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Showing posts with label vegetable. Show all posts
Saturday, March 11, 2017
Eggplant Still Life, 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.
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Vegetable Still Life, Daily Oil Painting, "Ravanello Danza"
The past few months, I have been painting landscape after landscape. I noticed that most of my favorite still life works have found new homes.
So this week, I have been painting new ones. It has been a nice change of pace for me.
These radishes seemed to be involved in a complicated tango, so I named this "Ravanello Danza" which is Italian for Radish Dance. It sounds much better in Italian.
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Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Still Life Daily Oil Painting "Le Belle Poivron Rouge", 6x8"
I find I have missed painting still life, so it has been fun catching up on it over the last week.
If I could just stop sleeping, I would have an additional 5 or 6 hours a day to paint.
Maybe then I would have enough time to paint both my still life and my landscapes.....but what about the abstract/mixed media I also want to try? Maybe I better work on growing another set of arms instead!
Life is hard when you're retired!!
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