking on the persona of a specific action. No I did not say tribe or culture. In this case Anoki is dressed as a dancer. We know cats cannot dance in the same way as humans. But we assign behaviors to pretty much anything and we express our appreciation of the c

Let's shake it up a little bit with a look at my textile patterns, specifically Chicken Love1. Textile Pattern: Chicken Love1 by Cecile Grace Charles on Spoonflower. All of my patterns are inspired by my own art. Often I use an existing artwork to format a textile design. This is what I have done here. I work in several different software programs, the simple ones are Photoshop and Affinity. The commercial computers an

Yes, it is a made up word. Primary colors, and primorial put together makes the title. Primariorial artwork by Cecile Grace Charles Primary colors blended together in my dash and dot style. The style is reminiscent of the Pointillism style. Although, Pointilillisme is now considered applying small dots or dashes of color to create and image. Historically, the dashes and dots were much much larger because the canvases were normally 8 feet tall by 6 fe

Bright Aspen artwork by Cecile Grace Charles I do a lot of impressionism when I paint trees. I like bright colors, but I do also do more muted artworks. In this case though I was inspired by a piece of jewelry a friend of mine was wearing. The neckace was full of stones in all the colors you see here in this artwork. The metal was purple and white enameled. For some reason it reminded me of aspen trees. So I painted what I was seeing in my head. The tree references ar