Impressionistic-Water Lillies Floral

 Close ups

Oil on 5x7 canvas panel. Tons of texture.

This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Maureen was the gracious host this week who provided a bunch of great photos.

I decided to try the water lilies. Since I seldom do florals, thought I should do it in a style and technique which are strangers to me also......impressionism and the fracturing technique. The fracturing technique is the style belonging to Julie Ford Oliver.
I'm not overjoyed at my result. But, hey...it's all about learning.


C&C welcome. Thanks for looking and commenting!  

Proverbs 22:11       "One who loves a pure heart and who speaks with grace will have the king for a friend."






 

Inviting Spot-Street Scene

 Close ups

Oil on 7x5 canvas panel.

This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. A super watercolorist name Kay was the gracious host this week who provided a bunch of colorful photos! She issued a challenge to paint a subject that you don't normally do. I painted something I haven't done very often...the sidewalk scene. Nary a dog, lion, or cow to be seen ! I enjoyed it once I was into it.

I used a lot of painting knife plus heavily loaded brush work to give this piece an impasto texture.

C&C welcome. Thanks for stopping by and commenting!     


Isaiah 43:18-19      "Do not remember the former things, Nor consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing, Now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness, And rivers in the desert."

Spring Has Sprung-Floral Landscape

 Close Ups

Oil on 5x7 canvas board.

This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Susan was the gracious hostess.

Don't pay the ransom Honey, I escaped! Lol!
Sorry...It feels as though I haven' posted in a looooong time. I have been down in plenty of pain since the 14th. I bent over and sneezed and pulled a muscle in my back...intense pain!
That in turn affected the muscles involved with my breathing. All that complicated my COPD. But I'm finally coming back with Ibuprofen.  
I had a painting started from last week....I'll finish it sometime later.

Thanks for the great pics, Susan!
I cut loose with a Springtime landscape.

C&C welcome. Thanks for commenting!                           

Available ... If interested, contact me at kkayangel2(at)yahoo.com

My Etsy

Luke 12:34      For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Exploring The Floral-Flowers

 Close ups

 Oil on 7x5 canvas panel.

 This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Lin was the gracious hostess.

I decided on the flowers. Actually, I used the reference as a springboard to get the painting started. From there on, I stopped looking at the photo and just developed it by playing with color and using the painting knife. A lot of fun.
 I first applied black gesso...love that stuff!

I came up with a term which is completely my own invention! It's "artful departure". Ain't that a beaut??? It means don't let the subject source, whether real life or photo, get in the way of creating a painting. I think the duty of an artist is to create rather than replicate. But then, that's just my humble opinion.

 C&C welcome. Thanks for looking and commenting.  

Available ... If interested, contact me at kkayangel2(at)yahoo.com

My Etsy

Psalm 4:2     "How long will you people turn my glory into shame? How long will you love delusions and seek false gods ?"

Roses

 Close ups

Oil on 7x5 canvas panel.

 This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Patricia was the gracious hostess.

 I chose those roses this week. My goal was to play with broken edges. This was done by first using brushes...then a paint shaper to move paint and influence the edges...then painting knife. I like the resulting impressionistic and active surface this technique brought about.
This technique was developed by a very sharing blogger Julie Ford Oliver.


C&C welcome. Thanks for taking a peek and I appreciate your comments.

Available ... If interested, contact me at kkayangel2(at)yahoo.com

My Etsy

 

Matthew 5:3   “God blesses those who are poor and realize their need for him,^[a]
    for the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs.

Water Lily-Painting Knife

 Close ups

Oi on 5x7 canvas panel.

This is from one I painted in August, click here.. I liked it so much, I wanted to try the close up image that was posted with the Aug, painting.
This is all painting knife. At the time, I'm fairly happy with how it came out. i might change my mind tomorrow.

Available ... If interested, contact me at kkayangel2(at)yahoo.com

My Etsy
  
Isaiah 40:8     The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever

Flower Power-Wisteria

 Close ups

Oil on 5x7 canvas panel.

This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Lin was the gracious hostess.
 The reference photos were great. I really had a hard time choosing. The animals were very tempting...but wanting to try another floral, I picked the wisteria.

Tried to keep it expressive, painterly, and textured. Don't know if I succeeded, but it was fun trying.
Thanks for looking and commenting.  


 Available ... If interested, contact me at kkayangel2(at)yahoo.com

My Etsy

Psalms 118:24      "This is the day the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it."

Dragonfly

 Close ups

Oil on 5x7 canvas panel.
This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Oty was the gracious hostess.

I took a stab at a dragonfly reference photo. My aim was to use thick, expressive, paint. Not too sure as to how successful I was. I invented a water lily bud for it to cling to and gave the background the general look of a lily pond.
Had to wipe the flower off completely once. Then I found it's difficult to show transparent wings against a dark background.
Anyhow I fiddled with it way too long, so here it is.
I would appreciate your input on this one.

 Unavailable

My Etsy

Psalm 33:22    May your unfailing love rest upon us, O LORD, even as we put our hope in you.

Spring Memories-Lilac

 Close ups

Oil on 7x5 canvas panel.

This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Donna was the hostess who supplied this great reference photo!

 I just had to try those lilacs! I'm not a floral painter by any means, but I really like the Springtime feelings this flower generates. I have some in my yard and they're only there for about two weeks tops. You have to look fast and enjoy them for the short time they're around. Sort of a mini lesson on life in general.

This is on a 7x5 canvas panel. A little brush and a lot of palette knife!

C&C welcome. Thanks for looking and commenting!

This painting was influenced by the style of the great
innovative artist, Julie Ford Oliver.

Unavailable

My Etsy

Song Of Solomon 2:11    Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land.

Flower Power-Dahlias

Close ups

Oil on 6x6 canvas panel.


This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Susan was the hostess who supplied this great reference photo! Thanks, Susan!!

I was really tempted to do one of the doggies that were pictured, but I forced myself to get into a more uncomfortable zone. Namely flowers. I was encouraged by the waterlilies of last week, so I tried the dahlias. I used the painting knife once more. I also pushed the color.

Thanks for looking and commenting!

Available ... If interested, contact me at kkayangel2(at)yahoo.com

My Etsy

Isaiah:42:16 "I will lead the blind by a road they do not know, by paths they have not known I will guide them, I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I will do, I will not forsake them."

Box Of Chocolates-Water Lily

Close ups

Oil on 5x7 canvas panel.

This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Ros was the hostess who supplied this great reference photo!

I was in the mood to use the painting knife for an impressionistic painting.
So, I painted my impression of the water lily. I was trying to manipulate thick paint until it resembled what I was after. Instead of being in control of the paint and making it take on a preconceived appearance, I watched the paint perform (or do its' own thing) under the guidance of the knife. It's like a box of chocolates...ya never know what you're gonna get. This is a FUN way to paint!!
Must confess, I'm still under the influence of Julie Ford Oliver and her great fracturing technique.

Not Available

My Etsy

1 Peter 1:8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:

a MAZING Petals

Close ups

Oil on 6x6 canvas panel.

This is my contribution to The Rose Challenge at DPW posted by the one and only Carol Marine.
The challenge was to simply paint a rose in close up. And quite a challenge it was.

So beautiful to look at. So sweet to smell. So DIFFICULT to paint!!
The many convolutions of a rose's petals turns into a maze which will in turn twist my point of reference. Was I painting here or there??
Roses are indeed a real challenge for me. ( The problem may well be that I tighten up and attempt a flower portrait instead of a nice loose, painterly, floral.)
Anyhoo...Thanks for a great challenge, Carol!

Available ... If interested, contact me at kkayangel2(at)yahoo.com

My Etsy

Philippians 2:10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth