Acrylic Paintings on Canvas

These are a few of my acrylic paintings on canvas. If interested, please email me at grace.mckee@live.com regarding sizes and prices. 

Gyotaku - Fish Rubbing - Photos

The January issue of Apollo Beach Life magazine is out! I'm excited because my gyotaku article is the cover story.

You might recognize me on the cover.  However, the lady in the inside photos is Martha Collins, who has attended every Beginning Gyotaku Workshop I've held at MiraBay. (Sorry, Martha.)

If you enjoyed the article, please take a couple of minutes to complete their survey.  Remember the title:  YOU SEE SEAFOOD, SHE SEES ART http://hibumagazine.com/survey

Thanks. 

Here are some more photos that were submitted:

Gyotaku - Acrylic paint on muslin 

Recommended for beginners. 

Gyotaku - Sumi ink on Japanese paper

The eye has not be added yet. Painted in after the rubbing. 

This one was done using the indirect method. Silk is laid over the fish and small tampos with a tiny amount of Japanese ink are pounced on the silk at least 30 times in each spot. Long, involved and tedious, but the resulting gyotaku is magnificent. 

Next is a child's shirt with a parrot fish printed in acrylic paint. Yes, a parrot fish is really that colorful. 

Some of my framed work:

This first one is a sole. Title: "Sole Sister"

I was so amused at an art show when I heard a lady explaining to her friend how my perspective was off. "You should not be able to see both eyes at once." Tell that to a sole or flounder after their eye has migrated. lol

Title of this one is "Pisces."  Same fish printed from both sides. 

This one is the same fish printed twice on the same side. Gives the effect of a second fish swimming beside the first. 

This "Mullet Couple" was done the same way:

PORTRAIT SKETCHES FROM SELFIES - My Personal Art Challenge

My all-time favorite quote as a teacher:  "You can't no more teach what you ain't learned than you can go back to where you ain't been."--Anonymous

I teach drawing. It is widely believed that people are the hardest subject to draw. So I have challenged myself to draw 52 portrait sketches from selfies. I plan to have a show and maybe even publish a book. 

These portrait sketches were all drawn from selfies sent to me with the agreement that I can use them as examples on my website and/or blog, I can show them in art shows, and I can publish them in books if I so choose: