Quenching the Darts, palette knife painting

Quenching the Darts"

10 x 10 inches

Acrylic on hardboard

framing is optional, sides are painted

There is a lot of back ground and life stories that go with this, so I will try to keep it short.

Life has always thrown hardships my way: The death of my father as a young child, abuse from step fathers, moving every year, running away as a teenager, and foster homes for three years. I thought as an adult I could make life good, be a good person, and live a "normal life"-- whatever that is. But life continued to throw more hardships my way: a husband that lied and cheated and ran off with another woman after thirteen years of giving it my all (leaving me with two sons to raise), a second husband that abused me (whom I divorced after a year and a half) and now in the midst of finally living my dreams and being a professional artist -- I find my self in a world of doubt, strife and unbelief. My husband is very old school, and I have to fight for my rights on a regular basis. he has been ill lately, and taking his frustration out on me verbally. Sometimes I just want to give up altogether and run away. (Which helps me understand my mother and her frequent moves to a new state or even to an island in the pacific!)

Anyway, back to the painting, this started as a release of pent up anger at my husband, whose quick temper is hard for me to deal with sometimes. Next I saw an angel begin to form, but the wings began to look like a dove, the symbol of peace, and I knew it was me in agony on my knees, again. "How do I stay positive when all the world is so negative?" Sometimes I just can't stop the tears. So this painting poured out of my wounded soul. I have always found hope on my knees.

In the Bible it says to put on God's armor:

His peace, His helmet of salvation, His righteousness . . . so you can quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one, for our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against the powers of darkness in high places.

(Ephesians 6)

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Celestial Shores 2, mountain landscape, knife painting

"Celestial Shores 2"

Just made this one up with a palette knife. It is alla prima, all at once, fast loose and simply for the fun of it. Love the thick paint and the texture it creates.

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Media: acrylic on hardboard

Size: 12 in X 9 in (30.5 cm X 22.9 cm)

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Dreams of Lavender 2

"Dreams of Lavender, 2"

14 x 18 inches

Acrylic on canvas

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This is another commissioned piece. They were ordered as a set. This painting is from the same idea as "Lavender Dreams Again"

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This one is larger and I flipped the composition. I also added more flowers and more detail to the mountain.
I love working on a larger scale.

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Dreams of Lavender

"Dreams of Lavender"

14 x 18 inches

Acrylic on canvas

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This is a larger format of an early painting I did called "Lavender dreams." It is a commissioned piece. I reversed the image and changed the field's angle to show the rows more. I really like the lighting and the depth.

If you see a painting you would like that is already sold, this is a good example of how I can create an original for you that is similar, but is changed in size and rearranged somewhat.

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Drought's End, After Fay

"Drought's End"

9 x 12 inches

Acrylic on hardboard

Tropical Storm Fay is still sending strong winds and rain to us. This is the third day the storm has been hanging around. This is just one of the many fields that have not had standing water in over two years! Now everywhere you go you see flooded fields! We sure did need the rain!

Had some limbs down and the power went out the first day. The winds were their strongest as the storm slowed down near Lake Okeechobee. The last half of the storm was worse than the front of it. Now our lake is up a foot, which is great. about two more feet to go and we will be back to the average depth. But I hope we don't have any more tropical storms or hurricanes.

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Along the Path, Wildlife art by Fawn

"Along the Path"

8 x 10 inches

Acrylic on hardboard

Ready to frame

I felt like moving on to new ideas. I love the blue series and may do a few more, but for now I want to work on brighter colors and create higher, lighter values in my compositions. So I used lots of white in the sky and contrasted it with the tall pines. I may touch up a couple of spots yet, but I really like the overall effect.

This is a path at the A and D ranch, only I made it wider and added a shadow near the bottom to frame it in. The doe is one that I took pictures of up in Gainesville last year.

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Life Line, palette knife painting

"Life Line"
8 x 10 inches
Acrylic on hardboard

This is an abstract palette knife painting with two hues of blue.

This painting has been reworked, see May 2010 for the updated version.

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TCAA

Here is a picture of me with a blue ribbon on "High Tide." What a nice surprise!!!! This is at the Treasure Coast Art Association, in Fort Pierce. I just joined the group last month.

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Rainy Day Angel, palette knife painting

"Rainy Day Angel"

8 x 10 inches

Acrylic on hardboard

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#5 in the blue series. I used a composition of split compliments. Blue-green, blue-violet, orange, black and white. Orange is a true compliment to blue, so by using the hues on each side of blue I have split the compliment. I could have done it the other way: with Blue and Yellow-Orange or Red-Orange.

This is a palette knife painting, which gives it that almost abstract look, which I love for angels.

When we are down we can be sure God is still with us. His messengers are all around. We can find comfort even when times are tough.

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Healing Waters, Waterfall, blues #4

"Healing Waters"

8 x 10 inches

Acrylic on hardboard

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I used the analogous blues moving from green to blue-green to blue, and then added black and white for value changes. I added a touch of contrast with the complimentary color (orange). I mixed my own orange so you can see some yellow-orange and some red-orange also. I like getting variations by mixing my own colors.

I kept thinking about the song "Healing Waters" which refers to the living water of Jesus Christ. By his Spirit we have strength and healing for our soul.

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King of the Hill, winter sunset, compliment to blue

"King of the Hill"

8 x 10 inches

Acrylic on hardboard

ready to frame
$450.00

This is the third limited palette in the blue series. I only used Ultramarine Blue, Orange (compliment to blue), and White. The white and orange make a nice peach glow, and the light blues set it off. No black this time, because compliments can be mixed together to get a blackish color. For grays I added white. It is amazing the amount of hues created just by mixing varying amounts of each color.

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Lavender Sway 4, Alla prima

"Lavender Sway 4"

8 x 10 inches

acrylic on hardboard

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This is my second painting in this new blue series. I just finished up a limited palette challenge in greens, so now I want to play around with blues. In this analogous painting I have used Blue-violet, Blue, and Blue-green with black and white for varying the values. This is similar to one I did called "Lavender Sway 3" It had more red-violets and some butterflies.

This is alla prima: fast and fun, lots of thick paint all applied in one session, so the colors mix wet-in-wet. It has a painterly, loose look to it.

I really like the abstract quality of the shapes and rhythm in this painting, as well as the cool temperature of the blue tones.

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Great Bear Wilderness, Montana winter

"Great Bear Wilderness"

8 x 10 inches

Acrylic on hardboard

ready to frame

This monochrome study is the first of a blue series I have started. I did it alla prima, or all at once. I used one hue of blue, Phthalo Blue, along with black and white to create the many changes in values. It gives the painting unity and balance.

I used a photo that my sister-in-law (Annette) took. Her and my brother go out snowcatting and skiing often.

Sure is good to think about the cold weather when it is 98 degrees and 100% humidity! Florida is just miserable in July and August! But that's the price to have nice weather the rest of the year!

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