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Someone brought this bottle to my Open Studio. I’m not so into wine as much as I love the colors of the bottle and how it looked on my wooden kitchen table with a little bouquet of roses and a small box of chocolates, red, red, red. I seem to go in color cycles. Happy New Year!
The other one was so much fun I thought I’d give it another shot.
Bought a poinsettia, my first ever, for the open house. Fell in love with the red heating up the cold weather, short days. Don’t usually get to use this much red. Fun!
Here I am at the Santa Clarita Art Association meeting doing a demo of loose floral painting. It was a lot of work to bring all my stuff out there. I felt like I was about to Occupy Barnes and Nobles (the meeting location). But the group was very appreciative. Some even contacted me later to say I had inspired them to paint again!
Working on this piece based on the sketch at Pierce and a photo for the last couple weeks. I like the blue sky reflecting off the cow hides and the bright green grass.
Schlepped out to Pierce College to do some plein air painting so as to submit for the Rural Remnants of the San Fernando Valley show at Galleria Gitana. I set up and had been painting for about 20 minutes when a tractor pulled up and parked literally in front of the view I was painting. It ran out of gas at that precise moment. Luckily, I’m flexible, and just moved my easel and started over. Those are cows in the shade of the trees.
I worked this up from a photo a friend posted on Facebook after I asked permission. I like the symmetry of it.
A painting from imagination during a “Bliss Weekend” with Shiloh McCloud. I don’t usually work this way. Also it’s acrylic instead of oil and you can’t see it but there’s a lot of glitter on it. What do you think?
A larger painting that took most of September to finish. |
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. |
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