Passing Storm, seascape, knife painting

"Passing Storm"

© Fawn McNeill, Dec. 2025

This painting is over a year in the making. I created it totally from memory.  (Usually, I work from my photos and/or sketches, but this time I worked without any references.)  

I experimented with contrasting the very smooth background with thick knife applications. 

I got carried away with the flowers and enjoyed splashing colors at odd angles.  My lighting and wind direction are not consistent, which was an attempt to create the feeling of shifting wind and light.

I'm proud of this one.  It turned out better than I anticipated, as most of my work this year remains unfinished or was destroyed.  Felt good to sign it!

~ Original Knife Painting

~ Acrylic on Hardboard

~ Professional Materials

~ 9 x 12 inches

~ Ready to frame

~ $450.00 (includes shipping)

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Rainy Day Angels, stormy sea, oil painting

 

"Rainy Day Angels"

© Fawn McNeill September 2025

This site is working again, so I am going to post here and try to keep up with my website blog.  I like this format much better.

It has been a hard year, with the passing of my Son, Kyle, on March 21st, 2025.  Words cannot express the anguish and sorrow I still struggle with.

I am trying to get back to painting, so hopefully these pages will come back to life. For now, please bear with me as I post a few older works to get started.

The rain slows, and light shines through. A broken gray heart fades in the clouds. Ministering angels tend to it.  Symbolic in deep levels.  Waves of emotions take me under. Rain for tears, sunlight for hope to see Kyle again one day, and angels to remind me Father God loves me and I'm not alone. 

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~Original Oil on hardboard
~11 x 14 inches
~Not for Sale

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Look Up and Pray, beach sunrise with Jesus

"Look Up and Pray"

Happy New Year!

This is my first painting of the year, what an awesome start! It is amazing how it came about: it was a rush order and I happened to have something similar in progress so I agreed to do it. I added Jesus, in place of the sun, and was able to get it to the client in a few days instead of months!

I have done angels in place of the sun, but this is the first time I painted Jesus there. Had to use tiny brushes, and redo it several times.  I also added more clouds and highlights before I signed it. I love the way it turned out!

• original art
• Acrylic
• 11 x 14 inches
• Not available

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Rough Shore, sand dunes, waves, mixed media

"Rough Shore"

"...in this world you will have trouble... Take heart,

 I have overcome the world!" 

 (Jesus) John 16:33

 Learned how hard it is to undo things that have been adhered to with acrylic modeling paste while I was working on this painting (off and on for the last couple of years)!  It certainly is difficult to change my mind once it has dried.  (This was one of my early experiments with mixed media.)

 I started it just before I closed my gallery and teaching center because of the pandemic.  Worked on it several times, but I struggled to resolve the texture issues that are left behind when you remove items that aren't working.

I wanted to contrast smooth areas (created with a brush) with thick areas (built up with a palette knife).  I was after the effect of waves crashing against rocks near the shore.  This proved to be quite a mess at first.  Needed to resolve texture issues and correct the size and placement of waves coming onto the shore. Finally found the effect I was after.

Then I got to have some fun! Added sea glass, beads, shells, and aquarium stones. Rearranged them several times before deciding on exactly where to place them.

I framed it in this lovely textured frame, which complements the whole effect I was trying for.  

• Original Art
• Mixed media on hardboard
• Professional materials
• 11 x 14 inches
• Textured custom frame (see below)
• SOLD

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Morning Flight, angel, knife painting

"Morning Flight"

This was a demonstration for a video lesson, but the video cut off during the session and I didn't know it. I did the whole thing thinking I was still recording!  LOL.  I went ahead and did another demo knife painting with the angel facing the other way, which recorded fine. I think this one turned out better, so I framed it. 

 I like the transparency of the angel and the soft colors. I also like the way the bottom could be sky or water.  Palette knife paintings lend themselves to abstract qualities which leaves room for the imagination. It is also fun to load up thick amounts of paint and smear it all together.

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Original Art

Acrylic knife painting

11 x14 inches 

Ready to frame

Original: $550.00  (free shipping in US)

Prints available: 

7 x 10 matted to 11 x 14 inches: $45.00

5 x 7 matted to 8 x 10 inches: $35.00

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Timeless Moments, sunset beach, seashells

Timeless Moments

"His mercy endures forever." Psalm 136

Finished this painting a few months ago.  I haven't posted anything here in a long time. 

This painting is full of thick impasto layers. I also added actual seashells, sea glass, sand dollars, and two hand sculpted clay items (a turtle in the foam, and a starfish on the shore.)  The clay items are a new element. I truly enjoyed creating them and painting them after adhering them to the canvas.  I'm using paper clay, which is clay with paper fibers added to make it stronger.  It is a lightweight clay and is something I want to explore further.

I was going through some personal issues when I painted this and thought about how somethings seem to transcend time. Some memories are as fresh as yesterday even though they happened years ago! Some things can happen in no time and seem like forever.  This led to the concept that we make time, it is in us and not just something that happens to us.  We choose to enjoy it, use it wisely, or do nothing with it.  So all of that is  flowing through this painting as the woman contemplates the vastness of it all.

I hid an angel in the sky, but not in the clouds per say, it is in reverse. The blue of the sky is in the shape of an angel by the clouds around it.  Makes it harder to find, but I wanted to make it bigger than the small ones I usually paint in the clouds.

24 x 36 inches

Mixed media

Elaborate custom frame (see below)

Sold

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At Riverside, Egret, Palm, Indian River, Florida

"At Riverside"

(Stuart, Florida)
© 2018

Here is an older one I just love! Used some pictures I took during a paint-out at Riverside Park.  I walked all over the park for an hour in the morning, soaking in all the inspiring views before doing some sketches.

This egret was wading along the shore, and I got some pretty good photos of him catching fish.  I liked this one where he jumped up a few times.  

This palm tree was one of two jetting out over the water.  The other palm was bent and crooked, but it was hard to get a good photo.

About this painting:

16 x 20 inches

Acrylic on canvas
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Easy does It, Florida Art, palms, turtle, gator

"Easy Does It"

Love the little turtle on the trunk of the closer palm and the birds in the dead tree. I was inspired to paint this while out on a fishing trip.  It is cool how the palms grow upward after being blown down in a storm. Cycles of life are so fragile, and so evident.

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Size: 24 x 30 inches

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

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Healed, inspirational art, beach, girl, angel

"Healed"

Started this painting completely from memory. Made it up as I went along.  (Used reference photos of different children to free-hand the girl onto the painting.) 

This is all about inner healing, accepting yourself, forgiving yourself, and letting go of the past.  But, sometimes we have to deal with the issues and do the hard work to get past it, which this painting really did for me as I struggled with my stormy past.

Lots of symbolism:  The shadow of the cross, the face of Jesus in the sand, a dove hidden in the wave near her head (for the Holy Spirit), an angel dancing in the clouds, the heart shape encircling her, and the storm moving away.

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20 x 24 inches

Acrylic on canvas

The original is not for sale

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Winter Warm Up 2, winter mountains with eagles, bunny, angel

"Winter Warm Up, 2"

© Fawn McNeill 2014

This image is now available in cards and prints!  (Also in coffee mugs!)

Sunrise colors glowing on the snow...

This is the second painting of "Winter Warm Up."  Hid a bunny in the snow, added an angel and the eagles also.  Love it!  Reminds me of Montana, near my grandmother's old house.

Media: Acrylic on canvas

Size: 9 x 12 inches
SOLD
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Cypress Shores 2, original landscape with egret, impressionism

"Cypress Shores 2"

© Fawn McNeill 2010

Created this from photos I took on the boat.  Robert and I went on a fishing trip down the rim canal near J & S fishing camp. I exaggerated the brush strokes to make it more impressionistic. Really love that style.  Framed this one in a custom-made, hand-painted frame (see below).

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Media: acrylic on hardboard
Size: 5 in X 7 in (12.7 cm X 17.8 cm)
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Waiting Orders, Warrior Angel

"Waiting Orders"

© Fawn McNeill 2013

Just framed this one!  (See below).  This angel is painted with a brush instead of a knife.   Creates a more blended effect. Used a cool blue color scheme instead of the bold colors I often use with the palette knife. 

I wanted him to look like he was finished with one assignment and waiting for the next.  I have always thought that I must have some very serious warrior angels looking out for me!

Acrylic on hardboard

6 x 6 inches

$175.00

This small painting is done on cradled hardboard, it is framed in an antique deep silver/gold frame. Ready to hang.  See below.

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Breezy Evening, Florida art, palms and sunset

"Breezy Evening"
original demo

This demonstration painting is a take off of "Breezy Morning."  Changed the colors, reversed the composition, added some palm trees, and also formatted it vertical instead of horizontal.  This is a great example of how you can jazz up those photos that didn't turn out so great.  Add dark shadows and strong highlights for more contrast and change some things to strengthen the composition.  

I may still add some birds . . .  

Ready to frame.
Media: acrylic on hardboard
Size: 12 in X 9 in (30.5 cm X 22.9 cm)
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Plein Air, G. Lestrange Perserve

"Across the Lake"

© Fawn McNeill 2015

"Gravel Path"
© Fawn McNeill 2015

Had a great time painting these last week!  I set them both up on the easel and did them at the same time!  We were at the George Lestrange Preserve in Fort Pierce.  Don't get too many chances to do paint-outs these days, so I just put everything else aside and went anyway!

About the paintings:

Acrylic on hardboard
6 x 6 inches
$480.00 each or $720.00 for the set

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Heavenly Highlights, Florida sunset

"Heavenly Highlights"

30 x 40 inches 

Acrylic on Canvas

$7,500.00

I painted this over a span of nine years! Made many changes along the way. Created it entirely from memory!

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Waiting Orders, guardian angel

"Waiting Orders"

Painted this angel with a brush instead of a palette knife this time.  Wanted a softer look.  Love the color scheme.

I wanted him to look like he was finished with one assignment and waiting for the next.  I have always thought that I must have some very serious warrior angels looking out for me! 

This small painting is done on cradled hardboard, the sides are painted, so framing is optional.

Enjoy!

Acrylic on hardboard

6 x 6 inches

$250.00  Framed

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Passing Through, rainbow landscape, knife painting

"Passing Through"

The first one like this was on watercolor paper for my kid's summer art classes. The inspiration came from Van Gogh. It was done with a paintbrush and didn't have much detail.  I liked the idea, however, and painted it again on hardboard with a palette knife.  Lots of fun!  Then some of my older students painted one like it with a palette knife too. I added the butterflies to finish it up.

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Acrylic on hardboard

11 x 14 inches

$475.00 (includes shipping in the US)

Ready to frame

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Rollin Through, mountain landscape with barn

"Rollin' Through"

Originally a demonstration painting for my adult class, but I changed it quite a bit when I started adding details.  I got caught up in some good memories of a place I saw in the mountains near my grandmother's house.  My friends and I rode horses in the Rockies, and this looks a lot like one of the driveways we passed on the way. I remember watching the clouds move up along the sides of the mountain and thinking how cool that looked!

Enjoy!

Ready to frame.

Size: 9 x 12 inches

Medium: Acrylic on Hardboard

$650.00 free shipping in US

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Paradise at Sunset, Florida landscape with wildlife

"Paradise at Sunset"

This painting is the second in a series I started this summer.  I created them both from memory.  The animals are free-handed onto the canvas after I practice drawing them on paper.  This time I reversed things and brightened the sky. Also included deer, egrets, turkeys, hogs, and a gator. This is a truly original painting.  Most of mine are (unless I am doing one for a client that wants something from their photos).  I use my own images and /or my sketches and free-hand everything.  Many artists today copy from photos, literally.  They get enlargements, trace it off -- and sometimes it is not even their own photos!  You can read more about that by clicking here.  

Size: 30 x 40 inches

Medium: Acrylic on Gallery Wrap Canvas

original painting: SOLD

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Piece of Paradise, Florida wildlife

"Piece of Paradise"
© Fawn McNeill 2013

Colorful painting I have been working on for a few months now.  Enjoyed adding all the critters!

Enjoy!

Size: 24 x 36 inches

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

Original painting: SOLD

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