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Ken Oliver’s European Trip

Posted on May 18, 2013 | 0 comments

My buddy Ken Oliver is busy, busy all over Europe teaching right now. He’s been showing some really nice photos on Facebook and I asked his permission to use one or two for inspiration for a painting. This one is acrylic, 18″ x 18″ on gallery wrapped canvas. The original will be for sale but I will also be offering gicleé prints on...

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Koi Pond Color Study

Posted on May 17, 2013 | 0 comments

On this week’s challenge, the request is to paint something two different ways. I choose to do a study of a koi pond in cool and then warm predominant colors. I worked on them side by side, back and forth, changing pastel colors along the way. It was a brain bender for sure but such a good practice to do. I think I’ll do more of this type of...

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Koi Pond #1

Posted on May 15, 2013 | 0 comments

I was really inspired by another artist, Patricia MacDonald’s recent work in which she explored lost lines. It truly spoke to me and so I set out to experiment also. I decided to start with a koi pond due to the somewhat abstract nature of a tight space, moving water and fish. This piece is done in pastels on red Mi-Teintes paper, which I have decided...

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Warm meets Cool, Night meets Day

Posted on May 8, 2013 | 0 comments

I took the Daily Paint Works weekly challenge – Warm/Cool. The challenge was to create a piece which is mainly one temperature. I choose an overall cool still life of my night stand which I recently “prettied up”. I wanted to push the concept to the extreme- the exact point where cool meets warm and all the subtle shifts that happen in...

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getting real, letting go, listening to my heart

Posted on May 5, 2013 | 1 comment

purchase – $200.00 When you’ve worked commercially in your art and have been successful, it’s really difficult to go back and create art with no thoughts about the commercial exploitation of it. I have to continually remind myself to let go and simply enjoy the process. Also, one wouldn’t think so, but, moving towards abstraction is...

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Air Acres Pasture

Posted on Apr 27, 2013 | 0 comments

Exactly one mile from my house is a small fly-in community where we keep our little homebuilt airplane and fly out of, on the grass strip. The dirt/gravel driveway into the community is adjacent to a small riding stable and it’s surrounding pastures. This is a painting of the pasture last spring, when the field was filled with small yellowish...

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One view, three ways

Posted on Apr 24, 2013 | 4 comments

I’ve been spending a lot of time exploring, experimenting and just having fun in my studio lately. My word for this year is “discovery” and I’m taking that very seriously! After purchasing a whole new set of beautiful pastels, I’ve been trying to find my voice with this medium. It’s so different from oil or acrylic in...

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Daily Painting, 041013 floral

Posted on Apr 10, 2013 |

Today’s painting is a bit different – I wanted to keep it really loose and impressionistic after working in realism for several days now. It’s good to change things up! The pine pollen in GA is kicking my butt…I feel like Dorothy in the poppy field…zzzz. And since pine pollen is a pea green, my eyes were craving yummy pinks...

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