Showing posts with label Lakes and ponds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lakes and ponds. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Breezy Morning, wildlife, great egret, landscape


"Breezy Morn"


Re-posting this older demonstration painting because I just added more detail and the great white egret.  I felt like this painting needed some life!  I also love the back-lit foliage.  During the painting class, I stressed the importance of irregular shapes in the clouds and the bushes.  Any time you can repeat similar shapes it creates rhythm and harmony in a composition.  Notice how the shapes in the clouds are repeated in the bushes that are back-lit!

Enjoy!

Media: acrylic on hardboard
Size: 9 X 12 in

$250.00
Custom rustic frame (see below)


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Friday, April 15, 2016

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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Wednesday, April 06, 2016

Florida Skies Too, abstract knife painting


"Florida Skies Too"
July 4th, 2011


About This Painting:
This is an older one from a few years ago.  Started going through my inventory and decided I would rather they go to good homes at lower prices than sit on my shelf!


When I created this one I revisited an older painting, completely changing it by using a knife. I really enjoy using such intense colors!

Enjoy!

Ready to frame.
Media: acrylic on hardboard
Size: 12 in X 9 in (30.5 cm X 22.9 cm)
Price: $525.00


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Tuesday, April 05, 2016

Bottle brush, gators, egrets, wildlife, plein air


"Bottle Brush"
Plein Air painting

Got to do a paint-out a couple of weeks ago, at White City Park (Fort Pierce, Florida).
I was drawn to this gator laying on the bank, and then a smaller one swam toward me!  There were birds everywhere, and of course the bottle brush trees were in bloom.  It was a lovely spring morning.

Size: 9 x 12 inches
Medium: acrylic on hardboard
SOLD


Varnished and ready to frame

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Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Late Morning, lake with egrets


"Late morning"
© Fawn McNeill


This painting came from my own photos taken at a little lake just north of Sebring, Florida. 

It is an original painting that I created while teaching an art class. The lesson was on depth and distance.  We used atmospheric perspective to exaggerate the distance.  I went back later and strengthened details and the shadows, and then added the birds to finish it up. 



Title: "Late Morning"  
Size: 9 x 12 inches
Medium: acrylic on hardboard
SOLD


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Thursday, March 17, 2016

Early Rewards, pond with lilies and blue heron


"Early Reward" 
© Fawn McNeill 2016

Started this painting last year, and finally got back to it last week!  I did a couple of paint-outs at White City Park, Fort Pierce, Florida. I did some Plein air studies, and took lots of pictures.  Created this one from those studies.  



9 x 12 inches
Acrylic on hardboard
Ready to frame
$225.00


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Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Dinner Time, Great Egret, bird, wildlife


"Dinner Time"
Just finished up this little demo from a couple of years ago.  Really like the reflections and the contrast.  This one was inspired by Jane Irwin's photography.  She brought it to class for us to paint!

(Some of my demos come right out of instruction books or calendars.  However, I do re-arrange things and change colors)

About the painting:
Acrylic on hardboard
 9 x 12 inches
Ready to frame
SOLD!

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Tuesday, December 22, 2015

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
$180.00 each or $320.00 for the set


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Saturday, September 27, 2014

Early Bird, Southern landscape sunrise and palm tree


"Early Bird"
original demo

This is a take off of "Rain's on the Way," it is a little larger, and more colorful.  It was done as a demo for my painting class last summer.  

Thanks for looking!

About the original:
Acrylic on hardboard
11 x 14 inches
created in July, 2013
SOLD


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Sunday, September 14, 2014

No Bites, movement in water


"No Bites"

Abstract? Realism?
The water makes wonderful abstract patterns. The little bobber adds some realism to the effect.  Love the effect.

 You can order this image in cards or prints in various sizes: This is now available in print!


About the original painting:
9 x 12 inches
Acrylic on hardboard
Price : $550.00 
Free shipping in the US
(Ready to frame)

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Enjoy!

Thursday, September 11, 2014

Big Lake Sunset, knife landscape painting


"Big Lake Sunset"

This is an older painting. I did it alla prima, or all at once, it is of Lake Okeechobee.  I truly love the texture and color that is unique to knife paintings.  Some of my students are doing palette knife beach scenes right now, so I wanted to post this one in response to what we are doing in class.

Ready to frame

9 x 12 inches
Acrylic on hardboard
$195.00 (Free Shipping in US)



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Thursday, April 17, 2014

Winter Marsh, Lake, egrets


"Winter Marsh"
9 x 12 inches
Acrylic on hardboard
$375.00

This painting is simple but effective. I captured the feeling I was after: cooler weather and the fleeting moment of birds rushing off out of sight.  I enjoy working in more of an impressionistic style too. 


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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Gone Fishing, Little Green Heron


"Gone Fishing"

I have tried for years to get a good image of this painting. Finally, I have one that doesn't have a glare on it!  

Lots of tiny details, and hours of work! I even painted little fish swimming in the water. Too much fun.

Enjoy!

Acrylic on canvas
18 x 24 inches
Sold






Sunday, September 04, 2011

Angel Lake, sunset landscape


Angel Lake


About This Painting:
Just added more detail and the angel to this demonstration painting I did with my students last spring. Love all the strong colors!

Original demo
Acrylic on canvas
14 in X 11 in (35.6 cm X 27.9 cm)
Not Available



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Wednesday, March 09, 2011

Unclaimed Trophy, dragonfly, fish, bass, lilypads

"Unclaimed Trophy"

This is a custom order. I have been working on it for almost 3 months. I must say it has been quite a challenge and definitely out of my comfort zone! But it turned out far better than I anticipated.

~  Original, exclusive art
~ Acrylic on canvas
~ 18 x 14 in 
~ SOLD

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Monday, July 26, 2010

Eagle Bay Palm, plein air landscape

"Eagle Bay Palm"


About This Painting:
This is a plein air painting (out on location) that I did a few years ago. Eagle Bay is a large marsh next to Lake Okeechobee and it hooks up to the rim canal. Usually you can see lots of wildlife all around this area. I liked the way the palm tree just stuck out of the top of all the brush. I have just gone back and added more highlights, and some egrets too.
Ready to frame.

Media: acrylic on hardboard
Size: 8 in X 10 in (20.3 cm X 25.4 cm)


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Monday, April 26, 2010

Spoonbill, plein air landscape

"Spoonbill"

About This Painting: Went out to the Adams Ranch for an annual artist's day paint out. This is one of the many natural springs that flow through the ranch. The water is clear and very turquoise. this photo doesn't pick up the colors in the painting very well, but the blues are a little more of a greenish hue.

I added the spoonbill when I got home, I had seen it flying overhead while out painting, way too cool! (Spoonbills have a shorter neck than flamingos, and they range from white and soft light pinks to dark pinks, almost a red color, and sometimes they have yellow accents too. Very strange-looking bird, with a flat duck-like bill. Very pretty colors though!)

The painting continues on the sides which are close to 2 inches thick, so framing is optional.


  • Original  Plein Air Painting
  • Acrylic on Gallery Wrap Canvas 
  • Sides are painted, framing is optional
  • 10 in x 10 in (25.4 cm X 25.4 cm) 
  •  $250.00 (Free Shipping in US)
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Friday, September 05, 2008

2 Egrets, wildlife, impressionism

"2 Egrets"
8 x 10 inches
Acrylic on hardboard
ready to frame
With all the flooding and and rising streams, the birds are in heaven! It is migratory season anyway, and we get a steady stream of birds this time of year. But the amount of egrets is unbelievable! hundreds at a time! I painted just two of them here, but hope to do a flock of them soon.
By the way, Lake Okeechobee is up to it's average depth now for the first time in over two years! The pier actually has water under it now. Such a lovely site. I hope to paint it soon too.

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Saturday, July 12, 2008

Rising Water, plien air painting

"Rising Water"
8 x 10 inches
Acrylic on canvas board
(canvas mounted on hardboard)
Ready to frame

This is a painting I did on location last July. I have reworked it a little because it had always bothered me. I have toned it down some and added an egret and an alligator. The alligators are often hard to see, so I hid him at the lower right. (Click on the image for zoom.)


This painting is at Lake Okeechobee. Our lake is up to an average of ten feet now. Still very low. almost two years now it has been so low.

There is a teenage boy that was attacked by an alligator here at Nubbin's Slough last month. Why he was in the water swimming at night in this area is beyond me. You can see large alligators that live here at any given time. They wait by the lock where the water flows into the lake and feed on anything that comes through.


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Friday, May 16, 2008

Rain Rain Go Away, Plein Air

"Rain Rain Go Away"
12 x 24 inches
Acrylic on canvas
ready to frame

This is another older painting that I did on location a few years ago, before I started posting on line. I was really into thin layers of paint, then sealing them with a varnish. When all the craze came out with the watercolor canvases I moved on to something else.
It actually started raining off and on. I loved the effect it created in the background. As it dried I added the thicker layers of foliage over the top.

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