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Showing posts with label red. Show all posts
"Tropical Tapestry" mixed media textured hawaiian flowers © Carol Nelson Fine Art
"HEART ON THE MEND" 12004, mixed media abstract heart © Carol Nelson Fine Art
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| Heart on the Mend |
The heart is a metaphor for the human condition. We describe people as hard hearted, soft hearted, big hearted. Their heart can be broken, brave, bursting, full, heavy, light, open, locked, and on and on.
I am seeing Valentine's Day items in the stores, so I thought I would try doing some mixed media approaches to depicting this holiday all about love.
Valentine's Day is mostly for lovers, but who hasn't had their heart broken at some time? I actually thought of this composition while listening to Christina Perry's Jar of Hearts - a GREAT song.
This 6x6 heart is on a masonite panel and is textured with crackle paste. The heart has cracks in it, but has red sateen ribbons holding it together - on the mend I'm thinking.
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"ELEMENTAL GREEN" 11051 daily painter mixed media textured abstract © Carol Nelson Fine Art
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| "ELEMENTAL GREEN" |
I'm continuing to work on a series of small abstracts for an upcoming show. This size sells well both on the internet and at art shows.
I textured this one with modeling compound and tissue paper. The red/green color scheme is always a favorite of mine. For more information, please click here to see my website
"DESERT GLOW" 11019 daily painter mixed media abstract © Carol Nelson Fine Art
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| "DESERT GLOW" |
The colors are extremely deep and lush because of a crystal clear coating of epoxy resin over the whole painting. For more information, click here to go to my website.
"EGG ON RED" 11018, daily painter still life © Carol Nelson Fine Art
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This is my entry in the DPW challenge where we were to paint a white object on a colorful background. Of course a white object will reflect the colors that are close to it.
Painting this egg reminded me of a drawing class I took as a freshman in college. We each had to bring a hard boiled egg to class. We spent three weeks drawing our eggs - first just the outline, then we added shading and shadows.
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| "EGG ON RED" |
This is my entry in the DPW challenge where we were to paint a white object on a colorful background. Of course a white object will reflect the colors that are close to it.
Painting this egg reminded me of a drawing class I took as a freshman in college. We each had to bring a hard boiled egg to class. We spent three weeks drawing our eggs - first just the outline, then we added shading and shadows.
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"RED CLIFF" 11011, daily painter aluminum abstract © Carol Nelson Fine Art
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| "RED CLIFF" |
I couldn't photograph this painting accurately because of the aluminum substrate. I painted it using transparent glazes of acrylic paint, resulting in amazing depth of color.
The photograph does not show how the light dances around on the surface.
This painting is going to be my part of a dual entry in a show called "Duets." My partner in this project is Colorado photographer Ron Beller. This is the photograph I worked with.
As you can see, I selected only a small portion of Ron's beautiful photo for my painting. I thought my painting would turn out more abstracted than it did. It's actually a pretty fair representation of the rocks.
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"SPRING ETERNAL 2," 10131, daily painter textured floral still life © Carol Nelson Fine Art
No painting is safe hanging in the home of an artist! This large 24x48 painting has been hanging in my bedroom for two years. Actually, the third one down is the previous incarnation of this painting. You'll notice the original version had a dark brown, solid background - dramatic, but kind of depressing. For two years, I've looked at it wondering what was wrong. Today I took it off the wall and said to myself, I don't like it and I'm either going to totally ruin it or make it better.
It had a coating of Soluvar varnish on it which I had to remove with mineral spirits before I could begin revamping the painting. Almost everything I did to it was on the background areas. I can't believe how much more vibrant and colorful it looks now. Amazing, really.
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APPLE TRIO, 9105, textured palette knife still life © Carol Nelson Fine Art
Notice that little copyright sign in the title of this post? All you have to type is the following three symbols or words with no spaces: & copy ;
I think that is very cool, although it won't stop the Chinese from copying your work.
This painting was difficult to photograph because of the red. There is a lot of alizarin red (Golden's Alizarin Crimson Hue fluid acrylic) in these apples and, for some reason, instead of getting that gorgeous deep, rich red, it wants to show as brown. I had to tweek the colors to get a fair representation of the painting, but I lost a little of the purple tones in the background in the process.
I used four other red family colors in these apples - Golden's Primal Magenta and Pyrrole Orange, and Liquitex's Napthol Red Light and Quinacridone Crimson.
Those colors are SO LUSCIOUS. I was outside varnishing the painting yesterday and when the sun shines on this piece, it literally knocks your socks off. Actually, I wasn't wearing socks at the time, but I know they would have flown off if I had been.
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AUTUMN BEAUTY 8, 9089, sunken relief of autumn leaves
This is another of my sunken relief leaf paintings. I blew it on photographing it. I varnished it before I photographed it and the shine is very distracting. I had to manually go in and digitally paint out some of the shine with my photo editing software. Because I had to turn down the brightness, the squares do not show their silver leaf shine very well. Problems, problems. What I need is a polarizing lens to eliminate the shine.
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RAZZLE DAZZLE, 9069, orange poppy diptych
This painting is done on two panels measuring 8x24 inches each. I never tire of painting poppies. I tried a new technique on this piece. I tried texturizing the panels with venetian plaster before painting the flowers. Venetian plaster is used in the decorating business to give walls a textured, marble look. I really like the effect. I would not use this on a flexible surface, like canvas, because it could be popped off I suppose. On half inch thick panels there is no danger of that. For purchase information, please see my website.
Red Roses, 9067
A client who recently purchased my Yellow Roses painting wanted me to also paint red roses, so this is what I came up with. It felt so godd to be painting again. I think I actually had withdrawal symptoms.
This original 6x6 oil painting is sold, but I can always do another similar one. For more information, please email me at carolnelsonfineart@comcast.net.
Poppy Trio, 9064, original poppy floral triptych
Here's more of these little cube frame paintings. I can think of so many things that would look good in this format. Poppies have always been a favorite of mine. I made each one a slightly different shade - orange for the middle one, then one with more yellow, and one with more red - the black frames are smashing for all of them.
I guess I'm so taken with these cube frames is because I have always liked squares and cubes - they show up a lot in my abstract work. Scroll down and look at the previous post with the little cubed abstracts. They each have several tiny metal squares.
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Fuchsia, 9045, original floral painting
Need a spot of color on your wall? This fuchsia closeup may do the trick. As things are starting to really green up in my yard, the garden centers are gearing up for the spring onslaught. I'm remembering this pot of fuchsias I had hanging on the patio last summer. I like the double flowers which have all these folded, twisted petals. For purchase information on this painting, please click here for my website.
Cream & Sugar, red glass antique dishes
This set belonged to my Mother, who received it as a wedding present 78 years ago. I have always loved the intense red of the glass.
This painting is on board mounted in a shadow box black frame.
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ENSEMBLE, 24x24 oil, original floral still life
My goal in this painting was to have a lot of soft edges. I wanted to SUGGEST flowers, but not paint them individually. The vertical purple stripes were added toward the end in an attempt to give the painting more structure. My painter's eye was wandering around aimlessly, so the hard edged stripes gives the eye a place to pause and focus.
I painted the majority of this painting with a 1 inch cheapo bristle brush costing $0.65. Those cheap brushes are actually quite good at pushing paint around.
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SPRING ETERNAL II, 03708, 24x48 red tulip painting
I TOLD you I love painting this red/purple combination. LOL. Actually, I've had enough of it for now. I enjoyed painting that little version of this bouquet so much (see earlier post from April 20th), that I decided to try it on a grand scale.
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SYNERGY, 03608, acrylic abstract triptych
Here's another painting on multiple canvases. The three canvases work synergistically (see title) to create the whole. Each canvas measures 8x24x1.5. As usual, I have a lot of texture going on in this painting. There are red and gold metallic elements that don't photograph very well. The painting looks much better in person.
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CITY RHYTHM 1, 03108, acrylic abstract cityscape
There's a lot going on in this painting. Acrylic modeling paste was pressed with a grid pattern. The upper right section has micaceous iron oxide added for texture. Multiple layers of acrylic paints were applied for added depth and richness.
The grid pattern reminded me of the street layout in downtown Denver. One quadrant is at a 45 degree angle, making getting anywhere a challenge. At least you always know which direction is West because you can see the mountains.
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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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