here are the final paintings from these above drafts.
One Image Inspired many Paintings
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Inspiration Comes from 5 min. Studies
These above studies inspired this oil painting.
Come Visit me at AMR Open Studios Tour. July 30-31, 2022
This is a series that first started from a painting that I did with a live model holding flowers. Poses are 4-5 minutes long. This inspired a series of oil painting from this short pose.
AMR Open Studio Tours July 30-31. Powell & Powell Art Studios
July 30-31, 2019 Saturday and Sunday 11 AM - 5PM Alan and Lesley A. Powell are part of an exciting weekend for you to visit their art studios/galleries as well as other artists in the area. Alan Powell will be showing his multi channel video installations and...
Artistic Statement
My art deals with the ability to expressively describe movement, its emotions and space, whether it was on the stage or now the two dimensional space of the canvas. Working on the canvas is now the stage for movement, line, color, texture and expression. I am...
Bio
Lesley A. Powell has been an artist all of her life. She was first a dancer, choreographer and now a painter. The love of movement, space, texture, the body, color and nature are major influences on her art. Lesley’s art deals with the ability to expressively change...
Getting to the essence.
Finding the essence is my new abstraction of the subject. The figures are from quick poses paintings done at the Arts Students League. The flowers was from a photo taken of flowers on my porch
New Play – Cold Wax & Oil
This winter I started to play with cold wax as a medium. Except for the first one, top left, I did over oil paintings of the past. I love the texture of the paint and how it frees me up in how I apply to the paint to the surface.