Autumn Reflections, oil painting of autumn foliage on a river in Duluth, Minnesota

This painting was done a while ago, and it has become one of my best selling giclee reproductions. It's always a difficult thing to predict which painting will have broad appeal to art collectors. When I do a giclee reproduction run, the set up cost for the first one is quite expensive. I take the original painting to a professional fine art print store where it is digitally photographed, the image is tweaked to exactly match the original, and then printed on canvas. I have had giclee prints made of 9 of my paintings. Some have sold well, some not.
This painting is of the Cloquet River near Duluth, Minnesota. For giclee pricing, please see my website, http://www.carolnelsonfineart.com/

Eleven Poppies, 24x24 oil

My art show over the weekend was very successful. One never knows what will sell in an outdoor art festival. Sometimes people only buy small paintings, sometimes only giclee prints, but this time, it was mostly larger paintings. It almost seems like all these customers get together and agree to only buy a certain thing. This was one of the paintings I sold. I painted it earlier this year, before I started blogging, so that's why it was never posted on my blog. It's another of my favorite subject: poppies. SOLD

Life of Leisure 3, 10x10 acrylic, $100

This is the last cat for a while. I have a big show coming up this weekend. The weatherman says it's going to be in the high 80's. It will probably get to 90 in my tent. I think I'm going to die. Back in February when I applied to this juried show, it seemed like a good idea... SOLD

Life of Leisure 2, 10x10 acrylic, $100

Nothing looks as relaxed when asleep as a cat. It's almost like they have no bones in their bodies. SOLD

Life of Leisure 1, 10x10 acrylic, $100

I'm going to do a series on cats. I've done cats before, and what I love about painting cats is their eyes. What beautiful eyes they have! My dogs have beautiful eyes also, but there's only so much you can do with brown. :-) SOLD

Poppy Garden 4, 24x24 acrylic triptych

A client saw the first version (see June 1, 2007 post) of this painting at an art show. She had purchased a different painting of mine earlier and found it was too large for her home, so she wanted to trade it in, for this painting. I agreed, and set out to paint this one for her. I worked on it at my gallery in Golden, CO(Spirits in the Wind) where I was doing a demonstration. Now the gallery wants this one, so I have to do another version for the client. And so it goes....poppymania.

Sunflowers, 24x24 oil

When I was in Minnesota last month for my cousins' reunion, we visited a gift shop where this bucket of sunflowers caught my eye. I like the way the dried grasses drift around the flowers. SOLD

Sentinal, 24x24 acrylic triptych

On my recent canoe trip down the Gunnison River in western Colorado, we were surrounded by tall canyon walls. I think that's the inspiration for this abstract triptych. I used some course granular pumice gel and some clear tar gel for texture.

I also used some silver leaf in the upper part of the painting, but found it too distracting (shiny), so painted over most of it. There are little silver glints that do show, however.

More Poppies, 12x12 acrylic

Still stuck in the poppy mode. I love them. SOLD

Poppy Garden 3, 24x36 acrylic triptych

I'm happy to say I'm back at the easel. I have some wonderful vacation memories, but I missed my daily work with the paint brush. This painting was done on gessoboard. I wanted to see the effect of a texturized painting on the smooth surface that gessoboard has. I think the contrast between the smooth surface and the texturized flowers is even more dramatic than it is on canvas. See my earlier posts for the complete process of how this painting was done.