plein air Best of Show & Salon International

by Becky Joy on February 5, 2012

plein air Best of Show & Salon International
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Hi everyone,
I’ve had a great week, but busy one. I’ve had two commissions to finish, which should be tomorrow. Today I took some time off to do to a plein air event in Glendale, AZ. The city hosts a one day plein air show. Last night I decided I had better go to it, because they had some good prizes. I painted two paintings, the first in the old town area of a couple of houses. I spent too much time on it and was off a little on the perspective. Time didn’t help it. The second one I went out to Saguaro Ranch Park which is an old farm and citrus orchard. There are also various old buildings and farm equipment. I’m always a sucker for old stuff and junk. I found an old tractor and had a great time painting it. I was really fortunate to get Best of Show and win $1000. So, it was a great day!
Old Tractor 11″x14″ oil
Red Rocks 9″x12″ oil
Reflection 11″x14″ oil
The Fence 8″x10″ oil
I found out this week that all three of the paintings, The Fence, Reflection and Red Rocks were accepted to the Salon International Show at Greenhouse Gallery. This is my third year in the show. Such a treat to be in the show. The gallery really respects and treats the artists so well. Also, such an honor to be among some really fine artists.
Becky Joy
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Arizona Wash oil painting landscapes of the Southwest

by Becky Joy on January 29, 2012

Arizona Wash oil landscape painting
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“Arizona Wash” oil 11″x14″ $600. Click here to buy.

I spent the day in the studio painting and oil landscape and preparing canvas  for painting. I needed to record a video for my online oil painting workshop for brushwork. I chose a photo to work from. Drawn to the bright yellow trees in the wash with the contrast of the dark rocks behind them, I moved things around and changed colors a little. I wanted the light yellow/greens of the trees contrasting against the dark warm violets of the rocks. It was a fun painting to paint with the texture and colors. Rocks are always something that I enjoy painting.

Feb is just a few days away. I have my PDF Febuary 2012 calendar page ready for you to  download on the home page.

My website Art Workshops Online has a new article about my value sketches with photo below from my sketchbook.

Becky Joy

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From small to big oil landscape painting, rocks, water

From small to big oil landscape painting, rocks, water

Pin it I starting painting this from a plein air painting that I had several months ago. I quickly blocked it in and did some work to it. I sent off the plein air painting called, The Source” oil 9×12″, to the American Impressionist Society National Show. The painting sold right away. So, I no [...]

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Plein air oil landscape painting metal sculpture junk

Plein air oil landscape painting metal sculpture junk

Pin itHi everyone! Kit’s Library of Visual Solutions 14″x11″ plein air oil $600. Click here to buy. I had such a fun time painting out on location today. Not the typical pretty picture, but a painting of metal “junk”. Or, as my friend Aryana says ” Kit’s Library of Visual Solutions”. I went to my [...]

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Arizona Centennial Art Exhibit oil Painting

Arizona Centennial Art Exhibit oil Painting

Pin it  This is a post on my 5 C’s Art Project blog. A project and art exhibitions celebrating the Arizona Centennial. Follow our visual journey as we paint about the 5 C’s, 5 C’s Art Project. Cotton, Irrigation is On, oil 11″x14″ by Becky Joy Irrigation in the Arizona desert is vital to the [...]

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Golden Aspen oil landscape painting by Becky Joy

Golden Aspen oil landscape painting by Becky Joy

Pin itHi everyone, I finally finished this painting, a 36″x32″ oil. I started it about 6 months ago, lost interest or momentum on it. Set it aside. And got it back out yesterday. I worked on it yesterday, thought I was finished, but no. I went to photograph it today and realized I still needed [...]

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Twilight water, trees oil landscape painting by Becky Joy

Twilight water, trees oil landscape painting by Becky Joy

Pin itI started with a photo of the water and trees to get the shapes. Then created a mood by changing the lighting and adding the house, lights and reflection. The photo was taken on the Swan River in Montana in Big Fork. I’m holding the painting back to submit to a show. This is [...]

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Preparing for online workshop

Preparing for online workshop

Pin itToday I spent some time preparing for my upcoming online workshop. I needed to work on some new videos. Each week there is a focus on a lesson in painting along with the paintings that the students complete during the week. The first lesson focuses on value studies. I made a demo video of [...]

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Sedona Plein air oil painting

Sedona Plein air oil painting

Pin it Hi everyone, I’ve been busy working in my studio this afternoon finished paintings and going through them to figure out which ones I will submit to shows. Since the first of the year, I have already submitted to four shows.  The applications for a lot of the shows are about 6 months in [...]

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Last Light Texas Hill Country oil painting

Last Light Texas Hill Country oil painting

Pin itLast Light oil 11×14″  $600. Click here to buy. I worked in the studio today trying to finish some paintings for shows. I had some ideas to start on, but this one won out today. I started with a photo from the Texas Hill Country. When I was staying at my son’s home, I [...]

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Mountain Light Sunset Oil Painting

Mountain Light Sunset Oil Painting

Pin it Mountain Light oil 6″ x 8″ $150. Click here to bid. I made a little drawing over the weekend and had a definite concept in mind. I searched through photos and came up with a photo from Colorado with the meandering stream flowing through the valley. I played with the color and came [...]

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Sunset Daily Oil Painting

Sunset Daily Oil Painting

Pin it Sunset Glow 6″x6″ oil landscape $95. click here to bid. Hi everyone, I played with color today. I thought I would post my source on this painting so that you could see how I often work. I had an old photo that I started with, then let my imagination take over with color. [...]

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The Grand Canyon a little one

The Grand Canyon a little one

Pin it“Over the Edge” 6″x6″ oil landscape $95. Click here to bid. Today wasn’t an especially great painting day. I wiped off two paintings. I think that the problem was that I just didn’t have a real clear idea of what I wanted to paint. So, I decided to paint this 6×6 from a plein [...]

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Apple Shed plein air painting

Apple Shed plein air painting

Pin it The Apple Shed 8″x10″ oi plein air $400. Click here to purchase. This was painted during the fall in Central CA. A friend took me to an organic Farm. I opted to paint this cute little shed weighted down by the morning glories. It’s still standing. What can I say? Becky Joy http:artworkshopsonline.com [...]

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Looking down on Rocks, cactus and canyon

Looking down on Rocks, cactus and canyon

Pin it Looking Down  30×30 oil on linen panel.

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Nocturne from the neighborhood

Nocturne from the neighborhood

Pin it Neighborhood Nocturne 5×7 oil on canvas panel. Click here to bid starting at $95. Hi everyone, I’ve been remiss on not posting any new small works. I’ve had a lot of business things to take care of, packing and shipping paintings, phone calls, show apps, etc, etc.  This is a nocturne from my [...]

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Another Day, another sunset

Another Day, another sunset

Pin it High Desert Sunset oil 6×6  $95. Click here to bid. I haven’t posted too much this week. I’ve been working on some larger pieces for some gallery works. Also, I spent some time “out in the field” painting and getting information for my project The 5 C’s for Arizona’s Centennial. So, I felt [...]

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Rocks in the Afternoon

Rocks in the Afternoon

Pin itDesert Rocks 6X6 oil $95. Click here to bid. This is a small daily painting of the rocks and mountains in the desert of North Scottsdale/Carefree area. At sunset the mountains and the rocks take on a warm glow. I liked the warm cool patterns in this scene. Take care, Becky Joy beckyjoy@beckyjoy.com http://artworkshopsonline.com

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Sunset Road to a larger painting

Sunset Road to a larger painting

Pin itSunset Road oil 5×7 $95. Click here to bid. I painted this yesterday as a study for a larger painting that I am working on in the studio. The painting on the easel is 24″x36″. I will try and take some photos as I am working on it.  I had a photo of a [...]

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reworking, reworking, finally a painting

reworking, reworking, finally a painting

Pin it The Setting Sun 6×6 oil landscape $75. Click here to bid. I have to admit, today was not a good painting day. I kept trying, wiping off and reworking until finally, I got a painting. But then the photo isn’t so good. Back to that tomorrow. I have a hard time giving up. [...]

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Sedona Oak Creek Plein air by Becky Joy

Sedona Oak Creek Plein air by Becky Joy

Pin itCreekside Bush 6×6 oil $75. Click here to bid. I painted this while in Sedona after the plein air festival. I went out with Peggy Immel from Taos and with our host to paint. This was the second piece quickly painted in while we were finishing up. It was really a great show and [...]

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Mexican buildings garden oil landscape painting

Mexican buildings garden oil landscape painting

Pin it Arches 10 x 8 oil landscape $400. This is one of my paintings from the Sedona Plein Air Invitational. I didn’t have the values quite deep enough, but I loved the colors and composition. So, I repainted some of this one today. This was painted during the quick draw at Tlaquepaque, a unique [...]

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Taos, NM plein air oil truck landscape

Taos, NM plein air oil truck landscape

Pin it Taos, NM truck, plein air oil, 6×8, $75. Click here to bid. I painted this a while back when I was traveling the high road between Taos and Santa Fe. I’ve always been a sucker for antique autos. I love the history and the imagination that goes with it. Who drove the truck, [...]

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"River Bend" daily oil landscape painting

“River Bend” daily oil landscape painting

Pin it“River Bend” 6×6 oil on canvas panel $75. click here to bid on DPW This is a scene from the Clackamas River near my parents and grandparents farm. I have been rafting down this river several times and this is the place that we would get out of the river, a lazy bend in [...]

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"Sunset Warmth" oil landscape daily painting

“Sunset Warmth” oil landscape daily painting

Pin it“Sunset Warmth” 6×6″ oil landscape $75. Click here to bid on DPW This also is from my series of sky paintings. I used both a brush and palette knife on the painting. It’s an impressionist painting with the bit of color reflection of the sun and sky leading you into the scene. I love [...]

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View of the Columbia plein air

View of the Columbia plein air

Pin it “View of the Columbia River” 6×8 oil landscape $125. Click here to bid on DPW This is a plein air painting of a plant just starting to turn fall colors on the banks of the Columbia River Gorge. I was on the Washington side looking across the river at houses in Oregon. The [...]

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High Desert Sunset oil painting

High Desert Sunset oil painting

Pin it“High Desert Sunset” 5×7″ oil landscape $75. Click here to bid. DPW auction I painted this as part of my series of sunset and sky paintings. I’m always drawn to roads. It adds a mystery to the painting and leads the viewer into the scene. Color also plays a very important part of my [...]

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Rising Moon oil painting

Rising Moon oil painting

Pin it “Rising Moon” 6″x6″ oil on canvas panel. $75. DPW auction. Click here to bid. I just got back a couple of days ago from California. First I participated in the San Luis Obispo Plein Air. I was really pleased with the painting that I did in the area. It is a favorite place [...]

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The Superstitions oil landscape

The Superstitions oil landscape

Pin itThe Superstitions 18×24 oil by Becky Joy I’ve painted at the Superstitions many times and I used to stop there in the late afternoon after visiting my son when he lived close to the Superstitions. The afternoon sunlight on the mountains around the desert glow with a warm light, absolutely beautiful. This painting has [...]

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Mt Hood Plein Air Vineyard painting

Mt Hood Plein Air Vineyard painting

Pin it Mt. Hood 6×6 oil landscape. $75. Click here to bid. I painted this in Washington looking across the Columbia Gorge onto Mt. Hood in Oregon.  I was participating in the Pacific Northwest Plein Air Festival in Hood River along the Gorge. We spent the morning at a vineyard in Washington. This was my [...]

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The Corner House plein air daily painting

The Corner House plein air daily painting

Pin it The Corner House 6×6 oil landscape $75.  Click here to bid I painted this in Prescott, AZ as a demo in a workshop that I taught. The last day of the workshop  we went to town to paint some old homes.  The trees shade a lot of the homes making it difficult to [...]

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Old McDonald's Truck

Old McDonald’s Truck

Pin it Old McDonald’s Truck 6×8 oil landscape Click here to bid starting at $100…Coming soon! This is a plein air painting from the workshop that I taught in Prescott last week. We painted at the McDonald Farm where there was all kinds of stuff including several old trucks and old farm equipment. This was [...]

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Sunrise

Sunrise

Pin itSUNRISE 6×6 landscape oil on canvas board Click here to bid. Starting bid $75. I got up early this morning and saw the wonderful clouds that just had to be painted. I quickly grabbed the easel, paints and brushes and got to work on this plein air painting.  Of course, the light was changing [...]

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Prescott Workshop

Prescott Workshop

Pin it Prescott House, Morning 9×12 oil $500. Click here to purchase. This was the last day of a 3 day plein air workshop that I taught in Prescott, AZ. It was a small class of several people that I already knew. We had a lot of fun going to some new places and painting [...]

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Roses Still Life oil painting by Becky Joy

Roses Still Life oil painting by Becky Joy

Pin it Roses and Grapes 8×10 oil. $450. Click here to buy. This is a painting that had been around for a while, but not finished. Today I took it out of storage and added a few details and a little more color in places. It was a fun piece to paint with the leaves [...]

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Talavera and Oranges Still Life Painting

Talavera and Oranges Still Life Painting

Pin itTalavera and Oranges 11 x 14 oil $550. Click here to buy. Hi everyone, I finished this still life today with the talavera pottery coffee pot, oranges and grapes. I added the glass vase with foliage, because I like a more informal still life and I liked the reflections. Both the oranges and grapes [...]

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Flower Field oil landscape painting by Becky Joy

Flower Field oil landscape painting by Becky Joy

Pin itFLOWER FIELD oil 12×16 $800. Click here to buy. Hi on this great Tuesday, The weather is starting to cool down here in Phoenix now. It was a wonderful morning to sit outside for breakfast. Lots of interesting clouds to look at too. And you know, that’s one of the things that I love [...]

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Morning Reflection oil painting

Morning Reflection oil painting

Pin it “Morning Reflection” oil 18×24 $1650. Click here to purchase. Hi everyone! I received an honorable mention with Morning Reflection at the Arizona Plein Air Artists Annual Show in Sedona, AZ. The second painting that I entered received the Artists’ Choice Award. This was a painting from my imagination. I wanted to use a [...]

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Afternoon Light on the Rocks by BECKY JOY

Afternoon Light on the Rocks by BECKY JOY

Pin it Afternoon Light on the Rocks 6×8 oil on canvas panel. To buy click here. Long day here in the studio. Still trying to catch up on things. Why does it take so long? Is it me? This plein air painting is another one from the Columbia River. I was in Washington looking across [...]

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Sunflowers and Pomegranates oil still life painting

Sunflowers and Pomegranates oil still life painting

Pin itSunflowers and Pomegranates 24×18″ oil on canvas $1650.  To buy click here. Hi everyone, Some of you may not even know that I paint still lifes. It has been way too long since I have. I used to paint them fairly often, especially sunflowers. So, I figured that it was time to do so. [...]

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Columbia River Plein air painting

Columbia River Plein air painting

Pin it Morning on the Columbia oil 6×6″ $150. To buy click here. This is one of the first paintings that I painted while at the Northwest Plein Air in Hood River. I was on the Washington side of the river looking toward the morning sun in the east. I liked the slight bit of [...]

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Approaching Fall

Approaching Fall

Pin itApproaching Fall 6×8″ oil $200. To buy click here. I’m finally back home from my Oregon trip, visiting family, friends and participating in the plein air show in Hood River along the gorge. I met some new friends and got to know some a little better. It was a great trip. I really enjoyed [...]

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Big Ol' Blue Oil Painting

Big Ol’ Blue Oil Painting

Pin itBig Ol’ Blue 6×6 oil on canvas panel $150. Click here to purchase. Hi everyone, Another great day at the office! This is another old truck that I saw around Taos. The big truck looms over the hillside which gives it more power, although I’m sure the power is gone in this one. In [...]

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JEEPERS, oil painting of an old jeep

JEEPERS, oil painting of an old jeep

Pin it Jeepers 6×6 oil on canvas panel $150. Click here to purchase I saw this old jeep around Taos (a great place for old vehicles). It was on someone’s property and not a very good view from the road. No one was home, so I did a little trespassing to get a photo of it. [...]

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SMALL GLOWING ORANGE SUNSET PAINTING

SMALL GLOWING ORANGE SUNSET PAINTING

Pin it  Late Day Sun  6×6″ oil $150. click here to purchase. Hi all, It’s been a full day for me. I started my day with working at the repo house that we have. Last week we (or Mike) tore off three room that had been added onto the house. We are trying to get [...]

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Antique Truck in the Field Icon oil painting

Antique Truck in the Field Icon oil painting

Pin itOld Truck, The End? 6×8 oil plein air $250. Click here to purchase. Hi everyone, Good to be feeling good! Last weekend I started my drive up to Cheyenne to participate in the plein air event, Peaks to Prairies. I was looking forward to some cooler weather and painting in the area. On my [...]

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Time, old farm house and field plein air painting

Time, old farm house and field plein air painting

Pin it  Time 11×14 oil on canvas panel.  $550. Click here to buy. Hi everyone, I’m not getting a lot of painting done this week. I have two plein air events and a workshop to prepare for. So, for now I am posting the paintings from the plein air in Gadsden that I participated in [...]

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The Secret Garden oil plein air painting

The Secret Garden oil plein air painting

Pin itThe Secret Garden 8×10 oil © Becky Joy $400. click here to purchase. I just got back my paintings from Gadsden, Alabama when I did a plein air festival down there. I was able to take some good photos of the work and tweak a couple of the paintings. Sometimes you don’t see a problem [...]

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Colorful Sunset oil landscape painting by BECKY JOY

Colorful Sunset oil landscape painting by BECKY JOY

Pin it The Colors of Sunset 11×14 oil $600. Click here to purchase. Hi all, I had a lot of fun painting this one, playing in the paint. I did a lot of adjusting the color temperature and the values until I got it just right. I seem to do that with sunsets. I’ve been [...]

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Skyscape cloud oil landscape painting

Skyscape cloud oil landscape painting

Pin it    “Almost Heaven” 6×6 oil on canvas panel. $150. click here to purchase. Hi everyone, Today I want to talk about rich, thick, gooey paint, which is so fun to paint with. I love the textural quality of oil paints. For years I painted in watercolor, but I eventually went back to oils. [...]

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Plein air painting from Ceour d'Alene, ID

Plein air painting from Ceour d’Alene, ID

Pin it8×10 oil plein air $400. Along the Ceour d’Alene River. Click here to purchase.   I hadn’t posted all of my paintings from my trip to the Oil Painters of American show and painting in Zion. This is one of the paintings from Ceour d’Alene. While I was painting at this location, I saw [...]

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American Impressionist Society Show entry

American Impressionist Society Show entry

Pin it I just found out that my painting, The Source, was accepted into the 12th annual National show of the American Impressionist Society held at Mountainsong Galleries in Carmel, Oct 15-Nov 15, 2001. I’m thrilled that I got into the show. I was debating on it because I had not joined the group yet. [...]

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Avoid Saturating your Market by Lori Woodward.

Avoid Saturating your Market by Lori Woodward.

Pin it Small daily oil painting, High Desert Sunset 5×7, $150. Click here to purchase. I have some light from the sun on the road, in the plants and on the ground which gives the painting more depth and feeling. I also used more paint in the foreground for texture and interest. The light paint [...]

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Sunset Road oil painting by Becky Joy

Sunset Road oil painting by Becky Joy

Pin it  5×7 oil Sunlit Road $150. click here to purchase. Two things I love in paintings are roads and sunsets which I combined in this painting. Having a road gives a little color to the foreground creating more interest, rather than having all one value. It also gives a chance to have some reflected [...]

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HOW I FIND INSPIRATION

HOW I FIND INSPIRATION

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Sunset Farm feild oil landscape painting by Becky Joy

Sunset Farm feild oil landscape painting by Becky Joy

Pin itSunset Fields 11×14 on hold Hi everyone, I have this painting on hold right now. I think it has a destination. I started with a photo of tree shapes. No, actually I started with the sky as a sunset. The sun was on the side where the trees are. Then I decided to put [...]

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7 sentences Finding Inspiration by Becky Joy

7 sentences Finding Inspiration by Becky Joy

Pin itThe blog, Seven Sentences for bloggers, artists, dreamers, and believers…, tomorrow, Sat. will be publishing my seven sentences describing how I am inspired. It’s a great inspirational blog for all of you out there. Check it out at http://sevensentences.com.

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Sunset oil landscape painting by BECKY JOY

Sunset oil landscape painting by BECKY JOY

Pin it Last Light  oil 6×8  $200. Click here to purchase. I’ve been on a roll lately with painting sunsets. I needed to get some done for a gallery. Now it was time to get some done for me. I really enjoy painting sunsets because I can play with color and use my imagination. This [...]

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Old Antique Truck Plein Air Landscape by Becky Joy

Old Antique Truck Plein Air Landscape by Becky Joy

Pin it The Green Door 9×12 oil plein air. click here to purchase. This old truck was in the Escalante, UT area. I was on a painting trip with Deb Groesser when we were driving around in the middle of the day looking for subject matter to paint. We both love old vehicles and junk. She painted [...]

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Zion Park landscape oil painting

Zion Park landscape oil painting

Pin it“Lifeline” oil 16×20 $1200. Click here to purchase or more info.   Hi everyone, I’m still working on photographing all my paintings from Zion. This is painted from one of the plein air paintings outside of Zion. We drove over to a little ghost town and saw the water meandering through the field and [...]

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Golden Aspen Trees oil painting

Golden Aspen Trees oil painting

Pin itAspen Gold  36″x32″ oil $2800. Click here to purchase. Hi everyone, I finished this painting today in the studio. I started it, I think, on the 3rd. The 4th came, then very little work the next day, blah, blah, blah. Sounds like excuses or just stuck on the computer. Anyway, I finished it. I [...]

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KNOWING THE FRUSTRATION OF BEING AN ARTIST

KNOWING THE FRUSTRATION OF BEING AN ARTIST

Pin itFirst published in ezine.com July 12, 2011 The progress of an artist is a continual self- sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. – by Eliot, T. S.. Know what you do well. Know what inspires you. Know that small changes in your habits make small changes in your art. Know that big changes make [...]

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Sunset Palo Verde Tree Landscape

Sunset Palo Verde Tree Landscape

Pin itI have this painting, 16×20 on canvas panel, listed on my website for sale for $1200. Click here to purchase I painted this tree from my imagination. I have done plenty of them in plein air so I am familiar with them. I love the free form of the tree which makes it a perfect [...]

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Zion/ Mt. Carmel plein air oil paintings

Zion/ Mt. Carmel plein air oil paintings

Pin it These two plein air painting, 6×8 are available on my website for $350. each. Click here to purchase. I painted both of these on my plein air trip to Zion. The canyon piece was the first of the day in a marathon painting day from dawn to dusk, too tired for a nocturnal [...]

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Zion and Mt. Carmel Plein air trip

Zion and Mt. Carmel Plein air trip

Pin itI just got back from my trip to Coeur d’Alene, Idaho for the Oil Painters of America show, then on to Whitefish, MT for some visiting, hiking and a little painting. The last leg of the trip I went to Mt. Carmel, UT where I met my friend, Deb Groesser, to paint in the [...]

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Aspen trees oil painting Demo

Aspen trees oil painting Demo

Pin itThe latest video from one of my painting sessions in the studio. Step by step painting a scene of aspen trees with the mountains in the background. I’ve been trying to get some more videos done. This is one of more to come in the next couple of days.

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HOW DO YOU FEEL WHEN YOU CREATE ART?

HOW DO YOU FEEL WHEN YOU CREATE ART?

Pin it First published in ezine on May 31, 2011 by Becky Joy I was recently talking to a friend of mine that is a creativity coach. Our conversation eventually went to what it means to me as an artist to create. She posed the question, “How do you feel when you paint?” We have had [...]

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Sunset video demo, Sunset Rays

Sunset video demo, Sunset Rays, selected to American Women Artists show

Pin itGolden Rays Sunset video New video of my latest painting. It’s a speed painting. The speed has really been cranked up. You’ll notice halfway through the painting that I have a different colored shirt on. I just had a hard time concentrating the first day, so I gave up on it and continued with it [...]

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YIN AND YANG OF PAINTING, OPPOSITES

COMPOSITIONAL ELEMENTS OF A PAINTING/OPPOSITES

Pin itFirst published on ezine on May 23, 2011 by Becky Joy Compositional Elements of a Painting As I paint I try to keep in mind that a strong, interesting painting is strengthened by the use of opposites. I have at times used a list of elements to refer to that I taped to my [...]

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“EN PLEIN AIR” DEFINED

“EN PLEIN AIR” DEFINED

Pin it First published on ezine on May 19, 2011 by Becky Joy “En plein air”, the French term, means to paint outside in the open air. To paint all in one sitting either in the studio or outside is called “alla prima”. Most plein air painting is done in one sitting, alla prima, but some [...]

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MY PALETTE AND SUPPLIES

MY PALETTE AND SUPPLIES

Pin itMost of the paints that I use are classic oils in caulking tube size. I buy once or twice a year, keeping an inventory and knowing how much I use of each color in relation to the others. I used a warm/ cool palette for my basic colors. cad yellow lemon cad yellow light [...]

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OIL PAINTING MATERIAL BASICS

OIL PAINTING MATERIAL BASICS

Pin itBefore starting the creative process of oil painting, you should first become familiar with the materials and tools that are used. PAINTING SUPPORTS  Canvas, linen and wood are common painting supports. Both canvas and linen come in a variety of textures and weaves. Linen is preferred by most professional artists for its quality and [...]

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PHOTOGRAPHING MY PAINTINGS

PHOTOGRAPHING MY PAINTINGS

Pin itI have essentially made a portable light room to photgraph my paintings, taking my photos outside. The supplies that I use are: a big white sheet my digital camera, I have a canon 8 megapixel a tripod for my camera an easel for my paining two clothes pins First, I take the white sheet, not a [...]

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ARE YOUR FOCAL POINTS CLEARLY DEFINED?

ARE YOUR FOCAL POINTS CLEARLY DEFINED?

Pin itFirst published in ezine on May 23, 2011 by Becky Joy ARE YOUR FOCAL POINTS CLEARLY DEFINED? Composition tips for painting A first, quick glance at your painting is important. Some questions to ask yourself may be: What is your eye immediately drawn to? Was this your intension? Does it make sense?  How can [...]

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HOW DO YOU MEASURE PRODUCTIVITY AND MANAGE TIME IN YOUR ART BUSINESS?

HOW DO YOU MEASURE PRODUCTIVITY AND MANAGE TIME IN YOUR ART BUSINESS?

Pin itFirst published on ezine on May 17, 2011 by Becky Joy Today I spent most of the day running errands and taking care of business. I didn’t get any painting done. Tomorrow I will be in the studio painting and hopefully getting a lot done. “They” say that being an artist is 50% taking [...]

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