my new blog (following my artist in residence travels) is finally up on my website:

go to www.amyclay.com, and click on "travelogue". see you there ~

amy

4/16/09 (5)

dreaming of stones, sentinels

witness to millenia

acrylic on panel

4/16/09 (4)

part two of the stones

acrylic on panel

4/16/2009 (3)

this is part of a diptych of stones

acrylic on panel

april 16, 2009 (1)

did a whole series of these 

mythical travel paintings this week - 

love the idea of some strange and maybe

a bit surreal 

brigadoon or shangri la.

acrylic on panel

there i go again - traveling in my head

mythical travel i call it

places that sort of exist

but are more brigadoon than reality

acrylic on panel     sold

4/12/09 (2)

somewhere in northern british isles

bridges, castles, moody skies

rocky shorelines

feels mythic and poetic to me.

acrylic on panel sold

april 12, 2009

an ammonite, somewhat abstracted

from on old photo i took

evidence of our collective history

weighty

spiraling inward

memory

march 28, 2009

love the simple ancient symbols -

circle, triangle, square

they transcend time and culture

acrylic on panel

artist in residence tour

to all those interested in my work - 

i will be embarking on a year long artist in residency tour 

around the world in may and will be having a big sale of 

my paintings in mid - april at my studio in boulder, co. 

if you wish to buy any of these paintings online, it would be 

best to purchase them before my sale. You can contact 

me by email at amy@amyclay.com. 

i will be starting a new blog/website to track my progress

as I develop my new work based on the places i will be

working and living in. I will post the blog/site as soon as

it is up and running, hopefully in mid-april. this blog will be

on hold at that time, and i will not be doing my "daily" 

paintings in the same way for awhile. 

thanks to all of you who have been following my blog and

i hope you will visit my new site and 

follow my yearlong expedition ~

  

march 26, 2009

another version of the stone stairs

yeah, leading toward the light.

lovely simple metaphor.

acrylic on panel sold

march 17, 2009

tree image and streaming thoughts

acrylic on panel sold

march 8, 2009

my guess is this place holds some mysteries.

acrylic, mixed media on panel  sold

3/1/09

ancient stairway from somewhere

acrylic/mixed media on panel sold

feb 28, 2009

i'm mad for trees

don't tell me it's been 5 days since last post

acrylic/mixed media on panel

feb 23, 2009

pentimenti

lots of layers, history

scraping back

laying on again.

acrylic on panel

feb 22, 2009

only this part of the tree remained from

a whole forest of them - don't know why.

but am drawn to the strangeness of these

leaning gnarled remnants of trees.

acrylic on panel sold

feb 19, 2009

similar to the other but different

using the knife a lot

move between warm and cool colors

back and forth

feeling the need for something abstract next

acrylic on panel

feb 18, 2009

life takes over - no posts for a week

wanting to do a series of lotuses

same image, size 

messing with it in subtle different ways.

"love it til you don't"

in this case, loving the lotus still.

acrylic on panel sold

feb. 12, 2009

the lotus

keep coming back to this image

open, receptive, beckoning.

accepted into an artist residency

in the kapadokya region of turkey for sept

dry, lunar-like, strange landscape.

what images to come ~

acrylic, mixed media on panel sold

feb 9, 2009

this was done as a companion to 

2 earlier paintings (1/19, 2/4)

someone is interested in - 

sometimes the inspiration comes from

others response - love that co-creating thing.

acrylic on panel sold

feb 8, 2009

i like my images to evoke a sense of place

but never to give themselves away.

curiosity and imagination grab hold

more interesting to me than any defined place.

acrylic/mixed media on panel     sold

feb 5, 2009

reworked this from an earlier version

transfer of dandelion image,

painted, obscured somewhat.

oil, beeswax, resin pigment on panel sold

feb. 4, 2009

this started with a leafy image

but it didn't want to stay

it's buried in there somewhere.

acrylic on panel sold

feb. 2, 2009

moving between the full abstract painting

and the familiar imagery of natural forms

they are not mutually exclusive

sometimes a defined shape or image will 

call to be included, sometimes not.

acrylic on panel

jan 31, 2009

old photo of some place in china i think

like the roofline and vague tree shapes

these images evoke lost times or perhaps

things that never did exist

but they stir my nomad soul.

acrylic, mixed media on panel

jan 30, 2009

never tire of this baobab tree

all gnarly and squat

transferred, painted, scratched, drawn

acrylic, mixed media on panel

jan 29. 2009

layering, scraping - very physical this one.

dig the history, the memory of what was -

surprises as i go further still.

could endlessly add and subtract in this way

but this one called out to stop.

acrylic on panel

jan 28, 2009

love this tree image

from an old photo from my backyard

years ago. 

transferred and then painted,

scraped, messed with.

acrylic, mixed media on panel

jan 27, 2009

the daily postings are farther between

with travel, life.

appreciate the comment that

really it is painting, not finishing, that i am about,

so will paint as close to daily as i can,

and finish them when they are ready.

simple.

acrylic on panel sold

jan 22, 2009

painting every day is one thing

finishing a painting every day is another

do i post them daily even when they aren't done

just to have a post that day?

questions that arise as i go along

traveling tomorrow again.

see how the painting fits in -

will go to the LA art show to see what is out there,

visit galleries etc. ready for some fresh inspiration.

jan 19, 2009

added the mesh for substance and texture

often wanting to continue with these

but not to get too labored on any one painting

they are meant to be "first thought, best thought" exercises

acrylic, collage on panel sold

jan 18,(3) 2009

part three. might work this further, not sure yet.

this makes up for my 3 missing days

really want to keep up with the commitment

of a painting a day - even if they come a week late -

acrylic, charcoal on panel

jan 18,(2) 2009

part two of the triptych

especially like these all together

they complete each other -

acrylic, charcoal on panel

jan 18, 2009

this is part of a group of 3 

i am painting at the same time

wanted more contrast with the black

feeling more expressionistic

charcoal makes for more line work

love to draw

acrylic, charcoal on panel

jan 17 (2), 2009

second one today - making up for days off

color changes a bit when uploading images

to blog but gist is there

acrylic on panel

jan 17, 2009

playing with texture, 

found a stringy japanese paper

gives it lots of dimension

red oxide never fails to satisfy me

acrylic, collage on panel

jan 16, 2009

more landscapey than usual.

blogging for all the world to see

makes me self conscious in a way

sometimes more critical too

but it's good exercise all around.

acrylic, collage on panel sold

jan 15, 2009

missed 3 days and cancelled trip 

food poisoning.

just now functioning and painting again

will make up for lost days if i can.

no energy to try new things so 

the ease of familiarity feels right.

oil, beeswax, pigment, resin on panel

jan 11, 2009

last post before travel

need to pack some kind of mini studio

to keep this up - also my laptop, etc, 

to post images. 

plan a lot of travel this year - 

how will this work?

oil, beeswax, resin, pigment on panel sold

jan 10, 2009

this daily blog keeps me painting, no doubt.

otherwise, could be trouble.

in nyc next week, not sure how i'll paint there

maybe collages, more travel journal-ish?

i expect they'll be different, 

with some street detritus perhaps -

will see how i manage while traveling.

oil, beeswax, pigment resin on panel

jan 9, 2009

sun is going down so had to shoot this quickly.

the writing is almost always present as my 

stream of consciousness - 

back of the mind - 

discursiveness.

oil, beeswax, pigment, resin on panel

jan 8, 2009

oil on wax again. scraping, digging, revealing.

wildfires burning close by last night

vivid dreams

then cool colors.

oil, beeswax, resin, pigment on panel

jan 7, 2009

working back and forth between the acrylic and 

oil/wax combo - rarely do that, so interesting to 

feel the difference in the materials so directly. 

acrylic is great for the immediacy - easy to layer 

quickly, no drying time. 

acrylic on panel

jan 6, 2009

reworked this from an earlier painting

like the scraped wall feeling

and the history of what it was

oil, beeswax, resin, pigment on panel

jan 5, 2009

back to using the oil on wax medium

love the movement and vibrancy of oil paint

the wax allows me to dig in and make marks

oil, beeswax, resin, pigment on panel sold

jan 4, 2009

these paintings are more abstract than i've 

been painting for awhile. very different

from my website paintings, but feels

fresh again, after working with more

imagery. just enjoying the paint.

acrylic on panel sold

jan 3, 2009

dark winter day

cool mood

looser today

acrylic on panel

jan 2, 2009

love red

acrylic on panel

jan 1, 2009

1st painting

reworked it with oil paint on jan 6.

love that i can change things as i go along.

acrylic and oil on panel