Three of my faves sold last week. 🙂 😦
But fear not, I’ll do more!
Sold!
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Worldwide Paintout
Done last weekend for the 10th annual world wide paint out. Went down to DuBois Park and set up toward the inlet.
It was a nice day but there was a storm coming in from the ocean. That gave me a great cloud to work on though. It sprinkled a little while I was there but as soon as it started to thunder I packed up and left.
Greener Pasture
This is the greener pasture we’re always looking for. Occupied, of course.
Live Oak Concerto
Haven’t had a chance to post anything lately.
These live oaks are located at Adams Ranch in Ft. Pierce. They have such a happy, lyrical, uplifting look to them that I had to paint them with happy squiggles.
The painting panels I use are “Pintura” and they are canvas on wood.
Tin Roof – Rusted
This painting was done in Ft. Pierce as part of an invitational paint out. The last time I was in the neighborhood, this building was completely renovated. It wouldn’t be my choice as a painting subject anymore because all the character was removed.
The title is from that song by the B52’s – “Love Shack”. Of course being in Ft. Pierce it was probably more likely a Drug Shack.
John Pierce Barnes
There was an interesting article in the June issue of “Pastel Journal” titled “History Reclaimed” about John Pierce Barnes (1893-1954), an impressionist artist, who was discovered recently. The pastel paintings that they show on the Pastel Journal website are stunning. In order to avoid any problems I haven’t included any pictures of his paintings here.
This link is to the Pastel Journal Blog:
http://www.artistsnetwork.com/medium/pastel/john-pierce-barnes-gallery
You can read the story in the following link, about how the curator of his paintings, Katherine Stanko, learned that the paintings existed and had been in storage since the artists death or maybe longer.
“THE RESURRECTION OF ARTIST JOHN PIERCE BARNES, RCA Worker and Impressionist Painter” By Hoag Levins is here:
http://historiccamdencounty.com/ccnews145.shtml
What inspires me the most is how wonderful his color choices were and his bold strokes. Many pastelists blend the heck out of their work and it thrills me to see unblended work from the 1920’s. It is also pretty easy to put together his very simple plein air palette from his work, which, of course, I had to do. It seems to be very limited, which is great for going out on location. Possibly, he had a small landscape set – I don’t know what was available in the ’20’s. I managed to fit all the colors into a small 5″x4″ box – it doesn’t get better than that!
Since I don’t keep the names of my colors, and now realize I have way too many colors, yet, not enough of these colors, I’ve made a color chart of what his palette probably was.
If it would stop raining I’d take them for a test ride.:)
Using All The Crayons 