Variations

I am now working on variations of the wildflower series. I am abstracting the wildflower scenes and doing some paintings of weeds and grasses. I know I need to work some larger paintings, but I love the 12" x 12" format and have just ordered some more canvases. Guess that means more 12 x 12 paintings! Also, I am concentrating on using new colors; I am tired of doing green and blue for landscapes. I am really trying to use reds and yellows for warm paintings and use arbitrary colors for landscape scenes. I am attaching a painting that is an abstraction of red poppies.

More Wildflowers

I am posting another of my wildflower paintings. This series of paintings is done with acrylic paint on 12" x 12" canvas. I am almost finished with this series with the last few done in a more expressionistic style than the first ones. I love painting with this size canvas, but I think I need to tackle some larger works next.

Another Wildflower Painting

I am enjoying working on paintings of wildflowers as they are blooming now and are so beautiful. I find that I really am influenced and tend to be interested in painting what is around me. I am working with images that are fairly realistic, as in recognizable; then I move to abstract them and hopefully onto non-objective interpretations. Painting with a palette knife helps me to abstract.