Repose

Some of you might remember that in a post titled Risqué or Okay? I stressed about posting art online that contained nudity - not a problem with nudity in art but with putting it online.  And how I got over it when I posted the piece Fire a few months ago. 

Also in that first post I had some close-up shots of a piece that I was calling Oklhoma Hills at the time.  I was never quite satisfied with that piece so it moved out of sight for awhile.  When I pulled it out again, I realized the hills/sky were just too juvenile and the body was underemphasized so I scraped and collaged and colored and beeswaxed, and here we are.

She is not nearly as subtle as Fire, is she?  I'd love to know your thoughts.

Repose is available on my website.

Nekkid Again

or maybe I should say I'm talking about nekkidness in art again.

Some of you might remember that in a post titled Risqué or Okay? I stressed about posting art online that contained nudity - not a problem with nudity in art but with putting it online.

After receiving a few comments and several emails, I decided to go for it. 
So here's the scoop on the piece

FIRE

(formerly known as Fifty-One)*

This piece is large - 31 x 41 - and unless you're at least 15 feet away,

it just appears to be abstract.

It's made up of 51 of these 3x3 squares that are portions of a highly pixelated photo.

But when you stand back far enough

you can see the nekkid woman!!

Since online you see the entire piece at once,

you don't get to experience the sense of discovery -

which is why I'm hinting at it with lots of close up shots

(plus, with these detail shots you can see a lot of the layers and texture).

Anyway

here she is

Thanks for helping me to be more brave!!

* Do you ever work on a piece and have a title in mind only to change it after viewing it for awhile? 

This piece was originally called Fifty-One because, well, it was started the year she turned 51 - thus the 51 squares.  But it took me so long to finish her that she was no longer 51!!  As I continued to view it, the canvas just looked like it was on fire with charred edges and the white flame in the center.  So she got a new name. 

Plus she's pretty hot for a 51 year old - hehehe (I said that just for my husband's benefit)

Risqué or Okay?

In mid-December, I finished a piece that I'd worked at on-n-off for 2½ years.
It is my favorite piece by me.
Ever.
I absolutely love it.

So, I know you're over there saying,
"lemme see, lemme see"
but I'm afraid to post it cuz,
drumroll please,

there is, as we used to say in Houston, a NEKKID woman in it!!!!!
I have no problem with nekkidness and I don't think it's naughty to make or view nekkid art.
My question (Risqué or Okay?) isn't about the art but about putting them
on my blog, my Facebook page and/or my website.

I have a fear of being banned on Facebook or of getting an over-18 label on Blogspot.
 
Heck, can you tell by my cagey terminology, I'm afraid of
dun-dun-dun
web-crawlers

I don't know a lot about SEO or webcrawlers but I don't want to be
labeled as naughty because I use the real word for nekkidness.

Now I've completed another piece with this issue.

TOTALLY different from the first but nekkid just the same.

To make this even sillier, you can't see the body in the top one unless you're

standing 15 or more feet away.  And a few people have even seen

the second piece up close and don't realize it's a body.

So what are your opinions - not on nekkid art but on the consequences of posting said art?

Do you know much about crawlers and labels and banning, etc?

Should I be worried or should I post away?

(It sure would be nice if someone from Google or Facebook would just call and tell me the scoop!)

By the way, the top three photos are from the piece

FIFTY-ONE also known as FIRE

and the lower three are from the new piece

OKLAHOMA HILLS.