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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