Valentine Bouquet

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Flowers from my hubby for Valentines Day!  I've been yearning to paint flowers again but a little afraid due to unsuccessful attempts from previous flower paintings.  Time is a good healer, allowing me to forget past failures.  I love the leaf shapes in this bouquet, they were begging to be painted.

Due to the limitation and inconsistencies of various display monitors, the colors you see on your screen may not be a totally accurate reproduction of the actual painting but I work to get the best likeness possible.

(c) Deborah Ann Kirkeeide

A Place To Sit

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I am yearning for summer but it was the shapes from the house and umbrella that caught my interest.  The photo reference is from a friends patio a few years ago; it had a big dark planter behind the table that ruined the cool shape on the house so I removed it.  Creative license is so great!  Anyway I had fun with this, and looking forward to sitting in a warm place again to soak up the sun.

Due to the limitation and inconsistencies of various display monitors, the colors you see on your screen may not be a totally accurate reproduction of the actual painting but I work to get the best likeness possible.

(c) Deborah A. Kirkeeide

Winter plein air painting in MN

Yes I really did paint outdoors this February morning with my plein air group from the Rum River Art Center (Anoka, MN) using my oil paints.  Not sure of the temp but it was in the teens; the high for today will only be 28 degrees with snow coming in late afternoon.  It was calm out, no frigid wind blowing to make it intolerable.  We dressed warm and had a building we could warm up in.  It was great fun and only my toes complained a bit about the cold, otherwise no problems except trying to open tubes of paint with gloved hands.  Now I can say I've painted outdoors in a Minnesota winter, I'm truly a plein air painter!  I even like my little painting. 


(c) Deborah Ann Kirkeeide

Succulence

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This is one of the paintings where I experimented with high flow acrylics for an under painting (see below).  I used the high flow acrylics as a washy value study which turned out pretty fun all by itself. I tried to save some of that cool drippy texture in the completed painting leaving the background very sketchy.  I learned a bunch from this experiment and hope to incorporate and continue to work with the high flow washes and drips.  My other under painting did not turn out so good in fact it will be a do over.  It turned out dark and for some reason in a much tighter style but that failure led to my success with Succulence. So which do you prefer, the completed painting or the under study wash?

Due to the limitation and inconsistencies of various display monitors, the colors you see on your screen may not be a totally accurate reproduction of the actual painting but I work to get the best likeness possible.

(c) Deborah A. Kirkeeide