As an artist, this is interesting. I feel as if I’m finding my personal voice in terms of influences: Impressionism v. Tonalist & Luminist art. (Those links open in a new window and take you to Wikipedia.) For me, Impressionism includes apparently disconnected colors & textures (at least, up close) that create the visual and…
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Spring 2010 – Revisited
Sometimes I look at an older painting and it’s lacking something. Oh, it’s often “nice enough,” but… well, that’s not enough for me unless it was just a quick sketch. My March 2010 painting, Spring is on the way, was like that. It just didn’t have the oomph that I wanted; that may be partly…
Orange Hills Revisited
This is an example of what happens when I look at one of my earlier sketches and all I feel is, “Well, it’s okay…” I started with the oil sketch from January 8th, the Orange Hills at Sunset painting. Frankly, I was going to put it into eBay at a low starting price, just to…
Sunrise – Snowy Skies – 14 Jan 2011
This morning’s skies looked ominous at first, and the colors were there for just a couple of minutes. I was glad that I’d already set out my palette with the colors I was likely to need. This was a small, fast oil sketch on an 8″ x 10″ canvasboard. Many sunrises feature the brightest colors…
Sunrises – Two More – 13 Jan 2011
It was another sunrise with quickly-changing skies. I had to work very quickly to capture the colors on these two 8″ x 10″ canvasboards. The first one includes darker colors and higher contrast. (In real life, the reds aren’t that vivid, blue-ish, or light.) The sun was just coming up (in back of me) and…
Flurries at Dusk, Revisited – 13 Jan 2011
With some minor changes, the larger Flurries at Dusk painting is now completed. (See the nearly completed version plus backstory, here. Mostly, I added contrast in some areas, and softened the white areas in the sky.) It’s a higher key than I’d expected, but I’m pleased with the lyrical quality of the color. The completed…
Flurries at Dusk – In Progress
I’m beginning to work on larger paintings, based on some of my recent color studies and oil sketches. The photo (above) shows the first stage of this painting. I’m happy with at least half of it, so the finished work won’t look tremendously different… or at least I don’t think it will. (Sometimes a painting…
Vivid Pink Sunrise – 11 Jan 2011
This is the second of two paintings of this morning’s sunrise. Within minutes of completing the early sunrise painting, shades of pink seemed to dominate the sky. Continuing the theme of “urgency” from my previous work, I deliberately chose a larger canvas. This painting is on an 11″ x 14″ stretched canvas. My thought was:…
Early Sunrise – 11 Jan 2011
This is the first of this morning’s two oil paintings capturing the sunrise. I was consciously working with more vivid colors to capture the true impression of the sunrise. Though I wanted to keep tweaking the painting to get it “just so,” I’m also very inspired by yesterday’s discussion with my daughter, Amber. As we…
Quick Tree Sketch – 9 Jan 2011
Some of my oil sketches are sort of doodles… quick artwork exploring themes. That’s a good description of this sketch of the woods near our home. The purpose of this was to see what would happen if I tried to convey sunset colors through the trees. It’s a whimsical piece giving me more to think…
Orange Hills at Sunset – 8 Jan 2011
I hadn’t planned to paint on Saturday. My husband and I spent most of the day running errands. The new indoor farmers’ market in Concord (NH) was a delight, and we returned home with great food items and some yummy-smelling soaps. However, as sunset colored the landscape, there was an amazing contrast between the lilac…
Flurries Near Dusk – 7 Jan 2011
Toward dusk on Friday, the sky had that eerie mix of muted colors, from pink to blue to a greenish-blue cast. When the colors are that subdued, the more unusual colors in the hills seem to glow, and the snow is dark but intense. It was lovely, accented by light snow flurries. Of course, I…