Birch Tree Forest Painting - Ghost Wood IV

Ghost Wood IV

18x36, acrylic on canvas

This is the fourth birch tree forest painting in my Ghost Wood series.  This one started out in gray scale until I added a little yellow.  I super like pairing it down to a few simple colours.  It gives it such a different feel than the others (see further down in the blog), almost spooky.

Still loving the birch trees!

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Huge Pink Abstract Painting - Pink

Pink

30x36 inches, acrylic on canvas

This huge pink abstract painting evolved from an idea, that once I got started, turned a very sharp left.  The pink part was only supposed to be an underpainting, to be seen in bits a pieces, through a layer of dark purple.  But once I got started I just couldn't stop.

What I absolutely love about painting is the subtle colour variations you get by adding just a tiny bit of colour to an already existing colour.  I know we all mixed red and blue in kindergarten or grade one and were astonished to get the colour purple.  (Actually the girl next to me did it and I was perplexed and jealous of her because it didn't seem to work for me.)  But the range of colour that exists, just waiting to happen, by adding a bit of red, or yellow, or white, even blue, really turns my crank.  I'm not sure why.  I just love it, like a songstress hitting a note she loves to sing.

So, needless to say, I became quite mesmerized by all these subtle shades and couldn't and didn't stop until this painting was complete, not purple like I had planned, but PINK.  

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Abstract Birch Tree Painting - Ghost Wood III

Ghost Wood III

18x36 inches, acrylic on canvas

This is the third in a series of abstract birch tree paintings.  Each time I embark on a new version, I choose a different colour palette.  This time I chose earthy shades of browns and green with a bit of gray and yellow thrown into the mix.  What I didn't expect, were the trees to also be in earthtones.  In the previous two versions, as well as a commission, they had all been white.  They are representing birch trees after all.

But as I worked on the forest, I noticed some strokes looking more like main trees.  So I played with this idea, and whole forest of slightly off-white (sometimes really off-white) trees came to be.  Painted wet on wet these trees mingled generously with the underpainting to create quite a unique expanse of forest.

I love it when this happens!

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Large Blue and White Abstract Painting - Convergence in Blue and White

Convergence in Blue and White

30x30, acrylic on canvas

This painting has a whole lotta texture!  

I wanted to work in blue and white with this abstract and imagined adding in other colours along the way.  The background is actually a beautiful green/gold, seen in bits and pieces between circles and at edges.  But once I got started, I couldn't see any other colour coming into the mix.  

With this amount of movement and texture, two colours is all it seemed to need.

In a 30x30 inch size, it makes quite an impact. 

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Abstract Ocean Painting (Seascape) - The Red Sea

The Red Sea

12x24 inches, acrylic on canvas

This abstract ocean painting (seascape), The Red Sea, was one of those paintings that just came out of nowhere.  Sometimes I get an idea for a composition and if I have a canvas in the right size already prepped, there is little time for hesitation.  I just grab it and go.

Sometimes I find the most interesting works of art manifests in this way.  

I have been very drawn to passionate colours of late, hot pinks and oranges, fuschias and dark purples.  So those are the colours that find their way onto my palette and onto canvas.  It's irrelevant to me that the sea is a lovely bright magenta.  Any true expressionist would say, 'This is how I felt when I was painting.'  An interesting concept.  I didn't exactly feel magenta.  But it does make an interesting colour sea.

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Abstract Beach Painting - Sunset Beach

Sunset Beach

24x36 inches, acrylic on canvas

This abstract beach painting called Sunset Beach is one of those paintings that happened quite by accident.  I had originally created something different, but wasn't happy with it.  So I decided to introduce a new colour, to spice it up a bit.  Then I added another and another, until it became what it is.  

I love it when that happens!

This piece has vigorous strokes of texture in a very thick paint creating wonderful complex colour relationships, especially between the yellows, oranges and turquoises.  

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Abstract Landscape Painting in Purple with Full Moon - A Moonlit Night

A Moonlit Night

12x24 inches, acrylic on canvas

This abstract landscape painting in purple with a full moon is one of those fantasy landscapes that takes me away to places where fairy tales come true.  To me there is a magical quality to the pale mauve moon, and sweeping hills.  Everything is glowing, just a little bit, and the stars are out.

This piece was painted with a multitude of colours that blend beautifully into the curves of the hills creating lovely complex colour relationships.  This is why I paint.  To play with colour...  enjoy...

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Abstract Birch Tree Forest Painting - Ghost Wood II

Ghost Wood II

 18x36 inches, acrylic on canvas

This is another version of my abstract birch tree forest painting in my Ghost Woods series.  I have been painting birch trees since my journey in painting began.  Each new phase of interpretting their beauty takes me to new places. 

Painting birch trees in this abstract style is just another exciting adventure along the way.  I absolutely love creating with a painting knife, the room for play and textural interest is immense.  Couple that with my love of colour and you can figure out why this composition is fast becoming a series.

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Abstract Painting - Abstract in Pink and Orange

Abstract in Pink and Orange

30x36, acrylic on canvas

This abstract painting:  Abstract in Pink and Orange, is a slight departure for me.  Although, if you've been following along, you will have noticed me veering away from the more traditional colours of abstract landscapes from time to time.  This time, I experimented a little more with colour combinations, not just surface, but what comes through from beneath.  Like alchemy, every new colour changes according to the layer that came before it.  I love it.

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Abstract Panorama Landscape Painting - Into the Light

Into the Light

12x36 inches, acrylic on canvas

The idea for this abstract panorama landscape painting came very quickly and was executed with much the same speed.  It helps to have a number of canvases prepped and ready to go so that I can grab one when I feel the urge.  I just chose my colours and began.

I felt this long narrow panoramic style would perfectly suit what I was trying to achieve.  I wanted to show a great expanse of land, and to feel as if I was coming at it from a great distance over desert or prairie, toward the light. 

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Abstract Landscape Painting - Ghost Wood

Ghost Wood

18x36, acrylic on canvas

Having taken a conscious turn from landscape painting to abstract less than a year ago, I find it interesting to see these two world come together.  This is one of a few I have done in recent weeks that have melded landscape with my style of abstract.

It is also interesting to see that the impact of landscape has not yet escaped my vision.  A lover of painting birch trees, I am keen on persuing this 'ghost wood' composition further to see what happens. 

See you in the woods!

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Abstract Painting - Convergence

Convergence

24x24 inches, acrylic on canvas

Before I started painting, I spent many years getting flashes of colour and images of paintings in my mind, mostly of the colour red and of very thick paint.  I have always been attracted to colour, but in the years leading up to the time when I first put paint to canvas, my feelings toward colour became very intense.  And it was because of these intense feelings that I developed a desire to paint.

So I find it quite interesting to have finally painted something in red and with quite thick paint, as my colour palette usually hovers around the more landscape colours of green and blue, sometimes golden yellow.  And this painting is definately not a landscape, even in the most abstract sense, which was my original intension when this journey began. 

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Large Textured Abstract Painting - Midnight Rain

Midnight Rain

30x30 inches, acrylic on canvas

This is a large textured abstract painting done in a style that has become somewhat of a signature style for me with regard to abstracts.  

What I love about it is, when picking up several different colours of paint with the painting knife, you can get these chunky strokes with a multitude of colours running through it, because you not only get the colours you picked up on your knife, but any subtle variation of those colours combining on the canvas.

It's wonderful for layering and for any piece where I want texture on top of texture.  I recently did a piece where this technique was used to portray rain on a car windshield.  So I thought perhaps a subtle variation in blues would give the effect of rain at night.   

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Abstract Painting of Roses - I Dreamed of Roses

I Dreamed of Roses

24x24 inches, acrylic on canvas

This abstract painting of roses was one of those that came from a true moment of inspiration.  I had this idea of what it could be, how I could do it, and just had to start right away, without premeditation.  

I loaded my brush and began, feeling out the composition with layer upon layer of colour.  It was all about the cornucopia of an overgrown garden, the more intricate the better.  

It was a hot day and the acrylics dried slowly, to the point where I felt like I was working with oils.  My brush seemed to glide effortlessly over the canvas as if it knew my next move. If you look closely at the strokes you can see a multitude of colours in each one, streaming together like ribbons of candy. 

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Abstract Landscape Painting - Over Hill and Dale

Over Hill and Dale

12x24 inches, acrylic on canvas

This abstract landscape painting reminds me of my time in Ireland.  I had never seen such hilly country before.  And the roads through those hills were so windy and narrow that you really had to pay attention to where you were going.  Stops were frequently made to take photographs and allow livestock, mostly sheep, to cross the road.

It was late fall when we took a drive through the north country and over to Gallway in the west.  The bracken that covered the hills was a dark rusty red against a multitude of greens.  What a beautiful place, wild and windswept.  It was important for me to live for a time in the land of my ancestors, to walk the land they farmed and breathe the same sea air.

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Abstract Landscape Painting - Summer Outing

Summer Outing

16x16 inches, acrylic on canvas
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This abstract landscape painting is a little more abstract than most of my landscape pieces.  And because of that, I think it can take you more places than a more traditional abstract landscape.  

In it I see hot summer sidewalks, sparkling swimming pools, white hot sunshine, and green grass.  It becomes a melange of possibilities.  I'm sure the next person will see something completely different.  And that's it's beauty...

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Abstract Landscape Painting - The Dream

The Dream

20x24 inches, acrylic on canvas

I believe there is a landscape in all of us, a place we go when we go inward to reflect.  It could be the landscape of your childhood home, or a grandparents farm.  Mine is a field.  

I grew up with this field, so it has many incarnations, many moods and changes through many years and seasons of weather.  Sometimes I dream of fields where I can see for vast distances.  And sometimes I paint fields from memory, from dreams.  This is one of those paintings. 

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Abstract Sister Paintings - Panning for Gold and Precious Metal

Panning for Gold and Precious Metal

12x12 inches each, acrylic on canvas

These two abstact paintings were not originally conceived as a pair.  I simply reached for colours that I love to paint with and went to work.  When they were complete, I set them side by side to dry and was astounded to see how well the colours from one seemed to float over and blend into to the colours of the other.  So I am calling them sister paintings.  

Created from the same building blocks, they share a special bond, one completing the other as only sisters can.  

 

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Abstract Landscape Painting - After the Rain

After the Rain

8x8 inches, acrylic on canvas

This is the second mini abstract landscape painting to arrive in my shop.  I don't always know what they're going to be when I start, but there are guidelines.  

Lately I've been obsessed with water, any kind of water, lake, sea, or ocean, and horizon lines involving water.  So there's always some kind of sky, some kind of foreground, and you guessed it, a water line creating a horizon.

Then I play with it, thinking of all the watery places I've been.

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Mini Abstract Landscape Painting - Sunset

Sunset

8x8 inches, acrylic on canvas

This was the most fun I've had in a long time, 8 inches side to side, just pure fun with colour, and it looks like a sunset, well, kind of.  

I have this things about blue and orange.  I love to use them together to see what happens. I love all of their shades from slate blue to turquoise to robins egg blue, and every shade of orange from the yellowest to the reddest.  I love their vibrancy.

I stared a new section in my Etsy shop, and this is my first listing of a mini abstract landscape painting.  More to come...

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Abstract Seascape Painting - What the Sea Remembers

What the Sea Remembers

24x36 inches, acrylic on canvas

I must admit, I love weather patterns, how they change the mood of a day, travel plans, the landscape around us.  If I could go back to school I'd probably take meteorology, just to study weather all day. 

It's hard to know when to stop painting when I work on something like this abstract seasacape.  I become so emersed in the possibilities of the changing weather pattern that I want to keep going and going, like storm watching from the back porch in summer.

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Large Abstract Landscape Painting - Summer by the Sea

Summer by the Sea

30x30 inches, acrylic on canvas

I love the ocean.  I love the power of it, the way it can calm and invigorate me all at once, just by being near it.  Anytime I've been near the ocean it has changed me.

This seascape is not unlike my father's backyard in Nova Scotia, the way the land lazily slips into the ocean.  The shoreline is a protected area and you cannot change it.  Left wild, all manner of birds come to feed in the shallows.  I almost expect a blue heron to land and poke it long beak into the silty mud.

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Abstract Landscape Painting of Tundra

Tundra

20x24 inches, acrylic on canvas

These are some of my favorite colours and favorite colour combinations.  So to have them all together in this abstract landscape painting of the tundra is just a complete joy to me.  

I never really set out to paint any specific landscape.  I find it more interesting if I just start with colours I love and go from there.  When it's done, if it speaks to me of a certain landscape, I will focus on that in the title.  I absolutely love the vast wilderness of the Canadian north and the rich a vibrant colours that seem to float across a seemingly barren land, so that's where this painting takes me.  But this painting can take you anywhere you want to go.

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Huge Prairie Landscape Painting - Far and Away

Far and Away

acrylic on canvas, 30x40 inches

One of the things I love most about painting abstracts, like this huge prairie landscape painting, is creating a sense of depth and distance.  With this piece, I got to work with some interesting colours I hadn't paid much attention to before.  

Whenever I paint using grey, I usually reach for some sort of blue to create the highs and lows.  But with this piece, I was so focused on using an earthtone palette, that I reached for yellows and browns instead to mix my sky colours and discovered that there are other, perhaps more beautiful greys in the universe, to paint with!

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Large Abstract Painting of a Seascape Landscape - Seaside

Seaside

30x30 inches, acrylic on canvas

This is a large abstract painting of a seascape landscape in warm tones of turquoise and aqua, completed just yesterday.  It was a hot day, and the heat was so sudden and overwhelming after a long cold winter, that I longed for the coolness of the ocean.

Sometimes I long for the coast.  For a while I lived on the east coast and loved to go walking on the rocks by the water's edge with my husband.  I find a day by the sea so renewing.  There is something in the power of water to heal, to wash away, to calm and refresh.  And there's nothing like breathing in salt sea air.

I suppose this painting could have been called Ode to Nova Scotia.  But Seaside will do nicely.

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Huge Abstract Landscape Painting - Sunset on the Serengeti

Sunset on the Serengeti

30x40 inches, acrylic on canvas

I wasn't sure what this painting would become when I started it.  I just knew I wanted to work with warm earth tones and that in the end, whatever happened, it would be a huge abstract landscape painting, not only is size but in scope.  

From this vantage point, this abstract can represent a vast array of distances.  It's all in what the viewer brings to it and their interpretation of it when they look at it.  To me it seems like an enormous expanse of flat plain.  So Sunset on the Serengeti seemed appropriate.

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White Abstract Painting - White

White

20x24 inches, acrylic on canvas

The idea for this White abstract painting came to me just as I was waking up one morning.  I absolutely love texture.  And I thought:  What if I just did white, but with oodles of texture?  Well, pure white might be a little hard on the eyes.  So I added in some colour, just enough to take the edge off.  The result is something kinda ultra-modern in concept and form. 

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Large Abstract Painting - Water

Water

20x40 inches, acrylic on canvas

The idea for this large abstract painting came to me one night when I couldn't sleep, as so many ideas do.  But it came very clearly -  colour, style, composition.  I could hardly wait to get up in the morning to see if I had an appropriate canvas.  I rarely ever use this size.  However, when digging through my stores I found this 20x40 already prepped and with a base coat on it.  How perfect was that?

So my idea came together in about half a day.  I started it in the morning before breakfast and finished it before lunch.  By mid-afternoon I was photographing it.  And it was in my Etsy shop before supper.  I love it when that happens!

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Abstract Prairie Landscape Painting - Harvest

Harvest

24x30 inches, acrylic on canvas

The colours for this abstact prairie landscape painting were pulled from memory.  Growing up, my family travelled extensively throughout eastern Canada, weekends here and there, camping, cottaging, and the infamous family roadtrips where destinations were chosen based purely on how far we could drive each day following a gas station road map.

So much of that terrain was farmland, endless golden fields that tipped slowly up to a pale summer sky, dirt roads and dust.  Fun times.

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Large Abstract Painting - North Atlantic Crossing

North Atlantic Crossing

24x24 inches, acrylic on canvas

I think this large abstract painting of the North Atlantic was inspired inadvertently by all the talk in the news right now about the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.  I really set out to do a painting in firey orange and robins egg blue.  But I find with abstracts, they are never done until they are done, meaning - one must work at it until satisfaction is achieved.  And today, well, the orange and blue just didn't cut it.  My mind kept returning to this dark base of slate blue and green.  And as that progressed, so did the sky, into icy blues and greens.  Go figure...  And so it is named:  North Atlantic Crossing.

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Huge Abstract Painting - Night and Day

Night and Day

30x36 inches, acrylic on canvas

This huge abstract painting is a little more abstract than usual for me.  I've been painting every day for the past week and a half and have been thoroughly enjoying it.  It seems whenever I have time to squeeze a lot of work into a small period of time, I become more free with the process, and experiment more.

Seeing that I am self-taught, every painting is a learning ground, and that's what keeps me interested.  Last night I fell asleep thinking about all the different colour combinations I wanted to try.  Oddly enough, this wasn't one of them.  Abstracts, more so than traditional landscape paintings, seem to have a life of their own.  And it's my job as an artist to help it find its way.

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Huge Abstract Painting - Earth Song

Earth Song

30x30 inches, acrylic on canvas

Earth Song seemed like an appropriate name for this huge abstract painting because of all the warm earth tones.  To me this seems like a pre-dawn landscape.  There's a glimmer of sun on the horizon giving everything a golden glow, yet the sun has not yet made an appearance.  It seems to me so quiet and peaceful.  I can almost feel the cool air on my skin.

Along with my love of landscape, comes a love of weather, of changing seasons, and times of day.  To capture the mood of a place is something I always strive for; it's what makes painting worthwhile.

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Abstract Landscape Painting - Telegraph

Telegraph

12x12 inches, acrylic on canvas

Now you might be thinking Telegraph is an unusual name of this abstract landscape painting.  And you might be right.  However, when I was painting it, the colour combination somehow reminded me of old photographs of the Canadian prairies, which led to the thought of the vastness of the prairies and how once upon a time communication across vast distances were sent via telegraph.  A bit of a stretch, I know.  But that's how things sometimes work out.

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Abstract Landscape Painting - Interferance

Interferance

12x16 inches, acrylic on canvas

This abstract landscape painting is based on a similar colour palette to Car Ride.  I really enjoyed working with those colours and the sense of distance I think I achieved in both paintings.  

The name for this one came to me while working on the 'sky' section of the piece.  For some reason the colours and the patterns of the strokes reminded me of storms that cause great interferance with electrical devices.

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Abstract Landscape Painting - Meadow

Meadow

14x18 inches, acrylic on canvas

This abstract landscape painting of a meadow was actually painted around the same time as Car Ride and Brush Fire.  You might notice that a similar palette was used, unlike yesterday's pale rendition of Sand and Sea.

This burnt orange colour has always been one of my favourites.  And I think the addition of the mossy green is what makes it feel like a meadow, perhaps in autumn, when the fog lies low in the field. 

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Abstract Seascape Painting - Sand and Sea

Sand and Sea

20x24 inches, acrylic on canvas

This abstract seascape painting is quite a departure from the paintings of the last two days.  Perhaps it's the infusion of sun into my day that has me painting such sun-drenched, sun-bleached landscapes.  

This piece has an almost white washed, shabby chic feel to it.  There is so much texture in the sand portion of the painting that it appears as if made of a weather-worn board.  I'm sure I've seen cottage furniture with this texture before, painted some aqua green, or robins egg blue, then painted with a thin wash of white.  

A perfect piece to bring a light and airy feel into the home or cottage.

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Abstract Landscape Painting - Car Ride

Car Ride

16x20 inches, acrylic on canvas

In keeping with yesterday's post about naming paintings, the name for this particular abstract landscape painting came to me mid-stream.  A bit of an unusual name, that somehow seems to work.  

Growing up, my family often went on long car trips for summer vacation.  I remember sitting in the backseat with my head against the window, watching the landscape whizz by in a blur as we pulled our camper trailer all over Canada.  This painting, and it's blurred lines, somehow reminds me of these trips.  Perhaps this is where my love of abstracting the landscape began... 

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Abstract Landscape Painting - Brush Fire

Brush Fire

16x20 inches, acrylic on canvas

Something new from the studio!  It's been a while since I painted.  Sometimes life has other plans for me.  However, I'm happy to announce that I have three new paintings to share with you that I will be posting over the next few days.  Today, I will start with this new abstract landscape painting 'Brush Fire'.

I rarely have a plan when I start to paint, mostly I just want to put colour to canvas, and I choose colours based on how I'm feeling at the moment.  So what comes as a result of layers and layers of colour and texture is always a surprise to me.  Sometimes a title will come mid-stream, sometimes it takes hours, even days, before a painting is named.  Today, however, the title was immediate upon completion.  With such a burning orange swath running through the middle, Brush Fire seemed an appropriate choice.

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Abstract Prairie Landscape Painting: Cross Wind

Cross Wind

12x24 inches, acrylic on canvas

This abstract landscape painting was inspired by prairie fields in spring.  Pulled again to use strong yellows and yellow greens, I wanted to work in an abstract texture that would be reminiscent of grass weighted down by a long winter's snow.  This is a field I remember walking in when I was a kid, smell of wet earth, mud on my boots, buzz of insects, trees on the horizon that I never seemed to reach.

Again I've photographed this painting to show the organicness of the raw edges in keeping with the feeling of the entire piece.

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Abstract Landscape: Flood Plain, Prairie Spring

Flood Plain

12x24 inches, acrylic on canvas

The idea of this abstract landscape of a flood plain was painted in memory of the disasterous flooding of southern Manitoba, North Dakota, and Minnesota last spring in the Red River Valley. 

I was very drawn to use a very golden yellow, a colour I always associate with prairie, and a pale robins egg blue.  Robins egg blue has been a favourite of mine since I was a child and shown three tiny blue eggs in a nest taken down by my father from the eaves of our house.  I also love the idea of water permeating the land, not especially when houses are threatened, but the idea of mother nature asserting herself.

The painting is shown here without the edges trimmed by photoshop technology to show their rough organicness.  The horizon line too is drawn off slant to show a more natural organic sightline as we would find in nature.  

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