Jillian Platt - Art Blog

Possibilites

Trying to sit with uncertainty is not so comfortable.

Oil in board 8" x 7.25"

Hope in the Boat

"Hope in the Boat was founded by Lucille Allegretti-Freeman who, while in treatment for Stage 3 breast cancer in 2007, was looking past recovery with hope for a healthy future. She had learned about dragon boating accidentally, and was inspired by other breast cancer survivor teams to take steps to develop a dragon boat team in the capital region of New York."

My mother belonged to this inspiring group of women and I volunteered to recreate their web site.

There are still some gliches,(mosty in Mozilla Firefox) but it is defintely worth a look to see the inspiring work these women are doing.

Click on the image below to go to their website.

 

Good Friday

Originally, I was calling this "Easter" but after thinking about it, it seems more like "Good Friday".

Good Friday is suposed to be a dark rainy day in the Catholic religion. It is the day Jesus was buried and his followers were in mourning. When I was little I used to look forward to Good Friday to see if there was any truth to it. I thought if Jesus actually died that day he would surely make it rainy and miserable so we would not forget about him.

This year it was pretty sunny and nice on Good Friday.

12.5" x 10" Oil on board.

close up

Nina Katchadourian

These are hilarious and fantastic.

"This woman Seat Assignment: Lavatory Self-Portraits in the Flemish Style. While in the lavatory on a domestic flight in March 2010, I spontaneously put a tissue paper toilet cover seat cover over my head and took a picture in the mirror using my cellphone. The image evoked 15th-century Flemish portraiture. I decided to add more images made in this mode and planned to take advantage of a long-haul flight from San Francisco to Auckland, guessing that there were likely to be long periods of time when no one was using the lavatory on the 14-hour flight."

Click here to see more...http://www.ninakatchadourian.com/photography/sa-flemish.php

 

 

There are many more great things on her website. www.ninakatchadourian.com

Another good one is Mystic Shark. http://www.ninakatchadourian.com/confusinganimals/mysticshark.php

"Mystic Shark tries to elicit sympathy through the awkward and sentimental anthropomorphism of this much-feared and almost mythically vicious creature"

Trust

Oil on canvas 6" x 6".  Frame created in Adobe Photoshop.

Clog in the Drain

Some days everything just feels all tangled up and a mess.

Powder Room

“Do you think you’ll be finished soon?” is a question I think I have asked about 800 times in the last 10 years.  When you are under 6 years old there is no such thing as being hurried, especially when it comes to using the toilet. Multiply that by 2 little girls and you now know how I have spent a significant amount of time.

So, to make use of this time, I challenged myself to find amusing and intriguing things about the bathrooms where I was waiting.

Click on the image below to see Powder Room. I hope you enjoy it and laugh a little.

(Don't forget to click on ...more about this project for more details.

Work in Progress

Winter Sky with Easter eggs. Just kidding. They're rocks.

Close up of Winter Sky. (I got frustrated with the paint and decided to use pencil for a while.)

Quick study  Sunrise - Early WInter

Beginning of something new...no name yet

Happy Valentines Day!

Love what you do and do what you love.

Haybales on Menemsha

This is a landscape painting of where I  hike with my dogs. It's very peaceful, in opposition to how I am feeling at times.

(above is a photograph of the field)