Today I’m thinking about a lake, and some cooler weather. I love the Fall. Enjoyed painting this one.
A Lake by Cynthia Bowers
Showing posts with label fall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fall. Show all posts
Thursday, July 5, 2018
Thursday, December 15, 2016
"Pumpkin Patch" by Southern California Palette Knife Artist Garry Abel
5" x 7" Oil on Canvas Board
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Garry is a permanent artist at the Cove Gallery in Laguna Beach California. www.covegallerylaguna.com
Thursday, December 1, 2016
Golden Fall by Marion Hedger
Golden Fall
Oil palette knife painting
by Marion Hedger
A tranquil autumn scene.
Friday, November 25, 2016
Autumn, 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.
Thursday, April 7, 2016
Impressionist Autumn Painting - Autumn Beauty by Marion Hedger
Autumn Beauty
by Marion Hedger
Original is SOLD
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Sunday, January 3, 2016
Daily Landscape Painting, "Blue Ridge Switchback" 6x8 SOLD
Today's daily painting is one of my favorites. We decided to take a drive to Water Rock Knob, just off the Blue Ridge Parkway in beautiful North Carolina.
It was a beautiful, clear October day and I tried hard to capture the clear skies and gorgeous fall foliage.
Living in Florida for 40 years, I miss the fall colors and smells I remember from my childhood in Ohio. It is the best part of my visits to North Carolina and I try to get there in mid-October every year.
As a child I loved to rake the leaves into a pile and take a running jump right into the middle. In those days we would rake the yard and then burn the leaves. There was nothing better than walking to school on a sidewalk covered with leaves, crackling under my feet as I shuffled along. Evenings conjure up memories of hay rides followed by warm donuts and cider. That's before the days of Dunkin Donuts, these were home made and covered in sugar and cinnamon.
I am sorry my grandchildren will never have those memories, but I know when they think back on their childhoods they will find something equally as pleasing to remember.
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Living in Florida for 40 years, I miss the fall colors and smells I remember from my childhood in Ohio. It is the best part of my visits to North Carolina and I try to get there in mid-October every year.
As a child I loved to rake the leaves into a pile and take a running jump right into the middle. In those days we would rake the yard and then burn the leaves. There was nothing better than walking to school on a sidewalk covered with leaves, crackling under my feet as I shuffled along. Evenings conjure up memories of hay rides followed by warm donuts and cider. That's before the days of Dunkin Donuts, these were home made and covered in sugar and cinnamon.
I am sorry my grandchildren will never have those memories, but I know when they think back on their childhoods they will find something equally as pleasing to remember.
Sunday, November 8, 2015
Autumn Leaves, by New York artist, Celeste Plowden
Fall shades of red and gold mix with brown to form a swirl of autumn
colors, as seen in the woods and forest floor, this time of year.
Acrylic on canvas, UV varnish, sides painted, wired and ready to hang.
Painted with a palette knife for texture. 12x12 For sale at my
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.
Thursday, October 29, 2015
Golden Trees, Dark Lake, by new York artist Celeste Plowden
Golden autumn leaves and grey skies, with a hint of red, the colors of a cool fall evening dominate this minimalist landscape painting, of trees reflected on a dark lake. Acrylic on canvas, UV varnish, sides painted, wired and ready to hang. Painted with a palette knife for texture.12x12
Available at my Chairish Store.
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.
Monday, October 12, 2015
Original oil painting Autumn Romance and Autumn Melody by Karen Tarlton
Finally, it feels like autumn around here.
My favorite time of year, and I am really ready
to break out the sweaters and boots.
Yay for cooler days and colorful leaves.
24x30
Autumn Romance
16x20
Autumn Melody
Friday, September 25, 2015
Autumnal Lake Scene, by New York artist, Celeste Plowden
Available at my Chairish store.
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.
Monday, June 29, 2015
Bright Autumn Day, by New York artist, Celeste Plowden
8x10 acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas, sides painted to conform to artwork, wired and ready to hang, UV varnish, Available for sale at Saatchi Art
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.
Friday, March 20, 2015
"Down in the Valley" by Karla Nolan, unframed palette knife oil painting
Driving
south to Salida, along the Collegiate Range, I couldn't help but notice
the houses nestled below the foothills and mountains. This was during
the fall, the colors were just beginning to turn, and I wondered, what
would it be like to live down in that valley? This question will never
be answered, as I have no plans to move anytime soon, but to me it's the
sort of place that so many visitors to Colorado just dream about
owning!
"Down in the Valley", 18"x24" unframed palette knife oil painting on canvas, write me at KarlaNolan@gmail.com for more information
"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!"
Friday, February 20, 2015
Daily Landscape Painting, "Blue Ridge Switchback" 6x8 SOLD
Today's daily painting is one of my favorites. We decided to take a drive to Water Rock Knob, just off the Blue Ridge Parkway in beautiful North Carolina.
It was a beautiful, clear October day and I tried hard to capture the clear skies and gorgeous fall foliage.
Living in Florida for 40 years, I miss the fall colors and smells I remember from my childhood in Ohio. It is the best part of my visits to North Carolina and I try to get there in mid-October every year.
As a child I loved to rake the leaves into a pile and take a running jump right into the middle. In those days we would rake the yard and then burn the leaves. There was nothing better than walking to school on a sidewalk covered with leaves, crackling under my feet as I shuffled along. Evenings conjure up memories of hay rides followed by warm donuts and cider. That's before the days of Dunkin Donuts, these were home made and covered in sugar and cinnamon.
I am sorry my grandchildren will never have those memories, but I know when they think back on their childhoods they will find something equally as pleasing to remember.
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| SOLD |
Living in Florida for 40 years, I miss the fall colors and smells I remember from my childhood in Ohio. It is the best part of my visits to North Carolina and I try to get there in mid-October every year.
As a child I loved to rake the leaves into a pile and take a running jump right into the middle. In those days we would rake the yard and then burn the leaves. There was nothing better than walking to school on a sidewalk covered with leaves, crackling under my feet as I shuffled along. Evenings conjure up memories of hay rides followed by warm donuts and cider. That's before the days of Dunkin Donuts, these were home made and covered in sugar and cinnamon.
I am sorry my grandchildren will never have those memories, but I know when they think back on their childhoods they will find something equally as pleasing to remember.
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Water Under the Bridge by Janice Tingum
Water Under the Bridge
by Janice Tingum
Watercolor on YUPO Synthetic Paper
8" x 10"
I don't typically use a palette knife when painting with watercolors, but a while ago decided to give it a try on YUPO synthetic paper. A step-by-step demo of this piece follows.
Materials:
One 9" x 12" sheet of 74 lb. YUPO synthetic
paper to paint on
One sheet of YUPO paper to use as a palette
HB Portfolio Aqua Sketch pencil
#4 palette knife
#3 white nylon round brush
#2 while nylon round brush
#2 script brush
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Winsor & Newton Artists' Watercolor paints: Permanent Rose, Viridian, Cadmium Orange, Burnt Umber, Aurora Yellow, Cadmium Lemon.
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Winsor & Newton Cotman Watercolor paints: Hooker's Green Dark, Intense Blue (Phthalo Blue), Rose Madder Hue, Chinese White.
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This method of painting uses very little water. In
the most intense areas of color, no water was added to the paint. Thus, the
paint dries quickly, both on the painting and on the palette.
Therefore, don't squeeze out too much paint at one time. It's better to add
fresh paint from the tube as you go along. Although the paint dried
quickly in this painting, I noticed that some colors, especially the tree
leaves, remained tacky to the touch even a day later.
I drew the image on the YUPO paper with an Aqua Sketch
pencil. On the other sheet of YUPO paper (the palette), I squeezed
out portions of Permanent Rose, Hooker's Green Dark and Intense Blue (Phthalo
Blue). The amount I squeezed out of each tube to begin with was about the size
of an eraser on the end of a pencil. As I painted, I added to the paint
portions as necessary.
Using a palette knife, I mixed these three colors to create
a dark color. I did not use any water at this stage. Treating
the paint like oil or acrylic paints, I used the bottom side of the palette
knife to pick up some of the mixed paint and spread it like butter onto my
painting. I carefully filled in the darkest areas under the bridge this
way.
Painting the dark area under the bridge and the darkest part
of the water:
When I reached the area where the water is more transparent,
I dipped the palette knife in water and slightly diluted the paint with it.
This caused the paint to spread more thinly on the paper, exposing the blends
of blue, green and red.
With a #3 paintbrush, I painted the tree
trunks using long strokes of burnt umber, varied with touches of
yellow, orange and blue. I
used the script brush to paint the smaller tree branches. I also used a
diluted mixture of the blue to sketch in a few distant tree branches above
the bridge.
For the first tree leaves, I dipped the bottom side of
the palette knife tip into the Aurora Yellow paint and dabbed the
paint onto the painting. I repeated this process with the Cadmium Yellow
and the Cadmium Orange. For the light green color, I mixed up a small
amount of the Hooker's Green Dark with Aurora Yellow on the palette.
Close-up of the tree trunks and leaves:
The white cement areas of the bridge were subtly toned
with diluted blue and diluted red paint. The bricks on the bridge were
painted in part with a brush and in part with the palette knife, varying the
colors from brick to brick. I used the Permanent Rose, Cadmium Orange, Burnt
Umber, Cadmium Yellow, Aurora Yellow, as well as leftovers of the dark water
paint mixture, to build the bricks. I painted the bricks in light values first,
and then darkened the bricks as I proceeded until it reached a value that
matched the tree trunks. The shadow lines between bricks and the outlining
around the cement portions of the bridge were painted with the script brush
using the dark water color (blue plus green plus perm. rose).
Because of the thickness of the undiluted tube paints, I
could dab on yellow and orange leaves directly over the brick colors.
Close-up of bridge:
The foreground leaves on the left were painted with a
palette knife similar to the leaves in the trees. I applied strokes
of Burnt Umber for the earth color. The pinkish leaves were created by
mixing Chinese White with Rose Madder Hue. Because the white paint was not
smooth and soft like the colored paints, I needed to add a little water to
this mixture to bring it to a spreading texture.
I diluted the blue paint with a little water to create
a more transparent color for the right foreground. I applied the paint loosely
with the #3 brush, intentionally leaving white areas to suggest action in the
water.
The rocks were painted with diluted purples (blue and red
mix) and burnt umber. I lightly blotted the wet paint on the
rocks with a tissue to provide textural effects. After that
had dried, I re-evaluated the rocks and used a damp #2 brush to
lift paint from brightest sun-lit areas of the rocks. I also lifted
off paint in the water where it hit the front of the rocks. The nice
thing about YUPO paper is the ability to wipe off watercolor paint, even thick dry paint,
to get back to the original white of the paper.
Close-up of rocks:
I made a few touch-ups, dropping leaves into the
water, adding the scenery on the other side of the bridge as seen through
the arch, and signed the painting.
The leftover paint on my palette dried fast. Once
dried, it would no longer be usable for the thick palette knife painting
technique, but could still be sprayed with water and used for
brushwork in other watercolor painting projects.
The one problem I encountered with this painting was some bubbling on the back side of the YUPO synthetic paper. It didn't bubble while I was painting, but I noticed it some time later. I'm not sure if it was due to environmental conditions, such as temperature changes, or due to the paint. Here's an image of a portion of the back side of the paper:
I have done a considerable amount of painting on YUPO synthetic paper, both with watercolors and acrylics, and this is the only piece where I've noticed this effect. When the painting is matted and framed under glass, the bubbling on the back is not noticeable, but I wanted you to be aware that this could happen. A heavier weight of paper might work better.
If you are interested in more painting experiments using watermedia and YUPO synthetic paper, check out my ebook, Creating Texture with Watercolor & YUPO Synthetic Paper.
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