antique truck, icon of the west by Becky Joy

Old Truck, The End? 6x8 oil plein air $250.

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Hi everyone, Good to be feeling good! Last weekend I started my drive up to Cheyenne to participate in the plein air event, Peaks to Prairies. I was looking forward to some cooler weather and painting in the area. On my way up there, I stopped along a road near Taos to paint this little painting.

All was going well on the trip, then in Colorado Springs I got off the freeway for gas and had an accident. My car was totaled, I was dazed and fortunate. I walked out with a scratch on my knuckle and just plain ol' sore. I had to get a ride to the rental cars, transfer all my stuff as I had the last glimpse of my car.

I called off the plein air event. I felt that I would be too sore to be of much good for a few days. I find that when I paint a lot at an event my neck and shoulder muscles get really sore and I knew that I would have more soreness and stiffness in the following few days and it was a long drive home to Phoenix. I turned around and started back taking it slower and planning more days to get home.

The next day between Santa Fe and Albuquerque, my rental  car broked down on the freeway at rush hour. So, it was call the rental company again, get a tow truck, new car and transfer my stuff all over again. I finally got to Albuquerque for the night, went to a nice dinner, had a drink and got to bed (but didn't sleep well).

I then continued my trip home in the third car and finally made it home late at night. Yesterday, I slept a lot and feel really good today.

So, I was wondering, is the plein air of the old truck just appropriate or an omen?

Talk to you later. Back to business and painting now and looking for a new car.

Becky

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Postcards from Idaho-"Alvin's Old Barn and Outhouse", by Kathryn Willis

Alvin's Old Barn and Outhouse, 12x16" oil on panel
by Kathryn Willis

Last week I painted at the farm across the road from our Idaho cabin. Alvin and his wife, very dear friends of ours, died a few years ago, and now the farm has passed on to their granddaughter and her husband. These old structures are our treasured memories of Alvin.

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Commissioned still life painting by Becky Joy

An 18x14 oil still life. The painting has been sold. After blocking the painting in, I left parts of the block-in as it was. I find that if I start painting over the whole painting that I loose much of my design. I lot of the darks have been painted once. This was a patterned piece of fabric that I used keeping just a suggestion of the design.

I am in Austin, TX right now and was going to go out painting this morning with Sara Winters. But, it was raining and windy, very windy all day, so we called it off. I hope to get out tomorrow morning for some painting and more later in the week. I did bring green paint with me.

I found out from a friend in Arizona that I had a painting at the Arizona Plein Air Painters annual show in Sedona that received an honorable mention. That was unexpected nice news to get.



I'll post as soon as I can, but schedule makes posting difficult. Talk to you all later.

Becky Joy

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FIELD AND ROAD oil painting by BECKY JOY

16x20 oil on linen Click here for more info.

I started from a photo when I painted this. I loved the curves in the road going across the field. I designed the rest of the painting around this road. It is a good painting to see all the greens that you can create. Mixing, mixing, nothing out of the tube. Almost every color on my palette was mixed with the green.

I continued today filling out applications. OMG there are a lot due right now. In the next couple of days there will be more to do.

Tomorrow I will be out plein air painting. Its supposed to be a cloudy day and I would like to do another "gray" painting.

Talk to you all later.

Becky

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Sunset Streaming through the tree by BECKY JOY

This 14x18 oil in posted on my website. For more information click here.

I have been busy working on my house that I had gutted and remodeled. Some of you already know the story, but I'll repeat myself here. I bought a bank owned repo about two years ago. I wanted a house that I could gut and remodel the way I wanted. Anyway, I got one with a LOT of work to be done. We spent about a year on it working everyday tearing out walls and everything else then reconstructing. The studio was the first thing to set up. I have been going back and forth from the office at my current home to the studio at the new place. Now I will be moving into the new place, because the old one finally sold. We have two weeks to move. We are over at the new house cleaning, putting things away and sheetrocking, texturing, sanding, painting and electrical in the master bedroom. We left that end of the house unfinished because we wanted to add onto it after getting the house livable.We decided to get a little more work done this week before actually moving in. Anyway, my posting will be erratic the next couple of weeks.

Onto the painting, this painting is an older one. It was one that won a competition of FB, one of 14 from almost 900 submissions. It was in a gallery show at Bucks County Fine Art Gallery in PA. To create the illusion of sunlight coming through the tree, the colors become cooler and grayer moving away from the spot of light. The gray colors make the pure color appear even brighter, but also having the progression to warmer and purer builds up to the light. I have texture in the grass and the fence posts which helps to bring the foreground closer to the viewer.

Today, I have an interview on ArtistsDiscuss with Martyn Chamberlin. I'll have to check it out, maybe you can too. It was a pleasure talking with him. Well, off to work on the house today. Talk to you all later.

BECKY JOY

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Trees and Field oil daily painting by BECKY JOY

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This 5x7 painting is for sale for $100 which includes shipping. I wanted the dark trees to be against a light background and foreground. As in any grouping the objects (the trees) should all vary in size. I also put some dead branches to give a little color and variety. I like depth in my paintings which the cool colors to the orange in the foreground gives, but also the texture in the foreground helps to bring that forward. I have the hints of a fence in the field.

I got quite a bit of painting done today. I finished the foreground of a 12x16 and started another the same size. I took some photos of that one from the beginning. I hope to post the progression of the painting start to finish. I should have it up on the blog by Wed.

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