Out of the Blue

I didn't get as much painting done as I would have liked this past week. I started two small ones on Monday evening and I really wasn’t “feeling it” for either of them. I even lost a bit of interest in them and feared the dreaded painter’s block. But Wednesday evening  I decided to “attack” one of them (mess it up!) and within an hour, this mostly appeared on the paper. I took another look at it last night, added a few touches and decided that I really like this one. It sort of happened “out of the blue”! I started to mess the companion piece up last night, so we’ll see where that one ends up!

Out of the Blue

12" x 12", Acrylic on Paper

New 12 x 12s

This past week I painted three new small ones on paper. They are not intended to stand together as a grouping. Each represents a separate exploration in terms of materials and color. I think I will be offering them on the Artful Home’s Summer Studio Sale which will begin in a few weeks. But for now, they’ll just reside here on the blog…

Rustica, 12" x 12"

Primarily Speaking, 12" x 12"

The Voyage, 12" x 12"

They Must Like Reverie

…the Artful Home, that is. Today when I was browsing their site and clicked on their “Paintings” section, there it was, in first position! I have submitted work subsequently to Reverie, yet they still put it on the first page in the “New” section. Interesting. It is my favorite full-sized painting thus far this year, and I guess AH is feeling it too. So it’s a little baffling that it hasn’t sold…

Click on the image above to see how it looked today 

when I clicked on “Paintings”.

How funny, just as I was posting this I noticed that my artist-friend Filomena Booth’s painting entitled Orange Vase is in the top row on the far right. I had just commented on her blog earlier today how I loved the colors of this piece. It’s a really beautiful painting. I didn’t realize until now that it was on the Artful Home!

Dalliance

The latest. With a color palette inspired by “A Touch of Yellow” from last weekend, this piece is larger and on a canvas. I will be submitting it to the Artful Home.

Dalliance

24" x 24", Acrylic on Canvas

Two New Paintings

This weekend I worked small again, coming up with two that I like. The challenge for me always seems to be making these studies larger on canvas. But more on that later. For now, these little ones each signify a departure from my usual color palette.

For the first one, I used cutout pieces of watercolor paper that I painted randomly and collaged them onto a sheet of canvas-textured paper that I had already prepared a while back. I had been experiencing an urge to utilize collage into painting and this is where it took me. Sort of “Reclamation-ish” but without the lengthy prep work. This is how it turned out.

Turn of Events (study)

12" x 12", Acrylic on Paper

The second one was pure color experimentation with a few tubes of paint that just took my fancy. I like how it turned out!

A Touch of Yellow

12" x 12", Acrylic on Paper

Forgotten Sticks and Stones

A while back I did these tiny Sticks and Stones. Small and all on paper, these were to experiment with color and new techniques like tissue paper collage, paint pens, oil wax crayon, scraping and re-cropping. They aren’t going to be for sale, although I think #58 has potential. I have framed that one in a tiny frame but I think I might mount it to a wood support with white-painted edges. I was documenting this morning and since I just photographed them, I thought I would post a quickie on them.

from top to bottom: Sticks & Stones #s 57, 58 and 59

6" x 6", Acrylic on Paper

Sticks & Stones #63

I just submitted this painting to the Artful Home. I finished it after #64, the small work on paper in my previous post, but started this one first, hence its earlier numeric designation. I mention this only because I was pretty sure it was finished before #64. I even photographed it. But when I was doing the color correction to the image, something just wasn’t right. It didn’t seem finished. I left it alone for a couple of days, painted #64 in the interim, then decided I definitely needed to do something with this one. So I did and now I like it so much better.

Sticks & Stones #63

18" x 24", Acrylic on canvas