11x14 acrylic on canvas, sides painted, wired on back, Available at
Showing posts with label dahlia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dahlia. Show all posts
Friday, March 25, 2016
Black Dahlia by NY artist 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.
Saturday, January 31, 2015
Dahlia with Stripes Original Oil Palette Knife Painting by Hallie Kohn Art
8x10 palette knife on 3/4" gallery wrapped canvas
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
"Dahlia in Stripes" Original Oil Palette Knife Painting by Hallie Kohn Art
I felt a lot of freedom with this painting and must be making progress. Not too long ago I would have measured and drawn those horizontal lines in and thought the spacing had to be exact, that they had to be touching without blending, etc. Not fun stuff fighting against ones natural tendencies. I think I was an architect in a previous life. ;)
8x10 palette knife on 3/4" gallery wrapped canvas
8x10 palette knife on 3/4" gallery wrapped canvas
Thursday, October 30, 2014
"Just Because" Original Oil Palette Knife Painting by Hallie Kohn Art
I love this softer color palette with the bright pops of orange. For this painting I used a very limited palette of five colors and white: cadmium yellow medium and light, sap green, alizarin crimson, and cerulean. It makes for such nice color harmony.
Continue to enjoy painting the flower bouquets using my palette knives. They require a LOT of paint on these larger canvases (although this particular one isn't too large) to get that thickness and those great knife marks. Enjoy!
12x16 oil on 7/8" gallery wrapped canvas
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
"Dazzling Dahlia" by Karla Nolan, palette knife, brush oil painting
Flowers are so much fun and yet so challenging to paint. We've only
grown dahlias here and there, in fact it's been years since we've
planted them in our garden. Now that I've finished this painting, I may
just have to look into making this effort again, as I fell in love with
all the colors in this particular flower. More dreams of spring,
although it's not even winter. Can you tell my favorite season?
"Dazzling Dahlia", 8"x10" palette knife and brush oil painting on linen
panel, $160 includes s/h in continental U.S., write me at
KarlaNolan@gmail.com for more information...and thanks for looking!
Greetings from Fort Collins, Colorado
"Life is an onion and one peels it crying."--French proverb
Escapism. Defying time. Serenity and solace. Reliving treasured moments...the reasons I paint and make artwork. The creative acts are surely the most pleasant and yet difficult of all. Color and form are special friends. The challenge of perfecting artwork is monumental and exhilarating. This effort has grown to be both friend and family, which are the two most important aspects of my life. Judaica is my most challenging art...Hebrew and I don't always get along!
I'm mainly self-taught in art, relying on intuition, experimentation, benefiting from studying books, visiting museums, galleries and learning painting techniques from other artist friends/relatives. I've studied pastels with Clive Tyler, taken oils with Daniel Edmondson. My newest medium is painting on glass, inspired by an Italian master, bringing this art technique home and applying my own topics. My oils are mainly with palette knife.
This art style might be called "abstract realism", an oxymoron in its own right. Favorite contemporary artists include Cruciani, L Horowitz, Berberian, S Stork, C Tyler, D Edmondson.
"Life is short, use color!"
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