Abstract Gray and White Painting - Interferance

Interferance

24x36 inches, acrylic on canvas

This abstract gray and white painting was a custom order by a family member, so is of course not for sale.  But I was quite pleased with the outcome and wanted to show what is possible to achieve in terms of interest and suggestability using only a limited palette.  

The original piece was only 12x16 inches and I wasn't sure if it would sucessfully translate into a larger piece.  But now that I've done it, I am eager to explore this possibility more.  Making it larger only meant more room to play and to create something with a multitude of subtle diversities.

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Abstract Plains Painting - The Great Plains

The Great Plains

18x36 inches, acrylic on canvas

This abstract great plains painting has some of the colours I absolutely love the most, rusty reds and oranges with rich, dark untertones.  Painting is such a joy to me and mostly because I get to play with colour.  Then there is the mystery of composition which sometimes just develops along the way.

The colour combination in this one shows a field deep into autumn, on an overcast day, with only a weak sun coming through the wall of cloud, but yet, there is something more.  Something looms on the horizon, just left of centre.  What is it?  This is the mystery of composition.

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Abstract Prairie Painting in Green - Summer Field

Summer Field

12x16 inches, acrylic on canvas

I just love the colour of this abstract prairie painting.  It is actually many, many layers of green, each one a little lighter than the layer before it.  Each time I painted it I like it more and more, until it was just the perfect shade of green. 

Fields remind me so much of home, of perfect summer days, and warm summer evenings, with their mysteries of insects and wild flowers.

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Abstract Prairie Painting - High Plains

High Plains

30x40 inches, acrylic on canvas

This abstract prairie painting called 'High Plains' is another in a continuing series of prairie paintings.  It all started with a painting called 'Harvest' and has progressed from there.  There is something about great expanses of land that I absolutely love.  I love plains and desert, tundra and fields.  

Each time I do a painting in this series I do it differently.  I love to try new things and to push my own boundaries to see what I can create.  This piece has lots of red undertones giving it nice depth and details in the many layers.

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Abstract Desert Landscape Painting - Cloud Gazing

Cloud Gazing

acrylic on canvas, 24x48 inches

This piece was originally painted as a commission for a lovely couple I met.  Upon completion of the piece, not only did they love it, but wanted me to paint it again for them, only much much larger.  I was absolutely thrilled at the opportunity and painted on the largest canvas I have ever painted on.  Their finished piece was 36x60 inches!

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Abstract Birch Tree Forest Painting - Ghost Wood V

Ghost Wood V

 18x36 inches, acrylic on canvas

This abstract birch tree forest painting is number 5 in my ghost wood series.  My favourite thing, each time I embark on a new version of my original composition, is to choose my colour palette.  This time I chose a palette of blues, mixing them only with a little Payne's Gray, white, and green/gold.

In this painting I particularily like to look through the trees to the forest beyond.  I feel like I can see light filtering through the dense brush and the subtle sway of the trees.  

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Ocean Sunset Painting - Evening Tide

Evening Tide

24x36 inches, acrylic on canvas

This is a rather impressionistic abstract ocean sunset painting done in my signature style involving many, many layers of colour.  It's this journey in painting, where small bits of colour are applied to eventually make up the whole, that I find so fascinating.  

Though I had worked on this piece for many hours, and stared at it intensely while doing so, I was not able to see the larger emerging patterns clearly enough to appreciate them until I took the painting outside to photograph.  

Then, when viewed from a distance, the painting came into focus.  Like the pieces of a kaleidoscope clicking into place, every dot and dab of paint suddenly had its place.

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