An Artist's Journal:Paintings by Felicia Marshall

6"X6" acrylic on hardboard "Happy Halloween" This is Zora as a fairy. I never got to go trick or treating as a kid, so I never appreciated Halloween until I became a mother. In my house Halloween marks the beginning of the holidays. This image is from a past Halloween. This year everyone went for the darker costumes. My little princess was determined to be a vampire this year complete with makeup. I managed to talk the others down from their original grim reaper costumes into ninjas. I already miss the good old days when girls were princesses and boys were superheros. SOLD

6x6 Acrylic on Masonite I have had this image sitting around for about a year. My original intentions were not necessarily to paint the photograph, but it was taken simply as a snapshot of Zora in her Halloween costume . She's so cute and girly, everything about the painting screams Zora, I even used her favorite colors, you guessed it pink and purple, go figure. The entire painting reminds me of cotton candy. I'm pretty happy with the finished result. The marriage between loose brush strokes and the blended modeling of the facial tones have a nice balance.