Abstract

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There’s not too much I can say about these abstract paintings I’ve been working out, other than I’ve been thinking a lot about them and how I can represent musical patterns and expressions through painting.  When I feel myself getting tight and when it’s looking too clean and precious, I mess it up.

My husband looks at these and smiles.  He likes realism so he just doesn’t know what to make of these.

There’s something exciting and scary about creating something with no blueprint.

 

Plein air Sage and Foothills

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Yesterday was beautiful here in Boise so I went out and painted in the foothills.  But right when I got set up and started I realized that I had forgotten my white paint.  So I decided to see how far I could get without it.  I had Naples yellow, so that helped some.   So I thought I’d show you my sketch in the foothills and the more finished one that I had to drag out of my memory of the foothills yesterday.

24×24″ oil on canvasIMG_9850

 

 

Boise Foothills WIP

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24X30″ oil on canvas

Here’s a work in progress.  It started out as a surreal thing with an elk head with antlers floating in the sky above the foothills.  I lived with it like that for a few weeks and decided the elk was just too cute with its big eyes and ears.  So I painted it out.  I’m not sure what I was going for, I just know that what I had painted wasn’t it.

So now it’s just about the clouds and the hills.  I’ll keep plugging away at it.  I used so much paint in the sky that it will take at least a week to dry.  That titanium white takes forever to dry, and when you paint it on thick to cover silly antlers… it takes forever and a day.

I applied to be a member of BOSCO (a Boise artists alliance) last week.  There are about 50 memebers and they do an open studio event once a year in the fall and a few other exhibitions throughout the year.  I’ll know May 1st if I’ve been accepted.  Fingers crossed.

Music

IMG_9835It’s going to take me a while to relax into this style and feel comfortable, but I’m going to keep at it because I enjoy it so much.  More than anything I love color and the process of laying down paint.

I’m still thinking of how the shape and color of music can be caught on canvas.

I’ve also brought this commissioned portrait along this far.  IMG_9836

 

 

Spring Hills

IMG_9812Soon soon soon the hills will look like this!  I’m looking forward to it.  I want to get back to this location and paint it “plein air.”  I painted this one from a foto a friend took, I think she took it during a walk with her doggie in the middle of winter.  Everything was so dead and brown that I changed the season and just made it spring, from my imagination.  I love the way it turned out, and look forward to painting g the real spring.  And feeling spring.  Come to think of it, I remember having my daughter pose on the rock, during spring, so I had a reference.  Anyway, I’m looking forward to painting outside.

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