Woman with a Water Pitcher - Sculpture by Sarah Myers

Woman with a Water Pitcher, Sarah Myers
Sculpture in Terracotta

    Carrying a flask of perfume in her hand and poising a bouyant water pitcher on her head, she walks toward us. Her face is radiant and serene. Her long skirts flow around her.

     In deep, bright terracotta, this sculpture was completed within two or three days. The red clay, now firm and permanent, carries both the spontanaeity of its rapid creation, the care of detail (from the sway of the body and tilted head to the ornate handle of the pitcher or the flask's pointed stopper) and a sense of history from being formed out of the world's most ancient sculpture-medium.   

Woman with Water Pitcher, Sarah Myers
Detail of face

Woman with a Water Pitcher, Sarah Myers
Close-up from side

Woman with Water Pitcher, Sarah Myers
Back

Woman with a Water Pitcher, Sarah Myers

Water-bearer in Charcoal and Conte, Sarah Myers

Water-bearer, Sarah Myers
Charcoal and Conte on grayscale paper

This drawing of a woman carrying an ornate water pitcher and a flask of perfume is related to a sculpture recently completed in clay.

Water-bearer, detail

Water-bearer, detail, Sarah Myers

Rain - Dots and Circles

Rain on Windshield
Sarah Myers

A simple pattern inspired by a warm summer rain hitting the glass,  I think it would make a pleasant design for a textile.

Painting. Figure: Ocean S. Myers

Figure: Ocean    S. Myers, Acrylic on Canvas  2013

     My newest painting began with inspiration from Baroque maps, where figures personifying seasons, continents, and oceans stand on either side or recline at the bottom, ornamenting already elaborate and fantastic charts.

      But I was also looking at pictures of Brazilian interiors.  And I was full of the colors and enchanting vistas of Raoul Dufy. So as I spread the brilliant blue, the brown, and the mica/iron gold paint on the canvas, I resolved, not to hold to a single influence, simply to create something that would show very well on a wall.

Drawing, Ocean Figure

Drawing for the Margin of an Antique Map    S. Myers, Charcoal and Conte on Cardboard

   This quick charcoal-and-conte drawing was constructed from three or four studies used for my much larger painting - my new one, which I will introduce in a future post
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   Brown, aged paper is very good for showing conte well - my stash having disappeared temporarily, I requisitioned the top of a strong packing box before inspiration disappeared in the same way as the paper.