Monday, April 20, 2009

Morning Sun


8x8 oil on canvas sold
$75

I love how the sun hits the faces of these houses.


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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Yellow Tent


6x6 oil on canvas board
nfs

Here's another one I did with a palette knife. I love this image, and have tried to paint it on a larger canvas twice, but don't like how the larger ones turned out compared to this one.

I really like to work with a palette knife, but my small knife is not in very good shape, and I haven't found a replacement for it. Utrecht and Blick don't seem to carry them small enough. Does anyone know where to find small palette knives?



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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Ticket Booth


8x8 oil on canvas sold
$75
My husband thinks this is messy looking. It's done with a palette knife - trying to loosen up again. But maybe he's right. When I see it up on the blog, it might look a little messy. Any opinions?
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Monday, April 13, 2009

Behind the Bank


8x8 oil on canvas
$75

I just liked the grouping of these buildings - they looked like they were at different angles and all clustered together.

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Friday, April 10, 2009

Other Side


8x8 oil on canvas
$75
Here's the other side of that larger painting done as a separate painting.


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Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Early Spring Barn


8x8 oil on canvas
sold

This is a new painting in which I focused on a section of the Farmette painting I posted the other day I'll do the other side tomorrow.

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Sunday, April 5, 2009

Farmette


16x20 oil on canvas
$150

One of my favorite painters is Mitchell Johnson. He likes to paint buildings, I like to paint buildings. He is interested in showing depth in a scene. When I studied this scene, I discovered the depth was what drew me to it to paint it.

Another thing I've learned from Mitchell Johnson's paintings is that pretty much any scene is a paintable scene. I used to search and search for the perfect house or other scene to paint. And I thought 'oh yea, of course his paintings are all wonderful, because he gets to paint in beautiful places like Palo Alto and Europe'. And then I noticed that he was just painting ordinary scenes and making them wonderful with things like his viewpoint and color choices. That's when I took a look around and saw that there's more to paint than I'll ever have time to!

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