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Vibrant Violet Watercolors
Creative Watercolor approach and techniques…Violet in deep and mysterious shades
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Monday’s Medley of Color
It is a Return to regular programming, Monday morning magic is back! I’m sharing a medley of bright and floral colors, paintings, flowers I’ve gathered together in 3 posts today. Each, suits the mood perfectly for my Monday, how about yours?! Medley of Color I Field of flowers A magical medley amidst a […]
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My Magical Monday
This is how I’m starting my Monday off: Paint for paint’s sake. Just looking at the painting with those Color bursts and the magical medley of color – makes me sing. On a Monday. So today – No instructions, no worries. Nor thoughts of pixels, stats, what’s popular, or Lightroom. I will […]
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Silly Saturday Returns
Cobalt Teal Blue ushers in a return to Silly Saturday! This relaxed mixed media abstract painting seems to float and drift peacefully across the paper. Silly Art Fun on a Saturday I had this painting waiting, for the finish of the long Zen Series. And it is actually meant to be viewed after […]
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Zen Beauty
A fun and happy blend of blues make this a Zen Beauty! I combined the blues with lovely deep crevices and textures suggesting boulders or …. perhaps a mountainside. This is an acrylic painting on triple textured masonite wood board with multiple glazes to create that rich and layered look. I found all the many […]
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Gardens of Easter
Easter and flowers have always gone together – for me. From the tulips of the Pacific Northwest to the lush and tropical fuschia bougainvillea blossoms of Australia. I can’t imagine Easter without any flowers! Color for me is wonderfully inspiring, especially at Easter. Growing up in North America, it always was my herald of […]
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Silly Saturday: Because I Can!
Did you know that learning to create Abstract paintings is a fabulous way to teach yourself art basics of Design and Tonal Values? I think that is why I consider abstracts one of the most Challenging genres to master. I do not say that I have mastered the realm of Abstracts. But I do certainly […]
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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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Impressionist Watercolor Paintings
Two small impressionist watercolor landscape paintings. Both mounted onto the gorgeous, velvet surface of Stonehenge in black. But their formats and their use of edges are distinctive and unique from each other. Impressions of the Land Horizontal Format The Umber Fields with indigo feathered distant trees creates a calmer, more Contemplative scene. Its […]