Palette Knife Painters, International: Is There Life on Mars? , by New York artist, Celeste Plowden

Friday, June 5, 2015

Is There Life on Mars? , by New York artist, Celeste Plowden

I prefer to paint on a ground that is already colored, not just a white canvas, so I use my left over paint from the day to work up a background, with my palette knife. I keep the canvas panels until something strikes me to paint on it, often something totally imaginary. This is one of those paintings, all worked with my palette knife. The red ground made me think of the red planet, so I painted an imaginary cityscape, just using red shades.

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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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Friday, June 5, 2015

Is There Life on Mars? , by New York artist, Celeste Plowden

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