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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