I’m back…

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So many years since last I posted.  And so much has happened.

Won’t go into details,  just say I have been exploring, painting, learning, having ups and downs…I still LOVE to play with paint.

After recouping from a moving to our new home December 2021, I began taking a few classes via Zoom.  What a way to take a class.   No packing, no hauling supplies, no figuring out where to stay, and no travel planning.  

My first class was with Sheila Davis https://www.sheiladavis.ca an abstract landscape artist in Canada.  I have been intrigued by her approach to painting trees for quite a while and have wanted to take her class on Vancouver Island but never got around to doing so.  She uses oils, which I have only done when painting with cold wax, this was an opportunity to learn more. She encourages students to GO BIG.   What a challenge.  

My first painting of trees evolved into an abstract landscape… Go figure

Follow the bread crumbs to the final piece……

    

                                                                                               

Drum roll please!

36x36 Oil on wood panel

In the past I have played around with small landscape paintings but never exploring any further

I am quite pleased with this and enjoyed going BIG.

Next post I hope to show some of the smaller landscapes that lead to this.

 

 

In August I participated in the Orcas 3 Day Studio Tour

Here are some postings from that time...

Brochure for the Studio Tour 

Orcas Center Poster

Day of Tour

Michelle Reeds

Class of Alcohol Ink

JoEllen, Dick, Jackie, Donna, Jane, Patsy

Artist Support Crew

Dick, Jackie, Tim and Donna...

And what a crew!!!!

Many reworks...

I have been playing around with this for oh so many layers... still not quite

 Adding purple..kind of sparks it up.. but still pretty flat... too much texture

Monochromatic Exploatioins 3

More neutrals

Value ....

An exploration in values

Explorations in Value and Compositioin..

Exploring compostion and value...
                       

I have begun play with concept of 2 color value palette 

mixing white and black with yellow and greens attempting to work 4 values.  

white, mid white, mid dark, black. 

 I enjoyed working this way.. had a lot of fun

Below are individual enlargements of above

Sizes of these pieces range from 5x7 to approximately 9x9

Such fun and freeing

Just playingdre

Trying not to repeat myself... but very hard to break through this habit.

Returned to mark making and it still looks the same

Then I covered up previous painting trying to develope shapes, but once again ... repeating

another in progress... will see where it goes