A landscape and a still life - Mark H Brown

It is good to post my new work after a forced break dealing with a computer virus and a sickness virus.  Sometimes the forced breaks from creating artwork allow one to return fresh with a new perspective.  I finished the peaches, which joins the apples and plums in the new series of lighter background still life.  My fascination with the way glass distorts and reflects color continues.  I have another one in the works with bananas! 

The landscape was painted with Acrylics.  It is a study for a new body of work my wife and I are working on together.  They are abstracted landscapes.  The acrylics allowed for very quick successive layers and a wonderful feel to the light.  By using the regular golden acrylics and then using their "open" acrylics it allowed my to paint differently then when using oil.  For the first time I must say I'm enjoying using acrylics.  They have come along way.

Bathed in Sunlight

12 x 16

oil on Gessoboard

available

Peaches in Glass

14 x 14

Oil on Canvas

available

Promenade by Bertie Brown

Promenade

Let the pear and pomegranate

Promenade begin

Over Matisse inspired fabric

They all march in

Three Pears in a bowl

That’s my grandma’s, really old

The bottle behind

Dates back to an earlier time

The spoon in the foreground

Brings us right in

The stripes in the background

Keep our eye down

And all of these elements

Keep our eye traveling

Around and around.

BB’10

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