Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Spring's Spirit

Spring's Spirit
20x60"
Acrylic on Canvas
Painting #82 - This was a fun painting to create. I liked the challenge of trying to find the right shapes and colours for the land and the trees. Because the painting is so long, the viewer gets different points of entry depending on where he/she stands.

Monday, April 23, 2012

Spring Sparklers

Spring Sparklers
12x24"
Acrylic on Canvas
Painting #81 - I was curious to see how a forest of pine trees would look in a painting. My answer - very green!! I had to break the space up so I used some metallic inks to represent new growth within the forest. I'm surprised by how much layering I had to do to get the trees looking realistic.

Monday, April 16, 2012

Spring's Begun


Spring's Begun
12x24"
Acrylic on Canvas
Painting #80 - I really wanted to capture that time of spring when the buds first appear on the trees and then in the blink of an eye the trees are filled with lime green leaves. The yellow/green colour only seems to last about 24 hours but I absolutely love the look of the trees' leaves in this growing period.

Sunday, April 8, 2012

Mining Copper, Silver, Gold - Triptic


Mining Copper, Silver, Gold - Triptic
36x48"
Mixed Media on Canvas
Painting #79 - Well, I completely changed these three individual paintings and made one. I liked my idea about a colour scheme - primarily secondary colours for each panel - green, orange and purple. And then I added the complimentary colour to each panel. I finished the panels off by adding the primary colours to all panels.