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Restoring Love 2012 Painting is Completed

Frances Byrd — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:00:57 +0000

After two months of hard work, the Restoring Love paintings are completed.

Photo Update for the Mercury One/Restoring Love 2012 Donation

Frances Byrd — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:51:28 +0000

Mercury One Painting Progress Update #1

Frances Byrd — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:11:17 +0000

I was able to do some more work o the painting for Mercury One over the weekend. Here are the most recent photos of the project.

Frances Byrd is the National Director of Liberatchik.com. She is also a conservative political artist and blogger. Her art can be viewed at MachinePolitick.com.

Mercury One Painting layer1

Restoring Love 2012

Frances Byrd — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 16:33:05 +0000

I was asked recently to create a piece of artwork for the Mercury One Foundation’s upcoming event, Restoring Love, to be held in Dallas this July. I am currently working on a large scale painting for the project. I will be posting photos as the work progresses.

An online auction will be held during the month of May to raise money for the organization. You can get more information on Mercury and Restoring Love at the links provided below.

I hope you will track my progress and help me spread the word for the auction and event. This is a great opportunity for me to get exposure for my art and promote our work here at Liberatchik. Thanks in advance for your support!

Restoring Love 2012

Mercury One

About the paintings

These first three photos are for the first layer of the painting. They should help give you a sense of the scale for the finished artwork as well as composition. Each canvas is approximately 36″ high and 30″ wide. This makes the finished dimensions of the work roughly 3 feet high by 7 1/2 feet wide.

Frances Byrd is the National Director of Liberatchik.com. She is also a conservative political artist and blogger. Her art can be viewed at MachinePolitick.com.

Preliminary Sketch #1

Preliminary Color #1

Preliminary Sketch #2

Preliminary Color #2

Painting begins

M1Progress on 3/3/12

Michael LeKites: Untitled Drawing

Michael LeKites — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:26:58 +0000

Untitled

Graphite on smooth Bristol.

9×11

Michael LeKites is a painter and American patriot. His work is of a classical, representational style.

Michael LeKites: “The Deadly Pass”

Michael LeKites — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:14:54 +0000

Title “The Deadly Pass”

Oil on canvas

16×20

Michael LeKites is a painter and American patriot. His work is of a classical, representational style.

Michael LeKites: Castle Trinity

Frances Byrd — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:27:33 +0000

Castle Trinity

Oil on canvas

11×14

The American Crow Scavenging #1

Frances Byrd — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:47:33 +0000

Frances Byrd is the National Director of Liberatchik.com. She is also a conservative political artist and blogger. Her art can be viewed at MachinePolitick.com.

American Crow Scavenging #1

Liberatchik Artist: Michael LeKites

Frances Byrd — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:37:44 +0000

Freedom’s Son

16×20

Medium: Acrylic

A tribute to our first Amendment.

Freedom's Son

Exhibit at Mable House Arts Center celebrates artistry, creativity of women

Frances Byrd — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:19:14 +0000

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Celebrate women artists at the Virginia Avery Memorial 3rd Biennial “Reflections” exhibition, sponsored by the Atlanta Branch of the National League of American Pen Women. It is at the Mable House Arts Center at 5239 Floyd Road through March 1.

Virginia Avery, who had been president of the National League of American Pen Women at the local, state and national level, endowed the show. She left a bequest for an exhibit open to all Georgia women artists in all mediums.

“The show offers something for everyone,” Mikki Dillon, chairperson, said. Various media by 50 women artists is on display, including paintings, sculpture, mixed media, photography, and drawing/pastel/printmaking. Eighty juried works, from realism to contemporary, were selected by juror Gail Wegodsky. There were 243 entries.

Wegodsky creates in oil and has shown at Marietta Cobb Museum of Art, the Mable House as well as a solo show at Oglethorpe University. She exhibits her work at Mason Murer Gallery in Atlanta.

“There is such a variety of subject matter and different styles that somebody, anybody, will find something in there that they will like and enjoy,” Dillon said. Among the local area artists showing are Ann Cockerill, Kathy Morris, Jennifer Nolan, Ronnie Offen, Lisa Schwendemann Smith and Mary Jane Warren Stone.

Dillon said the show is important because there are many women artists who still have to use there initials rather than their names in order to show. “Although it’s better now than it was when Virginia (Avery) was alive, (sexism) still exists,” she said.

The show offers an opportunity to see some women who excel in the art world. “Whether it’s people who have never been to an art show, there are things that they are going to really enjoy,” Dillon said.

Gallery hours are Monday to Thursday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Call (770) 739-0189 or visit www.mablehouse.org or www.atlantapenwomen.org for more information.