BECKY JOY landscape oil painting sunrise

"Morning Reflection" oil 18x24 $1650. Click here to purchase.

Hi everyone!

I received an honorable mention with Morning Reflection at the Arizona Plein Air Artists Annual Show in Sedona, AZ. The second painting that I entered received the Artists' Choice Award.

This was a painting from my imagination. I wanted to use a lot of cool grays in the painting to play off of the bright sunlit colors. I felt like it was a contest within myself to see how many colors I could get in the painting in the grays. It was an exercise in color. The colors become cooler and less saturated as I moved away from the light.

This weekend I have mostly been working on my website trying to organize, simplify and get a new look. It is really a job to get all the information that you want on a website, but keep it simple and navagable. How do you like the new look?

Talk to you all tomorrow!

Becky

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Spring Bird Song - Original oil painting by Karen Tarlton

Spring Bird Song

24x24

Oil

SOLD

Nature is my inspiration always!  Thick rich texture and brilliant color!

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Galleries: City Lights Gallery, Las Vegas, NV The Arlington Arts Gallery, Arlington Virginia Galerie Severn, New Orleans Louisiana The Stonehenge Gallery, Montgomery Alabama SAC's Gallery, Montgomery Alabama KR Designs, Fort Myers,FL



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Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. ~Twyla Tharp

sunlit farm field and trees oil landscape painting by BECKY JOY

Sunset Fields 11x14 on hold

Hi everyone,

I have this painting on hold right now. I think it has a destination.

I started with a photo of tree shapes. No, actually I started with the sky as a sunset. The sun was on the side where the trees are. Then I decided to put some trees into the painting. They kept growing, soon I wiped out the sky and kept the trees. Then, I needed to fit a landscape with the trees. I decided to put the fields in with a little irrigation water catching the light of the sun. I've always liked those glints of light in the fields. Lastly, I painted the sky with the sun peaking through the clouds. Anyway, the painting ended as something entirely different that what I started with. It doesn't always turn out successful when heading in that direction, but this one worked.


Tomorrow my guest post will be on 7Sentences http://ow.ly/5FNLV . Check it out for Sat., about inspiration.

BECKY JOY

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