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Mixed Media Landscape Sunset Art Painting "Overview 2" by Colorado Mixed Media Abstract Artist Carol Nelson

  This painting is heavily textured on a Gessobord panel.

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  12"x16" Acrylic on gessoboard panel/SOLD

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Mixed Media Landscape Sunset Art Painting "Overview 2" by Colorado Mixed Media Abstract Artist Carol Nelson

  This painting is heavily textured on a Gessobord panel.

  It arrives ready to put in a standard frame or display on an easel.

  12"x16" Acrylic on gessoboard panel/SOLD

  CommissionsWelcome.

  View more of my work at http://carolnelsonfineart.com

  Learn about my special Canvas Minis HERE

  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter HERE

  View my WORKSHOP SCHEDULE  Here

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"Edge of Red" 13042, mixed media forest landscape © Carol Nelson Fine Art

 

It took me a while to do this latest one in my tree series.  The two canvases measure 24x20 inches, and 24x36 inches.

Various kinds of art paper were used, including corrugated paper, lace paper, watercolor paper, and Egyptian papyrus.  The sides are painted red - I like red.

The underpainting was red, with a layer of gold gesso over it.  This gives the painting a warm glow and soft sheen in places.  The most fun part to do, for me, was the freehand branches which were  mostly negatively painted.

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"COLORADO GOLD" golden aspens mountains © Carol Nelson Fine Art

A beautiful stand of aspens in the Colorado high country.  Did you know that when you see a group of aspens, it's really all one plant?
They send up new shoots from the underground root system.

This 6x6 original oil on panel will be available tomorrow at auction on Daily Paintworks.  Click here to see the auction.

Click here to buy it now for $100 on my website.

"GRAND CANYON 3," daily painter geologic abstract © Carol Nelson Fine Art

"GRAND CANYON 3"

This painting is one that is worthy of a showcase spot. The companion piece to this one was purchased by the City of Lone Tree, Colorado, and hangs in the civic center. It is 48 x 24 inches, so size alone makes it an imposing piece.  The inspiration for this geologic abstract comes from the Sky Walk over the Grand Canyon.  The view is looking down into the canon.

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"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.

"SHADES OF FALL," 10128, daily painter original landscape © Carol Nelson Fine Art

One of the things students of oil painting are often told is to "loosen up," meaning don't over work the painting. Don't nit pick. Don't work and rework a passage. Use larger brushes. Paint shapes, not details.

This painting is done on a red toned panel. My goal was to minimize the number of brush strokes - not an easy task with a complex landscape.
Here we have three main color masses - the dark trees on the left, the yellow grouping in the middle, and the orange bushes on the right. Once those large blocks of color were in place, it was a matter of working smaller and and smaller to fill in the details of the rocks and water.

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ICE AGE, 9115, geologic abstract by Carol Nelson © Carol Nelson Fine Art

This geologic abstract touches on a cool palette that I don't use very often, but I really like the combination of the blues and the browns. It is more fun than you can imagine to let the colors flow together and have complete freedom in mixing the colors as I choose. It's why these abstracts are such a kick for me.
I tried something new in coming up with this composition. I brushed on some watered down colors onto the canvas, then covered it with the clear plastic that the canvas came wrapped in (making use of something I would have discarded.)
Lifting up the edges of the plastic, I squirted in more water causing the colors to flow into the wrinkles and crevasses in the plastic. When the plastic was removed later, there was an abstract flow pattern you can see in the finished work.
As with other paintings in this series, the metal foils and areas of soft metallic sheen are not picked up well by the camera, making the original a more dynamic, exciting piece than what you see here.
For purchase information of this framed 36x24 inch painting, please see my website.

Southwest Spirit, 9039 desert landscape abstract

I didn't start out with a southwest landscape in mind, but that's what I ended up with. Another of the allures of doing abstract work - as Forrest Gump said - abstracts are like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to get. This 24x30 abstract on canvas can be purchased through my website by clicking here.

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.

Prairie Sky, 18x36 original oil

In this painting, I sought to depict the vastness of the western landscape. I love the colors in the sky. This painting is sold, but I can paint another version for you.

(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.

For purchase information, please see my website: http://carolnelsonfineart.com/works/194216

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!

For purchase information, please see my website:http://carolnelsonfineart.com/works/182605

MOUNT PRINCETON, 02408, 6x6 oil painting of Colorado mountains

I spent the weekend tending my booth at an indoor art show. Sales and traffic were very slow, but all was not lost! I brought my oils and had a wonderful time completing four 6x6 paintings. I think people like to see artists working, and I enjoy talking to them about the painting process.

I've painted this view of Mt. Princeton, near Buena Vista, CO, before. I never tire of Princeton's beauty and grandeur.

SOLD

Beaver Business, original oil painting of stream near Breckenridge, CO

This is a scene we came across on the hike to Mohawk Lake, near Breckenridge, CO. The beavers had been busy building a dam. I liked this scene because we were in deeply shaded forest and could see through the trees a sunlit meadow with blue sky reflecting in the stream. For purchase information, please see www.carolnelsonfineart.com.

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."

Mount Princeton, 12x16 oil, Colorado Mountains

Mount Princeton is in the collegiate range in central Colorado near Buena Vista. Surrounded by 14,000 foot peaks, Buena Vista is very appropriately named. This view of Mt. Princeton is one of my favorites. For purchase information, please see http://www.carolnelsonfineart.com/, click on "works", then "landscapes"

Red Roof, 16x20 oil

This is one of the paintings from my website analyzed on Empty Easel at http://emptyeasel.com/2007/05/24/submitted-paintings-by-carol-nelson/ . Dan, who writes a daily blog on art related matters, and does artist reviews, is featuring my work today. I can't believe how "right on" his comments were about my work. He noticed everything I was trying to express on each of the featured paintings.