Carol Steinberg

Nocturne Palm Studies

Posted on September 12, 2018 by Carol Steinberg

Nocturne Palm Studies, oil, 8 x 8

Just thought I’d play around with different ideas on how to paint darkness in the city, using oils this time. before I attempted the actual piece.

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8 thoughts on “Nocturne Palm Studies”

Sharon Kullberg says:

September 13, 2018 at 3:12 am

I love the looseness of this, Carol. It’s a great piece in itself, beautiful colors.

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- Carol Steinberg says:
  
  September 13, 2018 at 6:49 pm
  
  Thank you, Sharon!
  
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Kyla says:

September 13, 2018 at 6:27 am

You have such an incredible eye for playing with color and loose strokes.

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- Carol Steinberg says:
  
  September 13, 2018 at 6:49 pm
  
  Thank you, Kyla!
  
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laurelle says:

September 13, 2018 at 12:01 pm

These are gorgeous just like this. I’d frame the four of them together as one piece.

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- Carol Steinberg says:
  
  September 13, 2018 at 6:49 pm
  
  Thanks for the tip, Laurelle! I may just do that!
  
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Carol Edan says:

September 14, 2018 at 1:55 am

I am very partial to oils.. am loving this series! Bottom right is my favorite…maybe because I see this combination in real life!

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- Carol Steinberg says:
  
  September 14, 2018 at 6:49 pm
  
  Thanks! My boyfriend picked that one too!
  
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Carol Steinberg, Los Angeles, CA, United States My work walks the edge between traditional and modern, feminine and masculine, expressive and calculated, the light and the dark. I have been oil painting since I was 8 years old. My first paintings were of the Breck Shampoo Girl illustrations on the backs of magazines. I now believe I was engaged in an attempt to connect with the Feminine as a result of not living with my mother from the age of 3. I felt a deep need to express myself and my pain through painting and writing. Eventually I came to a place of wanting to paint for its own sake and I chose flowers as a vehicle to allow me to explore with color, light, and composition, to play with paint, squeezing and mixing luscious colors onto my palette and canvas. I’m not interested in the subject as I work, but in an abstract game with rules that allow me to ultimately dance with energy–emotional and spiritual. Again, I enjoy the paradoxical edge of the surface skin of paint that alludes to a deeper reality that unifies it all. I want to express/allow freedom, joy, spirit.