Softly Foggy

"Softly Foggy"
10" x 10"
Oil on hardboard

The thing about fog that sometimes delights me is the way it renders everyone who looks into it "in need of glasses." I don't suppose that's an accurate description, but it sure seats us all in the same boat. Nobody is better at it than anyone else.  

It will be foggy by the time this posts. Dumb luck, not by design.  I painted this in the bright light of this wintry day, that looked not a thing like what you see here.

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Tulip Time

"Tulip Time"
5" x 5"
Oil on wrapped canvas

I'm thinking of spring tonight, what with a luscious full moon overhead. Foolish of me to do it, I know, as I've not even seen the first flake of winter. Yet my eyes are ready for color again. I'm already weary of grey sticks poking into grey sky. 

Painting my fantasy has helped.  It's a sweet little fantasy, filled with color and life from a spring day at the Chicago Botanic Gardens.

Carol

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Progress

"Progress"
30" x 38"
Oil on hardboard

Here's a section of The Maroon Bells that I'm working on. The mountain is in strong light, the shadows are dark and the snow is bluish. It's a process of applying paint and glazing color upon color. It's taking time because of the size of this piece... but F U N!  

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Ballerina Blossoms

"Ballerina Blooms"
5" x 7"
Oil on wrapped canvas

They were simple in their beauty, fragile like ballerinas on point, curtsying to the audience as applause fluttered their delicate petals.  

This small piece is my offering tonight while my big painting looks ... horrid!  I can't post the progress when it looks this bad.  It's entirely normal for this stage of the game, but it might make my clients faint dead away.  Nope, I'll photograph it when it looks a wee bit more composed.

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At the Divide

"At the Divide"
6" x 14"
Oil on hardboard

I'm sitting in front of one of my most favorite places to paint and to be — the Continental Divide in Winter Park, Colorado.  It's a source of comfort—like macaroni and cheese is to some people.  If I need shoring up, all I have to do is scroll through my photos of this little pond and I can reflect on great memories and loving thoughts.  I hope you have such an image, or a place of your own.  

I gessoed 41 new hardboard panels today. Busy work. Tomorrow—REAL work—back to The Maroon Bells!

Carol 

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Dawn Over the Lake

"Dawn Over the Lake"
8" x 10"
Oil on canvas panel

Morning crept in as usual; colourful, radiant and mystical, with no apparent sign of turmoil. Yet some had been brewing off shore, so very far away. How strange to hear of it, when it was so beautiful here. 

Lake Michigan is such a lovely place to see dawn. I'm glad I live near enough to her shores to enjoy the show on occasion.

Carol

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Good Morning, Sun

"Good Morning, Sun"
5" x 12"
Oil on hardboard panel  

The morning sky was showing off the day that I saw her looking like this.  So many colours with which to greet the rising orb.  Applause never looked so good.  

Here's tonight's offering of sky while I paint mountains.  Thank you for looking.  

Carol

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