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Good Morning! 16”x20”oil on board - Another “in between” painting exploring pictorial space. I call these in between because they are done while others are in process and at various stages of being done. #shawnamariefranklin

Ok - so I needed to create more underwater space for #5 of my Kelp Series - so I have started a 2nd panel creating a diptych ….WIP for sure…!!…but this is more of the feeling I wanted for #5! Now to work on the gradient of value

WIP oil on canvas 18”x 24” - my assignment from last week of Zoey Frank’s online workshop ‘Exploring the history of pictorial space’ is coming along slowly - we are studying the Rococo Age and Tiepolo’s paintings.

Just thought I’d post where my recent boot painting for class ended up. Now on to this week’s assignment for the online class I’m taking with Zoey Frank. We are taking a deep dive into the history of the picture plane. I changed the

Another painting of my boots - assignment #5 for Zoey Frank’s online breaking the Surface course part 2 - we are studying the Baroque era and how Caravaggio and others brought the object into the viewer’s space…20”x16”

While waiting for others to dry, I took another pass at #5 I’m still not there but getting closer! It’s interesting to let this kelp series change and grow with each pass. I’m enjoying the process - 48” x 36” oil on canv

I think this photo of a text message I recently received sums it up for me! Thank you for following me, your support, and your friendship! I truly appreciate it! Happy New Year let’s hope 2023 is enlightening, inspirational, and connected. #sh

Over the holidays I got back into my kelp series of paintings. I am working with transparent and opaque layers of paint / pushing the ground deep and “floating” the bull kelp to the surface - this is the current stage of no. 4 in the seri

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Assignment #3 for Zoey Frank’s “Breaking the Surface Part 1” online course. This time we were looking at Giotto and the proto- Renaissance. We tried to create a space that is “unified, simplified, shallow, consistent and contr