Painting Into Fall

Painting #1 Shenanigan Flat

This is one of my favorite paintings that feels totally me, the style and approach that I truly love to paint in. I am thinking that this scene on the North Yuba river enables me to naturally paint this loose and minimal. For some reason not every scene that I tackle enables me to naturally paint in this style. At this point it is a mystery, perhaps I am at a creative cusp of sorts.

Painting #2 North Yuba river

I don’t exactly love this one but it was a good in between paintings exercise. Painted saturated wet in wet.

Painting #3 North Shenanigan Flat

See! Easy with this scene! Drives me nuts how this view enables my inner creative to kick in but with a more detailed view, I turn it off. If anyone have any idea why it falls short when I approach a more detailed view, give me your thoughts. I think I’ll figure it out eventually.

Painting #4 Mist over Sand Pond

I wasn’t sure if I went far enough with this one, for now I’m leaving it alone.

Painting #5 North Yuba river

I slap dashed this one hoping for looseness and feeling though the river doesnt “sit down” on the right side as it should, easy fix.

Painting #6 Of Bullards Reservoir

This one is a bit too tame for me but it does have a glow that I really like.

Happy painting! Have a wonderful weekend folks!

Intuitive Paintings

Painting #1 of Bullards Bar Resevoir

I have been painting up a storm lately and enjoying every bit of it. The weather has changed drastically in the last few days, my husband had gone up to the Sierra Buttes and there was about 4 inches of snow! I hope to get up there soon to paint.

 

 

Painting #2 of the North Yuba river

Painted saturated wet on wet. If you haven’t tried this technique you have to give it a try, it is absolutely thrilling. There is approximately a two hour window of painting time without having to wait for any layers to dry. It takes a bit to get used to the mushy appearance as you work it but to me it is like sculpting rather than painting. Once it is dry, you go back in to punch up your darks.

Painting #3 imagined river landscape

What a joy to paint this, I had no idea how it would turn out and I loved that fact, I prefer working this way.

Painting #4

Again another intuitive painting, I loved playing with the light.

Painting #5 of Bullards Bar Resevoir

The glow in the middle section is not quite as bright in reality in this photo, keep that in mind. I loved painting this, imagine that!

Painting #6 a semi-abstract

This painting wasn’t turning out as I imagined so I decided to abstract it to play around with shapes and values, nothing lost in an exercise of this nature. I have three more paintings to share, until next time!

Painting and More Painting

painting #1

I have been painting and also getting ready for fall and winter. I have been feeling a desire to get out there to paint en plein air with the weather changes. The painting above is wild and colorful but I wanted to get out of my usual routine. I like to stretch myself to see what happens.

painting #2

Another painting testing my colors and being loose, not sure if it works but that is alright.

Painting #3

This one was painted entirely by intuition, my favorite way to paint. This is that same scene that I have painted over and over.

Painting #4

Another view of that ever elusive scene. I didn’t have an idea where this was going until it was happening, I went along for the ride, easier that way. I

Painting #5

This was based on a photo that I took of a reservoir near me. I wanted to go dramatic and here we are.

Painting #6

I wanted to paint serenity but wanted to have a little more interest in the water, I added a little more detail for dimension. I might give this another try it two.

Thank you for looking.