Come Springtime

"Come Springtime"
10" x 10"
Oil on Hardboard

Wishful thinking keeps me smiling.  It's just too bleh outside for my liking. Too chilly, too damp, too all the same shade of grey.  I could even go for some midwestern, field-greens.  Like this springtime fantasy.

It's another sky, but this one is larger than my standard six inch beauties.

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Split Complement

"Split Complement"
6" x 14"
Oil on Hardboard

A box of pears arrived at my door this week.  Not only was I excited to eat them, my friend sent me models!  I painted a lot of them last December when friends blessed me with the season's finest.  'Tis the season!  

What goes with yellow green?  I consulted my colour wheel and found the split complement to be red and violet.  Yum. Two of my favorite colours.  I even made the board a combination of the two. 

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More Progress

"More Progress"
30" x 38"
Oil on Hardboard

The Maroon Bells painting is STILL not finished.  I have a few more days of adding trees, mountain details, reflections and tweaking to do before I sign my name to it.  

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See the Light!

"See the Light!"
5" x 12" 
Oil on Hardboard

Mama Cass Elliot sang "...the darkest hour is just before dawn." What she implied is it gets a lot brighter after all that darkness. Come on now, let's get out of the winter funk.  Soon it'll be white instead of sepia, and our eyes will be filled with light again.  These grey days are just -- so -- hard.  

I'm talking to myself.  I needed a pep talk, and who better to deliver it than the person who knows exactly what it's about.  The person who can get to the heart of the matter.  Moi.  

Carol 

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Sepia Winter

"Sepia Winter"
6" x 8"
Oil on Hardboard

I'm coming to grips with grey sticks poking into the sepia sky.  Not really. My hands ache at the thought of serious cold. My body shivers and my eyes aren't adapting to so much darkness. Soon enough, on my birthday, in fact, we'll reach the pinnacle of darkness and begin the descent down the light side of the slope. 

I was compelled to get this one out of my system. It happened almost like a dare. Do it. Just paint the trees and the lake and the dismal sky in sepia and burnt sienna.  Do you ever listen to your inner voice?

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Work in progress

Work in progress
30" x 38"
oil on hardboard

The Maroon Bells commission piece is progressing nicely.  It's useful to photograph it and look at it in miniature, like this, from time to time, too.  I see things when it's down small that would otherwise be missed.  I also drop the colour, too, so it's shades of grey—useful in checking the values—lights and darks. 

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Sentinel

"Sentinel"
10" x 10"
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The house was gone, a small barn stood next to the helmeted-sentinel that guarded the edge of the property.  It was cold, too cold to paint on site, so I photographed the shivering duo, and wandered back to the comfort of my warm vehicle.  

December is here. I'm bracing for a long winter.

Carol

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