Glazed

"Glazed"
12" x 12"
Oil on wrapped canvas 

There are nearly a dozen solo silos whose barns are long-since gone on my way to my critique class.. The ice-glazed snow this past week made some of them ... strikingly lovely.  

Snow and ice almost always dictate a high key painting—light in value.  

Carol

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Old Lyme Flowers

"Old Lyme Flowers"
9" x 12"
Oil on canvas panel

I walked through the gardens at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut, photographing everything in sight. I wanted to bring as much back with me as possible. I've been to Old Lyme twice. I cried when I left both times. Old Lyme is where the American Impressionists hung out one hundred ten years ago. They called it the American Giverny. I felt my soul come alive while I was in Florence's home where the artists lived and painted during the summer. There is a fine museum on the grounds now, too.  I may never go back, but I hope to go to other places in my lifetime that will delight me as much.

Carol

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Canadian Sunset

"Canadian Sunset"
14" x 20"
Oil on hardboard

While on my Google search to find winding rivers I came upon another lovely photo.  This one was of a sky somewhere in Canada. I know—there's a LOT of sky in Canada, but I can't isolate this location except by doing eeny meeny miny moe over the map. What would be your guess?   

The sky didn't actually look like this, but it had these "bones."  I used my new Cad. Scarlet, again, with Cad. Yellow Med. and Cobalt this time. That's it. Three colors. I love the way the scarlet mixes with the blue to make the dark clouds.

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Winding River

"Winding River"
10" x 20"
Oil on hardboard

I was looking to paint a winding river.  My own photos were not to my liking, so I found a site with winding rivers. I liked the composition and the subject matter of this scene, but I have no idea where it is,  It was listed as a copyright free, photo, so I cropped the parts I liked and had my way with it.

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Sun's Up

"Sun's Up"
10" x  20"
Oil on wrapped canvas

Once the sun poked her head above the horizon the colours began to dissipate. It was as if her presence chased the mauves and salmons from view and only the blue was tough enough to spend the day with the robust orb. 

Sky in the same palette as yesterday's, but I tried a different format.  I enjoyed painting on the larger piece.

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Badlands Sunrise

"Badlands Sunrise"
10" x 10"
Oil on wrapped canvas

Morning revealed that I had entered the eastern edge of the Badlands in South Dakota. Having driven through the night, it was a joy to see the hilly terrain and not so much green as we have on the prairie.  The trip wasn't a recent one, but the memory of the zig-zag sky is vivid.  

I'm testing two new paint colours, Cadmium Scarlet and Mineral Violet.  I like what each of them do with Indian Yellow.

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Verdant

"Verdant"
10" x 10"
Oil on wrapped canvas

Flourishing deep within the foliage of the rose garden was this petite lady.  She reached toward the sunlight but probably wouldn't bask in much of it during her lifetime. 

I enjoyed making this painting with soft edges in the background and the rose's most open petals, too.

Carol

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