"Fiesta Bouquet 2" heavy texture impasto floral © Carol Nelson Fine Art

Fiesta Bouquet

It's time to think flowers again.  I did this painting a few years ago and it's time for me to let it go, even though it goes really well in a spot in my home.

You can see in the closeup picture the heavy impasto effect that was achieved with a palette knife.

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BUTTERFLY POPPIES, 9107, textured palette knife poppies © Carol Nelson Fine Art

I don't know if there is any such thing as "butterfly poppies," but it seemed appropriate for this painting because as I was working on the petals I was reminded of butterfly wings. Once again, I continue on my palette knife binge. I just like the texture you get with a knife.

I originally had magenta, yellow and orange poppies, but it did not seem like the painting was pulling together with all the variety in the flower colors. Eventually they all ended up much closer to one another in hue. The black background showing through here and there has a unifying effect.
This painting took me quite a while to work out the color scheme, but I'm finally happy with the finished result.

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HYDRANGEA BOUQUET, 9096, impasto still life of blue hydrangeas © Carol Nelson Fine Art

This painting is a commission piece for a collector who lives in Hawaii. With all the beautiful tropical flowers around her, she still misses the deep blues of the hydrangeas she remembers from the northeast. Her request was that the painting be predominantly of the flowers, have deep cobalt blues, and heavy impasto. SOLD

APPROACHING STORM, 04008, original acrylic abstracted landscape

About a year ago, I did a painting called Red Roof that featured a house at the top of the painting, but the lower two thirds of the painting was free form impasto slashes of paint.

http://carolnelsonfineart.blogspot.com/2007/05/red-roof-16x20-oil.html. I wanted to try doing another painting with a similar approach.

This time I wanted to try it in acrylic because I have a show coming up next weekend (http://www.downtowndenverartfestival.com/), and it would never be dry in time if I did it in oil. That's one advantage of acrylics over oils, which take forever to dry, especially if you lay the paint in thick impasto fashion.

I like how this one turned out. If you squint you eyes, you can see the similarity in composition between this painting and some of my abstracts. This painting is on 30x24 Signature gallery wrap canvas and requires no framing.

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Poppy Garden 3, acrylic triptych on panel, 24x36

The story behind the image. Poppies are my favorite flowers. Their beauty is fleeting. In Colorado, one hail storm can eliminate them until next year.

This painting is acrylic on gessoboard panels with heavy application of medium for a highly textured effect. The flowers seem to leap off the surface.

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Fiesta Bouquet II, acrylic impasto floral painting

This painting is done entirely with a palette knife. I love the thick, luscious look of the paint when it's piled on like this. For purchase information, please see http://www.carolnelsonfineart.com/, click on works, then still life.

Long's Peak at Dawn, 15x30 acrylic

Long's Peak is a landmark northwest of Denver in Rocky Mountain National Park. Long's Peak is one of the three big 14ers (14,000 feet elevation) visible from the Denver area, the other two being Mount Evans, and, farther south, Pike's Peak. Every year people with inadequate preparation and experience try to climb this peak, get in trouble (or worse), and have to be rescued by the park service.

This painting features heavy impasto painting on the mountain making it appear to leap off the canvas. It dramatically shows the first rays of sun hitting the peak while the lower areas are in complete shadow.

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Lapis and Gold, 24x24 acrylic geologic abstract

This painting has a lot of gold metal leaf and texture that makes it so interesting. I painted over the metal leaf in a lot of places so it's shininess is subdued. You have to be careful with metallics not to over do them, or they can overwhelm the painting.

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Mini Poppies, 6x6x1.5, original acrylic painting of poppies, $100 each

I must be approaching 40 of these completed. They are like little jewels and have a lot of appeal. The photo makes them look slightly oranger than they are - they are redder. Also, these have not been varnished yet. The varnish deepens and intensifies the color, but makes them too shiny to photograph easily. They are on gallery wrap canvases (painted edges) so no frame is necessary. To purchase with Paypal, please see my website, http://www.carolnelsonfineart.com/