This is a larger format than usual, 16"x20". I love the rich colors and the feeling of looking through to the brighter lighter colors beyond. I am not sure where this piece will lead me, but I can't wait to see where the journey will take me.
This is the background for a piece entitled "Spirit of the Harvest Moon". It is 11"x14". The harvest moon is one of the special pleasures of the fall season. It has fascinated me, delighted me, and brought out the magic of the season for me since I was a child. The more I looked at this background, the more this seemed the perfect base for showing the spirit of this moon.
This is the preliminary sketch for the harvest moon and the figure that will represent its spirit. I am pleased with the basic form but still pondering a few things. One of the things I love about these Spirit paintings is how fun, playful and free the base paintings are, and how the details.....the actual spirit.....evolves over the next few days. The process is as much fun as pouring the paint with abandon! This is Tuesday's entry, Nov. 19, 2013. Check back in a few days and take the journey of this process with me.
Today is Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013. I used acrylic washes in white and orange, separately, to fill in the moon. I used a silver metallic sharpie for the hair and then went over it with white gel pen. I outlined the figure in white gel pen. Then I took a little water and bit of white acrylic paint on my fingertip to rub in the skirt and create the motion of the bottom of the skirt.
Next I added the stamp pad ink squares. I used the bottom of an Ebony pencil dipped in yellow ochre acrylic for the cots at each corner of the square. White gel pen made the tiny white dotted outlines on two sides of the squares. I also used the white gel pen to outline the darker paint under the wash of the moon. I have more to do, but once again need to sit back and look at it for awhile.
After a couple hours of looking at this and being frustrated with how it looked, I decided to go ahead and add some more layers. I added white colored pencil to the figure to create a dress. I didn't think it stood out quite enough, so I added white gel pen over the colored pencil. I also touched up the skin of her face with a light coating of off white pastel to tone the face down slightly. I added dark burnt sienna swirls to the edge and bottom of the dress to add some contrast and bring that color to the bottom of the composition. Then I went in around the moon to add a glow and some contrast. I started with yellow ochre colored pencil and brought the straight lines out from the moon extending far into the composition and edges of the page. On top of that I added some of the burnt sienna for contrast around the moon, and then for more contrast added a dark green in very short lines. Now I will let it sit until tomorrow morning. I think it is close to being completed, but we will see how it looks in the morning!
February 24, 2014: After almost three MONTHS, I have finally completed this painting. I was never satisfied with the "dress", so today I finally went back in and changed that portion of the painting. I am pleased with the way it looks now. It is much more in line with the "Spirit" image I had when I started the painting. I hope you like this version and that you feel the joy and power of this Spirit.
This next piece has several layers on it already. To begin with, I scraped splattered acrylic paint across the whole page in yellows, orange and red. There was a big puddle of paint on the table top, so I took a print of that puddle over the scraped paint. After that dried I took bubble wrap and printed it in dark blue acrylic. I added torn paper from my Mother's music notebook and added stamp pad ink in blue and red, then glued the paper to the painted background in three places. I took the dark red and orange acrylic and smudged with my finger around the edges of the music paper. Then I added orange dots with my little finger tip. When that paint dried I added blue sharpie partial outlines to the circles, then added larger circles in blue acrylic to the whole paper. I used the end of a cardboard roller for the smaller circles, the bottom of a plastic cup for the medium circles, and the top of the cup for the large circles. I then took the edge of an old plastic card and dipped it in the red paint to make the "straight" lines, not worrying if they weren't exactly straight. I really like the way the music paper and small orange circles work in this design. I could think of several things to do with the design just as it is, but decided to go ahead and add more textures to see what happens. As you can see, there are already many, many layers to this painting.
The next step was to add yellow paint to the top of the paper and spritz water under it and allow the paint to drip in the "rainy window" design down the page. I then outlined some of the drips and textures in red sharpie marker.
I really liked the music paper with the orange small circles so I emphasized this area by adding varied lines in blue sharpie around the blue circle. The complimentary colors of blue and orange really make this area pop. I added the dropped petals at the bottom to emphasize the small area of textured paint. The blue ink seemed a little stark so I softened it by adding white ink using a gel pen. I drew right over the blue lines around the circle and then added some white ink to the petals.
I liked the white gel ink so I added a series of small white ink dots to outline the inner circle and petals.
To bring out the paint texture of the one petal, I softened the other petals with the ink from a small stamp ink pad. At this point, I will stop and set the painting up where I can see it for a few days before deciding if it is completed or needs a little more tweaking.
Today, Wednesday, November 20, 2013, I have decided that this piece is completed. I have titled it "Spirit of the Womb". I hope you enjoyed watching this piece grow to completion. May your spirit be filled with joy!


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French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (February 25, 1841?CDecember 3, 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau".
Renoir's paintings are notable for their vibrant light and saturated color, most often focusing on people in intimate and candid compositions. The female nude was one of his primary subjects. In characteristic Impressionist style, Renoir suggested the details of a scene through freely brushed touches of color, so that his figures softly fuse with one another and their surroundings.
His initial paintings show the influence of the colorism of Eugene Delacroix and the luminosity of Camille Corot. He also admired the realism of Gustave Courbet and Edouard Manet, and his early work resembles theirs in his use of black as a color. As well, Renoir admired Edgar Degas' sense of movement. Another painter Renoir greatly admired was the 18th century master François Boucher.
A fine example of Renoir's early work, and evidence of the influence of Courbet's realism, is Diana, 1867. Ostensibly a mythological subject, the painting is a naturalistic studio work, the figure carefully observed, solidly modeled, and superimposed upon a contrived landscape. If the work is still a 'student' piece, already Renoir's heightened personal response to female sensuality is present. The model was Lise Tr??hot, then the artist's mistress and inspiration for a number of paintings.
In the late 1860s, through the practice of painting light and water en plein air (in the open air), he and his friend Claude Monet discovered that the color of shadows is not brown or black, but the reflected color of the objects surrounding them. Several pairs of paintings exist in which Renoir and Monet, working side-by-side, depicted the same scenes (La Grenouill??re, 1869).
One of the best known Impressionist works is Renoir's 1876 Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette (Le Bal au Moulin de la Galette). The painting depicts an open-air scene, crowded with people, at a popular dance garden on the Butte Montmartre, close to where he lived.
On the Terrace, oil on canvas, 1881, Art Institute of ChicagoThe works of his early maturity were typically Impressionist snapshots of real life, full of sparkling colour and light. By the mid 1880s, however, he had broken with the movement to apply a more disciplined, formal technique to portraits and figure paintings, particularly of women, such as The Bathers, which was created during 1884-87. It was a trip to Italy in 1881, when he saw works by Raphael and other Renaissance masters, that convinced him that he was on the wrong path, and for the next several years he painted in a more severe style, in an attempt to return to classicism. This is sometimes called his "Ingres period", as he concentrated on his drawing and emphasized the outlines of figures.
After 1890, however, he changed direction again, returning to the use of thinly brushed color which dissolved outlines as in his earlier work. From this period onward he concentrated especially on monumental nudes and domestic scenes, fine examples of which are Girls at the Piano, 1892, and Grandes Baigneuses, 1918-19. The latter painting is the most typical and successful of Renoir's late, abundantly fleshed nudes.
A prolific artist, he made several thousand paintings. The warm sensuality of Renoir's style made his paintings some of the most well-known and frequently-reproduced works in the history of art.. Related Paintings of Pierre Renoir :. | The judgment of Paris | Girl with Flowers | Nymph by a Stream | Young Girl Seated | Christine Lerolle |
Related Artists:Francesco Hayez
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Hayez came from a relatively poor family from Venice. His father was of French origin while his mother, Chiara Torcella, was from Murano. The child Francesco, youngest of five sons, was brought up by his mother sister, who had married Giovanni Binasco, a well-off shipowner and collector of art. From childhood he showed a predisposition for drawing, so his uncle apprenticed him to an art restorer. Later he became a student of the painter Francisco Magiotto with whom he continued his studies for three years. He was admitted to the painting course of the New Academy of Fine Arts in 1806, where he studied under Teodoro Matteini. In 1809 he won a competition from the Academy of Venice for one year of study at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. He remained in Rome until 1814, then moved to Naples where he was commissioned by Joachim Murat to paint a major work depicting Ulysses at the court of Alcinous. In the mid 1830s he attended the Salotto Maffei salon in Milan, hosted by Clara Maffei (whose portrait Hayez painted for her husband), and he was still in Milan in 1850 when he was appointed director of the Academy of Brera there.
Assessment of the career of Hayez is complicated by the fact that he often did not sign or date his works. Often the date indicated from the evidence is that at which the work was acquired or sold, not of its creation. Moreover he often painted the same compositions several times with minimal variations, or even with no variation. His early works show the influence of Ingres and the Nazarene movement. His later work participates in the Classical revival.Karl von Piloty
Karl Theodor von Piloty (1 October 1826 - 21 July 1886) was a German painter.
Von Piloty was born in Munich. His father, Ferdinand Piloty (d. 1844), enjoyed a great reputation as a lithographer. In 1840, Karl was admitted as a student of the Munich Academy, under the artists Karl Schorn and Julius Schnorr von Karolsfeld. After a journey to Belgium, France and England, he commenced work as a painter of genre pictures, and in 1853 produced a work, Die Amme (The Wet Nurse), which, on account of its originality of style, caused a considerable sensation in Germany at the time.
But he soon forsook this branch of painting in favour of historical subjects, and produced in 1854 for King Maximilian II The Accession of Maximilian I to the Catholic League in 1609. It was succeeded by Seni at the Dead Body of Wallenstein (1855), which gained for the young painter the membership of the Munich Academy, where he succeeded Schorn (his brother-in-law) as professor.
Among other well-known works by Piloty are the Battle of the White Mountain near Prague, Nero Dancing upon the Ruins of Rome (1861), Godfrey of Bouillon on a Pilgrimage to the Holy Land (1861), Galileo in Prison (1864) and The Death of Alexander the Great (unfinished), his last great work. He also executed a number of mural paintings for the royal palace in Munich.
For Baron von Schach, he painted the famous Discovery of America. In 1874, he was appointed keeper of the Munich Academy, being afterwards ennobled by the king of Bavaria. Piloty was the foremost representative of the realistic school in Germany. He was a successful teacher, and among his more famous pupils were Hans Makart, Franz von Lenbach, Franz Defregger, Gabriel von Max, Georgios Jakobides and Eduard von Gretzner.Pierre-Narcisse Guerin
(13 May 1774 - 6 July 1833) was a French painter.
Guerin was born in Paris.
A pupil of Jean-Baptiste Regnault, he carried off one of the three grands prix offered in 1796, in consequence of the competition not having taken place since 1793. In 1799, his painting Marcus Sextus (Louvre) was exhibited at the Salon and excited wild enthusiasm. Part of this was due to the subject - a victim of Sulla's proscription returning to Rome to find his wife dead and his house in mourning - in which an allusion was found to the turmoil of the French Revolution.
Guerin on this occasion was publicly crowned by the president of the Institute, and went to Rome to study under Joseph-Benoît Suvee. In 1800, unable to remain in Rome on account of his health, he went to Naples, where he painted the Grave of Amyntas. In 1802 Guerin produced Phaedra and Hippolytus (Louvre); in 1810, after his return to Paris, he again achieved a great success with Andromache and Pyrrhus (Louvre); and in the same year also exhibited Cephalus and Aurora (Louvre) and Bonaparte and the Rebels of Cairo (Versailles). These paintings suited the popular taste of the First Empire, being highly melodramatic and pompously dignified.
The Restoration brought to Guerin fresh honours; he had received from the first consul in 1803 the cross of the Legion of Honour, and in 1815 Louis XVIII named to the Academie des Beaux-Arts. His style changed to accord with popular taste. In Aeneas Relating to Dido the Disasters of Troy (Louvre), Guerin adopted a more sensuous, picturesque style.
Guerin was commissioned to paint for the Madeleine a scene from the history of St Louis, but his health prevented him from accomplishing what he had begun, and in 1822 he accepted the post of director of the French Academy in Rome, which in 1816 he had refused. On returning to Paris in 1828, Guerin, who had previously been made chevalier of the order of St. Michel, was ennobled. He now attempted to complete Pyrrhus and Priam, a work which he had begun at Rome, but in vain; his health had finally broken down, and in the hope of improvement he returned to Italy with Horace Vernet. Shortly after his arrival at Rome Baron Guerin died, on the 6th of July 1833, and was buried in the church of La Trinite de Monti by the side of Claude Lorrain.


This interesting oil painting was done by Russian / American artist Ruth Levine Gikow (1915-1982). Gikow was born in the Russian Ukraine and emigrated to New York City at a young age, where she eventually became well known for her figurative expression paintings in public and private collections all over the country. Oil on panel, signed lower right, and housed in a painted wooden textured frame. Dimensions: 13 ½” h x 9 ½” w, sight; 19 ¾” h x 16” w, framed.
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Hi there, I have a rather angelic tag to share this week featuring Donna’s beautiful Serena stamp set and I have a rather quirky way to use the heart shaped balloon in the set which I hope you’ll like.
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The first thing I did was to give the tag a coat of gesso as this makes the further layers much easier to apply. When this was dry, I applied the Banana, Cherry Blossom and Wisteria paints with an old store card, scraping on patches of each colour in turn until the surface was roughly covered. I then added swipes on top using the side of the store card with Bubblegum paint.
I then added stencilling in patches using the Blue Calico paint with the Large Circles Background and the Banana paint with the Circles Background partially over the top of the blue circles. I used the hearts stencil at the top with the Bubblegum paint and knocked the colour back a little with gesso as it was a bit stronger than I wanted. I added a few swipes of gesso over the painted surface to bring everything together.
I decided on the placement of the girl image and balloon and stamped them directly on the painted tag with the black ink. This was to help avoid tricky cutting out as my eyesight isn’t up to it anymore! It has the added advantage of giving dimension too.
I next stamped the girl, balloon heart and 2 extra plain hearts without strings onto mixed media paper with black ink. I stamped the love text on the balloon, as happily it’s a perfect fit. I then painted all the images with various of the paints listed aiming for stronger shades than the background for contrast. I painted the 2 plain hearts and the dangling heart with glitter glue over the top of pink paint for a touch of sparkle.
I cut out all of the images except for the balloon string and the curly bit in Serena’s hair then added them to the tag over the stamped images with a mix of foam tape and glue to give dimension. As you can see, the heart shaped balloon minus the string makes a great single heart or even a pair of wings! I finished off with a couple of rows of pink crochet ribbon from my stash.
Have a great weekend and see you next week.


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Giuseppe Arcimboldo was known fro his symbolical and allegorical portraits which heavily rely on the use of objects, symbols and fruits. Summer is one of the four paintings that was part of his Four Seasons collection. In this painting, the artist personified the season of summer by painting fruits and vegetables and other lush objects to form a person, facing sideways, wearing a golden summer suit. While this style was not an original, Arcimboldo certainly made it his own. Now the artist’s name has been associated with weird-looking portraits of persons made of fruits.
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Shawn Demarest is an oil painter focusing on the Northern New Mexico landscapeMessage
From September - December I was an artist in residence in Taos. It was remarkable and fruitful. I was one of a cohort of 12 other creatives. The thickets paintings are from the view outside the studios HUGE window. The paintings I created varied in approach. Color studies, plein air, memory and from photos I took. All informing one another.


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Stafford Street Dunedin - Miniature painting No.3
Its been a productive week in the land of tiny houses....here is number 3 of 4 paintings of houses on Stafford Street, Dunedin, Otago. I do miss having paintings with a sea/landscape view, but these old houses are quite majestic on their own too.


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Art 2 Final Portfolio
Friday, September 7, 2012
Describe your overall thoughts on the final piece.
It looks very nice and the shading gives it that 3D look. The oil pastels shade very well and make it look like there is light coming from the other direction.
How successful do you feel this piece is and why?
I feel like it is going to be successful and the piece will stand out.
What worked about this project? What didn’t work?
The shading came out very nice and the colors look good together.
On the other hand the back round looks werid though
If you were to do this project over again, what changes would you consider making?
The backround looks wired and the two colors look wired
What did you learn from this piece?
That shading makes stuff look very nice and many different colors look well togther.
What was the most difficult part about completing this piece and why?
Finding wich colors work and wich don't.
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The body color is Miller Paint color Bermuda Grass #8142W.
Combo of grey roof white trim and both painted and cedar siding
natural shingle above, painted clapboards below, open rail at pergola
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color green and creame and light cedar shakes
Hand in hand with a change in color is a change in texture. Different materials just tend to want to be finished in different ways. Flatter, more planar stucco wants to be bright and lively, while more heavily textured
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cool, restrained, even sterile, but it is versatile, too, and, thanks to its pale tones, can make friends with all kinds of different materials and colours. Here, a piece of modern art and a moody shade of blue-grey on the walls gives this cool marble fire surround a strongly modern feel.
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What color paint are the cabinets? Great white!
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have that--We have a lot of colors mixed custom depending on what paint we want to use.
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nice backsplash in a diff color
green backsplash and paint color very soothing and organic
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different types of glass you can select from. Good luck!
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have all the details on it anymore. It's a Benjamin Moore color, a very dark ebony brown.
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area ASAP but will have to work towards replacing sofa and oversized chair. Any suggestions from you is welcomed and so appreciated. I am willing to paint furniture remove TV cabinet doors, cover sofa whatever it takes to make it presentable. Thank you
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at the big tub of paint that they left for us and it looks like the color is Pittsburgh Paints Gypsum 520-1: ... Hope that helps.
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Canvas painted with acrylic paint and gel mediums. Calligraphy painted with24k Gold ink. 12x16 inches Pictured. Can be customized by color and size. Message me for prices and sizes!
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Opening Saturday, September 15, 2007
Susan Jamison: Trust in Me
Solo exhibition of new paintings in egg tempera on panel. In Trust in Me, Susan Jamison’s second solo exhibition at Irvine Contemporary, the artist presents a new series of egg tempera paintings that extend her signature approach to the female figure through provocative new imagery on dark tempera grounds. Jamison uses large-scale panels to depict fantasy worlds that appear both timeless and of our own moment. Jamison combines two classic forms: the portrait, in a traditional Renaissance profile position, and panels reminiscent of Audubon and naturalist illustration and Asian art forms. The exquisitely rendered details in the paintings evoke a magical realism that balances naturalism with strikingly original allegories of the feminine.
Courtney Jordan: Restructuring
Solo exhibition of new paintings and drawings on mylar.
For Restructuring, Courtney Jordan, who first exhibited with Irvine Contemporary in last year’s Introductions2 show, presents a new series of drawings in ink and graphite on mylar that reconceive architectural forms and structures from the human built environment. Jordan’s subtle but complex works employ recognizable details of built structures and urban industrial infrastructure that are encoded with social and emotional values. Indeed, Jordan has created a new poetics of architectural form.
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Jamie Wyeth's grandfather, N.C. Wyeth was an illustrator; his father is the renowned realist painter Andrew Wyeth. The youngest Wyeth tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross about the various ways he honed his craft -- without a formal art school education.
Painter Jamie Wyeth is the son of painter Andrew Wyeth and the grandson of painter and illustrator N. C. Wyeth. The youngest Wyeth is known for his work inspired by Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, the Brandywine River, and Maine, as well as his portraits. The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is celebrating its 175th anniversary, and its closing exhibit showcases Wyeth's work.


Annie Smits Sandano
Printmaking and painting
I work across a variety of fine art mediums, adapting traditional fine art practices to a contemporary context.
Following a highly coveted collection of limited edition wood cut prints, I have recently embarked on a series of colourful geometric abstract painted compositions and ceramics. My new works, which I began creating in my London studio, see figurative elements combined with geometric and organic shapes in freeform arrangements with eruptions of colour and texture. Elements overlap, interact, jostle for space and achieve harmony in co-existence.
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Ernie Heinemanns Fine Art Paintings
About the Artist
My name is Ernie Heinemann. I have been painting for many years in various areas of subject matter using acrylic and oil paints, along with colored pencils.
My latest direction includes painting wildlife. I see so much emotion and color within the animals combined with scenic backdrops that helps bring the animals to life.
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19th Belgian school oil on canvas signed Charles Hubert Denis Boland (1850-?). The work has texture to the touch.
A dog portrait is composed using swift, compact, textured brushstrokes. The outlines are accurate and lifelike. Light is a prominent element in this artwork, accentuating the head and the back of the body. Despite a somewhat gentle gaze, the piece conveys a feeling of contained power through the dark alley, the pointed collar, a few visible teeth, and the proud, rigid posture. This work departs from the tranquil and idyllic aesthetic found in Charles Hubert Denis Boland's interior animal scenes.
About the artist:
Charles Hubert Denis Boland, a Belgian painter born in 1855 in Spa (in the Ardennes region), began his artistic journey in 1878 at the Antwerp Academy. Two years later, he exhibited his works at the Antwerp Salon and in Brussels. His portfolio encompassed genre scenes, landscapes, and portraits, but it was his animal paintings that brought him acclaim, a subject he explored alongside others in his earlier years. In 1883, he co-founded the Circle Als Ik Kan ("If I can") with fellow young artists in Antwerp, providing a platform for discussing their craft and finding exhibition opportunities.
The circle gained recognition, regularly showcasing his works in prominent Belgian Salons. They also participated in the General Exhibition of Fine Arts in Brussels in 1892 and the Triennial Salon of Fine Arts in Brussels in 1903.
Around the turn of the 20th century, he established his studio in Rixensart, near Brussels, before his trail grew faint. Boland left a lasting imprint on his era and the tradition of indoor animal paintings, particularly scenes featuring dogs and farm animals, always executed with precision and tenderness.
- Overall size: 18.5" x 22" / 47cm x 56cm.
- Size without the frame: 14.5" x 18.1" / 37.5cm x 46cm.
- Country: Belgium.
- Signed: Charles Hubert Denis Boland (1850-?).
- Date: Late 19th century.
- Condition: The canvas has veins and cracks but remains protected by its varnish. The frame has some impacts and small gilding restorations.
- Materials: Oil on canvas with a wood and stucco frame.
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Picking the right paint colors for your home can be a tough decision. As homeowners, you’re representing a part of yourself through your home, and paint colors really do set the tone for the rooms. The ability to make a room look fashionable comes with experience and creativity. At ottawa commercial painters, we know that the kinds of paint colors your choose should reflect the mood and mix well with the furniture in the room.
Some things to ask yourself are:
What purpose does this room serve?
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How is the lighting? Natural?
It may not always been the paint on the walls that catches the person’s attention, maybe a painted peice of furniture would serve a purpose. The best way to pick a great paint color is to bring a small sample of the paint home, and paint a patch of the wall to see how it will look when combined with your lighting and furniture in the room


Paul Giovanni Wickson was born in Toronto,Ontario in 1858. In 1872 he moved to England with his father wehre he studied art.
In 1884 he returned to Canada settling in Paris, Ontario where he had a personal studio.
Wickson often painted wildlife, portraits, and landscape scenes. Horses were a popular subject of his.
He was a member of The Royal Canadiam Academy.
He died in 1922.


Förg was employed as a house painter when he began to make art in 1973. For his first work, Ohne Titel, the artist rubbed anthracite paint onto a black ground with a sponge; the painting could be read as a refutation of the domineering impact of the New York School on abstract art. In contrast to the monumental canvases favoured by American Abstract Expressionists, Förg preferred to paint on panels of wood and lead, thereby emphasising the materiality of the artwork’s medium. Drawing inspiration from Frank Stella and Blinky Palermo, Förg posited painting as one form of expression among many, rather than the window into spirituality promised by Mark Rothko's and Barnett Newman’s colour fields. In his envisioning of painting’s continued development after Abstract Expressionism, Förg has much in common with Gerhard Richter, who sought to eliminate the artist’s hand through his use of the squeegee. The present work, painted early in the artist's career, shares a muted palette and introspective atmosphere with Richter’s Grey Paintings from the same period.
Despite Förg’s desire to avoid artistic handwriting in his paintings, his oeuvre is undeniably an autobiography of his experiences in urban Germany. As writer Cees Nooteboom explains: “Artists are flâneurs, even if they do not write. They are responsible for the preservation of memory, they are the observers of disappearance, they are the first to herald disaster, they do not miss even the smallest detail, they belong to the city and the city could not be imagined without them. They are the city’s eyes, recorders, chroniclers, judges and archives. It is in the flâneur that the city can seek and find its self awareness” (Cees Nooteboom cited in: Exh. Cat., Hanover, Kunstverein Hannover, Günther Förg, 1995, p. 123). Förg’s painting series bear resemblance to the wall panels of architecture and structures inhabiting the city: some under construction and yet to be painted, others weathered and awaiting demolition. The panels of Veronese Green, possessing the hues of oxidised copper, look as if they were made from metal. They remind viewers of the rusted walls of derelict houses and factories populating European cities after World War II.
Hailing from the early period of the artist’s career, Veronese Green evinces the emphatic nature of Förg’s artistry and stylistic ingenuity. The present painting, in its minimal abstraction and rich materiality, embodies Förg’s efforts at revitalising expressive painting and testifies to the artist’s links to German Neo-Expressionists like Gerhard Richter and Imi Knoebel. Executed in a series of panels, the work attests to Förg’s unique application of Modernist-inspired formalism to the in-depth investigation of urban architecture.
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Carol Rhodes, the Glasgow-based painter known for her distinctive, imaginary oil on board landscapes, has died of motor neurone disease. She was 59-years-old and had been diagnosed with the disease in 2013.
Born in Edinburgh and brought up in Bengal, Rhodes returned to the UK as a teenager and in 1977 moved to Glasgow to study at the city’s art school, graduating in 1982.
An early committee member of the artist-run Transmission Gallery from 1986, she went on to teach at Glasgow School of Art from the mid-1990s to 2015.
Rhodes’ paintings depict aerial views of almost-real spaces, often combining a sense of both the industrial and the rural – the kind of unglamourous hinterland that modern living creates, with its car parks, airports, motorways and quarries.
While conjuring a strong sense of the infrastructure that holds together our world, her paintings also convey a feeling of distance – of being both connected and disconnected at the same time.
Writing in 2007, the critic Tom Lubbock said of her work: “Carol Rhodes invents. She makes up parts of the works, conceives them, constructs them, composes them, without compunction. But her fictions are both free and unfree.”
Rhodes began her painting practice in earnest in 1990 after a five-year gap. In 1994 her work featured in the ‘New Art in Scotland’ exhibition at Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts, and from 1997 she began showing at the Andrew Mummery Gallery in London. Her first solo show was in 1998.
In 2007 Rhodes had a well-received mid-career retrospective at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. In 2017 an exhibition of her paintings took place at The MAC, Belfast. Due to her illness, she was unable to see it.
In 2012, with her partner the painter Merlin James, she set up an occasional gallery space at 42 Carlton Place in Glasgow.
In April this year, a monograph of Rhodes work was published by Skira, featuring over 40 of her paintings, a number of drawings, an interview with the artist, and texts by curator Lynda Morris and critic Moira Jeffrey.
In her obituary for the Glasgow Herald, Jeffrey said of Rhodes: “Tall, austerely beautiful, charismatic and soft-spoken, Rhodes embodied the life of the independent artist and determined dedication to her chosen path.
“She was radical in her politics, meticulous in her artistic focus and painterly skills, furiously dedicated to her studio practice and thoughtful in speech. She carried these qualities in her art, her everyday life and teaching work.”
1. Carol Rhodes, Roads, Buildings (night), 2013, Oil on board, 51 x 53.5 cm
2. Carol Rhodes, Development Centre and Roads, 2010, Oil on board, 50 x 70 cm
3. Carol Rhodes, pictured at Howrah Station, Bengal, 2012
4. Carol Rhodes, River, Roads, 2013, Oil on board, 50 x 57 cm
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"North Coast Waves" in San Luis Obispo County
San Luis Obisbo County coastal landscape of their powerful rugged and dramatic waves.
Original Oil on Canvas - 16"x 48"_____$2850.00
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oil on mdf panel - 6 x 16 inches
painted on location - Tues. 15 April 2014
The wind is playing a major role in this painting. It was blowing really hard on this little panoramic view, as is evident by looking at those banners on the poles just in front of that beach cafe. As you can see the seagulls just love it! All they have to do is spread their wings and the wind sways them along so graciously.


Before you wield your brush to re-decorate, we have some ideas to inspire you to think about paint differently.
Paint is probably the easiest and most cost-effective way to make a big impact in a room. Paint offers you almost endless options when it comes to giving your space a brand new look. From bold brights to barely there neutrals, accent walls to stripes.
Draw the line
Dado rails may be making a come back, but you can add interest to walls without the heavy DIY. By painting the lower half (under where there would be a dado rail) in one shade, and the other half in a contrasting shade. Continue across door ways for a dynamic look.
Add an accent wall
This old chestnut really does create bold impact and can change the mood of a room. The best option is to choose a wall without doors or windows. For high impact choose a strong colour, be brave and go for an experimental colour, it’s easy to paint over if you fancy a change.
Play with stripes
Think about whether you want classic vertical stripes, which make a room feel taller; or horizontal stripes, which elongate the room and are a more contemporary option. Choose the stripe width carefully, wider stripes feel more modern, narrow stripes are more subtle. Neutral stripes will blend into the background a little more easily without dominating the space.
Create a frame
Make your stencil really stand out by painting a panel in a bold or contrasting colour to the main, base wall shade and use the panel as a frame for your stencil design. The panel will add a more formal feel for a living room or dining room. Choose a long, vertical stencil design to add a sense of height to your room.
Make it restful
The rich, warm-grey walls in this dining area makes the space feel relaxed. By painting the architectural details such as the fireplace, skirting and door frame in pale lilac is an unexpected alternative to white. Contrast the chalky, matt textures of the walls with shiny highlights such as ceramics or glossy furniture.
Have fun with colour
Identify a starting point and find colour inspiration from a wallpaper or fabric design and build your colour scheme around it. Introduce an extra flash of colour with wall lights, painted picture frames or even painted wood work. If you can’t find the shade for you, Valspar can create any colour you want.
Turn cupboards into a feature
Built-in cupboards or wardrobes don’t have to blend into the background. Painted in a fun candy-pink, this wall of concealed storage gives the traditional style mouldings a contemporary twist. Blur the lines between walls and cupboards by mounting a clock or picture frames.
Create a feature in a plain room
Add features and interest in a plain box room using paint, add a finishing flourish with a decorative moulding painted in the border to match. By giving internal doors a painted border you can also introduce strong colour in small doses.


2023 saw a new adventure for my art.
My new Miniature Hand painted furniture has been very popular in 2023 Each piece is a One of a kind, Hand painted Miniature Furniture Art.
An example is this Hand painted Art on Furniture Dollhouse Welsh dresser and hand painted plates. A shabby chic style this piece of unique 1:12th scale furniture has tiny plates I painted and then aged to give a beautiful compliment to the shabby chic style.
I have bought the wooden dresser, distressed it by rubbing down and adding gold wax then I painted my art, pretty rose style flowers on as a painted design in my Encaustic wax paints.
This dresser is available to buy in my Etsy Store. The plates are included I painted them with my encaustic paint. They are paper plates I bought from an online miniature supplier. This is a very Unique original art furniture for a dollhouse collector.


Cherry Blossom Moon - Date Night
Saturday, August 19
8:00 - 10:00PM
This painting will bring spring into your homes and add interest with the staggered canvases.
Date Night Painting - you paint one half, your date paints the other - 2 Canvases = 1 Painting!
Pinot’s Palette is a pioneer of the paint and sip experience – a revolutionary way to enjoy art and wine, meet new people and bond with friends.
Guests enjoy a no-experience-required art class—all supplies included—directed by trained, local artists, who guide guests step-by-step through a featured painting.


The Menhaden Mural
Through the month of April I will be painting a 3-story mural on the north side of the Beacon Motel in Lewes, Delaware. The historical mural will depict a scene from the Menhaden fishing industry set in the 1940's. I have created an original acrylic painting to show the lighting and palette. A limited quantity of reproductions on paper and canvas are available at Peninsula Gallery to help fund the mural project.
"First Catch" 24 x 30 acrylic on canvas Original painting available at Peninsula Gallery
Reproductions available: 16 x 20 Reproduction on Archival Paper - $150 (Open Edition)
24 x 30 Reproduction on Stretched Canvas - $395 (Edition of 25)
A rendition showing what the mural will look like.


Introduction: The Beginning of a New Era
Though the Renaissance Era was represented by a range of various artists, who seemed to follow the principles introduced by da Vinci and Michelangelo quite closely, there is only one person, who has practically become a household name, became the representation of the era.
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Creating a range of artworks and developing his own original style by adding the concept of harmony into the theory of art that was followed at the time, he stood out of the rest of artists. Despite the fact that, in contrast to the tendency to experiment in his early works, Raphael was obviously following the staples of his own genre at the end of his career, his influence in the development of the Renaissance painting is not to be underrated.
Although the style that Rafael developed over the course of his evolution as an artist was influenced greatly by the works of Leonardo da Vinci in terms of composition and technical expression and Michelangelo in that the latter defined a entirely new portrayal of human body in his sculptures, Rafael managed to not only blend the two styles into one, but also develop several unique characteristics, including the color cast harmony and a compositional balance, which led to the creation of an original style, which would later define the era of Renaissance and make Rafael’s artworks the representation of the epoch.
Following into the Footsteps of the Great Masters: The Influence of Michelangelo and da Vinci. The Umbrian Period
The earliest works of Raphael show clearly where he drew his inspiration from. Not that these works were unoriginal – far from it; however, they still lent a lot of their key features from the creations of da Vinci and Michelangelo. Taking one of Raphael’s most famous and well remembered works, Madonna and Child with the Book, as an example, one will notice inevitably that it shares a range of features with the paintings that da Vinci was so well known for.
For example, the color cast and the choice of the form point clearly at the fact that Raphael studied the technique that Mona Lisa was painted with very closely. However, even at this stage of his artistic progress, he managed to introduce new elements into the existing styles by “capturing the characters of his sitters” (Adams 350).
The similarities between da Vinci’s and Raphael’s approaches towards expressing their vision and depicting the Renaissance reality as they saw it can be traced easily when comparing da Vinci’s Mona Lisa to some of Raphael’s other early works. More to the point, these were not only the line work and the color cast that defined these similarities. The realization of the obvious link between the works of the two artists may come as one compares the very posture of Raphael’s numerous Madonnas to da Vinci’s “swan song.”
For example, the main character in Lady with the Unicorn clearly strikes the same pose as Mona Lisa in da Vinci’s painting; the same can be applied to the Portrait of Maddalena Doni and several other works of the Renaissance artist (Paintings During the Stay in Florence (1505-06) para. 15).
The aesthetics of a range of Raphael’s works of this period also bar a very distinct resemblance to the one of Michelangelo’s sculptures. Though not as obvious as the similarities between da Vinci’s and Raphael’s creations, the details that coincide in Raphael’s and Michelangelo’s artworks also give a lot of food for thoughts.
It is remarkable that Michelangelo and Raphael were rivals at the time. Nevertheless – or, perhaps, as a result of their rivalry – they shared a lot of common elements in their artworks, and especially in their manner of expression. The similarities in Michelangelo’s and Raphael’s works, however, did not end with the stylistics and overall aesthetics of the paintings. Much like Michelangelo, Raphael seemed to be inclined to create his own istoria (Adams 338), which resulted in an unusual representation of the traditional Biblical concepts.
For example, the human body sculpture, which Raphael follows very closely in each of his paintings, especially in the creation of the numerous Madonnas, such as the Madonna del Cardellino, shows the tendency for Raphael to experiment with his characters’ poses and use poses as one of the means of artistic expression; for example, some of his works feature a character that “reverses the pose of Michelangelo’s David” (Adams 328).
The heritage that Michelangelo left for Raphael, however, is not as impressive as the one of da Vinci. Though some of the artworks created by the two artists did have a number of points of contact, the impact that da Vinci had left on Rafael was still too strong for Michelangelo to overshadow it.
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It would be wrong to assume that Raphael only blended the two styles without adding anything g of his own to them; instead, he worked very hard on both his technique and the expressivity of his work, creating the pieces of art that were literally packed with metaphors and allusions.
As soon as Raphael went to Rome after being invited to work on the Sistine Chapel, he displayed two scenes from the Old Testament, making a range of alterations to the traditional narrative. The assimilation and synthesis of several Biblical stories was an entirely new approach at the time, which allowed Raphael to gain an easily recognizable and very distinct style.
Another example, The Stanza Della Segnatura, which can be considered one of his major works in Rome, can also be viewed as another step towards developing a truly unique artistic style (The Stanza Della Segnatura para. 1). It was obvious that Raphael was experimenting with form and line, at the same time trying to fit in a range of Biblical allusions into his work.
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The famous Galatea, which appeared only a few years later, also featured the same approach.
Perhaps, one of the greatest changes that Raphael underwent as an artist and which contributed the most to the evolution of a new and unique style, concerned Raphael’s refusal to work with bright colors, which he preferred in the early stage of his artistic growth. Indeed, comparing the Parnassus, which heralded the era of the beginning of Raphael’s artistic journey, to such an artwork as Psyche Received on Olympus, one will notice that the color palette used by the artist shrank considerably.
Though the refusal to abandon bright colors was not complete, and even some of the latest works by Raphael featured very peculiar combinations of colors, for the most part, his works became rather restrained in terms of color cast and the use of bright and saturated palettes for rendering the idea behind the artwork.
Where the Journey Ends: Coining a New Manner of Artistic Expression
The latest works created by Raphael show clearly that he had found his niche by the time that he became a renowned artist. The aforementioned Sistine Chapel is a very graphic example of how Raphael’s vision of art changed throughout his own evolution as an artist and an original thinker; for instance, the Last Judgment Altar, which, according to the existing historical records, was not completed until 1520 (Adams 337).
The painting invites the viewer into the surreal world of the supposed Biblical event of the same name, and it does so in a very peculiar manner. Rafael’s tendency to avoid combinations of numerous colors in the same artwork reaches its peak in this work of art – the entire fresco is monochromatic. As a result, the focus is entirely on the Last Judgment and its participants, which allows for a closer analysis of Raphael’s interpretation of this event.
In addition, it would be erroneous to assume that da Vinci and Michelangelo were the only artists, whose creations Raphael drew his inspiration from. Apart from analyzing the artworks of his contemporaries, he also paid close attention to the way in which his predecessors worked on perfecting the tools for artistic expression.
For example, Villa Madama, and especially the interior of the loggia, was inspired by the works of Nero’s architects: “This was inspired by the ruins of Nero’s Golden House that had come to light in the early years of the sixteenth century” (Adams 355).
Conclusion: Influence and Followers
Though the era of Raphael’s’ influence on the Renaissance painting was rather short, the artist still defined the further stylistic evolution of the Renaissance by showing that art could be used for not only representing the traditional Biblical scenes and fables, but also offering the viewers the author’s unique interpretation of these events. Moreover, Raphael showed that it was actually possible to blend several metaphors into an original idea.
Despite the fact that the influence of two key artists of the Renaissance Era, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, was very strong in Raphael’s works at first, as the artist gained new experiences and developed new skills, he managed to conjure an entirely new style by assembling the elements of the artistic expression tools used by Michelangelo and da Vinci and including them into his own vision of art as a means to provide new interpretations of the traditional Biblical narratives and characters.
Raphael was one of the few artists who were capable of reconsidering their vision of methods of artistic expression; though he had chosen a very distinct and rather bright color palette at first, he was finally convinced by the examples of da Vinci and Michelangelo that a more composed color cast was more appropriate for rendering the ideas related to the Biblical stories and characters.
Thus, the artworks kept the focus on the message behind them without distracting the viewer. Clearly one of the most influential people of the renaissance Era, Raphael became an accomplished artist comparatively fast and left a massive heritage for the followers to admire and mimic.
Adams, Laurie Schneider. Italian Renaissance Art. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. 2013. Print.
Paintings During the Stay in Florence (1505-06). Web.
The Stanza Della Segnatura. Web.


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Of course you can paint your robot with non-hazardous coatings. What leads you to believe you can’t paint your shipping crate?
what the point of a crate then if u cant show off and paint it i seen in the past many team and the cheasapeake and long island that have their painted our team just doent havent time to decorate it and be creative were devotedx to robot then maybe decorate
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The paintings of Santi Moix, a Barcelonan now living in New York, are devoted to traditional modernist virtues: to the sensual pleasures of paint and color and the metaphorical possibilities of nonrepresentational forms. But they're animated as well by a spirit of funky insouciance.
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Paul Cezanne is one of the most famous French artists of the 20th century. His works and ideas were influenced by impressionism. Although his work was misunderstood and rejected by the people of his time, his reputation increased both for the way he created a painting through what his eyes saw in nature and for his unique quality of painting art which he achieved through color, space and mass. Through thorough inspection of Paul Cezanne’s watercolor-like oil painting titled Rocks in the Forest one can examine the characteristics of the Modern period otherwise known as Impressionism. This painting dates from 1839-1906, it location is known as the Forest of Fontainebleau, where Cezanne worked on most of his painting around 1894. According to the text panel, which accompanies the painting, another suggestion was that this picture was also painted near Aix-en-Provence.
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