Sunset Surf by Chrys Wilson

Beautiful evening beach sunset rendering.

5x7 Contemporary Palette Knife in Oil on Gessoed Panel

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"Creating Memories" Palette Knife Oil Painting of Venice, Italy by Niki Gulley

"Creating Memories," Venice ©2015 Niki Gulley

24" x 36" • textured oil painting

Inspired from our first trip to Italy, I fell in love with everything about Venice. The city feels preserved in time with all transportation happening on water versus roads. The architecture, art, history, and people are all fascinating, the food and wine delicious, and it was such a romantic place to visit. So in this painting, I captured a lone gondola to convey that feeling of lazily drifting along with your loved one down this brick canal filled with history and future memories.

If you're in the Dallas area this coming weekend and you'd like to see Creating Memories and more of my palette knife paintings in person, please stop by my booth at the Cottonwood Art Festival.

Cottonwood Art Festival

Sat. May 2 • 10am – 7pm

Sun. May 3 • 10am – 5pm

Richardson, TX

Cottonwood Park at Coit & Beltline

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If you have any questions, please e-mail Niki Gulley.

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Dandy Daisies by Atlantic Coast Painter Roxanne Steed

12"x12" oil on gessobord

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This was actually finished right before Christmas. I'm taking some of those small florals ever larger. I'm really loving working on the gessobord, but I know when I go to the super large paintings, I find it better to work on canvas. The panels get extremely heavy at that size. So I do go back and forth with surfaces, I have several that I like to work on for a few different reasons.   I'm finding a greater comfort zone combining brushes with my palette knife work....at ALL sizes that I work in, from tiny to enormous. 

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Into the Woods by Artist of Texas, Sheri Jones

Into the Woods

This is part of my drive by view series.  I often take photos in the early morning light. I see big skies and nice views. This is a small stream in the Benbrook, Texas area.  I love the wild grass and reflection on the water.  

This is available for purchase $200.00

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Log Cabin by Artist of Texas, Sheri Jones

Log Cabin

9 x 12 oil on canvas

I painted this at the cabin we stayed in near Bryce Canyon in Utah. What a wonderful retreat! This 100 year old cabin is one of the original structures on this property. The cabin we stayed in looked as rough at one time, but was restored. The owner hopes to restore this one some day.  I was fascinated with the history of this old structure. 

While I was painting here I was surrounded by cows. I predict there will be cow paintings in my future!

I loved there curiosity and musical moos.  This is available for purchase. $250.00

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Early Morning Spring Color - SOLD! - by Roxanne Steed

8"x6" oil on linen mounted on archival panel

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This Spring the garden has been so incredible. The thousand tulip bulbs we planted last fall have come up in colors of "Peach and raspberry sorbet"!  And the purple-blue blooms of ajuga (or bugleweed) luckily timed out just right to come into full bloom with the tulips!

"How Thoughtful Of You" Floral Lilies Gerbera Daisies by Roxanne Steed

6"x6" oil on gessoed masonite panel

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My dear daughters sent me a lovely bouquet the other day. Wonderfully fragrant with Stargazer Lilies, Gerbera Daisies, and other little blossoms, of course I couldn't resist painting it.  It's always so nice to be thought of ....and wonderful to have fresh flowers! (especially for a painter!). Hope you enjoy these as much as I do!

 

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Abstract View of Woods, study, by Roxanne Steed

6"x8" oil on linen mounted on archival board

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Sometimes, I do studies, just from things I've seen...places I've been to many times, like this spot in the woods where I've hiked many times. This one, I wanted to keep the shapes quite simple and strong, rather abstract, and leave all detail to the 'part between your eyes and brain' that tells you exactly what that is! Quite a fun exercise in paint!

Flowers and Fechin by Roxanne Steed

8"x6" oil on linen mounted on archival panel

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By the time mid-winter sets in, I am snow weary.  I'm getting antsy to be outside, but either it's too cold, or as in yesterday's case, it was possibly warm enough, but there was no place for me to park in my usual painting spots without risk of getting my little car hung up on an ice berm. (and doing some permanent damage!).  By the time I got to the 4th place of looking yesterday, I did find a place to park in a safe place, where I could actually walk out to a safe place to paint, without falling into a deep drift of snow....I was tired, hungry, and seeking 'facilities'. Yes, I shot the whole morning looking for a 'place' outside to paint. By the time I got home, my husband had delivered flowers for Valentine's day! - Yay!!! Some wonderful painting material and beautiful colors to cheer up a dreary winter case of 'ice-blues'.  

Painting ...and learning to paint, is all cumulative. You spend years learning, experimenting, combining some techinques, eliminating others.  All of it eventually comes into play at any given time to make up you 'the artist'.  I have been toying with combining several different techniques that I have employed over the years, using both brush and knife, laying some thick & thin areas with transparent oils in the darkest areas, topped with ever lighter layers.  Thanks to my hubby for the wonderful flowers. I usually never stack things on my art books in my studio, but I had placed this bouquet on top of my Nicolai Fechin book (that was on top of the large Edgar Payne book).  So of course I decided to paint them this way as well!  I hope these flowers last, I think I might spend the next several days painting more bouquets!

Clear Autumn Morning in the Marsh, plein air by Roxanne Steed

6"x8" oil on linen mounted on archival panel

This is another one of the paintings I had neglected to post on my blog! ***This plein air work was done back in October!  One of my favorite places, Barn Island Wildlife Refuge.  I think it's a wonderful refuge for people, too; judging by the number of people I see out there from time to time. On the weekends there are many hikers, dog-walkers, etc.  It is a place of beauty and refuge in all seasons, not just for the wildlife, but all of us who need a bit of nature to remind us how to be calm.

Blade Works #142, Original Palette Knife Oil Expressionism Painting by Colorado Contemporary Artist Kimberly Conrad

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October Sky by Roxanne Steed

6"x8" oil on linen mounted on archival panel

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Clearing skies

following a rainy weekend.

Dry crisp breeze off of the water,

a sense of change surrounds me.

New colors are coming to the tidal marsh.

Subtle daily changes 

that will be a remarkable difference

in a few short weeks.

Italian Sunflowers, North Light, Gray Day

8"x6" oil on linen mounted on archival panel

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A really nice one from 'the vault' that I had almost forgotten about! We planted this variety of Italian Sunflowers in our garden in previous years. I think I do miss them! They are a smaller flower head, and a creamy - buttery - pale yellow that goes really nicely with the hydrangeas we grow. Hmmm...already thinking about what I'd like to grow next summer!!  Cut flowers are so wonderful to bring into the studio to paint!

Colors of Fall ll by Lisa Elley. 100% Palette Knife Painting

Colors of Fall ll by Lisa Elley. 2012. 11 X 14. Oil on Canvas

Hello, not much time to paint lately with school out for summer.
Managed to crank out this one in half hour bursts, to the ambience of Club Penguin!


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Colors of Genoa by Lisa Elley. Palette Knife Oil Painting.

Colors of Genoa by Lisa Elley. 2012. 11 X 14. Oil on Canvas. 100% Palette Knife Painting.

Crumbling buildings with incredible colors and textures,

winding steps, ancient doorways steeped in history,

it all comes together so naturally in Italy.

This painting depicts a residential area in the city of Genoa,

 Italy's largest Seaport, and a city renowned for its impressive landmarks,

 art, music, gastronomy, architecture and history.

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Gnarly Trunks (Clucas Field, Lyme, CT) by Roxanne Steed

9"x12" oil on linen mounted on archival panel

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“The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day When the sun is out and the wind is still, You're one month on in the middle of May. But if you so much as dare to speak, A cloud comes over the sunlit arch, A wind comes off a frozen peak, And you're two months back in the middle of March." -Robert Lee Frost

Monday was the prettiest day all week, sunshine and brilliance. I went back to Clucas Field to get a different sort of view, since it was so gray when I went there on Saturday to paint. The trees are so wonderful here in a New England spring. When the leaves first start to come in they are a brilliant yellowy-green, sometimes almost a high key burnt orange. My husband and I noticed, that the colors are similar to autumn, but softer, brighter, more airy perhaps? And the limbs- down to each leaf, is so fluffy! When you allow your eyes to rest on a tree line, have you noticed patterns of shapes, and intervals...sort of like musical notes? One or two lone trees making a grand statement, either by their shape or coloring?  

First Blush-Rhododendrons In Sunlight by Roxanne Steed

8"x8" oil on gessoed masonite archival panel

"The real painter humbles himself and looks at everything with a fresh eye. For him every painting is a journey of discovery." -Henry Hensche

It's just warm enough to be outside painting- and I've been craving these high-key scenes full of sun-light. These rhododendrons are among some of the first things to bloom in our garden. I especially love the light coming through the dark translucent cobalt glass vase, and the effects of light on the tablecloth.

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Pansies And The Maiden - "Drinking In The Muse" & Thoughts As You Progress Through A Painting by Roxanne Steed

11"x14" oil on Belgian linen mounted on archival panel

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"Nobody lives happily ever after. We live happily when we live with a sense of purpose and when we are unafraid of living in a world in which things are seldom settled, few things are permanently improved, and where love does not take care of itself."
-Eugene Kennedy

Painting our favorite things is certainly a wonderful indulgence that any artist can partake in. I shipped this little statue home from my mom's house last year when she moved to a much smaller place and didn't have a place to put her. This bust stood on a pedestal next to the piano in the living room through the greater part of my childhood. I always admired this piece. I don't know why I've waited so long to paint her, but there you have it. The pansies I had bought during our warm weather frenzy last weekend, only to have a freeze come through on Monday. No worry, I decided they could stay and pose in my studio for a couple days before I put them back out on the front porch. "There's pansies, that's for thoughts" and I had a few thoughts to share in the 'building' of a painting:

- give yourself a map. No details necessary, but get the placement and proportion of your main elements. I tend to draw in paint, as I think it moves easier if I want to change something. You can also draw over what you've just laid down until you find that shape. If it gets too heavy, scrape it off, or use less paint. I don't use turps or thinners when I paint. I want the luscious thickness of oil paints on their own. You'll be laying paint on top of these anyway- they are NOT to "color in", but as a general guideline.

- think big SHAPES (not details) - SQUINT down with your eyes- that quickly removes any sense of detail and gives you the view of light vs. dark areas.

- pay attention to the EDGES - where do you want to make the viewer look? Crisp, hard edges at your focal point, softer edges that recede from view (you know the childhood saying, "Made ya look, made ya look!").

- if you don't like it, scrape it off! But you don't have to throw away the paint! Sometimes these make nice grays to tone down some very loud passages.

Once I get mid-way into a painting, I find that it's hard to stop and photograph! Something just takes over and I keep going. Yes, this does have both palette knife and brush in this painting. After years of using strictly one or the other, I am experimenting with employing both in the painting.

Pines and Lavender Hillsides by Roxanne Steed

5"x7" oil on gessoed masonite archival panel

“Inward calm cannot be maintained unless physical strength is constantly and intelligently replenished.” -Buddha

I really loved getting to paint out at Keys Creek, it was such a beautiful, calm place - just a real balm to the senses. Funny how painting plein air just locks in those good memories to draw from & be able to paint it again in the studio from the wonderful views all over that place. (I keep thinking of the warm sun, the fragrance wafting over the blossoms, and the 'drunken' bees just humming around, oblivious to anyone else.) Then when you're quiet & standing painting, you notice hummingbirds nearby in the bouganvillia arch, hawks flying over the distant hills, songbirds in the trees edging the property. The magic just comes together...makes you feel lucky to be a painter! I know my fellow painters know that feeling! and yes, as Buddha says, that inward calm comes from replenishing and nurturing our physical selves. (Did Buddha ever walk through lavender?)

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While it's wet:

Lavender To The Foothills by Roxanne Steed

5"x7" oil on gessoed masonite archival panel

"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.... People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back." ~Alice Walker, The Color Purple, 1982

This is one of my favorite quotes, and I do remember back to that movie oh so many decades ago. And how could we not notice such beauty, and know it was created just for us to enjoy, and be nurtured by?

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