A Landscape of Rosebud and a Dripping Tree

Small Blue Drip Tree (SOLD)

Today I would like to introduce to you to one of my favourites (I know, I say that about all of my paintings). I was inspired for the leaves and the branches by a friend I was painting with that day who uses a lot of swiggly wiggly lines and I really love the effect it gave. I used masking tape around the edges as I was painting it so as it developed you would still be able to see the initial colours I chose to put down. I really enjoy layering in my paintings, so when you stop to look at one part of the canvas, your eye isn't sure what colour it's looking at.

It's done in acrylic and on your average canvas, about 20 inches x 16 inches, 3/4 inch thick. Right now it's just hanging out on the side wall of our game room, just waiting to be owned by a lover of colour.  am asking $150.00 for this painting, but I understand if the size might bring it's value down slightly. Just slightly though. I sold this bottom one for $150.00, same size, about the same amount of effort to create, and I think it was a fair sale:

Twin Trees (SOLD)

Reminder: This painting is sold.

Next on the agenda we have my Rosebud landscape. If you've ever visited the tiny hamlet of Rosebud, Alberta, you may recognize this windy river and hillscape. I may have represented the hills more like mountains, but tiny rolling hills just aren't that interesting to me. I like grandiose, I like nature in it's most awe-filled moments. So here we have my Rosebud landscape.

Rosebud Landscape (SOLD)

I am very proud of this piece. Rarely when I use such a detailed reference material it very rarely turns out how I wanted it to, but perhaps it's because I grew up looking at this landscape, but it just wasn't difficult for me to get down. I'm impressed with the reflections in the water and my depth and perspective, while remaining true to my abstract and colourful ways. This is another piece that I would not be that heart broken if I never got rid of, and as such I am asking $150.00 for this 18 inch x 14 inch canvas.

It's happy living in my hallway.

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Painting Venting - 2 More Paintings

I remember one afternoon at school I was feeling extra inspired and had to get some painting venting out before I could get started on my 'real' project. So out came these two, pop pop. I didn't plan what either of them were going to be before I got started, and as the images started to emerge I went with it, and out came these babies.

This is my Cityscape in Red and Blue, it reminds me of a really industrialized city, but then again it could be a forest, and it could be a forest that's being cleared, hence all the red. I don't know, it is what you make it out to be, but that is what I love about my paintings. Who am I to tell you what you're supposed to see in my abstract paint splatter of a painting?

Cityscape in Red and Blue (SOLD)

The next painting I blurted out of my brushes was this lovely lade below. The canvas is primed with a loadful of texture, so going back and forth with my colours over said texture left a lot of really interesting patterns and details beneath the surface. Then the icy blue tree is just so striking, I really do love the colours in this one.

Icy Blue

Both of these paintings are done on 16 inch x 1 foot canvas and I actually have no starting price for these two. They were never really something I ever intended to make and I would be most delighted to see them go to a loving home. Make me an offer and I'll consider it.

 Thank you for taking the time today to read some more about my art. It means a lot and I really appreciate your time and your shares.

More Paintings - Abstract Ponds and Lipstick

Here we have a classic abstract-turned-refined painting. I was experimenting with mixing colours, what kind of image I could get with only using a couple different colours. This one became my favorite very quickly just from its bright blues and splatter paint.

Abstract Pond

It is made on recycled board with a frame all the way around for hanging. It is 2 feet x 2 feet by 1 3/4 inch thick frame, acrylic paint, and a whole lotta love. Selling this bad boy for $150.00, unless you can offer me a better deal.

Hanging in my Dining Room

 Next I have my beautiful lipstick painting. Nothing tickles my fancy more than getting to use magenta and quinacridone pink. It's bright, it's opaque, and the lipstick itself has gobs and gobs of texture. I used silver for the lipstick bottle to seem more metallic and the bottom half is dioxazine purple, unlike what this picture portrays, which looks a lot darker. I unfortunately, for whatever reason, didn't take a picture of my lipstick in a professional setting so this is what I have to show you, but feel free to come take a tour of my gallery and see it for yourself! It is made from the same kind of recycled board with a wooden frame all the way around, and it measures 32 inches long x 2 feet tall, 1 3/4 inches thick. Acrylic paint.

Pink Lipstick

I am also asking $150.00 for my lipstick. It isn't as large as my previously posted ones, and it was also done a little earlier in my painting career, so I've had longer to live with it. It's lightweight and the perfect addition to any girly girl's bedroom or studio.

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I Went to Nicaragua and Painted a Volcano

This one's easy because I only have one photograph. February 2016 I went with my best friend Hannah to Ometepe Island in Nicaragua. We spent a grueling 6 days there, filled with food poisoning and a troublesome guide, and I was so thankful to arrive home, luggage safely lost in Houston, Texas. Fantastic.

But the entire trip was not lost on me. I had a good 700 photos or so on my camera to filter through in the months after the trip. One particular photo was taken my first night there, just hours before I was hit with the worst (and only) food poisoning of my entire life. I was better two days later.

Anyways, too much information aside, I thought it was really cool that where I was currently standing, in that location, I was directly between two volcanoes. One of them was an active volcano too. So that is what inspired this painting. The red background, the gold all over the horizon, the blue tropical water. The colours there were amazing, and the heat was intense, and the bugs and animals were all sorts of whacked. But the scenery, man I could look at that scenery forever.

Nica Volcano

So this is my Volcano. It is 4 feet wide x 2 feet tall, 1.5 inches thick, and entirely acrylic paints and medium. Loads of texture, because I know there's some texture fiends out there, and the same boarder effect you see in my Blue and Purple Trees. I just think it's a neat way to frame a painting without actually putting it in a frame. Plus, what the function of a frame is for, is to focus the viewers eye inwards. If you have a hard line around the edge, the viewer will instinctively look further inwards, towards the center of the painting, instead of just wandering off the edge and onto the next one. It's important to me to keep my viewer looking, because there is always so much more to see under the surface.

I'm asking $350.00 for this one.

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Acid Tree - My Plunge Into the Abstract

This tree is what did it for me. I painted for 12 hours, layers upon layers upon layers, just acrylic paint, water, and my brushes. And sometimes my fingers. I had an epiphany while painting this tree about how I can layer colours over each other in such a way that when you look at any one spot on the canvas (it's actually a board, but that's besides the point) you will be able to notice a myriad of colours underneath. How can that splotch of blue also be red and green and purple? I love it. I love it so much.

Acid Tree

This is what my tree looks like right now hanging on my wall. I used flash on my camera so it's not a streak-less photo, but that is what the first photo is for - a perfect display of what my piece really looks like, camera and technology flaws aside. This is how non-empty your wall would look:

Here is my tree just a few hours after I had finally put the last paint stroke on (my final stroke was Alizarin, in case you were wondering):

 And here's a little something for the kids. Below left I am taking a photo with my painting to be in an article in my local paper about my art scholarship I had been awarded at the end of my second year of school. Below right I am taking a photo in front of my painting because I noticed my hair matched.

More about the painting: It is 3 feet by 3 feet, 1 3/4 inches thick, and made of the same type of chemically treated wood as my Blue and Purple Tree from my previous post. I made a frame all around the back of the board so it can hang on a couple of screws/nails. I am asking $400.00 for this piece though I would like 5. And it fits beautifully in between my Blue and Purple Trees, so if you want all three, I'm willing to discuss numbers. They work mighty fine together as a feature item.

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