nature – Anita C. Miller

February 6, 2016April 15, 2016

new lake series

Oil on panel, 12″ x 12″ framed in custom white floater frames.

October 27, 2014April 22, 2015

mauve woods

The solvent ran in the background creating ghosts of trees… a happy accident.

May 15, 2014April 22, 2015

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.

April 25, 2014June 23, 2015

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.

oil study

January 30, 2014June 23, 2015

untitled (14/1)

January 24, 2014June 23, 2015

lake (14/2)

December 14, 2013June 23, 2015

Dead of Winter ~ oil study

big freeze

November 24, 2013November 24, 2014

Fire and Ice

November 24, 2013March 22, 2014

Blue Skies ~~ 9″ x 12″

"Blue Skies", $150.00, oil on gessobord, 9" x 12" — “***Blue Skies***“, 9″ x 12”, oil on panel

November 20, 2013December 29, 2015

Fall Prairie

October 13, 2013April 9, 2014

turning 40″ x 50″ (sold)

"Turning", 40" x 50", oil on canvas, © Anita C. Miller [SOLD] — “Turning”, 40″ x 50″, oil on canvas, © Anita C. Miller [SOLD]

October 8, 2013December 29, 2015

egret

Short blogging break….

Great White Heron (?) -- Middlefork Savanna Nature Preserve north of Chicago

September 22, 2013September 23, 2014

quiet pond 6″ x 6″

forest and pond

September 19, 2013September 23, 2014

great blue — 6″ x 6″

ww 4

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.

September 19, 2013December 30, 2013

wild wetland 3 — 6″ x 6″

September 17, 2013September 23, 2014

wild wetland 2 — 6″ x 6″

wild wetland 2

A Great Blue Heron hunting. Photo included. I got a bit more wild with the colors : )

the kill

Don’t miss the white egret on the right. He kept moving away from the Great Blue.

September 17, 2013September 23, 2014

wild wetland 6″ x 6″

wild wetland

August 27, 2013April 23, 2014

wilderness 6″ x 6″

wilderness 1

July 28, 2013April 23, 2014

walk in the park 9″ x 12″

walk in the park Yesterday’s painting with photo used, my set up in the studio, and stages of the painting.

Palette: the usual (cad. yel. lt., cad. red verm., quin. mag., ultra blue, sevres blue, burnt umber, tit. zn. white)

Total time: about 1 1/4 hr.

walk in the park

April 25, 2013December 30, 2013

prairie textures 6″ x 6″

oil on archival board (Gessobord) 6″ x 6″ x 1/8″

April 23, 2013December 30, 2013

along the edge 5″ x 5″

oil on archival board (Gessobord) 5″ x 5″ x 1/8″, unframed

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The edge of the pond abstracted a bit.

April 23, 2013December 30, 2013

forest see through 5″ x 5″

oil on archival board (Gessobord) 5″ x 5″ x 1/8″, unframed

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Inspired by a late afternoon hike in my favorite nature preserve.

April 22, 2013December 23, 2013

Windward Coast

I used Gamblin’s Portland greys (light, medium and dark) and Chromatic Black. The Ampersand gesso board is sometimes lightly brushed with Gamsol solvent before starting the painting. I’m using fine sable hair brushes (and sometimes my fingers) for these little paintings.

April 21, 2013April 22, 2013

Trail To The Summit

This little monochrome painting from yesterday is based on an Oahu hike my husband and I took this past winter. I’ve included the reference photo this time and the link to my previous post on this hike where you can see the summit views.

I could have kept working on the painting, but decided I liked the ambiguity and stopped. No clear view of the trail ahead.

my husband leading the way. I had the figure in the painting initially, but then took him out. — My husband leading the way. I had the figure in the painting initially, but then took him out.

April 20, 2013December 30, 2013

untitled (forest)

March 12, 2013April 9, 2014

Untitled 22″ x 42″

January 10, 2013February 26, 2013

“Fin”ale – Aloha!

Things are moving at a turtle’s pace in the studio this past week. I am wiping off paint after spending many hours putting it on, and that is not a good thing…So I thought I would share this last bunch of photos from Oahu (I promise it’s the last).

Hope you enjoy them. Click on them to see very large.

The aquarium just south of Waikiki is one of the best I’ve ever seen. The fish are amazing and the tanks are beautifully designed.

Hanauma Bay is THE place to go snorkeling. I now wish I had looked into getting a prescription lens for snorkeling (I am very near sighted) so I didn’t go in.

My husband had a great time and was able to get inches away from the fish. The great thing about this place is that they severely limit the number of people here. The parking lot fills up early and then they turn people away.

Waikiki Beach from the top of Diamondhead.

Every evening the sunset was spectacular and people would just hang out on Waikiki Beach for the show. The pink hotel is one of the oldest — the Royal Hawaiian.