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Friday, January 30, 2015

"Pink Splash," by Palette Knife Painter, Celeste Plowden,

acrylic on 8x10 archival canvas panel, finished with a UV varnish

I love painting birds and with a palette knife! The swift action of the loaded knife gives a frenzied movement to the ruffled feathers, and an impression of the way sunlight hits the bird. I have been painting a lot of flamingos recently, and experimenting with different colored textured backgrounds, which imply water, or lush greenery.

This painting is available for $25 at

my Etsy Store, Celeste Plowden Art

Celeste Plowden

I learned the art of acrylic and pastel painting through private instruction, after having spent my career as a designer of printed fabrics in the New York market place. I am a graduate of the College of Design, Art and Architecture at the University of Cincinnati, with a major in the History of Art, 1977. Later, I studied printed textile design at Parsons School of Design, in New York. Immediately afterward, I began free lance work for several design studios in the garment district of NYC, where I did re-coloration work for printed apparel fabrics, and sold my own designs through Bread and Butter Designs,also located in New York. In addition, during the 1980's and 1990's, I designed a number of needlecraft and stencil books for Dover Publications. Currently, I am working on a series of exotic birds and other animals done in acrylic paint, with a palette knife, for texture and brilliant color. I consider my paintings to be representational or impressionistic in nature, and I use fantasy colors because what I see often makes me feel these colors,and what would make an interesting composition, rather than using realistic colors.

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