Poppies SOLD
Mixed Media 6″ x 6″
Reminded of how much I love to look out at fields of poppies while traveling by train in Europe.
The gold in this painting isn’t picked up in the photograph but gives the painting a luminescent quality.
Reflections
Reflections SOLD
Mixed Media 6″ x 6″
I love when the reeds glow at the end of a summer day. Everything turns brilliant gold and orange. Day 18 of Leslie Saeta’s 30 in 30 challenge. There are so many artists participating. You might want to click on the link and see the hundreds of works posted.
Filed under Abstract Art
Whirl
Whirl SOLD
Mixed Media 6″ x 6″
Today is day 17 of Leslie Saeta’s 30 in 30 painting challenge. I have gotten off track due to illness but hope to try some more abstracts. I have found I have a big learning curve ahead of me. I wish I could be meandering the Modern Museum as I welcome the inspiration.
Still working on my curious creature paintings and I hope to have some finished soon.
Filed under Abstract Art
Egg Case
Egg Case $25
6″ x 6″ Watercolor
I have been ill with bronchitis and laryngitis and haven’t been able to paint. I did this small work of a sponge and seaweed that I found after a recent storm.
The sponge had egg cases attached to it. They had already frozen and started to become concave, but it was interesting to see how life goes on even in the cold under waters of the Atlantic in New England.
Here is a photo where you can see the egg cases.
Reeds
Reeds $100
Mixed Media 12″ x 9″
Catching the glow of late afternoon light on autumn reeds.
Filed under Abstract Art
Fire
Fire 50.00
Mixed Media 6″x6″
I have taken a slight departure with my abstracts for day 7 of Leslie Saeta’s 30 in 30 challenge. I’m getting bolder with my application of paint. Here is a dancing fire to keep everyone warm who is caught under the cold spell. When I woke this morning, I saw sea fog (advection fog) rising up along the Sakonnet River.
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Flight
Flight SOLD
Mixed Media 6″ x 6″
Do you know the movie “I Know Where I’m Going” starring Wendy Hiller?
This is what my painting reminds me of – the famous scene of the dark whirlpool pulling the boat deeper toward the vortex.
Hiller, as Joan, is on her way to the fictitious isle of Kiloran to marry a rich industrialist. She ends up having to wait out a storm on the Isle of Mull, incidentally one of my favorite places, and the easiest way to get to the beautiful isles of Iona and Staffa. We once had a boat trip similar to the one shown in this movie on our way to see the basalt walled Fingal’s Cave. Mendelssohn wrote a wonderful overture Fingal’s Cave Overture (The Hebrides). Click on the link if you would like to hear the Gary Schneider conducting while viewing some incredible photos of Fingal’s Cave.
Another quick segue here. This summer we saw the Turner exhibit at the Peabody Essex Museum. There was a wonderful painting in the exhibit entitled Fingal’s Cave. We were so disappointed that the curator stated that this was a “fictitious cave”. We were compelled to write comments to request the error be corrected. People take the written word as fact and it is important for museums to provide accurate information
Anyway, back to the story. Hiller as Joan meets a naval captain who woes her. He is also going to Kiloran and is the true owner of the island and estate that Joan’s finance claims is his. While Joan finagles a way over to the isle of Kiloran, her suitor hops into the boat and they set off straight into the Corryvreckan Whirlpool. The scene is outrageous and you think they are all going into the vortex but at the last-minute the fisherman gets the engine started and off they go. And of course Joan marries the suitor over the rich industrialist.
Back to the painting. I was trying to create a type of vortex and when I added bronze gouache, I saw that I had an image taking flight. Having wings is a good way to stay out of a whirlpool.
Clash
Clash $50
Mixed Media 6″ x 6″
Symbols banging, waves crashing, engines revving, pans dropping. Clash, bang, boom.
It is day 4 of Leslie Saeta’s 30 in 30 and I am working hard to figure things out when making abstract paintings.
There is so much freedom, but the whole needs to synthesize drawing you in and evoking feeling. Today I worked on creating energy in my painting. Can you feel it?
