Beach scene exercise

 

6x8' acrylic on Ampersand Gessobord

This was a quick little exercise for me.  I had fun painting with my granddaughter who was visiting someone in Sicily and shared this view of the beach from the apartment balcony.  We painted together via FaceTime which works out great since she also lives in California.  Sometimes technology can be wonderful, it allows us to share and create together.  Other times you want to throw everything out the window.  And yes, I would rather have been sitting on that balcony! 

Deborah Ann Kirkeeide ©

Solo Show Information

 If you live around the Anoka MN area I wanted to share more information regarding my upcoming solo show.  All are welcome!  This is the backside of my postcard.  Getting excited!  Still a few more details left to do.  What a super busy summer so far, with our 50th wedding anniversary to celebrate, great grandchild to visit, daughter's visit from CA and all the regular summer to enjoy.  And it's not over yet!  Hopefully I will get back to painting when the dust settles.

Love to see you, meet you and talk art!  I always love to talk art.

Deborah Ann Kirkeeide

Captured by Color show

 Just a heads up to let you know my paintings will be on display at the Rumriver Art Center's 21 Step Gallery beginning September 13th - October 11th.  So if you live in or around Anoka MN I'd love to have you stop by.  More information coming later.  

Deborah Ann Kirkeeide ©

Polka Dot Play

Click Here For More Info:  8x8 inches, acrylic on 1/8" Ampersand Gessobord

My favorite artist was playing with some polka dot paintings so I was eager to try.  Couldn't this be a still life in Minnie Mouse's house?  All those bright colors and dots!  The 50's were a great time for polka dots, they just say have fun.

This painting is varnished and ready to go!

Deborah Ann Kirkeeide ©

Earthscape

 

Acrylic on wrapped canvas, 18x24 inches

This piece was completed awhile ago, it just needed to sit until I decided it was finished.  A few tweaks were added early today before giving the painting my approval.  Another experimental piece using a print making roller, palette knives then brushes making their entry at the end.  I love how the abstracted forms were pulled together by some detail.  The only reference used was the little farm building at the top.  

The painting will be for sale in my show coming up Sept. 13th at the Rumriver 21 Step Gallery,  Anoka MN.  More on that later!

Deborah Ann Kirkeeide ©

Poultry Pageant

 

Acrylic, 10x20 inch on a wide cradled canvas.  

I've been laid up with a bug for over 3 weeks while the painting waited impatiently to be completed.  The canvas sat around in my studio for several years waiting for the perfect subject matter.  Seems I'm stuck on birds lately having painted three different crow paintings in a row.  I love birds and have made our yard bird friendly in order to watch their antics along with the squirrels.  A photo reference from pixabay.com inspired me for this piece but needed some editing to fit the canvas and work out other issues.  I edited the photo quite a bit pumping up the colors, adding the fun decorative details like stripes and checkers.  One of the end chickens faced looking out of the picture, flipping it to face the other chickens made a better composition. 

Deborah Ann Kirkeeide ©

The Evolution Of An Abstract In 4 Stages - "Abundance"

 

This is #4 the final of a recently completed abstract that took over a year before it felt done.  The other stages are posted below.  It was painted on a 16 x12 inch deep cradled canvas found lying about in my studio and using professional acrylic paint.  I had no plans just decided to slap paint around and work on it between projects using left over paint.  You can see below that the painting started out very different in the beginning (#1 below) and very little of the original remained in the final.  The first two stages were worked with brushes, the last two stages I brought out the palette knives and reworked.  The palette knives gave it life as I tend to get putsy with brushes.  Click on the images to enlarge.  Also it started out horizontal, during the process it was turned multiple times until it ended vertical.

Deborah Ann Kirkeeide ©