Easter Grass

"Easter Grass"
6" x 6"
Oil on hardboard 

It's Easter, and my morning sky is mimicking the striped eggs nestled in clusters in spring's verdant grass. The bunny has delivered sweet treats and surprises for the wee ones, too.

Here is an example of my four new colours again. The green is an "I" green: Indian and Indanthrene.  I love it's freshness.

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Saturday

"Saturday"
6" x 6"
Oil on hardboard

Morning's primary colours, in spite of the time of day they're on display, are some of the prettiest nature has to offer. If I have to see the world at this time of day, I'm always grateful when the show is as gentile this one. 

Primaries: Naples, Inthanthrene, Quinacridone Scarlet, are the stars in this sky.  I adore using primaries and these three are quite luscious for painting sky.  Why these three?  Because the Naples doesn't turn green when it gets close to Indanthrene.  Green sky is another indicator entirely.

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Too Early To Be Up

"Too Early To Be Up"
6" x 6"
Oil on hardboard

It's spring, and the time changed, but for heaven's sake, it's still too early for me to be up when the sun is doing her morning magic over the lake near my home. Lake Michigan, that is.  It comes up, in my mind, from a night of rest in Michigan. I know it's silly, but that's the image I live with.  

I painted This with three new colors and one of my favourite new yellows, Indian Yellow.  I got a new tube of Naples,  Indanthrene Blue and Quinacridone Scarlet. I love the sky they make.  And I love fresh tubes of paint.

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Sienna I and II

"Sienna I and II"
two 12" x 12" paintings
Oil on wrapped canvas

Here are the two paintings of the diptych next to one another. Probably they wouldn't be hung this close together, but if they were, this is how the image would look.

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Sienna II

"Sienna II"
12" x 12"
Oil on wrapped canvas

Here is the right hand portion of the  image I promised from yesterday.  The haze is settling in over the gently-rolling hills and the weeds are fluttering in the gentle breeze up on the rise.  I photographed them together, so I'll post the entire diptych tomorrow night.

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Sienna

"Sienna
" 12" x 12"
Oil on wrapped canvas

The hills in this light were sienna compared to the grasses in the valley below.  I liked the many different colours and textures in this shot, but it wasn't complete, so the rest of it will post tomorrow... the view to the right.  

Here's part one of a diptych.

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Morning Light

"Morning Light"
6" x 6"
Oil on hardboard

The light was bright that morning. The sky hung overhead, mingling like a wet into wet watercolour of primary colours that would fade into a solitary shade of blue as soon as they dried. 

Another day, another sky.


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