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

This artwork is fairly simple design wise. Balance is all over, per natures own ideal. There is a dampness in the forest around aspen early in the morning, before the sun creeps in to dry and warm the leaves, branches, and undergrowth. The tall trunks swaying with the resonance below ground. Small flowers spread their damp petals, the birds beginning to chirp. Yes, there are birds in the woods, and in the art too, just not that visible, I barely painted them in. Greens mean h

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

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

This is a rainbow artwork. Meaning I used a rainbow of colors. I paint this style quite a bit, but usually it is in earth tones, but I decided to branch out into color for the animals that I paint. I have done’ lions, chickens and roosters, dogs and cats, quite a few birds, as well as frogs, dragonflies, and butterflies. I have even done a few humans too. These have been quite fun. There is something unique about using every single color to represent, verses sticking to natur

Marefire artwork by Cecile Grace Charles I love horses. I love a lot of things but I love horses a bit more. Over the years I have had many moments with horses. Race horses, ponies, miniature horses, my friend owns twenty of them. There are so many different breeds. I am known in some horse circles for painting several breeds. I am very partial to Fjords, quarter horses, Frisian, are my favorites.   Marefire is about a horse I know. I get to visit he

Falls Artwork by Cecile Grace Charles I have mentioned in other stories about my artworks, that I will use someone I know whom I am inspired by for my theme. It could be the way they look; it could be the way the act, or it could be what they do in life. Sometimes I will watch a person for weeks or months until I see that particular moment where they have turned into the light, or turned away from me. I will know long before what to look for, then I captu

When you look at this piece you might say, “That is so simple, I could do that”, well, yes you could. But it would not look like this because there is more to this than meets the eye, for it is intended for the mind. The job of the artist is to understand the meaning of color, the placement of color as well as inserting any object that finishes the story.   Firstly, that is not the sun or the moon, that is the circle of life in the background. It is however, the energy of the

As an artist, in most cases, I am not a prude. Nudity doesn’t bother me in art. But it depends on the depiction. There is a difference between porn and art. This seems to be a lost art for some. Plus, we live in a world where a percentage of the people in it are offended if you censure them even one iota. It can be difficult to explain to people what the difference is. There is also those who like the shock value and want to blatantly show the nitty gritty right down to every

Man O Man artwork by Cecile Grace Charles The colors of this artwork tell a story about royalty. Not in the sense of monarchs, but in a sense of historical familia. We are all colorful throughout our lives, how will live our life is the story. Is it grand? Is it plain, is it filled with amazing feats? Is it sedate and full of love? Or is it over the top wild and unusual? These two figures are possibly two men, conceivably mates? They might be fr

This is a design based on leisure canoeing. Sports are a predominate image in fabrics and on merchandise. One of twelve designs with this...

Do you know what a #multigenre artist is? ~Classically in art the term is a #multidisciplinary #artist which means: Combining or...