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 ©
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 ©
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 ©
Crow #4. I painted this piece without the ribbon and felt something was missing. Doing a little research I discovered some interesting stories about crows sometimes leaving gifts for people who feed them. Although those gifts are probably more like rocks or shells the ribbon made a better composition especially with the addition of the red. And who knows crows are fascinating creatures who can surprise us, even with a red ribbon.
Deborah Ann Kirkeeide ©
Crow painting #3. Using a palette knife is new for me, the process and textures are amazing. Also it was a lot of fun experimenting with the background colors on this piece, just doing whatever in the moment. Even though crows seem to be basically black there is much more color in their feathers than you think.
Deborah Ann Kirkeeide ©
This started out as a landscape only and was painted a while back. Although I liked the painting it needed something to finish so it sat and sat. I thought maybe a cow in the field but that didn't feel right. Eventually other things grabbed my attention, holidays came and went then someone commissioned me to do a crow. The light bulb went off and the crows ended up being the perfect something. Did you know that a group of crows is called a murder of crows? I think it might have to do with superstitions but check it out.
I use professional heavy body acrylics and Ampersand gessobord is an acid free museum series panel.
Deborah Ann Kirkeeide ©
