feminine Archives - Stephanie Corfee

As i explore using some more muted colors in tandem with the brights, i find myself creating lots of light-as-a-feather line sketches which i’m having fun overlapping on textured backgrounds. My muse is a baby girl’s nursery.

What would i want to hang on the wall in such a place? What kind of mood would i want to set?

It’s proving to be a fun challenge as i force myself to look at less saturated colors and interesting combinations of light and dark, subtlety and contrast. The exercise is also helping me to get a fresh perspective. Sometimes i find myself so bogged down in packing and shipping and emailing and tweeting, i forget that the art needs to come first and that i want to evolve and change. i will have to force myself out of my own box much more often in the future, because i like surprising myself. It’s fun! How would i ever have known i had this little ditty inside me if i hadn’t tried?

This print, titled “Flower Stalker”, is available in my etsy shop.

i’ve been following A Creative Life, Mary Ann Wakeley’s blog, for about a year now. She is one PA artist who inspires me to no end. She achieves what i aspire to. She balances texture & complexity of composition with vivid color. She makes subtle, calm colors play nicely with wild, raw ones in such a way as to elevate BOTH. Her forms are organic and bold, but share space with very delicate lines and miniscule details as well. She makes artwork i’d WANT to look at day after day, because there is always something new to see, some subtlely i hadn’t yet noticed. This piece is called “feminine + universe.” Oh how i’d love to have it on my wall!

OH! and she’s got an etsy shop here!

Completed Works – Flower Stalker

need it on my wall – mary ann wakeley