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Turtle Race
17 Thursday May 2012
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“Tractor Jewel”
17 Thursday May 2012
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abstract realism, acrylic, farm art, medium size painting, photo realism, prints, realism, rural themed, tractor art, tractor painting, unique perspective
Can you figure out what this picture is of? That’s half the fun!
This is a painting of the underside of an Oliver tractor. The sediment jar (which is full of diesel fuel) is back- lit with the sun and round bales sit in the background. (Prints available)
“Holstein Calf”
17 Thursday May 2012
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acrylic, affordable painting, canvas, cows, farm art, farm painting, glaze painting technique, holstein calf painting, inexpensive painting, large painitng, stretched canvas
This serene painting was done as an assignment for a college project where we had to go out to a location and draw a live subject, mapping out the value and color scale on our sketch and then bringing it back to the studio to paint without photo references. It was a challenge for me.
“Puppy Breath”
17 Thursday May 2012
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acrylic, animals, collage, dachshund puppy painting, dachshunds, large art, multimedia, news paper collage, puppies, puppies painted on news paper, puppy painting, sleeping puppies
This painting was indirectly inspired by Picasso, who used bits of magazines and news papers in his collage pieces. Since I prefer realism, I decided to use that technique in a multimedia piece featuring a subject I knew – puppies. What better to accompany news paper, than puppies? As for the arrangement, I wanted to capture the way that puppies sleep in a pile fitting into each other like puzzle pieces. It made an excellent bedroom decoration.
“Mud Fest”
17 Thursday May 2012
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acrylic, action painting, brushy, collage, college events, loose brushwork, loose painting, mud fest, muscular, people, people playing, strength, tug of war
This is a painting that I did in college of an event called Mud Fest. The even consisted of teams from different groups and dorms around campus, attempting to pull each other in to a pit of mud. Afterwards a large slippery slide was provided by the campus fire department for students to have fun cleaning off. It was such a large exciting event that I wanted to document it in the form of a painting. I wanted to create a piece that looked like a collage of snap shots, yet also fit together as a whole. In the bottom panel I wanted to capture the tension and muscles of the men pulling contrasted by the above panels which show freedom and release on the slippery slide. There is a horseshoe shaped composition that runs through all of the paintings to tie them together.
“Two Faced”
17 Thursday May 2012
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acrylic, campus painting, college of the ozarks, College of the Ozarks painting, dusk, fun, hackie sack, large artwork, people, prints, sunset painting
This piece was created at college. I was feeling lonely, even thought I was surrounded by people. Everyone else seemed to have their own click and having fun, but I watched from a distance. I guess that’s how I felt when I painted these friends playing hackie sack in front of the cafeteria. They were having so much fun, but I had to leave the space in the foreground to represent the distance. The title refers to the general tendency of humanity to be able to be sad even while they are having fun on the outside. It is also an irony found in the clock tower which shows two different times on the two visible faces
“Still Life with Gopher Skull”
17 Thursday May 2012
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acrylic, clay cups, fall colors, gopher skull, green painting, large artwork, prints, still life painting
This is one of my first attempts at a fine art still life. I wanted to create a Missouri themed still life, with the colors and subjects that one would find in the woods. Although the gopher skull is native to Colorado, where I found it, I still thought it fit and wanted to use pieces of collectibles that I liked. I loved the structure of animal skulls and liked the way that it mimicked the curves of the clay cups and the holes in the nuts.
“The Fruit of Labor”
17 Thursday May 2012
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acrylic, action art, brushy, farm painting, happy art, hay fields, loose brushwork, loose painting, red undercoat, rural art, stretched canvas
This is one of my first attempts at using a red undercoat to make the foreground pop. I really liked the results and it caused me to push myself to be loose and brushy (another style that I admire and want to get better at). The subject is, in fact, me jumping over windrows in a hayfield. I wanted to portray the freeing feeling I get when I had the whole field to myself. For some reason I feel like I can leap and run as fast as a deer when I am jumping windrows! Yipee! (Prints available)
“American Sparrows”
02 Wednesday May 2012
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acrylic, birds, painting, perspective, purple color theme, sparrows, under a car, unique perspective, Wendy's, wildlife art
I had wanted to paint a picture of sparrows eating fries for a long time, mainly because it intrigued me that these little birds were so adaptable. They were at home in the city, eating human food, even though they are by nature wildlife. It wasn’t until I went to college and started experimenting with perspectives, that I had a breakthrough with the composition and ‘American Sparrows’ happened.
“Amish Pace”
02 Wednesday May 2012
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acrylic, Amish horse, Amish painting, black and red painting, horse, horse painting, large painting, powerful, unique perspective
I like the irony of this piece. Like my painting, American Sparrows, I had had the idea for Amish Pace for years before I painted it. The idea stuck in my mind when my mom told me about an Amish horse she had seen making a left-hand turn across traffic. She described how hard he was pulling and the steam and sweat that he emitted. It emblazoned an image in my mind of the meek Amish horse being used to protest technology, and yet, like no other horse in history, having to compete with modern day traffic. This picture attempts to capture the power of a horse and comparing it to the power of technology.
