Dance to Painting

I have been an artist all of my life, first as a dancer, choreographer and now a painter. Choreographing has influence how I think about painting.  Many of the same principles of structuring a dance can be applied to the...

Leans into Larger Work

From this drawing,  I went into my art studio to play with expanding my work into different sizes and mediums.  I also play with color which is another struggle. I first start in watercolor and watercolor crayon.  Sometimes I add gouache especially white to calm the...

Expanding Drawing to a Larger Oil Painting

Abstracting the body with a set behind in a drawing involves simplifying the shapes, lines, and forms of the body and the set. Geometric shapes and curves are rendered in a minimalistic, and abstract way by emphasizing certain lines and shapes. When expanding a...

Expanding to Larger Work in Oil

  From my drawings with a live model, I go back to my art studio.  I first play with more drawings on larger paper, then to watercolor with colored crayons and eventually to even larger work in oil. Each medium offers its own challenges.  My main challenge is how...

Arts Students League Xmas Show- New work by Lesley A. Powell

This piece will be in Arts Students League Xmas Show and is for sale.  I started this piece at one of favorite places, Sonnenberg Gardens in Canandaigua, New York.  There is a wonderful Japanese garden that I love to go to and do plein air.