Day Lily #4

Day Lily #4, Acrylic on Paper, 5"x7", $100

This day lily is a variety that I got from my husband's late mother's garden.  It continues to grow and multiply in our yard.  I especially love the deep red-orange petals and the golden yellow throat.  For this painting, I used my palette knife to apply Golden Open acrylic paint on gessoed watercolor paper.  There is a bright orange underpainting that shows through here and there.

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Cardinal

Cardinal, 6"x6", Acrylic on Gessoboard, $195

This winter we have the good fortune to have a veritable flock of cardinals coming to our bird feeders.  Their beautiful crimson plumage brightens many a gray day.  I did this painting using Julie Ford Oliver's fracturing technique (it involves a palette knife and a squeegee.)  I only recently started painting on gessoboard - it is really smooth compared to gessoed watercolor paper and canvas, so a whole different feel when applying paint.

Golden Pods

Golden Pods, 10"x9", Acrylic on Paper, $250

Every summer I grow several different kinds of poppies in my gardens. One of them, which I refer to as my ocean poppy, is dusty pink with a light grey center and thick, pale green foliage.  It grows wonderful seed pods that develop a row of small windows under the rim to let the seeds out.  I have done a bunch of paintings of these pods using different colors and techniques.  This is one of my favorites. I love the rich golds and the organic shapes.  I also had fun with the concept of incompleteness on this one, leaving two of the pods partially defined.

Alliums

Alliums, 6x6 Acrylic on Gessoboard, $100

This painting followed a trip to the grocery store to get a variety of produce that would last long enough for me to get several paintings done.  I bought red and yellow onions, a shallot and a couple of white boiling onions, plus a few leeks for the green.  They didn't all make it into this painting.  I used palette knife for the entire piece.  I've also been playing with various underpaintings in my recent work - in this one, you can see bits of red and pink poking through.

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Fractured Onions

Fractured Onions   6.5"x6.5", Acrylic on Paper  $195

This painting was created using a technique called fracturing by its creator, Julie Ford Oliver.  I used a palette knife and squeegee with Golden's Open Acrylic paints.  You can find the tutorial for this technique on Daily Paint Works in their Art Bytes store.

Note:  It's been a long time since I tried blogging - last time it didn't stick.  During the intervening time, I have tried a lot of different techniques and subject matter with varied results.  I will be sharing some of the pieces that I think were successful as well as my ongoing experiments.