Wetland area where I like to hike. I combined palette knife strokes with some brushwork.
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Summer 6.28
Summer 6.27
Summer Sunset
9″ x 12″
Abstracted scene of a threatenening sky at sunset over a meadow with trees in the distance.
Looks a bit like rain is coming.
Summer Field
a palette knife painting, 9″ x 12″
Untitled study of a wetland
9″ x 12″ oil on canvas
untitled
9″ x 12″ oil on canvas
Field and Forest
A bright meadow and the edge of a forest. 9″ x 12″
pond study
9″ x 12″ study… A quiet place with many fallen dead trees in the water.
Often, I see Great Blue Herons standing in the debris, perfectly camouflaged, waiting to catch a meal. Also, white egrets and woodpeckers come here, and turtles sun themselves on top of the logs.
I left out a lot of details… the abstraction of the place was more important to me.
Untitled sketch
oil study 9″ x 12″ Limited palette using cad. yellow light, cad. red light, quinacridone magenta, ultramarine blue, phthalo green, Portland grey (light, medium and dark) and chromatic black.
This is basically the Kevin Macpherson palette (except I’ve subbed the quin. mag. for aliz. crimson).
9″ x 12″ study of pond with dead trees
Wetland Study
started using new limited color palette today…
Bog
2 studies
My favorite hiking spot
A small oil study. The canvas was “toned” a light peach color before starting the painting…
so that color is showing through a bit throughout.
9 x 12 study
inspired by this photo
One of my very favorite places to go hiking– (Middlefork Savanna, Lake Forest, IL)
Early evening along the lake
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view from Northwestern University looking south. Chicago skyline in distance.
another view looking south toward Chicago from NU.
looking East over Lake Michigan from NU campus. Ah! peace and quiet! An absolutely perfect evening.
I may take up some plein air painting this summer! I can’t get enough of this view in summer.
embrace the grey 48″ x 54″ (sold)
Coast 36″ x 36″
Volo Bog study
White Heron- small
wetland 72″ x 72″
Black Beauties
resting great blue heron 54″ x 54″
2 for fun
SOLD
11″ x 14″ ” ‘Blue’ Lab”
SOLD
11″ x 14″ “Got Carrots?”
Summer Horses
Migrating
This is a small quick oil sketch I did some time ago. I’m thinking a big canvas with many repeating bird shapes might be fun…a migration theme.
That reminds me, a few winters ago, I was fortunate to travel to New Mexico to the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge. My husband and I witnessed thousands of migrating sandhill cranes, Arctic geese and other birds. The birds travel here and stay through the winter. When they come in to land or take off–huge numbers of them all at once–the sight is awesome. This is a magnificent place to visit if you are a nature lover.