Artwork by Jill Rizzo

Finally completed another large scale painting. Oil, oil stick, acrylic on canvas. This is one of the “desert circus” series’ secondary stories: transient lives. Oftentimes animals represent human beings in my work. It allows the stories to be more inclusive and create connections in a variety of ways.

There were questions this week like “how do you know when you are done?” Well this one I had to sit on for some time. I usually layer a base of acrylic to get the overall shape of the piece mapped out. But I dove right into the oils much earlier in the game. Which demanded more gestation time (weeks) during the paint drying process.

It felt so good to wrap her up this week, she is on display in the hot shops first floor “hall galleries” through the month of October.