This is Weekly Small Format Art Landscape #4 2008.
This 4×6 original oil landscape was started on Monday and was the only artwork I did for the day. At the time, I didn’t think it would survive because I was dealing with a day of depression and had to force myself paint something. Anything!
Toward the end of the day, I picked up a scrap of canvas, mixed some paint and used a palette knife to more or less trowel paint onto the canvas. No big deal. The entire idea was to put paint on something and I figured all week I would have to do a ‘real painting’ at some point in order to meet the challenge.
When I looked around for something to paint last night (other than Gray Day in Concord), I noticed this canvas. It wasn’t great, but maybe it was salvageable. Besides, I was in a generous mood and decided to see what could be done with it.
The results speak for themselves. All of the work last night was brush work, but I didn’t take off any of the knife edges so the painting surface presents an interesting texture.
I also used transparent colors in the landscape and let some of the original painting influence the finished painting.
The only thing that is absolutely new is the tree, which immediately became the subject of the painting.
The only thing left to do is put my signature on it once the paint dries and think of a title.
Weekly SMA Landscape #4 2008
6 x 4
Original Oil on unstretched Artfix Belgian linen canvas
$100 unframed plus shipping
©Copyright 2008 by Carrie Lewis. See original post here.
To learn more about this artist, visit Carrie Lewis’s website.
Time to pick up work on this large landscape again. It has been sitting idle while I work on other projects, but now that those projects are in an idle phase, it’s time to get back to work on this one.
It has been a busy eight days at the Carriage Factory Gallery. Last Saturday was our major annual summer event, the Celebration of Sound & Color.
Another third Wednesday, another colored pencil circle at the Carriage Factory Gallery, another working session on this colored pencil of a black Morgan mare.
My 2007 ACEO Landscape Painting A Day galleries are now live on 
Some very good work went into the portrait of October Skies last evening.
This is the week’s Weekly Small Format Landscape challenge painting.
The day’s events actually began the evening of Friday, July 11. Neal and I returned from Wichita, where I attended a writer’s workshop at 
But the day’s events were indoors, so we pressed on.
Concurrent with the watercolor class upstairs was a book signing downstairs.
After that, Cally joined the audience and Diane treated us to a selection of pieces on her fiddle, which she said was over 100 years old when she purchased it.
The sun had been making some bashful appearances by then and the parking lot was dry except for the low areas, which we were able to work around. Chairs were set up for the band and the audience and the band arrived, as did audience members.
The concert itself was a great success, as it always has been. A good and appreciative audience was treated to an hour’s worth of music that began with The Star Spangled Banner and ended with Stars & Stripes Forever. In between were such varied pieces as a medley from Hairspray, Rhythm Dance, Handel on the Strand and Yakety Sax.
The day ended with the drawing for door prizes and fifteen lucky winners took home prizes as varied as two dozen glazed donuts from an excellent, local donut shop to a $45 gift basket from Prairie Harvest and a beautiful scarf/earring/pendant set from Katherine’s, both in Newton.
I suppose I could have been more productive in the studio, but this will, in all likelihood, be my last day off from gallery business or other appointments until Sunday.
On Monday, I began the final phase of this portrait: the water.
A Day at the Lake is my small format landscape for this week.
Mackerel Skies Over the Flint Hills is now complete.
Because both the current portrait (October Skies) and the current week’s small landscape (Mackerel Skies Over the Flint Hills) were still too wet to work on, I spent last evening’s studio time doing something different. I worked on ACEO landscapes.
Two new ACEO landscapes to introduce today.
With two ACEOs with red tones and two ACEOs with brown tones drying side-by-side, I can see a little bit of influence through the local color.
An artist friend and I have been talking about maintaining motivation and momentum in the studio. Both of us have reported periods of great energy, as well as periods of great lethargy when it comes to painting.
The reason I am not a weather forecaster is that I can look at radar and still not guess right! I said yesterday that the radar out of Wichita looked like we would have rain most of the day. I was going to take my camera to work and get shots of rainy light. Remember that?
So Approaching Storm is officially complete, signed and everything. It even has the appropriate notations on the back (title, date, signature, background information, etc.)
Both cards are archival mat board prepared with three coats of gesso all around (including the edges), then toned with Alizarin Crimson.
