Contact

If you'd like more information, including availability and prices of specific works of art, please contact Dorothy Connelly
by email:	dvc@dconnelly.com
at the studio:	Oakdale Painting Studio, 2014 Oakdale Avenue San Francisco, CA 94124-2041 415.269.2109

About Becoming a Portrait
Portraits aren't for everyone; but if your gift list needs something extra special for Big-0 birthdays, promotions, anniversaries, retirements, you may want to consider one.

You, your loved one, your favorite non-human companion can become a portrait in 30 to 80 hours over several months.

I work primarily from photographs since busy lives don't leave much time for sittings (sketches in person are very helpful, but not necessary). The secret is a series of casual, unposed photographs that you supply or that I take. The most important ingredient is getting to know how you feel about the person or pet and what you find special about them.

Next you receive a rough study of the portrait using background colors that go with your home and your other artwork. If you approve the study, then I stretch the linen, gesso the canvas and start painting the portrait.

If you'd like to know more, please email me at portrait@dconnelly.com

About DC
I am a painter working in San Francisco. As a corporate immigrant to the art world, I continue studying faces, body language and accessories as clues to authenticity and character. Everyone has moments when their unique spirit sparkles to the surface. The relentless intrigue is transforming facial geology onto a painted surface so that the paint and the face have a life together of their own.

I also make found-object assemblage/constructions; mixed media objects; intaglio and relief prints. These liberate my experiments with color, line and image making and bring new life to my painting. I share studio space with a dozen painters at the Oakdale Painting Studio southeast of the Mission district. The studio gives me lots of natural light for painting with its north and south windows and skylights even when the rest of the City is foggy.

I count among my visual mentors the Bay Area Figurative school, the Society of Six, Kurt Schwitters, Louise Nevelson, Elizabeth Murray, Linda Christensen, and Lucian Freud. These are the artists I return to when the paintbrush gets stuck in a rut.