Glorious Morning

 

Glorious Morning

30" x 40" Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas

Contemporary Landscape/Seascape

Perched up on an rocky island is a little white chapel in the Aegean Sea.  Looking at this view every morning in Greece was fabulous.  The locals told us that Easter was the only time the chapel is used, as you have to take a small boat from Naxos to get there, then take the steps that lead up to the chapel.  The colors in the sea were amazing.  I used a palette knife, wide brushes and rubber tools used for ceramics to apply the oils.  Thanks for looking at my art...Kay

Glorious Morning

 

Glorious Morning

30" x 40" Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas

Contemporary Seascape Painting

Thanks for looking at my blog!  Kay

Morning View in Naxos - Sold!

Morning View In Naxos

Sold

8" x 8" Oil on Museum Quality Panel

Contemporary Seascape

This painting is all framed up and has a new home in Chicago!
More painting in the studio today....Thanks for looking at my blog.
Kay

Jackson Hole Chapel #2

Jackson Hole Chapel

Oil on Linen

9" x 12"

This is the last painting I will post of the chapel...I like the front door open, so the eye looks thru the building, all the way back to the landscape. At one time I had a path painted to the front door, but decided that it detracted from the chapel. This painting is very handsome in a dark wood frame with a gold liner. Thanks for visiting my blog!

Jackson Hole Chapel #3

Jackson Hole Chapel

Painting #3

Oil on 8" x 36" Gallery Wrap Canvas

I can post this painting now that it has been given to Raymond and Marydel as a Christmas gift from daughter Carrie. After painting two versions of this chapel, I was not satisfied. So I started slapping the paint on the mountains with a palette knife and got loose on this canvas. At one point the grass in the foreground was green.....and it blended in too much with the aspen trees. So I did scrape the paint off the fence and ground. I have been known to have "issues" with green before....everyone at the studio knows that I can get into trouble with green paint. So I used Naples Yellow, Yellow Ochre and some Raw Umber on the ground. Tomorrow I will post the second painting....Have a great day, and thanks for viewing my blog!

Jackson Hole Chapel

Jackson Hole Chapel

Oil on Linen

9" x 12"

This is one of three paintings that I have completed of a chapel in Jackson Hole. Carrie Harris asked me to paint the chapel so that she could give to her parents for a Christmas gift. The mountains and aspens were so much fun to paint. Since I have not seen this chapel, I had to rely on Carrie's photographs for reference. This is painted on linen...which gives the painting a very smooth texture compared to the canvas that I normally paint on. Tomorrow I will post painting number two. This is painting is very handsome in a dark plein air frame. This painting will be for sale once it is framed....Carrie decided that she liked painting number three and that is what is under her Christmas tree....so I will post that one in a couple of days. Three different paintings, three different interpretations....all the same subject matter. It was a good painting challenge for me. I just hope that Carrie's gift is a hit with her parents!