Tag: oil painting

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‘Brighter Tomorrow’ at the beach…

‘Brighter Tomorrow’ Oil painting 36″x 48″

     There’s gonna be a brighter day. The sun rises and illuminates your spirit, raising you up from your places of sorrow and regret, fear and loneliness, to rejoin the world and the people of it. The glories of nature are a soothing reminder that so long as we are here, there is something to appreciate. Be at peace. Make amends. Try again. Rise up with the new day and live with the wonder and joy you deserve to feel.

This painting made it to Port A Art Center on January 20th along with ‘Big Whoop II.’  Hopefully you will get to see it in person. It is quite striking, with much brighter colors than I usually employ. The impasto on the foam of the wave is the icing on the cake more or less. 😉

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Thank You!

Hopeful Horizons

     As a painter, I love my supporters more than any of you can know. You keep me going, you are the stream that floats my boat. My desire is to keep creating things to draw our love and attention to what is good and right in the world. When my work is purchased and taken out to your world, the love goes both ways.

Thank you, dear patron, you who purchased this large work from the Port A Art Center this week. I am eternally grateful for the moral and financial support!

36″x48″ Oil Panting ‘Hopeful Horizons’
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Splashdown I is now live and available!

The moment of splashdown is captured. Water rolls away from this adult brown pelican in impasto waves that beckon the viewer closer. On closer look, the fine darker plumage glows in its transparencies of many shades of mahogany. Light reflects off of the wings, expressing the freedom of the sky in it’s echoes of color taken from the background of a colorful horizon.

Beast and environment are one, just as we all yearn to be one within our own environs and communities. Harmony in the work as in the wild.

Traditional oil techniques, including the use of marble dust in the impasto. Framed in a white wooden frame, hanging wire attached and ready to grace your wall!

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Paint a Man a Fish

Imagine your walls with these swimmy fishes decorating them. Luxe. Gorgeous. Fun.

The painting demonstrates traditional oil painting technique. The ‘grisaille and glaze’ method has been used since oil painting was first made. Fish 1 is the sketch, Fish 2 is the grisaille, and Fish 3 has the glaze applied. All in all, a pretty result with ancient historic roots.

Tie into history! Great American Art is here for the catching.

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My Friend, My Foe, The Sea

16″ x 20″ new work oil on canvas

Got to wonder what this pelican is thinking. Sunshine for nothing and fish for free?

The Texas Coast is beautiful and rich in its wildlife. Imagine warm breezes blowing across your skin. The gentle waves roll over your toes. Keep that feeling. Return to it again and again.


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Magic Man

Every Friday brings an opportunity for Arnica Grace to paint a person from life. Austin Visual Arts Association studios are a great place to make works on the spot. Painting together with other life painting enthusiasts makes for a friendly and fun work environment. Notable Austin heavy hitters Phillip Wade, Eve Larson, and Johnnie Sielbeck also paint in Arnica’s Friday crew.

The model brings their own clothing and in this case, props. Highly unusual to have a man in a kilt holding a crystal ball show up to be painted. What a nice change of pace!

Call the artist to arrange for purchase of this 11 x 14 image.