abstract | art | color | Impressionist | inspiration | meditation | painting
Abstract Canvas Collage
A fast post today! Coral, pink, peach…. yum!
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Touchable. Art
I say, “Look. And Touch!” Experience art with all of your senses to fully enjoy it!
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Playful and Fun: Mark Making
Palette Knife fun combined with exploring the ipad camera functions. A great way to do a little art and do a little experimentation! Fun Mark Making Paintings First Image Acrylic Marks with a Palette Knife Materials: Palette Knife pk1008 Cartridge paper – non archival, non acid free, (this will deteriorate in […]
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Acrylics In Color!
Color – What fun! Slathering Prussian and Cobalt Teal blues paints across the rough textured cotton canvas. Acrylic Colors Used Prussian Blue, Indanthrone Blue, Cobalt Teal Blue, Light Red, Naples Yellow, White I used Golden, Matisse and Winsor and Newton acrylics. The Indanthrone Blue was by Golden. This is a magnificent rich blue of great depth. […]
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Silly Saturday: Yellow and Greens
A Silly take on last Saturday’s whirlwind trip. I’ve created an Abstract acrylic painting on canvas using the palette knife in fun swirls of yellow, greens, blues. A bit of silliness, never hurts! My interpretation and explanation for ‘Silly’ today, is simply that the yellow represents the lovely yellow shirt our granddaughter wore when […]
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Palette Knife Colors
Explosions of color surprised me….. I was just having a quick play testing some acrylics out with the palette knife. Thinking about mixing up and testing colors and textures that I might use for bark, forest, trees. All spurred by my recent trip down south to see The Ancient Empire, the Valley of the Giants […]
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art | inspiration | nature | painting | photography
Forest Landscape With Palette Knife
Filtered light dappled the wonderful trees and foliage. The sun playing hide and seek behind clouds in the afternoon gave glimpses first of bright light and then sudden chilly shadows. Inspiration Our spur of the moment trip to the Valley of the Giants, Western Australia has given me some lovely memories of the high […]
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art | inspiration | photography | travel
Water Reflections Impressionist Painting
Water reflections: a source photo and a painting in a soft and soothing impressionist approach. Comparing the reference photo and the painting created, there are quite a few obvious differences. Colors, Tones, Details! A small rivulet in New South Wales, Australia. Page’s River served as my inspiration for more than a dozen photos in the […]
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Oceans of Turquoise and Cobalt Teal
Seductive, addictive cobalt teal blue. A blend of turquoise and cobalt teal blue reach out in invitation. Preceding layers of acrylic paint are seen beneath the surface, creating an illusion of depth in the turquoise shallows. Making me feel like I could easily walk right into liquid bliss. Ocean Waters of Cobalt Teal […]
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Monday’s Crimson and Gold
Layers and layers of lush crimson, cobalt teal and cerulean decked out with a festive dusting of gold powder pigment. This is a detail, a snippet from one of my large acrylic test strips and samplers. I really love these colors as they unite, mingle together. The Permanent alizarin crimson, which I’ve applied underneath, […]