8 by 8 acrylic on canvas panel $60.0 It takes more paint to produce impasto pieces. Its like painting with whip creme. I have been trying all the different mediums you can mix into acrylics. Some are fun and I really think if your looking for texture you may want to try some of them.
This is a close up of the impasto
watercolor on gessoed masonite 6 by 6 $40.0
This painting is part of my “all dogs go to heaven ” series… it seems very popular and I’ll always have fun with it. My explanation for this painting is pretty straight forward… I see this little guy from the wrong side of the tracks bringing his goofy sidekick along with him as he looks in at the pretty little poodles on their cushy red sofa.
This has been sealed and it may be framed without glass. It would also look great framed with a mat and under glass .
Fantasy Koi Series « A painting a Week
Update
These thee paintings are all now finished and framed One is sold.
7 by 7 45.00 watercolor on board
Here is a big pink waterlily… you know the flower doesn’t actually grow on top of the leaf and when you see them like this they are just coming up separately thru the split in the leaf. Often they will be floating near the actual lily pad or standing up on their tall stems above the water.
They do come in millions of colors. blue, lavender, white, pink, & even green just to name a few. I bought a book about these flowers and even bought one small hardy plant. I take this research thing a bit far at times. I’m going to make a small water feature on my back deck and see if I can get it to grow. Two tiny round leaves have already sprouted.
This plant is also the symbol for perseverance very much like the koi or the Phoenix something that comes from the muddy depths and seeks the beauty of the light. Always emerging and surviving. Not only beautiful but strong what a combination.
8 by 8 50.00 watercolor on gessoed masonite. no need to frame under glass can be frame like an oil painting.
This is one of the Koi paintings I painted on Saturday. I like it and hope you do too.
After seeing those two baby opossums under our deck, it made me think about the baby raccoon that I raised two years ago and the one I also found last year. Here is a picture of one of them. I name her chip because she lived in cedar chips in a nesting box. The chips would be stuck to her fur and on her nose when she would borrow down into them looking for a bit of warmth. So when she would hear me she would make these little clicking noises and stick out her nose to see who was coming. Most of the time cedar chips would be covering her face, it was very cute. I hope she is doing well on her 900 acre wildness where she was released.
50.00 7 by 7 watercolor on gessoed panel
Obviously this is the companion piece to white on white.
I painted a Koi today and I may keep it around for awhile. So… you may not see it till I’m sick of it. That way it can’t sell. Sometimes an artist likes to keep a painting around just to look at, and with this painting a day blog I never know which ones will sell so if I want to live with a painting for a while I’ve learned not to post it. With my luck the only painting that will sell that week will be the one I want to keep. Go figure. Anyway… Many of you like my florals so I’ll paint a few more. For years I painted flowers and I studied them, photograph them, their shape, the way their petals turn, the light as it passes thru their leaves all that and more. I don’t usually paint them realistically anymore but on occasion I ‘ll get the old itch to paint some flowers and its usually in the spring.
I hope you enjoy them while they last.
8 by 8 50.00
Its spring I ‘ll admit it, I have a little spring fever, all the flowers are turning up in the nurseries and the bright color is captavating, I can’t wait to buy some colorful annuals.
ACEO $45.00 plus s&h 5.50
This is part of my ancient ritual series, it’s a series that I explore the ways in which we mark the passage of time and events in our lives with ceremony and ritual.
Another in Amy’s series. Perhaps she will make a comment if she sees her work here… just so that we may know her feelings about each of the paintings.
3 by 5 watercolor on paper 35.00 5.50 s & h
This small 3 by 5 watercolor is simply saying “can anyone help me with all these petals. I can’t seem to do a thing with them!
This is a bit out of focus but if you want a better photo just email me, I can usually take better photos in daylight.
Watercolor on paper
Here is another painting from Amy, This was also part of the work from her thesis.. its part of her series about the important of nature to all of us.
Acrylic on Gessoed Masonite 8 by 8 $50.00
I learned this technique from fellow artist Tim Packer.
This is a new series I’m painting. Basically a pond and some Lilllie’s. I may sneak in a Koi here and there. I will be incorporating my brighter palette …so it will be a la Monet but the colors will be pure Shanti Marie. I hope you check in with me each day to see what I’ve painted, I rarely miss a day (Since August 2006) and if I do I have usually painted a painting but then didn’t have time to post it. Often, falling asleep fully dressed, paint in my fingernails and at least one lab sleeping at my side. After a long day of work and scrambling to paint only to miss my posting deadline. Aghh! Its all worth it! I hope you enjoy my blog and thank you for stopping by. You’ve made it a BIG success with over 600 folks stopping by many days and never fewer than 250 per day. Usually the weekends are slow with Tuesday and Wednesdays being the busy days. I also have a twin blog on blogger which covers the same paintings and I usually have over 150 viewers there each day. I can’t bare to delete one so I continue to post on both sites.
watercolor on paper
This is one of the paintings painted by Amy Kelm, she is a Art student just finishing up her Thesis and I wanted to put up some of her work this week. This is a finger print laid over the top of growth rings of a tree. I think the message is basically how we have devalued nature yet our very existence may depend upon how well we manage our natural resources.
