"JIGSAW 2" 11060, daily painter geometric abstract quadtych © Carol Nelson Fine Art

"JIGSAW 2"

This quadtych four panel painting was a nightmare to photograph.  Each 12x12 inch panel is framed in a black floater frame with gold trim, which I felt compelled to show in the photo.  When you show framing, however, it makes it difficult to crop the image to a true square.
The composition of any painting is critical to its success.  I like to start students in my mixed media workshops out with the composition pattern of "two lines, two circles". This painting shows how you can expand on that simple pattern into a more complex painting. 
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Color Quad, 9051, abstract quadtych

The inspiration for this abstract came from viewing the work of another artist by the name of Lois Foley, who is deceased. I saw three examples of her abstract work and was blown away by her use of color. Her style was much less structured than these pieces, but the color inspiration is what mainly impressed me.
The triptych I recently finished, Jigsaw, has some of the same compositional elements as Color Quad, but the muted tones and very limited palette of that painting seemed to set me up for this explosion of color.
I had so much fun painting these, I completed them all in one day - about a 10 hour painting marathon.
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RED POPPY QUADTYCH, 02808

This painting is on four 12x12x2 inch canvases. The 2 inch depth makes for a dramatic wall presence. The flowers are heavily textured with a mixture of acrylic heavy gel and modeling paste.
The ribbon around the edges is painted with gold metallic acrylic and the center background is painted with bronze metallic. These metallic touches are highly transparent and are only visible as the light glances off as you walk by the painting.
For a tutorial on how I add texture to an acrylic painting, see this earlier post from this blog:http://carolnelsonfineart.blogspot.com/2007_05_01_archive.html
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