Carol Nelson FINE ART BLOG

"FEBRUARY MORNING" 12011, contemporary mixed media forest tree abstract © Carol Nelson Fine Art

February Morning

I used textured wall paper for the trees. I like the textured look of the paper. The background was applied thickly with a palette knife.

This palette is different for me - there's no orange! Well, there's orange, with white and yellow, in the sky color, but that's really an orange TINT.

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"ASPEN GLADE" 12010, mixed media contemporary aspen forest © Carol Nelson Fine Art


Aspen Glade

I might have gone a little overboard with the colors in this piece. It's VERY vibrant. I love color and just can't get enough, so to speak.
I used a palette knife to apply most of the paint, so it is heavily textured. For more information, please click here to go to my website.

"TOUCH MY HEART" 12008, contemporary modern textured heart valentine © Carol Nelson Fine Art

Touch My Heart

Here's a REALLY textured piece. I tried very hard to get the shiny copper metal to show in a photo, but had not luck. As you can see, this one has copper metal, brads, beads, corrugated art paper, and cubes of acrylic medium.

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Heart on the Mend


Polka Dot Heart

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WORKSHOP: There are a few spots left in my one day workshop on 2/11/2012.
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"PORTAL" 12007, mixed media contemporary abstract © Carol Nelson Fine Art


"Portal"

Sometimes, when you go back through old paintings done years earlier, you fine one that would benefit from the knowledge you have attained during the intervening years.

That was the case with this paper collage painting. I really wish I had taken a "before" picture. Compositionally, this is a better painting. Color wise, it is a hell of a better painting, if I do say so myself.

Originally, I had a muted blue, green, brown and gray palette. Blech. I made the blue more purple, the green more turquoise, and the brown more orange. Added a tiny bit of red. Those warm tones on a predominantly cool toned painting really give it sparkle.

The white is the torn edge of the paper. For more information on this painting, click here to go to my website.


Burnished

This geologic abstract has a mat that I painted with two shades of copper acrylic. Since there is copper and gold paint in the painting, I thought it really enhanced the work.

The bevel on the mat was white. I painted the bevel black and let the paint smudge out on to the mat a bit. It looks very much like the mat is made from copper metal.

For more information about this painting, click here to go to my website.

Polka Dot Heart

I was reading an article about a show of Damian Hirst's work, which includes all his spot paintings, at Gagosian Gallery in New York.

You may be familiar with this very controversial British artist, much of whose work is about death. His most famous piece is a human skull encrusted with over 8000 diamonds.