Friday, December 7, 2018

Southwest Vista

One of the most challenging landscapes for me is the Southwest.  I love looking at the landscape, the colors the terrain but it is difficult to capture that with such a limited palette.
 Everything about it is like the flip side of the Northeast.  It seems to barren so devoid of lushness and color.  When you really look at it though it has it's own rugged, start beauty and the colors of the desert can be just as intense as the color of a forest.
This 5x7 shows the plain brownness of the desert with the complex colors of the hills in the distance.

Southwest Vista



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Friday, November 30, 2018

Modern Art Challenge

Well this challenge lived up to it's purpose, which was to do a painting by an avant garde artist or method.   I was out of my comfort zone in a few ways. For some reason I thought it would be better to use acrylics, not so and I had no idea Cubism would be so restrictive to me!!  You have to color inside the lines, which is not good for me.
Cubism is breaking down a subject to a basic geometric form and painting it in a flat manner.  I picked two very round subjects thinking that would make an interesting contrast. 
This is what a dish of pears and a teapot looked to me in a Cubist style.





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Friday, November 23, 2018

Across the Marsh

This 6x8 marsh oil is really one of my favorite marsh paintings.  It is painted from a photo I took looking across the marsh in Ipswich, MA.  A beautiful place with a beautiful coastal area. 
I think of the phrase "through a lens lightly" when I look at this.  It seems to be all suggestion with hints of homes, sand, water and the beautiful green of the hills.
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Across the Marsh
 
 
 
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Friday, November 16, 2018

Blue Teapot

Well I did it again.  I thought I was over my teapot mania but I guess not.  What is it about that round, plump little shape that so intrigues me?  I know that teapots come in all shapes and sizes but the cubby little round ones are my favorite. 
I painted this little 5x7 for a group challenge where we could use only red, blue yellow and white.  I used a beautiful mixture of all those colors to make the background, that was the challenge.

Blue Teapot

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Friday, November 9, 2018

Daisy Daisy

I think of all of the paintings I have done of flowers this is one of my favorites.  This 5x7 oil was painted from a photo that a fellow artist took for a challenge we did.  The challenge was to take turns picking a photo and each do our interpretation of that photo.  It is always fun to see how different each person sees something and the creation that comes from that vision.
At first I tried to be realistic in my painting but it just didn't seem right.  I wanted to be looser and freer, just like the flower was.
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Daisy


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Saturday, November 3, 2018

Limited Palette

This was a really fun challenge.  I wanted to do a painting in just 4 colors, Red, Blue, Yellow and White.   Limiting your colors is a great exercise because it forces you to mix colors and experiment. 
 I did 2 paintings.  My 6x8  Blue Teapot is using most of the colors just as they are, only the background is a mix I wouldn't have normally tried.  The 6x8  Laundry painting has lots and lots of greens in it, this was the challenge.  If you really look at the greens you see lots of yellow, reds and blues.




Blue Teapot




Laundry



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Sunday, October 28, 2018

Mountain Farm

Now for something a little different.  I really do love all kinds of art and all kinds of paintings on all kinds of mediums.  I especially like paintings that look different.  They are usually of ordinary things but just a little off because of the what materials are used or what they are painted on.
I wanted to do a farm scene but I wanted it to look muted and use almost dull colors.  I think I did that with this 9x12 oil but as you see I had to put a touch of some color in there!!
This is a farm nestled in a "holla" ? in North Carolina.
Donna

Mountain Farm


I couldn't help it!!!

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