"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.

This painting is at auction on Daily Paintworks.  Click here to put in your bid, and you might get this 6x6 for $75, which is a 25% saving over my usual 6x6 prices.

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"A WINTERS DAY," daily painter winter snow painting © Carol Nelson Fine Art

"A WINTERS DAY"

I always liked this painting. I think I like it because of the perspective, but also because the scene at Cherry Creek State Park is very close to my home in Colorado.
If the sun is this bright, the cold doesn't seem to matter as much.  This painting is sold, but I have many others on my website.

"DECEMBER SONG," daily painter winter landscape © Carol Nelson Fine Art

Winters in Denver have a good amount of snow, but with our abundant sunshine, it often disappears before too long.  I love the way the sun, being low in the sky, shines deeply into the house through the south windows.

I remember the frigid winters in Duluth, MN, where I grew up.  They don't get as many sunny days as Colorado, but when the sun was shining in my girlhood home, it would come in a large window in the kitchen, stretch across the dining room all the way to the blue recliner.  My Mom kept track of those sorts of things.

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

"WINTER SUNSET" daily painter winter landscape © Carol Nelson Fine Art

"WINTER SUNSET"

Winter sunsets seem to be extra beautiful.  I think it's because the earth is covered in neutral tones of white and gray, making the splash of color in the sky all the more brilliant.
For purchase information on this 36x18 original oil, please click here to go to my website.

"CLEAR CREEK," 10132, daily painter original landscape © Carol Nelson Fine Art

Since everyone is complaining about the hot weather, I thought I'd do this little winter scene to cool things down. Clear Creek is an actual river in Colorado that comes roaring down the mountain and runs through Golden, CO, the home of Coors Beer.

This painting is on a 6x6 panel. I used a palette knife to glob on lots of Titanium white for those snow banks. For purchase information, please click here to go to my website.

Start of Spring, 9024, winter landscape

This snowy scene shows the Arkansas River in central Colorado as winter is losing it's frozen grip on the high country. In another month or two, the Arkansas changes to a raging torrent of ice cold water.
This painting is on a 12x12 gallery wrap canvas and framed with a black "canvas floater" type wood frame. For purchase information, please see my website.

December Song, 00709, winter landscape

In most landscapes, the sky is the lightest part of the painting. That makes it pretty common to find a light area at the top of the painting. The beauty of painting winter scenes is that the lightest areas are also snow covered so the usual light/dark composition is flipped.

Snow is white, of course, but there is no white snow in this painting. Starting with titanium white, I added touches of cadmium yellow deep, paynes grey, or dioxazine purple to get the different variations of snow color.

I really like these 12x12 landscapes I've been doing (scroll down to see several in Nov and Dec). The trouble is I'm hoarding them. I should take them to one of my galleries, but I can't part with them just yet. They're my children, you know. I have to gaze at them a while longer. My children will eventually be sold.

For purchase information on this 12x12 original oil, please see my website here.

A Winter's Day II, 08408, snowy stream in winter

I've painted this little stream before from a different angle. I think it's all the shades of blue I use for the snow and water that makes is so fun for me. I used combinations of cobalt blue, prussian blue, and ultramarine blue. Also Paynes grey, which is really a shade of blue also.

This painting also has the palette color notes on the side.

Cold and Crisp, 07808, winter mountain snow scene

I like the limited palette and the linear elements of this painting. I was striving for a "painterly effect" with fluid loose brush strokes, but I may tidy it up a bit after it drys a couple days. OK, I DID tidy it up a bit, also put on a very dilute golden glaze (Liquin and raw sienna) on the white areas because the longer shadows indicated it was later in the afternoon.

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MORNING ON CLEAR CREEK, 02908, 16x20 oil painting of river in winter

Another painting of Clear Creek as it runs through Golden, CO. In the winter, the scene is one of quiet solitude. In the summer, on the other hand, the river is alive with tubers, kayackers, and folks enjoying the rushing water.

The reference photo I shot for this scene was taken in the afternoon, so I had to "imagine" what the scene would be like at dawn. As you can see, I simplified and rearranged some of the elements in the photo to get a good composition. That is one advantage that artists have over photographers. Artists can IMPROVE on Mother Nature!

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News Release

Carol Nelson Fine Art
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 9, 2008, Golden, Colorado

The Coors Brewing Company, of Golden, Colorado, has purchased Winter on Clear Creek, oil painting by Carol Nelson. The company has awarded the painting to a company-sponsored group in Washington, D.C., of Hispanic Women in Business. Purchased through Spirits in the Wind Gallery in Golden, the painting is a winter view of pristine Clear Creek as it runs through Golden.

Carol Nelson is a Colorado artist painting landscapes and a variety of other subject matter. For more information on Carol Nelson, see her website at http://www.carolnelsonfineart.com/.

Sunrise on Clear Creek, (SOLD) original oil painting

This is a commission piece of a work I posted on 10/23/07 , click on http://carolnelsonfineart.blogspot.com/2007/10/clear-creek-in-january-8x10-oil.html. The collector wanted the scene to be at sunrise/sunset. The reference photo I used was taken at about 1pm and I was facing east, so I imagine, had I been there at sunrise, it would have looked like this. SOLD

Minnesota Winter, 18x30 oil (SOLD)

This is the scene in my brother's back yard in the middle of a Minnesota winter. I grew up in MN, so I love snow. Here in Colorado where I now live, we get snow, but it doesn't last as long as it does in Duluth, MN. Yesterday was one of those days I love with big flakes falling down. Today is sun and cobalt blue sky.

When I first started this blog, I opened with a picture of my house after a heavy snow.http://carolnelsonfineart.blogspot.com/2007/02/carol-nelson-blog_4487.html

City Park Ducks

This original oil painting shows the setting sun on a winter evening with the ducks floating on the pond.

To purchase this painting for $100, please see www.carolnelsonfineart.com, click on "works," then "small paintings."

Almost Home, 5x7 oil, (SOLD)

I never seem to tire of painting tracks in the snow. I like the way the foreground of this picture is in shadow. To purchase with Paypal, please see my website, http://www.carolnelsonfineart.com/, click on "works," then "small paintings."

Early Snow, 10x30 triptych

I was just messing around with this one. First I painted the three panels with gold acrylic paint. The sheen of the gold shows through here and there, but does not show in this photo.

I wanted to do a stylized, limited palette scene. This painting uses quinacridone gold, raw sienna, red oxide, ultramarine blue, black, white and the metallic gold underpainting. I wanted to use Payne's gray, but didn't have any, so I made my own version with the blue, black and white. The panels look good with a black background, so I will probably mount them on a wood panel painted black.

Winter Twilight, 18x36 acrylic

I have a big outdoor show this weekend. I always have to switch to acrylic before a show because oils won't have time to dry. As a matter of fact, I was varnishing several of my previous posts, and tragedy struck the Bada Bing (see previous post). I didn't do a finger check for dryness, and the red smeared all over it. Dang, that red takes FOREVER!!

But I digress. Today's painting is a landscape done with gobs of the texture that I used on the previous Poppy paintings. It's definately an impressionistic piece and I'm not sure how I feel about it. What do you think?