Original Display My Husband Made to Highlight My Tile Painting

Natural Rock with handmade easel by Arthur Paul Gomez
18 July 2011

 

"Mixed Media Ant Exploring Hollyhock" - Second Installation - Original Neely Gomez Painting

Mixed Media
Ant Exploring Hollyhock
original 8 x 10

I made a post in June 2011 with a photo I took summer of 2010 of an ant exploring a hollyhock and next to that photo an original prismacolor pencil sketch with my interpretation of the photo and said my intention was to next do a watercolor painting of the same subject.  The photo presented here started out as a watercolor then I added some acrylic and lastly some silver pen.  Hopefully I can do the oil painting of the same subject matter before too long and post that so that they are somewhat in sequence.  The most important part of this little experiment for me has been in just having some fun -- and that is exactly what I did with this painting.

7 1/2 x 7 1/2 Tiles Painting in Acrylic with Pen & Ink - Last Week of June 2011

Found myself not liking the commercial design on a couple of tiles I had hanging in the house and decided to try painting over them and painting on a different surface.  All went well until after painting the second (on the right) I discovered that I painted it upside down so decided that altho I could paint over it again I may just display it on a small easel.  Tile on the left is an original and tile on the right was painted from a picture from local newspaper published around Christmas time.

June 2011 -- Study of Hollyhocks with Ant Exploring

My intention has been to first do a prismacolor pencil drawing of these hollyhock blooms with ant(s) exploring, secondly to do a watercolor painting of the same subject and thirdly to do an oil painting so I suppose this could be considered "a study". 

I'm grateful that an artist friend suggested me reading "Art & Fear" and I stumbled across this statement "Requiring perfection invites paralysis" as my art is definitely not perfect (I know where the errors/imperfections are) tho I am making progress in choosing to display knowing that in some mediums it's easier to make those corrections than in others.  So this is my first installment and I still have the second and third to present to you.

May 2011 UPDATE

Hadn't realized I got a bit lax in updating this blog.  These two paintings at the top are floral watercolors.  I had been wanting to do an oil landscape just to keep the creative juices flowing and in trying to paint more consistently.  I'm pleased that I actually have been doing more painting and still allowing time in my life for those other things that create so much joy and pleasure for me like my family and friends.

"Sunlit Acequia" - original oil painting

Gourd Painting in Between Art Projects

 Just to keep the creative juices flowing and to be more consistent I tried my hand at painting gourds we bought while visiting family near Casa Grande, AZ.  Next time I think I'll try carving and etching the gourds before painting.  I've been reading the book "Art & fear - Observations On The Perils (and Rewards) of ARTMAKING" by David Bayles & Ted Orland and found the thought that "to require perfection is to invite paralysis" quite interesting.  Years ago when I began doing cross stitch I remember my dear friend telling me not to correct every mistake as it made it my own and an original.  I enjoy finding those unique and individual ways of expressing myself through art in a wide variety of different mediums.

Update on April & May 2011



"New Mexico Transplant"



Not for Sale

 My husband and I celebrated our 5 year anniversary of moving from Cherry Valley, CA to Rio Rancho, New Mexico this past week.  We love our life here in New Mexico and are both inspired by the beauty all around us.  The past two months I painted two of our interior rooms and did some drawing and painting tho nothing for sale, this is all in trying to do art on a more consistent basis.  I will post a couple things I did and some inspiration I find in my own backyard.  We saw some wonderful dancing, drumming and artwork displayed at the Gathering of Nations held at The Pit in Albuquerque a couple of weeks ago.  I'm hoping to be able to express my own cultural pride soon from pictures I took.

Notice the bee on the flowers of the picture on the right -- spring is here and the bees are a buzzin'.

Birdhouses Painted for Friends January 2011 - Not for Sale

  

Just Framed Original Oil Painting "At the Foot of San Gorgonio" from 2006



16x20 - With Frame 22 1/2" x 26 1/2"



Unframed 2007 Original Neely Gomez Acrylic Abstract Floral on 8x10 Canvas Panel

Original Abstract Acrylic Floral (2007)

16"x20" Matted Unframed Original Watercolor "A New Day is Dawning"

Many personal changes marked 2005 for me and right around that time I painted this watercolor. I actually drew the pen & ink parts in first and then decided I wanted to finish it off with watercolor. The matting is cream colored with brown.

NFS "Welcome to New Mexico" - 11"x"14" When Matted Original Watercolor

I actually painted this watercolor in 2004 before we moved to New Mexico (we moved here in 2006) and because it has special meaning for me I do want to keep this one for myself.  When I have it matted and framed I will put a newer picture up. 

"Snow Aglow" Original Oil Painting on 11"x14" Gesso Board

Had done different versions of this one but last night decided to put the finishing touches on it to make this the final version.

Original Pen & Ink, Watercolor & Oils on 9"x12" Watercolor Paper




Initial Pen & Ink & Watercolor

 Thought I'd try my hand at some original abstract painting a couple of weeks ago and the result was the painting below

Happy 2011 Everyone!!!



"New Mexico New Year's Day 2011"
9"x12"

Thought I'd try a little something new and painted this acrylic on 9x12  cardboard panel New Year's Day & evening adding the pen & ink finishing touches this morning.  I hope with this New Year of 2011 I can also paint more, blog more and live life to the very fullest as none of us are guaranteed tomorrow.  New Mexico is full of beauty, color and inspiring things & I just want to continue to explore & discover new pieces of creativity within myself.  Happy 2011 everyone!!!

Paintings of Mine From the Past - NOT FOR SALE - In the Collection of Friends & Family

Original Oil Painting

"Memories"

In the Collection of Mildred Neely

Shawnee, OK

Oil Painting by Jo Anne Neely Gomez
"A. Gutknecht's Grodnertal, Austria"
in the Collection of Richard & Ruth Davis

Beaumont, CA

























Original Oil Painting

"Cindy's Seascape"

by Jo Anne Neely Gomez

in the Collection of

Steve & Cindy Smith

Redlands, CA

Original Oil Painting
"One Cove Over"
In the Collection of
Ronald Gomez
Grand Terrace, CA















 















Original Watercolor Painting
"Frank & Sandra Beliveau House - New Hampshire"
In the Collection of Frank Beliveau

Northwood, New Hampshire



Original Oil Painting
"Longing for the Lake"
In the Collection of
David & Kathleen Ruiz
Garden Valley, CA



Original Seascape by Jo Anne Neely Gomez

"Purple Sunset"
In the Collection of Eduardo & Gallina Larios

Rio Rancho, NM





  





















Some of My Paintings & Artwork from the Past - NOT FOR SALE



My first seascape oil painting - from a Peter Ellenshaw painting



Neely Gomez Oil Painting

"Harnett's Still"



Original Oil Painting
"Grandmother Serrano"
by Jo Anne Neely Gomez



Floral
Oil Painting by Jo Anne Neely Gomez

"Lola Ades - Snaps & Pansies"















   



Burgundy Colored Matt - Unframed 11"x14" Floral - Acrylic & Watercolor on Watercolor Paper - October 2010

 The first picture shows the floral painting mounted temporarily on gesso board and the flowers to the right are the actual flowers I used to sketch & paint the painting.  The second picture is the floral painting with burgundy matting (unframed).  The third picture is a closer up picture of the actual flowers.



Initial Acrylic Background Placed on W/C Paper of Floral Sketch - 5 Oct 2010

Brown Acrylic Background on W/C Paper

A Closer Pic of Initial Background Painting

Closer Look at Detail of Sketching on Flowers

  I sketched this the other day when I was doing some plein aire painting in the backyard from some flowers I'd planted in our garden.  Last night I decided to make the background a hand mixed brown acrylic and my intention is to fill in the floral detail with watercolor.

11"x14" Light Green Matt - Unframed "The Bosque" - Original Prismacolor Pencil with Pen & Ink -- Actually Done September 2010

"The Bosque" Original Prismacolor 11"x14" Matted & Unframed

I thought I'd try something a little different and just began drawing with this.  I like to draw and paint using different mediums and this is definitely different than what I'm used to but I also thought I'd  reverse the order in darker to lighter colors I would normally do the sky.  It reminded me of The Bosque here in New Mexico and got me out of my "comfort zone" a little bit too.  I had fun doing it and really like the colors tho oil painting is my first love.