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California Abstract Artist Carol Engles
FEBRUARY 2012 CHALLENGE - MY LIFE
JANUARY CHALLENGE REFLECTIONS is posted. Click the image to view
Monday, February 28, 2011
Winter Marsh One, abstract landscape by Carol Engles
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California Abstract Artist Carol Engles
RAIN ON A SUNNY DAY BY PASTELIST SUSAN RODEN
4 1/2" x 4 1/2" pastel
8" square archival white matte, glass + gold leaf frame
$150 + $15 insured priority shipping
Puffs of white clouds enveloped the blue sky
as the heat radiated.
Upon the Desert's horizon the rain poured.
Such a surreal vision as I basked in the sun.
Contemporary Western Wildlife Art, Mountain Lion Painting by Theresa Paden
Contemporary Western Wildlife Art
Mountain Lion Painting
"On the Prowl"
By Theresa Paden
24 x 36"
Acrylic on 1.5" deep gallery-wrapped canvas.
Edges are painted, so no frame is needed.
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Inspired by Salvador Dali, "Dali Time" by k Madison Moore PA Artist
Dali Time
11 x 14 Oil Painting on canvas
Art within Art Series
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Well I am finally back to painting after a very long and serious illness. For 5 weeks I had a really bad flu with high fever, that turned into bronchitis that turned into phenomena. My husband had it too. It was the sickest I have been in over 20 years and was scary at times.
All I could think about when I was sick was time. All the time I was loosing painting, designing, online, researching, marketing and so on. Time to get more medicine, time to get more tea, time to turn the heat up to 1000 degrees, time, time , time!! It snowed here in the Pocono Mountains the whole time too!
At least my brain was still working while nothing else was. So with all this said about time, of course I thought of Dali and his crazy clocks. While laying there trying to sleep with no success I decided to design a Dali in my head. I was too sick to even quickly sketch it so having to keep all the details in my head, I finally fell asleep as I forgot for a few minutes how lousy I felt. I dreamed about Dail and time and in the am, "Time for Dali" was ready to go as soon as I was!!
The book titles here are Dali, Clocks and Time.
I love to sit in front of my fireplace with a stack of art history and artist biography books and sip and nice wine while I read and live vicariously through the artists.
No, I do not do "everything" online. It is still nice to read a book.
This is how I create a lot of my paintings. Can you image a whole wall like this that is a giant clock? Mr clock in the corner has a personality of his own and almost looks like he has an attitude! Hummmm.... wonder who that guy is sitting on the sofa? Can be anyone we want it to be! Enjoy!
Thanks to all my friends, fans an collectors that sent such good wishes, cards and comments.
It's nice to know your loved and appreciated.
I'm moving slow...but I'm moving! Stay tuned, more to come.
Salvador Domènec Felip Jacint Dalí i Domènech, Marquis of Dalí de Púbol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), commonly known as Salvador Dalí (Catalan pronunciation: was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figureres.
Out of the hundreds of paintings created by Salvador Dali, his iconic depiction of melting clocks is no doubt the most famous.
Entitled The Persistence of Memory, this painting served as both an outlet for his imagination and a simple allegory—that time is meaningless.
Dali claimed (like most surrealists) that his images were “dream sequences” or inspired by his subconscious. Surrealism was a popular movement in the mid-1900s that attempted to create art which was “truer” than life. They did this by avoiding logic and reason, which were considered hindrances to creativity. It’s an idea which is still somewhat believed today.
11 x 14 Oil Painting on canvas
Art within Art Series
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Well I am finally back to painting after a very long and serious illness. For 5 weeks I had a really bad flu with high fever, that turned into bronchitis that turned into phenomena. My husband had it too. It was the sickest I have been in over 20 years and was scary at times.
All I could think about when I was sick was time. All the time I was loosing painting, designing, online, researching, marketing and so on. Time to get more medicine, time to get more tea, time to turn the heat up to 1000 degrees, time, time , time!! It snowed here in the Pocono Mountains the whole time too!
At least my brain was still working while nothing else was. So with all this said about time, of course I thought of Dali and his crazy clocks. While laying there trying to sleep with no success I decided to design a Dali in my head. I was too sick to even quickly sketch it so having to keep all the details in my head, I finally fell asleep as I forgot for a few minutes how lousy I felt. I dreamed about Dail and time and in the am, "Time for Dali" was ready to go as soon as I was!!
The book titles here are Dali, Clocks and Time.
I love to sit in front of my fireplace with a stack of art history and artist biography books and sip and nice wine while I read and live vicariously through the artists.
No, I do not do "everything" online. It is still nice to read a book.
This is how I create a lot of my paintings. Can you image a whole wall like this that is a giant clock? Mr clock in the corner has a personality of his own and almost looks like he has an attitude! Hummmm.... wonder who that guy is sitting on the sofa? Can be anyone we want it to be! Enjoy!
Thanks to all my friends, fans an collectors that sent such good wishes, cards and comments.
It's nice to know your loved and appreciated.
I'm moving slow...but I'm moving! Stay tuned, more to come.
Salvador Domènec Felip Jacint Dalí i Domènech, Marquis of Dalí de Púbol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), commonly known as Salvador Dalí (Catalan pronunciation: was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figureres.
Out of the hundreds of paintings created by Salvador Dali, his iconic depiction of melting clocks is no doubt the most famous.
Entitled The Persistence of Memory, this painting served as both an outlet for his imagination and a simple allegory—that time is meaningless.
Dali claimed (like most surrealists) that his images were “dream sequences” or inspired by his subconscious. Surrealism was a popular movement in the mid-1900s that attempted to create art which was “truer” than life. They did this by avoiding logic and reason, which were considered hindrances to creativity. It’s an idea which is still somewhat believed today.
"White Flowers with Apples" by Kathryn Townsend
The daily painting blog is strange. It is so motivating related to getting into the studio with brush in hand every possible day. But it also feels risky sometimes, because the daily painter, at least to a certain extent, lays it all out there. That's why I put the quote from George Bernard Shaw at the top of my blog and why I keep remembering it because being on the risky side of things is in the end, a better learning place than the safe side of things. Sometimes I want to finish the painting less and not worry about it. Sometimes I want to use big sloppy brushstrokes and not think about it. This painting was mainly a result of "6 x 6" size fatigue. Its "12 x 12", four times bigger, but in the scheme of things, still pretty small.
Purchase this unframed painting for $165 from my blog.
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Plein Air Painting of Puppy's Pansies by Kathy Cousart
11 X 14 Oil on Panel
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"Truman" Oil Pet Portrait by Dara Burriss
"Truman"12x12
Artist: Dara Burriss, Dallas, TX
This is a pet portrait that was won at the Dallas Scores Auction. For more like this one, www.dburriss.com or daraburriss@gmail.com
OLIVES AND TOOTHPICKS BY ELIZABETH BLAYLOCK
OLIVES10 X 8 OIL ON CANVAS BOARD
$235 plus s/h
I purchased 2 of these little silver containers in an antique store in Foley, Al. I don't know what their real purpose is but they make nifty toothpick holders. I like all the different colors of the picks in this little oil still life painting.
I purchased 2 of these little silver containers in an antique store in Foley, Al. I don't know what their real purpose is but they make nifty toothpick holders. I like all the different colors of the picks in this little oil still life painting.
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To see more of my original paintings browse through the over 500 paintings in the older post on my
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ELIZABETH BLAYLOCK
GULF SHORES, ALABAMA
A Bit Off the Top
Loose still life painted from life to see more of my paintings go to http://dianamarshall.fineartstudioonline.com
I don't know how many Ferris wheels I have painted over the years and never get tiered of them.
The shapes, sounds and magic that conjures up inside my head is nuts. This is a 6x6 inch original oil painting. For more story on this go to "SKIES THE LIMIT"
The shapes, sounds and magic that conjures up inside my head is nuts. This is a 6x6 inch original oil painting. For more story on this go to "SKIES THE LIMIT"
Corn on The Cobb by Angela Sullivan
Corn on The Cobb
The crisp crunch of fresh corn on the cobb.
The family get together where it is enjoyed.
Who wouldn't want some?
To purchase contact me
5x7 acrylic on canvas panel
Artist Angela Sullivan
The Prophet- Portrait of Dutch Right-Wing and Anti-Islam Politician Geert Wilders with Muslims
The Prophet
Portrait of Dutch right-wing and
anti-islam politician Geert Wilders
with Muslims
G. Boersma
acrylics on masonite
48" x 36" or 122 x 91,5 cm
2011
Here it is: the end of the mystery tour. If you put all the pieces of the puzzle together you get this portrait of Dutch right-wing and anti-islam politician Geert Wilders. With the elections coming up this wednesday I thought it would be a perfect time to show it.
I jokingly entitled my painting The Prophet as a lot of people in the Netherlands see him that way. From a distance it shows Wilders smiling, up close it’s obvious that the painting is build up of numerous smaller portraits. Portraits of muslims that is. Over 750 are staring at viewer. A very precise work of art which took me over 3 months to create.
The painting makes clear that Wilders and muslims are inextricable bound up with each other. The politician would have never gotten this far if it wasn’t for the muslims. Unwillingly they build up Wilders’ reputation. A thank you would be in order. Without his pride horse Wilders would be lost. Although he probably would find some other group to take its place, like Zionists, Indonesians, Frisians or perhaps East-Europeans, who knows.
My work expresses the idea that no group should be excluded from society. I often say muslims are the new Jews. Meaning that they are now getting the blame for almost everything that goes wrong in Western society, we all know how that ended up for the Jews. Of course the comparison ends there.
I would love to send my painting on a campaign through the country, but for now it can be only seen at my studio during working hours, in the evenings and weekends with appointment only.
All larger detail pictures and the painting itself can be seen together here. I would love it if you could assist me in getting the painting out there, as I feel this is an important image a lot of people need to see. If you feel the same please feel free to share it, post it on your website or contact me for any additional things you might need. I'm looking forward hearing from you!
kind regards, Gerard
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Sunday, February 27, 2011
calla lily 2 by Ria Hills
5" x 7" daily pastel painting
unframed
The flower symbolism associated with the calla lily is magnificent beauty. I'm amazed at the different shapes this flower takes.
For purchasing info please visit my blog.
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For purchasing info please visit my blog.
blog - http://riahills.blogspot.com
contact me - rh@riahills.com
"Loading Rocks" by Kathryn Townsend
This painting was from my figure series about a week ago. I was up in Edmonds today, about an hour and a half drive from here, at the Plein Air Washington Paint-in, but it was too dark to take photos once I got home and I'm not sure how the paintings turned out anyway! This figure painting was another one where I used a photo I took a few years ago of a worker in Northeast China, deciding that it was interesting enough to try to make something of it. It's definitely a study and I had fun doing it--a guy and some rocks--not something I would ordinarily think about painting.
Purchase this unframed painting for $135 from my blog.
Contact me if you would like to purchase a plein air frame.
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Lime And Lemon-Still Life Fruit and Floral Oil Painting by Marina Petro
Lime And Lemons
20" x 20"
Oil painting on 1-1/2" gallery wrapped stretched canvas
Does not need a frame
Only one in the entire universe...and it could be yours!
Certificate Of Authenticity provided with every painting.
I continue to be very enthused painting these large still life paintings. I love it! I can be fairly compulsive...like just painting lemons and limes on and on and on....but.... I do discipline myself and rotate with pears, oranges and apples...any of which can also trigger this compulsion. At this point though...getting a bit older and caring close to zero about what critics say....I just might do lemons and limes for the next year....or pears...or....
Today's Quotation: It's three o'clock in the morning, your back hurts, your arm hurts, you've been in there for ten hours, and there are no sounds except for the occasional fire truck. Finally, you put the brush down and ask yourself, 'Man, what am I doing here?'
-John Alexander
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Seascape- Delilah Smith
Breaking Storm
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Breaking Storm
oil painting
Media: oil painting
Size: 7 in X 5 in (17.8 cm X 12.7 cm)
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The Party's Over,Delilah Smith
The Party's Over
About This Painting:
The Party's Over
Oil painting on canvas mounted on a museum quality panel ready to frame.
Media: oil painting
Size: 7 in X 5 in (17.8 cm X 12.7 cm)
Price: $100 USD
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Rural Landscape
DIANNA POINDEXTER CONTEMPORARY REALISM
LANDSCAPES AND NATURE
The size is 18x8 oil on canvas. Beautiful scene of pastoral rolling hills and country road winding throughout the landscape. Please email me with comments or inquiries!
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Oversized Canvas Giclee Prints of an Arctic Char Study
and a Colorful Canvas Giclee of a Lahontan Cutthroat Trout.
Closeup of the Lahontan Cutthroat Trout Canvas Giclee.
On some of my latest prints, my Giclee Printer-
Jim Davis at Art Repro Services Had fun with
my request for a few Canvas Giclees to see how
my clients and myself would like canvas
instead of Paper Giclee Prints. He cam back with an assortment
of fun prints that added more than a touch of color to my art!
I then went to one of my galleries-
Smith Custom Framing & Fine Art Gallery
in New Cumberland, PA
And asked the owner, Debbie Smith to help. She had a free hand
in coming up with a way to frame and present this new endeavor.
(She is the lady pictured above)
According to her- she framed to Giclee Canvas Prints with these choices:
The original sized Lahontan Cutthroat Trout with
a neon yellow/green background was stacked with 3 frames.
The outer frame is done with Larson Juhl's Taffy line in Lemon,
the next frame is mottled vibrant green by Presto Moulding
and accented with a Larson Juhl Light Blue Confetti fillet
to bring out the fine outline around the fish.
The 2 oversized Giclee Canvas Prints of the Arctic Char
are framed with Larson Juhl's fun and fanciful Taffy Profile.
On the Black Background version, Debbie used a Raspberry Taffy
to make the Char 'pop'
and on the white background version, she used
the Green Apple Taffy moulding, complementing
the Arctic Char dominant colors.
The startling differences in the 2 Char Prints is amazing!
While I have done a few canvas prints in the past,
about a year or two ago, I never experimented with
colors and frames. Since I am excusively a
transparent watercolorist, I am not use to what was available
with the presentation found with using canvas instead of
a paper print or original double matted under glass.
This has been a real eye opener-
that I wanted to pass onto you. I am looking for
more fun ways to explore my presentation of my art!
THOM GLACE WATERCOLORS
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ART 101 BY PASTELIST SUSAN RODEN
pastel
SOLD - PRIVATE COLLECTOR
A smile to bring a bit of joy to your day!
Mystery Tour- Final Puzzle Pieces no. 7 and 8
Puzzle Piece No. 5
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The final pieces of the puzzle. Tomorrow I'll let you guys know what it all meant, it will all make sense then!
kind regards, Gerard
Puzzle Piece No. 5
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WHITE LION CUBS on a ROCK by OLGA WAGNER
LOVE YOU BROTHER... - 24 x 30 x 1.5 Mixed Media on Canvas
Available $850
Painterly Details
Textured Rock Details - Modeling Paste was used for textureSaturday, February 26, 2011
The Corners Of My Mind by WA Contemporary Abstract Artist Itaya
Title - The Corners Of My Mind
Size - 7.5 in. x 11 in.
Acrylic Paint on Heavy Art Paper
Price - $70
(plus shipping)
What do the corners of your mind look like do you think? What do you suppose is tucked away in the millions of little cubbyholes that must be there? Perhaps there are memories of special gifts received, snapshots of family gatherings, or the feeling of holding a new born babe. I can't help but wonder all that would come to the surface if we would take more time to stop and do some sorting and culling of those cubbyholes in our minds. We spend countless hours over our lifetime organizing and rearranging things in our physical worlds. Maybe we need to spend a bit more quiet time pondering the treasures we have tucked away, way back in the corners of our mind. :)
This is an original abstract expressionist painting filled with vibrant colors.
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"Shadowed Face" by Kathryn Townsend
This painting was a struggle--to get plane changes with small changes in color and value when the face is almost entirely in shadow. It is a very good exercise.
Purchase this unframed painting for $115 from my blog.
Contact me if you would like to purchase a plein air frame.
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Bronze and Grey Field Three, abstract landscape by Carol Engles
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California Abstract Artist Carol Engles
RED FIRE TEXTURED ACRYLIC ABSTRACT by OLGA WAGNER
FLAMES - 8 x 24 x 1.5 Acrylic on CanvasAvailable $165.00
Please email to purchase: olga.t.wagner@gmail.com
CLOSEUP of textured flamescalla lily by Ria Hills
5" x 7" daily pastel painting
unframed
Thankfully my daughter-in-law Samantha had an awesome photo she posted to her facebook page! I had limited time today and needed a subject which didn't require much detail work. This was the perfect subject.
Thank you Sam!
Speaking of facebook I recently created a page for my art. Facebook requires 25 "likes" for the page to have a name for the url. I would appreciate it so much if you would "like" my page at this link if you have a facebook account. That is if you like my work ;-)
I also have an update on that page of the "Women in the Arts" show which will take place next month.
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Thank you Sam!
Speaking of facebook I recently created a page for my art. Facebook requires 25 "likes" for the page to have a name for the url. I would appreciate it so much if you would "like" my page at this link if you have a facebook account. That is if you like my work ;-)
I also have an update on that page of the "Women in the Arts" show which will take place next month.
For purchasing info please visit my blog.
blog - http://riahills.blogspot.com
contact me - rh@riahills.com
Mystery Tour- Puzzle Pieces 5 and 6
Puzzle Piece No. 5
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Puzzle pieces no. 5 and 6, getting close!
kind regards, Gerard
Puzzle Piece No. 5
click on image for an enlargement
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Gerard Boersma -Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
Three Long Necked Pears by Helen Read
Three Longnecked Pears, 8 x 10" Oil on canvas
©2010, Helen Read
©2010, Helen Read
$250.00
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Its been a long winter, here in the mid west! And struggling with the weather, and illness, and work has definitely had its effect! I'm also working on some larger paintings right now.
But, I'm reposting this still life from a few months back!
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Wheaton, IL - United States
Rooster painting-original oil by Carol DeMumbrum
Love painting animals, and had lot of fun being loose and fast with this little rooster. I so admire people that have lots of animals. Someday I hope to have more animals - instant painting reference. Would be lots of fun painting plein air in a field of chickens. :)
6"x6"oil on canvas panel
$60 with $5 shipping in the US.
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Friday, February 25, 2011
"On the Bike" by Kathryn Townsend
Back to the small paintings, this is from a photograph I took in a rural farming area of Northeastern China--a photo that I've looked at for a long time and wondered if I could make anything of it. So it was fun just going at it.
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Camouflage 11-Fruit Floral Still Life Oil Painting by Marina Petro
Camouflage 11
20" x 20"
Oil painting on gallery wrapped 1-1/2" stretched canvas
Painted around all sides...does not need a frame.
Certificate Of Authenticity provided with every painting.
Only one in the entire universe...and it could be yours!
I learned a new trick today! ...how to superimpose my paintings over furniture....how cool is that! This is perfect to show the ratio of these larger still life paintings to their environment. This piece, Camouflage 11, and three others are currently gracing the bold and brightly colored walls of our local health food shop cafe...Four Seasons Natural Foods and Cafe. If you are in Saratoga Springs, stop in for a healthy lunch and take a look. They have a great buffet.
On another totally unrelated note...we were taken by surprise today with a snowstorm that is probably the worst we've had all year. They were predicting 3-4 inches and it may go up to 12 or more. I did more driving around in it than I'd like...I had two prints to ship out, a payment that I make in person that was due today, left my cell phone at the studio in town and other stuff....If not for all that I would have stayed home. Some roads weren't plowed, and of course I was one of the first to drive on them. It was blinding at times...all that white on the road and coming out of the heavens....difficult to stay on the road....but I'm back, safe and sound and looking forward to watching Fringe later tonight after I begin another painting here at my home studio.
Today's Quotation: "I do not pursue art. It pursues me. It dogs me throughout my day and never rests. It is the beast I must feed that is never content. I did not choose to be an artist, to create, to express what is in my head. It chose me and I am its slave."
~Toni Ciserella
~Toni Ciserella
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Czeckosovakia, Prague Watercolor/Pencil Village View by Nicola Dalbenzio
Watercolor/Pencil
8x10
This was really fun to do-found while navigating
street view.
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Pitchers and Lemons
I painted this in response to the challenge on Rookie Painter. Like several others, I rearranged the vases---primarily because I had a square panel, and I didn't think the original version would fit very well. I'm okay with the red pitcher, but not too pleased with the blue one. I kept re-doing it. But at some point, I have to quit for the day! The red pitcher was primarily cadmium red light, which I darkened with alizarin crimson and burnt sienna. I lightened it with cadmium yellow, as I had done with the plums.
This painting is very tight. The more time I have to paint, the tighter and fussier I get. I keep talking to myself about it, but I seem to ignore myself.
That reminds me of a song from Alice in Wonderland called "Good Advice". I always thought it was so cute!
This painting is very tight. The more time I have to paint, the tighter and fussier I get. I keep talking to myself about it, but I seem to ignore myself.
That reminds me of a song from Alice in Wonderland called "Good Advice". I always thought it was so cute!
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