Sunday, September 30, 2012

OCTOBER 2012 CHALLENGE
QUILTS
Hosted by Sue Marrazzo

Use this wonderful picture Sue has provided to get your
imagination going.  For example, I often see 
'quilt patterns' in the landscapes I paint...
Hope you'll join us this month, and most of all...
HAVE FUN!

Click here to go to the DPP Challenge Blog


TITLE: QUILTED VISION
MEDIUM: COLLAGE
SIZE: 12" X 12"
SUBSTRATE: BRACED PANEL
ARTIST: SUE MARRAZZO


This October, the DPP Challenge will pay tribute to QUILTS. QUILTS are made with function as their first priority: aesthetic concerns are secondary. Still in quilt making there is a love of beauty and attention to design in each and every QUILT. QUILTS are more than blankets to warm sleeping bodies. The makers of QUILTS use quilting as a way to show their individual creative expression. Please take this challenge and express your LOVE of QUILTS in your choice of medium. Feel free to share your quilt memories, and stories too.

SOLD
NAUSET LIGHT
An Original Plein Air
Oil Painting
by Claire Beadon Carnell


'Nauset Light'
Oil Plein Air
Cape Cod National Seashore,
Eastham, Cape Cod, MA
9 x 12

Because of erosion that has been occurring along the shoreline
of Cape Cod, some of the light houses have been moved
further inland so that they are protected.  The sea was
to the right of this view of Nauset Light, but not
close enough to include in the painting.

I took a walk down to the beaches after finishing this painting
and saw a group of seals playing in the sparkling water!


If you would like to see more of my work,
please visit my website or my blog. If you are
interested in purchasing any of my paintings you see
here on this blog, please contact me.


Claire Beadon Carnell
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ART PARTY by Sue Marrazzo

Shown: Anna, Juliana, Evy, Sophie, and Ada
On Saturday I instructed an ART PARTY at The Art Center School and Galleries in Mechanicsburg, PA. There were 5 GIRLS: Evy, Ada, Juliana, Sophie, and Anna. We Had FUN making a MIXED MEDIA PAINTING. We collaged and then painted with acrylic paints...They ALL had a finished MIXED MEDIA MASTERPIECE at the END of the ART PARTY! Here are some photos of the Art Party...I did get permission to share these photos on the DPP Blog! 
Take a LOOK at the FUN!

Sophie and Anna working on their painting.

Ada showing her finished painting.

Evy and Ada painting together.





Juliana painting lines with a sponge.


The Art Center
School and Galleries
Mechanicsburg, PA
www.artcenterschoolandgalleries.org

Harvest of the Arts by Julie Riker

 
Saturday was spent painting at the Harvest of the Arts Festival in Carlisle, PA along with some fellow painters from  Susquehanna Valley Plein Air Painters
 
 
 Larry Lerew, Vivian Brandler, and I set up at the intersection of High Street and Hanover Street, the beginning of the event where they closed off 4 blocks to traffic.  How often can you set up right in the middle of the street to paint?  We had a great time painting along to the music!

 
Below is the painting I did.  I wasn't 100% focused on this one...never can be at these events with people stopping to talk and watching over your shoulder...but it's fun.  I especially love the children with their painted faces who are so interested in watching me paint.
Thanks to Vivi's friend Jeb for modelling!
 
"Waiting on the Square"
10x8

Saturday, September 29, 2012

"Music In The Street" by Larry Lerew


"Music In The Street" by Larry Lerew
Acrylic and Wax Crayon on Watercolor Paper
16" x 20"
Artist Log #12-09-15

Had a great day painting in the street with the Susquehanna Valley Plein Air Painters at the Harvest of the Arts, Carlisle, PA.

www.LarryLerew.com

Hershey Park by Jill Peckelun


Hershey Park painted from the Hershey Gardens viewpoint.  There are a LOT of Hershey Park rides.  I tried to simplify and just suggest the architecture that moved throughout the painting.  It ends up looking like something that should be entitled: The Dark Side of Hershey Park.  That wasn't my intention really, but mood- you gotta love it.

MORNING AT FORT HILL
An Original Plein Air
Oil Painting
by Claire Beadon Carnell



'Morning at Fort Hill'
Oil Plein Air
Cape Cod National Seashore,
Eastham, Cape Cod, MA
10 x 20

Finally unpacked the rest of my Cape Cod paintings.
As much as I loved the sea and beach areas, I was
most compelled by the marshes.  This view provided 
a combination of both - with the marshes in the mid-ground,
and a glimpse of the sea in the background.  
Looking at these paintings this morning
filled me with such a longing to go back
to this wonderful place!

If you would like to see more of my work,
please visit my website or my blog. If you are
interested in purchasing any of my paintings you see
here on this blog, please contact me.


Claire Beadon Carnell
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Trio in Brassy Glass Musical Watercolors by Daily Painter Bertie Brown

Trio in Brassy Glass
original musical instrument watercolor w/horn, trumpet, trombone: 11" x 14"

menage a trois
if the trombone’s in charge
the trumpet won’t play
the horn won’t say
if he’ll go or stay
such is the way
our world behaves today
compromise is out
dissonance has clout
there could be peace and harmony
‘cause trios can play charming-ly
BB
Watercolors by Bertie Brown - Art is Instrumental
click: BertiesBlog to view more Berties
click: BertiEmail for info
click: BertieSmugmug for available prints

Friday, September 28, 2012

The Kiss by Deborah Nell

The Kiss by Deborah Nell
11" x 14" Watermedia on Yupo paper

A kiss is such a personal thing and this is the first time I've painted a couple kissing. I left much to the imagination. The imagination is so much better than reality.

Oil Pastel "Illuminated" and more news from Tatiana Myers

Well... correction!.. Sorry for re-posting the same thing twice, but I have another announcement to make
Here we go...

1) Yesterday I found out that my latest floral Oil Pastel "Illuminated" was accepted into the ALLIED ARTISTS OF AMERICA, INC. 99-th annual exhibition.
Show will ran from November 9 to November 18 2012 @ National Art Club Galleries, NYC.
Artists reception - Sunday November 18.

2) Today I found out that "Illuminated" was also accepted into The American Artists Professional League
84th Grand National Exhibition 2012
Saturday, October 6th through Sunday, December 30th, 2012.

Normally show #2 will be in Salmagundi Club, NYC, but fortunately for me, this season Salmagundi galleries were under reconstruction, therefore Grand National will be online show... what gives perfect opportunity for one the same painting to be shown at both venues at the same time.
Very unique way to show, thank You to Internet!

And those were all my news... for now.



Beach Life by Julie Riker

6x12 oil
There are few things I like better than a day at the beach...painting is one of them. So set me up with my paint supplies under a beach umbrella and I am as happy as a clam. 
This is one of the paintings I did while I was in Chincoteague a few weeks ago for their plein air festival.  I was noticing all the colorful beach umbrellas and how quickly the color faded out of them as they receded into the hazy distance where sky, sand, and sea almost became white.
This piece did not sell at the sale on Chincoteague, so I brought it home with me where I was pleased when it sold very quickly to a local buyer.
If you would like to see more of my work please visit my website

Thursday, September 27, 2012

TRACKS - Shoe by Nancy Herman


TRACKS - Shoe
oil on stretched canvas
6' x 8"

How much more complicated the soles of our shoes are compared to the simple beauty of our feet.  Imagine an alien coming accross this track in the sand.  What sort of a creature would he conjure up?


Wednesday, September 26, 2012

I'LL HAVE A SIDE ORDER OF FUNGUS, PLEASE
An Original Oil Painting by
Claire Beadon Carnell

Thanks so much to Pat Koscienski for hosting this month's DPP Challenge.  
You still have three days to submit any entry!


'I'll Have a Side Order of Fungus, Please''
Oil on Canvas
8 x 6


You never know where your inspiration will come from...
I was in the very long, and very slow line of cars at
the Wendy's Drive-In window in Carlisle waiting to
get some of their GF chili for lunch.  As I was getting closer to 
my goal, I saw something in the crotch of the tree that grows
right by the curve that gets you closer to where you
can place your order.  I had to do a double-take,  were those
some small alien ships hovering in the shelter of that tree?  No, it
was three delightful fungi that had attached themselves 
to the tree and were flourishing - must be the Wendy's chili!

I painted this for the DPP Challenge Blog, hosted this month by 
Daily Painters of Pennsylvania Artist Pat Koscienski.

October's Challenge will be hosted by Sue Marrazzo



If you would like to see more of my work,
please visit my website or my blog. If you are
interested in purchasing any of my paintings you see
here on this blog, please contact me.


Claire Beadon Carnell
Member of:



"Tracks - human by Nancy Herman


TRACKS - HUMAN
Nancy Herman
6" x 8"
oil on streteched canvas

Humans leave their tracks everywhere but here on the beach their footprints are simple.  It would be better for the earth as a whole if they had stayed that way.

$125.00


Where's the Grapes?, Maria Kovalenko Leysens



I went out a few weekends ago to photograph some grapes as reference for my adult watercolor class. Drove to many places and found they were harvested or none on the vine. So I went to Costco, bought some grapes, cut some vines and took them home. I used twist ties and the backs of chairs to set up the grapes and vines against a strong evening sun and photographed.

This is the demonstration painting that I did for the class. We focused on the warm light coming from behind and the cool light reflected from the sky above. Using my artistic license I took out the twist ties and darkened the background to keep the focus on the warm glow.

To the Sea by Jill Peckelun


To the Sea
9 x 12", oil en plein air
Jill Peckelun

Oh, the irony...  my first post on the Daily Painters of Pennsylvania is a plein air painting I recently did in...New Jersey.  6 of us artist friends rented a house for a week in Cape May- what a great time painting we had.  I did this piece on the last morning there.  I loved the crowds of people and the opportunity to paint a landscape I rarely see.  It really pushed me artistically: it was good to see a landscape with fresh eyes, but I didn't have my usual bag of tools in addressing a typical PA landscape.  Dealing with the fences at the beach was a composition challenge.  I tried to keep things simple, loosey goosey and light-hearted.

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Watercolors by Daily Painter Bertie Brown

Poppy Patch
original watercolor/poppies: 6" x 9"

Alice Through the Looking Glass
original watercolor/abstract:8" x 11"

Glass Eye
original watercolor/peacock feather: 6" x 9"

Com-posers
original watercolor/sunflowers: 6" x 9"
while summer bathed
in translucent honey haze
autumn arrives
with transparent amber days
indigo nights
blanket lofty star-filled skies
as cooler winds collide
pushing summer’s heat aside
from translucent to transparent
these transitions are apparent
seasons come and seasons go
each with it’s own unique show
BB'12 
Watercolors by Bertie Brown - Art is Instrumental
click: BertiEmail for info
click: BertiesBlog to view more Berties
click: BertieSmugmug for available prints

Ashcombe Sunflowers, by Linda Young


Ashcomb Sunflowers, watercolor by Linda Young
9 x 12"

This painting of sunflowers was done mostly on location at the Ashcomb Farm; the darkest detailing was completed in the studio.

The underpainting was from a something I started this summer at the Camp Hill Plein Air Festival; it began as a landscape with a bridge, stream and trees running through it.  I know where it was; but it is now invisible.

Linda Young Watercolors P O Box 941 Carlisle, Pa. 17013

DAILY PAINTERS OF PA COMING TO BROOKLYN 2012

As one of the Daily Painters of Pennsylvania artists
 to exhibit in the 
BWAC, Coming to Brooklyn 2012 Show...
I felt a need to share it with ALL the Daily Painters and the Followers of the BLOG.
The DPP Collective Artist's Panel



The BWAC Gallery Lounge with the Jazz band

 The Artist's Reception for this Art Show was an experience that many artists long for. We got to share our art with a whole NEW World-NYC, so to say. Mary Beth said it best, "It's good sometimes being the little FISH in the BIG fishbowl." It's so true. Thanks for your leadership Mary Beth, and supporting your peer artists! 
Also, not only did we get to meet New York artists, and supporters...It was GREAT meeting the DPP Group members, too! What a fine group of LADIES: Deb Kreiger, Dianne Lorden, Mary Beth Brath, Donna Berk Barlup, Patricia A. Griffin, Brownyn Hughes, Christine Marx and others! There was Jazz Music in the background by The Stefan Bauer Experience...What a unique ART VENUE! 
BWAC
Coming to Brooklyn 2012
September 22-October 21
499 Van Brunt St.
www.bwac.org
718-596-2506 office
2507 Gallery


TRACKS, Sea Gull by Nancy Herman


TRACKS- Sea Gull
6" x 8"
oil on canvs board

If you are feeling that your life has no signifigance, consider this:  everytime you do or say anything your actions create a ripple in the fabric of the Universe.  We leave our tracks.
I am taking a little detour from my examination of shadows and looking at tracks in the sand.  I believe this one was made by a sea gull.  This looks black and white in reproduction but it is actually created with many shades of brown, grey and white.  Sand is actually quite colorfull close up.

Monday, September 24, 2012

BLUE AND WHITE II
An Original Oil Painting
by Claire Beadon Carnell





'Blue and White II'
Oil
9 x 12

A break from the Cape Cod Paintings!   I finished this painting
up in the studio today.  I inherited my love of dishes from
my mother (and her mother), so the desire to collect them
is pretty strong - especially the blue and white ones.
Several years ago I did a large painting of all blue and
white pottery (see below) - this one is smaller and
includes some flowers and grapes.



'Blue and White'
Oil
20 x 30

If you would like to see more of my work,
please visit my website or my blog. If you are
interested in purchasing any of my paintings you see
here on this blog, please contact me.


Claire Beadon Carnell
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Andy Smith, watercolors ~ Lititz, PA

4"x 6" original watercolor ~ A Painting A Day
Steeple Study #1

While in the Berkshires (MA) I started
noticing church steeples. Interesting
architecture and good practice on perspective.
www.andysmithartist.com
www.andysmithartist.blogspot.com

The Red Door by Nancy Herman


THE RED DOOR
9" x 12"
oil on canvas board

The shadows create a lively pattern on this very red door in Brooklyn.
Who lives at 349 and why did they paint their door red?

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Busy Bees at Ashcombe Farms by Daily Painter of Pennsylvania Mary Beth Brath

Busy Bees by Mary Beth Brath
8x10" Acrylic on Canvas
 
The title is so fitting. On Thursday several members of our local plein air group met to paint at a local nursery. The sunflowers were covered with bees working feverishly to complete their purpose. I was having similar feelings with the Daily Painters of Pennsylvania NYC reception just 2 days away.
 
I was distracted.  The painting was not completed on site even though I had plenty of time to finish. I finished the painting today in my home studio.
 
By the way, the opening reception on Saturday was incredible. All of the work was very well received and several guests were taking pictures of the artwork and the attending members. Many contacts were made and business cards exchanged. New friendships were made. Ideas shared. Posts about the day will appear soon for everyone to see. I hope each attending member will write about their experience.

"Tula" Colored Pencil by Charlotte Yealey

 9x12
Colored pencil
 
5x7
Colored pencil
I have been working on several commisson requets of the same dog. This is Tula. She was adopted from an Ibizan Hound rescue in Spain where her mother delivered her and her siblings. Her owner Sue is a very nice Lady from the UK  rescued her and is giving her a wonderful life. Sue asked me to do several colored pencil drawings and these are the first two.


Saturday, September 22, 2012

BOWED HEADS By Cecelia Lyden



 
oil/stretched canvas
11x14
 
It was a glorious day for painting sunflowers outdoors at a local farm. I was happy to be outside in the sun and sweet-smelling fresh air but, the sunflowers looked pathetic, with drooping heads and withering petals, as if they knew the end of summer was near. However, there still was enough color to paint and the heart-shaped leaves made a lively design.

Friday, September 21, 2012

"Point Lobos" pastel by Tatiana Myers.


"Point Lobos" 
11 x 14" pastel on prepared board.

My first work in progress after our trip to California. This is Point Lobos State Park
beautiful place with so much to see and to paint
just a few miles away from Monterey and Carmel.
Very inspirational trip. More to follow.


YOUNG PLEIN AIR PAINTERS By Cecelia Lyden

oil
11x14
 
My young painters sold from the CALC gallery today. I was hoping someone would like these girls engrossed in their artwork.

WIP by Michael LeKites

Untitled. This will be a painting of the Lewes ferry at sunset. Acrylic on canvas, 16x20.


Rockport Blues Watercolors by Daily Painter Bertie Brown

Rockport Blues
original watercolor still lifew/bottle, books: 8" x 11"

with summer concludin'
my house is exudin'
a welcoming style
so do come on in
and visit awhile
I’ll put on some tunes
how’s Beethoven for you?
and we can create
our own unique view
in my small art room
I’ve got Rockport blues
in a bottle or two
a napkin that’s new
and Salem Witch balls
in colorful hues
So if you’ve got time
and paint, any kind
( you could borrow mine)
the still life’s set up
and looks so sublime
BB'12 
Watercolors by Bertie Brown - Art is Instrumental
click: BertiEmail for info
click: BertiesBlog to view more Berties
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"American Goldfinch" by Debra Tritt Kreiger

"American Goldfinch"  7.5"x10 Watercolor on 140lb Arches Paper
Fall is in the air! This is my favorite time of the year! The colors are fabulous. You can view this and many other paintings at my current exhibit at the Charlie Krone Gallery at the New Cumberland Library. Mon-Wed 10-8, Thurs 10-6, Sat 10-5. Last day of the exhibit is Thursday September 27.
To contact me about the purchase of this painting or see more of my work go to www.debkreiger.com or follow my blog at debkreiger.blogspot.com or you can shop in my store, Deb's Gifts.

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Mini Watercolors by Kathy Michels

I have been finishing up my major piece and just took a break and did some minis.  Here are a couple of them.  So fun to do.  I am doing these watercolors on hot press.

www.artbykathymichels.com

SUE MARRAZZO EXHIBITS AT THE ART ASSOCIATION OF HARRISBURG

"Out of the Blue" Fall Membership Show
September 7th - October 11th, 2012
Title: In Too Deep 2
Medium: Acrylic
Substrate: Canvas
For Sale
Copyright artwork created and owned by Sue Marrazzo
Here is one of the paintings I have in the NEW Art Exhibit at the Art Association of Harrisburg.
 I have 2 pieces in this show of 200+ works. 
The Art Association of Harrisburg
21 North Front Street
Harrisburg, PA 17101
www.artassocofhbg.com
It's a GREAT and DIVERSE SHOW..Check it out!


A Plein Air Painting by Rebecca Jennings

"Last of the Hay Harvest"
8 x 16
Oil on prepared luan
Finished on site

This is a field across from where my son lives. I was intrigued by the contrast of the even flow of the
still-green grass against the early fall colors in the brush and goldenrod in the farther fields. This was done as a study and I may do a larger version.

To see more of my work click http://atsunnysplace.blogspot.com  to access my blog.

The Union Church by Mary Beth Brath

Union Church by Mary Beth Brath
11x14" Acrylic on Canvas

This scene is in Mechanicsburg PA. I started it in 2011 and finished it last month for the Local Scenes Exhibit at my gallery.

Next year is the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War in our area. Plans are being made to paint at historic sites around the region in preparation for a special exhibit at the gallery. I am looking forward to painting at many new locations and learning the stories from the past.