<![CDATA[Art by Sonia J. Summers

<![CDATA[Art by Sonia J. Summers - New Art]]>Tue, 15 Jul 2025 05:16:18 -0700Weebly<![CDATA[Several Random Updates]]>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:46:52 GMThttp://soniajacksonsummers.weebly.com/new-art/several-random-updatesI decided to update a few things on my website. There are new chalk art images, and a simpler bio. The front page and header image is my most recent massive landscape/cityscape. Given the previous one was about 10 years old, I figured it was time for a new look. It's been 4 years since my most recent update, and I've created so much in that time, that this update is hardly complete. I will try to fill in over time. For more frequent updates, please visit my Instagram page.

]]><![CDATA[Sidewalk Chalk Art Page Added]]>Sun, 16 May 2021 23:37:41 GMThttp://soniajacksonsummers.weebly.com/new-art/sidewalk-chalk-art-page-added

I've added a new page to my portfolio highlighting my sidewalk chalk art. My style and subject matter varies, based on the event and inspiration, but I enjoy recreating classics in the Madonnari tradition as well as coming up with my own designs, and occasionally, I volunteer my chalking to the community. I've had a couple of paid opportunities and have won or placed ten times in the past 5 years. I still consider myself new to this art form and this genre of art and am still very much learning about how best to pursue it in my locality with my skills and experience. I am pleased with the successes I've enjoyed so far, but still have much growth ahead.

]]><![CDATA[Added Landscapes]]>Wed, 08 Jul 2020 15:05:54 GMThttp://soniajacksonsummers.weebly.com/new-art/added-landscapesI have added recent large landscapes to their portfolio page: Cape San Blas, Canyon de Chelly, and Yosemite.

]]><![CDATA[The Library]]>Sun, 08 Dec 2019 15:39:08 GMThttp://soniajacksonsummers.weebly.com/new-art/the-library16x20 inches Acrylic on Canvas.
Father's Day gift to my father, depicting him and his grandchildren (my kids) playing in his Library-study.

]]><![CDATA[Yosemite]]>Sun, 08 Dec 2019 15:32:15 GMThttp://soniajacksonsummers.weebly.com/new-art/yosemite36x48 inches Acrylic on canvas.
First painting completed at my new studio in Tennessee.

]]><![CDATA[Notre Dame de Paris Interior]]>Sun, 08 Dec 2019 15:26:35 GMThttp://soniajacksonsummers.weebly.com/new-art/notre-dame-de-paris-interior30x36" Acrylic on Canvas
The last painting I completed at my previous studio in Birmingham before we moved to Tennessee. It received an Honorable Mention in the Gadsden Art Association's 61st Annual Juried Show this fall. I consider my style to be a blend of Realism and Impressionism, and this seems to land more on the Impressionism side of that scale.

]]><![CDATA["The Little Ones Along the Fence" revisit and focus]]>Fri, 24 May 2019 20:21:10 GMThttp://soniajacksonsummers.weebly.com/new-art/the-little-ones-along-the-fence-revisit-and-focusBeen flipping through my Pro-Life art portfolio and realized I don’t have a good photo of this one featured. This is the man I married. This painting is titled “The Little Ones Along the Fence,” and depicts my husband digging the grave for our miscarried daughter, our second child. It's acrylic on 18x24" canvas. In my head, I compare it to “The Gleaners” because of its outside labor related domesticity. We found a Catholic cemetery in a nearby town that saved the small space along the fence for smaller burials, such as miscarried children, but part of it was he had to help dig the grave. My husband needed something to get him through our loss. Something to DO. So much of the time when it’s a baby-related issue we focus on women. But men feel it too. I carried Alex but sometimes I feel like her death hit my husband more. She’s been on my mind lately, anytime Pro-Life legislation and activism is all over the news. I’ve also been feeling for my better half alot lately and how he carries all of us. He takes care of every single one of us, myself included, and made sure as a father his miscarried daughter was laid to rest with dignity. This is what a true man is, and I’m grateful every day that God answered my prayers with him.

]]><![CDATA[New Logo]]>Mon, 08 Apr 2019 16:27:44 GMThttp://soniajacksonsummers.weebly.com/new-art/new-logo

Collaboration of me and my husband. I've always wanted a solid logo. I like that this encompasses the alliteration of my name (double S), and the duality of my two main art media (painting and drawing). For me it's always been about my skills with my hands, since besides art, even my other interests are very hand-focused, such as piano and rock climbing. And of course purple. Always purple.

]]><![CDATA[Monticello Watercolor Timelapse]]>Thu, 14 Mar 2019 17:26:26 GMThttp://soniajacksonsummers.weebly.com/new-art/monticello-watercolor-timelapseTimelapse of the watercolor I painted based on our visit to Monticello last summer, which I then gave as a gift to my father, fellow artist Robert F. Jackson, who is a University of Virginia alumnus and fan of Thomas Jefferson like me and my husband.

]]><![CDATA[Mediatrix: Self-portrait and portrait of my son]]>Mon, 11 Mar 2019 18:07:12 GMThttp://soniajacksonsummers.weebly.com/new-art/mediatrix-self-portrait-and-portrait-of-my-son

I was really on the fence which page of my portfolio to put this piece. As mentioned in my last post, I've been taking some of the lessons I've learned with oils, and am now applying them to my acrylic work. This acrylic painting in the tradition of the "Madonna and Child" artwork depiction of Mary and Jesus is an example. Although my son and I are filling the roles of Mary and Jesus in this piece, I didn't feel it gave it the proper dignity to classify it as "Cosplay." The choice to adopt Mary's mantel and to place my son in the role of the Christ child is so much deeper.

As a cradle Catholic, it actually has taken me much of my adult life to understand Mary better, and to adopt any sort of regular prayer devotion around her role in Salvation history. So for me to be willing to see myself in her shoes so to speak, I feel is a great leap forward in my faith life as a Catholic artist. Likewise, I treasure my son. And to imagine what it must have been like for Mary, who I'm sure treasured Jesus, to watch Him grow and eventually suffer and fulfill His role in God's plan must have been torturous for her to endure. For this reason, this piece is still first and foremost a self-portrait and portrait, just in the arrangement and tradition of a "Madonna and Child," and I have therefore included it in my "Portrait" page of my portfolio of this site.

This piece's title is a play on words with an obvious juxtaposition of classical imagery over a modern "media" filled setting.

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