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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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