#1258 Reaching. Mixed media on panel, 14×11″ $180.
Here is one where I went kind of outside the bounds of color combinations that the sky and clouds actually do. I named it “Reaching” because I felt that the red cloud was reaching up and out of the painting. Now that I revisit this, I see things that I did not intend to put in this painting. What do you see in it?
One of my more abstract paintings – or is it….
You never know when the CAS newsletter is going to turn up, but one just did. I’m looking forward to seeing who won the poetry competition next week…..
(That’s definitely a skyscape I would love to paint for someone on the newsletter!)
John Constable is known for painting realistic skies during a time when meteorological knowledge was not what it is today. Yet he used a lot of science in trying to get it right – and a bit of artistic license where necessary, too. A long but very interesting article from The Cloud Appreciation Society. I loved the quote:
” I am led to this having been very busy with rainbows –”
“Tranquility with tree”
Last month, from my show at 29 Palms Gallery, I sold a painting that went to its forever home in Wisconsin. “Tranquility with Tree” has a special place in my heart – my some-times art dealer Rick Pantele and I put a 5×10 foot giclee version of it into an office at Kaiser Permanente. Tranquility with Tree also spent about two years in the Pioneer’s Museum in Imperial. I had stopped taking it to shows as it was my last framed piece, and the last one in a series is always the hardest one to sell. So I was delighted it sold a couple weeks after coming out of the museum, from a gallery where it got to hang on its own little wall and didn’t stand out like a sore thumb.
In shipping it to Wisconsin, I got to talking to the client – whom I have not met – and he kept in touch through the reframing and sent me a picture of my baby in its Forever Home. Then he ordered a commission painting to go with it! The sibling went out in the mail today and I will hopefully have a portrait of the two of them together in due course.
“Joshua Evening”
It got crazy hot over the last couple days and we need another storm. Here it is! Oh wait, if you’re reading this from the east coast, it’s there with you, isn’t it.
#1245 Roiling Clouds. Refractured watercolor on foamcore, 8×10.5 in mat to fit 11×14 frame. $105.
…. couldn’t resist passing along this title – oh and the Cloud Appreciation Society newsletter that goes with it.
This amazing storm came from something I saw on the web – only by the time I’ve painted it in a different set of colors, you would never recognize it! Leftovers from this one also gave rise to several cards.
#1238 Amazing storm. Refractured watercolor, 11×14″ in mat ready to frame to 16×20″. $195.
