Oil on panel, 12″ x 12″ framed in custom white floater frames.
bright moment ~ 36 in x 24 in
cad yel light, cad yel deep, Ital. pompeii red, cad red vermillion, ultramarine blue, cerulean blue, Mars black, tit zn white, cold wax medium — painted over an older landscape painting — trowel and brushes used
untitled abstract ~ 64 in. x 54 in.
untitled
Palette notes:
titanium zinc white, cadmium yellow light, cadmium red medium, ultramarine blue, burnt umber
Painting process: The board was brushed with Gamsol then a gray mixture was painted into the Gamsol. The painting was completed a la prima.
walkers
Palette notes: titanium zinc white, cadmium yellow pale, cadmium red medium, ultramarine blue, burnt umber The very darkest color is ultramarine blue + burnt umber. The background dark green is the previous mixture with yellow added. This painting was done over a grey oil wash (to tone the board) which was dry before beginning the painting.
blue heron – digital
mauve woods
The solvent ran in the background creating ghosts of trees… a happy accident.
fall woods
palette : titanium zinc white, cad yel light, cad red med, quin mag, ultramarine blue, burnt umber. panel tinted a rose color before starting. Browns made by combining (yel + red) + (ultra bl + quin mag). Burnt umber + ultra bl combo just for darkest.
walking the dogs
The reference photo and some stages are included.
Colors used: Italian yellow ochre, ultramarine blue, cadmium red medium and burnt umber.
Faint Sun ~ 48″ x 36″ oil
minimal landscape
I painted this one yesterday in one shot. I never intended it to be this minimal, but something is telling me to stop. This photo was taken under studio lights, unfortunately. It’s been a dark and rainy week here. Colors used: Italian yellow ochre, ultramarine blue, burnt umber and titanium zinc oxide. All Williamsburg brand paints.
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oil study on paper
I tried a new product today… a paper made by Arches that is for oil painting. I enjoyed it and look forward to trying more with it. My only slight problem with it is that you can’t wipe paint off completely like you can with gessobords. The paint soaks into the paper.
City 2 ~ 44″ x 44″
study
untitled (2)
untitled
untitled (14/2)
untitled (14/1)
lake (14/2)
silent lake
Dead of Winter ~ oil study
Fire and Ice
Blue Skies ~~ 9″ x 12″
Fall Prairie
Horizon
2 new monochromes
turning 40″ x 50″ (sold)
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quiet pond 6″ x 6″
great blue — 6″ x 6″
Most of the orange grasses in the background were made by scratching through the paint (sgraffito) back to the orange undertone. I also scratched through in the water in several areas. My new favorite palette now is: titanium zinc white, cadmium yellow hansa (or light), cadmium red vermillion, quinacridone magenta, phthalo blue (new – I eliminated sevres blue), and ultramarine blue. I like the simplicity of just 5 colors plus white.
wild wetland 3 — 6″ x 6″
wild wetland 2 — 6″ x 6″
A Great Blue Heron hunting. Photo included. I got a bit more wild with the colors : )
Don’t miss the white egret on the right. He kept moving away from the Great Blue.
wild wetland 6″ x 6″
prairie wild 6″ x 6″
© Anita C. Miller
There were so many tall yellow daisy like flowers that day. Most were over my head! I used the edge of the palette knife to put in these stems. At first I was careful, but in the end it all came out a bit abstract expressionist : )
wild wetland — 6″ x 6″
Scene from Alaska while traveling by train through wilderness.
wilderness paintings (untitled) a + b
This was a little experiment to see how two paintings of the same subject would vary when painted one after the other.
wilderness with black spruce 6″ x 6″
wilderness from the bus 4 — 9″ x 12″
with photo reference.
wilderness from the bus 3 — 8″ x 10″
with photo reference
wilderness from the bus 2a + 2b 8″ x 10″
two paintings with photo reference.
wilderness from the bus 8″ x 10″
Can any painter do anything blurry without thinking of Gerhard Richter?
through the wilderness by rail 6″ x 6″
wilderness 3 (moose) 6″ x 6″
wilderness 2 — 9″ x 12″
wilderness 6″ x 6″
backlit clouds 6″ x 6″
mountaintop 6″ x 6″
Denali caribou 8″ x 10″
The driver of our tour bus shouted “Caribou ahead!” and we all reached for our cameras! What a stroke of luck that I was sitting on the left side of the bus and had THE perfect view as the beast ambled by! 
10 Alaska sketches
moose skull arch 9″ x 12″
A very quick sketch. I’m not sure how to depict these antlers – they are so interwoven. This was my favorite thing in Fairbanks. I just did not find the town that interesting and we were sorry we spent an extra night there before meeting up with our group to begin the trip. Our hotel was a little ways outside of town and not near anything in walking distance. We had to take the hotel shuttle everywhere. The driver was very nice but, a bit down on the place and said that alcoholism is a real problem. He was not a native, though, and I can see where winter would drive you crazy in this place. We had long days there — it didn’t get dark until 11 PM! If you talked to the shuttle driver who was native, you got rave reviews for the place. I still don’t understand how they survive the cold and dark of winter, though.
Alaska Wilderness Lodge 9″ x 12″
My husband and I had a wonderful trip to Alaska. I’ve been doing a lot of new paintings based on photos I took there.
Initial block in
A few stages of the painting.
The whole study was done in about an hour. The usual palette was used and the gessobord was coated with a dilute mixture of cadmium vermillion and sevres blue (which was dry before I began the painting). This gives a nice warm undertone that shows through.
Anita C. Miller 
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