Palette Knife Painters, International: Night at Stonehenge, by New York artist, Celeste Plowden

Thursday, May 14, 2015

Night at Stonehenge, by New York artist, Celeste Plowden

Painting the sky with a palette knife not only adds the texture of layers, but easily gives the impression of a sky laden with clouds, mist and atmosphere. Everything was worked with a palette knife for textures, except the hint of shading on the stones.

8x10 acrylic on acid free canvas panel, UV varnish, available upon request

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.