KM2980 Twilight’s Magic by Colorado Artist Kit Hevron Mahoney (30x40, oil, landscape, Moab, Southern Utah, sunset, dusk)

I came upon this scene on the way into Moab,Utah last October just as the sun had dropped behind the mountains. It was a magical moment filled with a rainbow of saturated purples, blues and reds. I had to paint this with a brush rather than palette knife as this piece isn't about texture but about expressing the calm magic of twilight when all the busyness of the day’s events set with the sun. For me it is the best time of day as the world seemingly comes to a halt and peace reigns.

 30”x40” oil unframed
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"Land of Indian Spirits" Landscape Artist International Sally Fraser Fine Art

LAND OF INDIAN SPIRITS  by Landscape Artist Sally Fraser

Oil palette knife painting on  19 x 15 board, ready to hang.

Price: $400. 

A Southwest landscape painting with texture created by using a palette knife. 

A lively , colorful oil painting done from my travel photos. Most of my paintings are done in my studio, my favorite spot during the day!

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"Plein-Air Study in an Arizona Garden" Contemporary Landscape Painting by Arizona Oil Painter Mary Opat

"Plein-Air Study in an Arizona Garden"  Landscape Painting by

Arizona Oil Painter Mary Opat

 

10" x 10" Oil on Canvas $135

 

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"South of the Border" Contemporary Landscape Oil Painting by Arizona Artist Mary Opat

"South of the Border" Contemporary Landscape Original Oil Painting

 by Arizona Artist Mary Opat

 

16" x 20" Oil on Canvas $450.00

 

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Cottonwoods and High Desert paintings, painting workshops BECKY JOY

© 2013 Becky Joy         Day 47, Silver and Purple       oil      6 inches x 6 inches        $125.

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Janet Anderson and I went out close to home today to a small pond by her house. Of course, I went for the trees, not the water. This was the second painting today. I was attracted to the silvery sage color against the purples and rusts of the shack. I don't know what kind of tree or bush this is, but they are very typical of the high desert in the west. There were beautiful blues, violets and grays in the bush. I think the trick with this painting was to not have the contrast between the building and the sky on the right take over the composition. InB reality that was the greatest contrast, so I had to make some soft edges, play the contrast down and pump it up more between the bush and the darks of the shed. I painted another tree, a cottonwood, earlier. As I said yesterday, I love the cottonwoods. Below is the first painting.

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© 2013 Becky Joy     Cottonwood Tree    oil    10 inches x 8 inches    

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Day 28, Prickly Pear Cactus with Blossoms Painting BECKY JOY

© 2013 Becky Joy     Prickly Pear Blossoms   oil    6 inches x 6 inches  

Today I spent some time with my daughter and grandkids with a little painting in the morning. This was one of the paintings that I worked on. It was actually a complicated scene with a lot going on in the background. I started painting much more of what I saw then realized I needed to simplify. So, I started by keeping the values close together in all but the shadows on the cactus and what was cast on the ground. I kept the background behind the cactus in different colors and a little cooler and grayer than the foreground creating some distance in the painting.

I pulled out some of paintings from the trip and found that some needed a little more work. Below are a couple of those paintings. I also still need to do some photography for a couple of the paintings from project 125 that I haven't posted. Hopefully, I catch up on all this tomorrow and get paintings ready to ship too.

© 2013 Becky Joy    Idaho Farm    oil on linen     11 inches x 14 inches    

I painted this in Southwest Idaho in the late afternoon before going to my friend Shanna Kunz' house. I love the farms in that area and just had to pull off the interstate to paint. I hadn't eaten lunch by the time I started painting. I was painting away in the heat and felt a little sick toward the end, so I had to pack it up and finish a little bit of the painting in the studio. The clouds needed a little more work and I had to deepen the values of the farm buildings a little. So, that was my job this morning.

© 2013 Becky Joy      Oregon Farm Tree     oil      11 inches x 14 inches  

I painted this one at the old farm in Oregon with my friend Romona Youngquist. I thought I had finished it at the time, but I decided there were two things wrong with it. First, I had a solid line along the field in the light orange color dividing the distant hills and field. I broke that up by adding the small group of trees along that line. It helps to connect the field and the background hills. Secondly, that line was going downhill too much to the right. I raised that line a little on the right. I felt by doing so that it balanced the painting more.

Talk to you all tomorrow when I post some more paintings.

Becky Joy

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Cathedral Rock, 20x20 Oil Painting by Carmen Beecher

After what I went through to get this scene, I thought it deserved a bigger painting, so this one is 20x20 on stretched canvas. My husband and I went to a park, looking for this view of beautiful Cathedral Rock. We turned the wrong way and hiked and hiked, but that was a treat, because it was a beautiful path along the river. We came upon a forest of cairns that people had built of stacked stones--hundreds of them. We finally found the above scene 100 yards from our car after we hiked back. This is a much-photographed Sedona spot, and you can see why.

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Red Rock Crossing, 10x10 Oil on Canvas

This is a scene of Cathedral Rock in Sedona, Arizona. We first hiked in the wrong direction, then we finally found the scene we were hoping for, very close to where our car was parked!

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© 2013 Becky Joy    Ranch Windmill    oil     8 x 10 inches   

The last painting in my studio sale.  Painted on location at a friend's Arizona ranch. With the clouds in the background behind the windmill, it was an afternoon  sky becoming warmer in color. The field had lots of vines and plants overgrowing some of the junk. free shipping in US

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Spanish architecture plein air oil landscape painting BECKY JOY

© 2013 Becky Joy   Tlaquepaque    10x8   oil    

I painted this in Sedona at Tlaquepaque with the Spanish style architectural arches, vines and plants in the pots. the light casting a shadow on the building was one of the main interests for me with the bright red geraniums. Another of my plein air paintings for my studio sale marked down less than 1/2 price.

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Arizona Superstitions plein air oil landscape painting by BECKY JOY

© 2013 Becky Joy    Superstitions     oil   8x10    

The superstition Mountains east of Phoenix, I often go out there to paint. This is one the plein air paintings with the warm colors and blue skies of the southwest. The dark saguaro cactus contrasts against the light background rocks giving the painting depth and atmosphere

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This is another painting from my studio sale

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Desert Saguaro Cactus plein air oil landscape painting BECKY JOY

© 2013 Becky Joy    Desert Saguaro    oil     10 x 8 inches 

My second painting in the studio sale marked more than 1/2 off. I painted this painting in Tucson on top of a hill overlooking the valley. I like the bit of color in the yellow contrasting with the blues and violets of the background.

Next event will be the Plein Air Convention where I will be teaching at the Basics Course and demoing in the field. Hope to see some of you there.

Still a couple of openings in my Troy, OH workshop Aug 15-17

Becky