lily vose-o'neal

Jellyfish 1

2010-06-21T14:05:00.000-07:00

Drawings I'm working on:

2010-06-20T17:08:00.000-07:00

Thinking a lot about prints, again.

2010-05-13T13:47:00.000-07:00

2010-04-24T12:57:00.000-07:00

First new works in Los Angeles:

Untitled (Substrate I), Untitled (Substrate II), Untitled (Substrate III). Pen on Paper. 8.5" x 11".

2010-04-22T18:11:00.001-07:00

2010-04-20T10:35:00.001-07:00

2010-04-17T12:04:00.000-07:00

Fire Station Show

2009-08-27T20:11:00.000-07:00

Repeated Form

2009-08-27T20:05:00.000-07:00

Things seen on trees.

2009-01-06T20:52:00.000-08:00

Pencil, Ink, and Acrylic Paint on Paper, 22" x 30."

2008-11-25T06:07:00.000-08:00

Painting

2008-09-08T12:18:00.000-07:00

This is a quick snap shot of a recent painting. Acrylic on Plywood. 36" x 36".

Photographs

2008-09-08T12:13:00.000-07:00

2007-11-16T17:26:00.001-08:00

I like this palette. I have been painting with something similar.

Drawing from December

2007-03-07T17:30:00.000-08:00

pencil & ink on paper. 22" x 30".

bittersweet

2007-01-07T18:36:00.000-08:00

more november work

2006-12-30T14:36:00.000-08:00

pencil & ink on paper. 22" x 30".

more november work

2006-12-28T15:27:00.000-08:00

Pencil & ink on paper. 22" X 30".

new work

2006-12-27T06:18:00.000-08:00

This is a new drawing. It is 22" X 30". Graphite & ink on paper. More posts of new work to come. I finally shot some pictures.

what are these called? paper money?

2006-12-15T10:36:00.000-08:00

more of the small drawings

2006-12-13T16:39:00.000-08:00

I never got around to posting these two. I have been working on some of these on a larger scale. I haven't gottten around to photographing and posting any of them yet. I'll try to that this week.

more sumac & bittersweet

2006-12-13T16:31:00.000-08:00

Honeycomb Flowers

2006-11-20T15:13:00.000-08:00

More phone pictures from the Smith mums show.

Driving Photo

2006-11-19T17:52:00.000-08:00

This is a photo I took while driving. I was trying to get a photo of the bare trees on the mountain top. They make the mountain seem edged in lace. I didn't get any of them that worked but I did end up with this.

Big Flower

2006-11-18T17:39:00.000-08:00

Isn't this quite the flower? It was at the Smith College Mums show. It looks kind of edible. I have been think about the huge role comedy plays in my life. I want it in my work more. Like I want my work to have beauty and elegance and ridiculousness. Just real silliness. I think for a long time I have seen that quality in my work, but I couldn't quite name it. I thought of it as a kind of "funkiness" or "crappiness." What it really is is humor, and I want to push that quality more. I want to let the silliness arive in the work more and more.

more berry photos

2006-11-16T19:02:00.000-08:00

Sarah's Photographs

2006-11-15T18:15:00.000-08:00

These are photos that my cousin Sarah took when she was visiting a few weeks ago. We were out documenting some of the New England fall gems. It is as if the vine had made a drawing on the siding. So delicate....

Few more things from September

2006-11-14T19:21:00.000-08:00

These are some more drawings from September that I never go around to posting. Had some luck drawing bigger today. I'll photograph them soon.

Terry Winters Painting & Lithograph

2006-11-12T17:09:00.000-08:00

Terry Winters Free Union 1983
Oil on Linen, 79" x 104-1/4"

Morula III 1983-4
Lithograph on Handmade Toyoshi Paper
41" x 32"

These were on the Matthew Marks Gallery site. Lately, I have been looking at a few books of his paintings and prints that I have. Free Union might be my favorite of his paintings.

October Drawings

2006-11-11T20:07:00.000-08:00

Net and Formation

2006-11-10T13:48:00.000-08:00

I am trying to imagine these forms really large, and on top of a textured, modulated, spatially ambiguous ground in color. I've been looking at Terry Winters again, searching for clues....

Even More October Drawings

2006-11-08T15:13:00.000-08:00

More October Drawings

2006-11-07T08:20:00.000-08:00

Silhouettes

2006-11-06T14:16:00.000-08:00

Silhouettes I saw while out walking.

More Drawings from October

2006-11-05T09:48:00.000-08:00

These are still the card stock 8.5 X 11" pen drawings. I have built up a body for forms and now I am considering how to translate them into painting. I am drawn towards a shift in scale and into color. I'm not nervous about color. Color relationships come pretty naturally to me. It is the shift in scale that worries me. I want to go larger, but I have always struggled so much when I have worked big, or even "bigish". I get confused about the relationships between the marks and the frame. I get confused about what I want. Do I want the marks to increase in size proportionate to the increase in the dimensions of the frame? Or do I want the marks stay small? I'm not sure. It is sort of a question of how much information should be in each square inch. When the viewer moves closer should an area that reads as one color/one shape from a distance, will it turn out to be one large brush stroke or will it be many? Or will the whole painting pulse with a variation in tightness/looseness? Probably that is what I will like best. If I let the painting pulse with that variation, then it can feel like it is expanding and condensing in different areas, like it is breathing. And it can mimic the visual experience of looking at a landscape, the way you shift your point of focus around to different spots in the vista that draw your eye, and the areas between points are blurred outs because you aren't looking at them, you're skimming over them. In the next moment you might go back to a skimmed area to really see something in it. The blur and focus, is like the tightness/looseness, expand/condense. So then the question is how exactly to get that into the paintings?

October Drawings

2006-11-03T08:20:00.000-08:00

I have continued to work with the small standard format (81/2" x 11") with pen.

Sumac

2006-11-02T16:59:00.000-08:00

Phone photos, also from a walk. Strange color combination. Strange texture. I don't look at sumac up close very often. I did some very nice sumac from the car the other day. There were a lot of them against a corn field with mountains in the back ground off the highway. Too bad I was driving. I didn't get to take a photograph. I'll have to enlist a driver and go back soon.

Poke Weed Berries

2006-11-02T16:55:00.000-08:00

I saw these when I was out walking a few weeks ago. I've been using them as source material for drawings.

Even More September Drawings

2006-10-22T17:02:00.000-07:00

More September Drawings

2006-10-22T16:50:00.000-07:00

These are more of the drawings I was working on last month. I think I have been searching out new forms to bring into a series of paintings. I am getting set up to paint again.

September Drawings

2006-10-20T17:53:00.000-07:00

These are 81/2" x 11" pen on paper drawings.

Gray Paintings

2006-10-18T18:46:00.000-07:00

These are paintings I made in 2005.

Gray Paintings

2006-10-18T18:41:00.000-07:00

Gray Paintings

2006-10-18T18:37:00.000-07:00

painting details

2006-10-18T18:33:00.000-07:00

painting details

2006-10-18T18:28:00.000-07:00

painting details

2006-10-18T18:24:00.000-07:00

painting details

2006-10-18T18:06:00.000-07:00

painting details

2006-10-18T17:58:00.000-07:00

Paintings

2006-10-18T17:43:00.000-07:00

This is a 5' x 5' grid of 25 mixed media paintings on paper. I made them in the spring of 2005.

more notes

2006-10-18T09:01:00.000-07:00

The chrysanthemum is a photo I took at the Smith Mums Show. I played with it in iphoto a little bit. The rock is a picture I took when I was out walking. I think the fruit are dragon fruit. I took the photo on my phone at Whole Foods.

Green Fist

2006-10-18T08:15:00.000-07:00

I saw this beautiful painting on The Beholder. The artist's name is Liz Russell.

strange flowers

2006-10-17T19:47:00.000-07:00

i took this photograph at the smith green house last year

visual "notes"

2006-10-17T16:28:00.000-07:00

these are some recent photos i've taken. i think of them as sketches or notes.