Palette Knife Painters, International: Night Rolls In, by New York artist, Celeste Plowden

Sunday, June 7, 2015

Night Rolls In, by New York artist, Celeste Plowden

This painting comes from a photo I took of a section of my yard, where the dark woods meet the back yard, very near my patio.When night comes, you can hardly see any sky through the leaves, just a very faint patch, here and there, of blue.

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

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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.