Plein air painting

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The paintings are priced unframed and varnished. Most of the paintings are recently completed and are FOR SALE! However, they may need a couple of weeks to dry before they can be safely varnished and shipped.

I do my best to photograph them accurately, but your monitor may be different than mine. You don’t have to worry about it though,  because I promise you if you don’t like your painting for any reason, I will refund all your money, including shipping and fees, if you inform me within 15 days and and return it in the same condition you received it.

EVERYONE says “They look SO MUCH BETTER in person!”. So you really have no reason for concern!

COLLECT WITH CONFIDENCE

The paintings are priced unframed and varnished. Most of the paintings are recently completed and are FOR SALE! However, they may need a couple of weeks to dry before they can be safely varnished and shipped.

I do my best to photograph them accurately, but your monitor may be different than mine. You don’t have to worry about it though,  because I promise you if you don’t like your painting for any reason, I will refund all your money, including shipping and fees, if you inform me within 15 days and and return it in the same condition you received it.

EVERYONE says “They look SO MUCH BETTER in person!”. So you really have no reason for concern!

A larger version of fall aspen trees. The yellow orange of the trees contrasts against the dark blues of the mountain with a stream behind the trees.

COLLECT WITH CONFIDENCE

The paintings are priced unframed and varnished. Most of the paintings are recently completed and are FOR SALE! However, they may need a couple of weeks to dry before they can be safely varnished and shipped.

I do my best to photograph them accurately, but your monitor may be different than mine. You don’t have to worry about it though,  because I promise you if you don’t like your painting for any reason, I will refund all your money, including shipping and fees, if you inform me within 15 days and and return it in the same condition you received it.

EVERYONE says “They look SO MUCH BETTER in person!”. So you really have no reason for concern!

Teapot and Teacup 11″x14″ oil on canvas panel $550. Click here to buy.

I recently took a workshop from Bye Bitney in an attempt to loosen my style up a bit. I would like to have parts of my painting almost have an abstract quality to them and I have always loved brushwork. This is my attempt to loosen up a bit since the workshop.

We worked almost entirely on figures working from models. It was so instructive, hard work and fun!

Becky

http://artworkshopsonline.com

http://beckyjoyartist.blogspot.com

I’ve been working on loosening my style with a little more brushwork. This is one that I just finished. Really fun to paint.

COLLECT WITH CONFIDENCE

The paintings are priced unframed and varnished. Most of the paintings are recently completed and are FOR SALE! However, they may need a couple of weeks to dry before they can be safely varnished and shipped.

I do my best to photograph them accurately, but your monitor may be different than mine. You don’t have to worry about it though,  because I promise you if you don’t like your painting for any reason, I will refund all your money, including shipping and fees, if you inform me within 15 days and and return it in the same condition you received it.

EVERYONE says “They look SO MUCH BETTER in person!”. So you really have no reason for concern!

“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

beckyjoy@beckyjoy.com

http://artworkshopsonline.com

http://beckyjoyartist.blogspot.com

I painted this in the studio, recomposing a photo. The trees are what drew me to the photo originally, although I certainly changed the shapes of them. The yellow/green trees contrast against the warm violets of the rocks. The light trees against the darks and the colors of the rocks warm up as they are closer to the focal point.

COLLECT WITH CONFIDENCE

The paintings are priced unframed and varnished. Most of the paintings are recently completed and are FOR SALE! However, they may need a couple of weeks to dry before they can be safely varnished and shipped.

I do my best to photograph them accurately, but your monitor may be different than mine. You don’t have to worry about it though,  because I promise you if you don’t like your painting for any reason, I will refund all your money, including shipping and fees, if you inform me within 15 days and and return it in the same condition you received it.

EVERYONE says “They look SO MUCH BETTER in person!”. So you really have no reason for concern!

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 longer had my reference except for photos. I really wasn’t happy with the work that I did to it before. Today, I finally got back to it and realized some of the problems that I had with the painting. Since it is a larger piece than the other one, I opened the sky a little on the left side. I also had grayed some of the colors too much. I lightened the trunks of the trees, put more light into the trees and made the colors much more vibrant.  I went into the painting with much more gusto with the brush today.

Some days just feel more confident and ready to tackle anything. This was one of those days. It didn’t take too long for me to get the painting on the right track. I also find that when I’m duplicating a painting, I need to put away the original one (in this case, the photo). It’s important to look at the painting for itself. To do whatever that particular painting needs. Anyway, I feel much better about this now.

COLLECT WITH CONFIDENCE

The paintings are priced unframed and varnished. Most of the paintings are recently completed and are FOR SALE! However, they may need a couple of weeks to dry before they can be safely varnished and shipped.

I do my best to photograph them accurately, but your monitor may be different than mine. You don’t have to worry about it though,  because I promise you if you don’t like your painting for any reason, I will refund all your money, including shipping and fees, if you inform me within 15 days and and return it in the same condition you received it.

EVERYONE says “They look SO MUCH BETTER in person!”. So you really have no reason for concern!