Painting on Mackinac Island

One of my current goals is to get the camera out and take more pictures as I travel. What I see in my daily life influences what I paint. I often do quick Plein Air paintings and later develop them into larger work in my studio. I also use reference photos to paint from.

I painted last weekend on Mackinac Island with the Great Lakes Plein Air Painter. I was so glad that I took my camera with me. There were so many interesting things to paint it just could not be done in four days. In fact I filled my disk and had to down load the photo so I didn’t miss taking pictures of the great boat race.

I stayed at a lovely bed and breakfast, the Lilac House and painted from their lovely front porch one rainy morning. It was the weekend of the 100^th


Chicago to Mackinac Yacht Race. Here is a link to see more photos of the race and the winner the Winquest. If you have never visited Mackinac Island in Michigan I suggest you do it is a wonderful day or a great weekend on the island. Don’t forget the camera!

Birthday by Delilah

Birthday

About This Painting:
6x6x1 1/2 oil on stretched gallery wrapped canvas

Media: oil on canvas
Size: 6 in X 6 in (15.2 cm X 15.2 cm)
Price: SOLD

How to Purchase:
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Vincent Van Gogh

Did Vincent Van Gogh know his art would hang in galleries and museums? Did he ever think his art would be worth millions?

If he had know how would it have changed him. Did he think he was only average? Is my art only average? Will it ever be hung in galleries and museums? Should we paint thinking that someone in the future will look at this and wonder about us the way I wonder about Vincent?

Bay City Studio 23 Gallery Show

Salsa Dancing

24x24

Oil on gallery wrapped stretched canvas

$1700.00

This painting can be seen at the Bay City Studio 23 Gallery

Studio 23 Bay City Michigan

for more information check the galleries web page. The Exhibition is from July 20th to Aug 24th. There is an opening reception July 20th 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm. Please come and meet soom of the best artist in the area.

Studio Space

I spent the weekend working on my studio space. Putting storage shelves and rearranging the general work area. I now have a big mess to finish organizing this week.It seem that the days are not long enough to get it all done.

I love working in my flower garden but now I have the grass to mow also. Now I paint for two hours and do yard work for one then back to painting after I toss some wash in the machine.

Somewhere I have to find the time to update that mailing list of mine and finish the news letter that should have gone at last month.

It's not all work here at the studio. I took a long break today at 5PM and paddle boated around the lake for two hours. It was 80 and sunny.Life is good.

Shows/exhibits for summer 2007

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Lyndhurst Ohio June 9&10 07
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12th Annual Art Fair Columbus Ohio June 23&24 2007
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Luddington Mi, 40th annual West Shore Art Fair
June 30& July1 2007 www.westshoreartleague.org
Mackinac Island July 13-15, Great Lakes Plien Air Painters ( painting on the island )
Marquette Mi ,49th Art on the Rock
July 28-29 www.artontherocks.org
Nappanee Indiana, 45th Annual Amish Acers
Aug2-5 2007, www.amishacers.com
Rochester Michigan, Spotlights Market
Sept 7-9 2007 www.meadowbrooktheatreguild.com
Sedona Arizona, painting with William Scott Jennings
Oct 15-19, 2007 www.sedonaartscenter.com
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Delilah travel through out the United States painting.

Fresh Plowed

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Fresh Plowed

About This Painting:

It's spring in Michigan and if you are in farm country you see lots of freshed plowed fields. I love the smell of the fresh turned earth.
Landscape painting on hardboard 5x7 oil ready to frame. A fresh plowed field,ready for seed.

Media: oil painting on hardboard
Size: 7 in X 5 in (17.8 cm X 12.7 cm)
Price: $100 USD

How to Purchase:

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Price: $100 USD plus $10 USD s/h
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Plien Air Paintings

Here are two paintings done on Saturday in Marshall Michigan with the Greater Michigan Plein Air painters. If you are in the Michigan Area and would like to join them for a paint out or to take a workshop please look at their web site at www.glpapa.com

The group is wonderful to paint with and I will join them again in July to paint on Mackinac Island.

Great Lakes Plein Air Painters

The Plein Air painters painted this weekend in Marshall Michigan. The Brooks mansion,Avery Garden and the Brewer Estate were the sites of the paint out. Marshall Framing Studio had a reception for us that evening. The weather started out drab and cool almost cold then warmed up in the afternoon with lots of sunshine. I am posting some of the view we were able to paint from and I will post the finished oil paintings that I completed later today.

The grounds were in full spring bloom. Warm fresh green was everywhere.

This weather vein was very interesting as were many sculptures in the gardens around the old mansion. The owners were so kind to allow us to paint for the day in their private gardens.

This little nook of the house was very interesting. I started painting it and the large pine tree that you can just see in the corner of the picture in the early morning. It was such a dull gray morning that I had a hard getting the feel that I wanted and I think I will do a secound painting later.

Red Pear (click on picture to bid )

Red Pear

6x6x1 1/2

oil on gallery wrapped stretched canvas

The Color RED part 2

The eye is drawn to the color red, it is a very dominate color. The first reds were introduced by Egyptian artist who used madder root and cinnabar to add to their palettes of black white and ochres.

Cadmium Red: available in light, medium,and deep. A very strong, opaque color that blackens when mixed with other copper pigments. If mixed with cadmium yellow gives a warm opaque yellow. This Red is one of two reds I use on my limited color palette.

Scarlet Red: A bright red with blue under tones good for glazing and washes.

Alizarian Crimson: A dark, transparent cool red with blue under tones. You can add this to other reds to darken them. Good for transparent washes. This is the synthetic version of rose madder. I use Alizarian crimson on my limited palette.

Vermillion: A bright intense red. It can turn black if left in the sunlight.

Carmeine: A traditional red.

Rose Madder: A transparent red made from the madder root.

Permanet Rose: Mixed with ultramarine to get a great purple.

Venetian Red: A orange earth red made from iron oxide.

Indian Red: A warm, dark earth red with a blur undertone. Makes cool colors when mixed.

Earth Reds: red ochre,red oxide,mars red, burnt sienna,terra rosa, red earth.

Remember using a complementary color intesifies a colour. Red will advance in a painting when place beside a backround of dark blue or green.

Collecting Art number 3

Collecting Art
Part 3

Your collection should reflect your personality. Don’t be afraid to ask questions of the gallery dealer or the artist. Learn as much as you can. Determine an annual budget and buy a small work every year if that is what you can afford. Keep your collection momentum going and continue to build your collection. Buy original if possible. Be wary of large edition prints or photographs.

The Color RED

The Color RED
Red hair, red hat, red wine, red cherries, and of course red paint the list of things red goes on. I used to be a stockbroker and there was the red herring a business term not a color. We have the singing group "The Red Hot Chili Peppers" and several paintings that I have done of those hot little peppers. The red rose is a symbol of love and fertility. Red is an emotional color. It enhances the human metabolism, increases respiration rate, and raises our blood pressure.

Red is hot. It is the color of passion, always strong never mild. Red is power. Red is the flashing lights of danger…the call in the dark” The red coats are coming!”. It was a common belief that the color red had the power to protect against evil. Warriors wore red to battle to protect themselves. Wearing red bed cloths was believed to protect you from the fever. Aha! So that is wear those red flannel P J’s came from.
Madder was a European herb. The root was used as a source of dye to produce various shades of red.
Light Red: joy, sexuality, passion
Pink: romance, love, friendship, feminine qualities
Dark Red: vigor, will power, rage, anger, leadership, malice
Brown: stability, masculine qualities
Reddish Brown: fall, harvest

To read more of how we relate to color:
http://wwwsciencedaily.com

The color red is a bit sassy, hot and electric just like my mood when I paint. This week I will paint in red. The focus of the small daily painting will be subjects of red and I will do one large painting this week with the emotion of the color red. Neolithic cave painters, oh those old artists, ascribed magic powers to the color red. Maybe red will bring magic to my paintings.

CRITIQUES

Sierra

8x10

Oil on Hardboard

A new friend of mine Charlie Spear http://www.charlieart.com/ who is an artist in one of my work groups recently suggested that the group start a group art critique of work we were currently working on and wanted some feed back on.

Now, I have been through art school and have had some professors who were brutal in their critiques. One professor comes to mind, that would take our precious infants of new born work that we had literally handled with gloves while creating so as not to smear them and would put them on the floor and walk on them as he critiqued them. I guess the lesson to be learned: was never to become to attached to ones’ work.

There are different kinds of critiques. There are the ones that come unsolicited, like at an art show I did recently when I over heard an older women telling her friend that one of my painting was the most god ugly thing she had every seen and to make it even worse I had made it so large, did I have no common sense? That would have been a killer and ruined my day, in fact it almost did but about an hour later another lady fell in love with it and bought it. Who knows?

Then there is the kind of critique that we all want. The one where we ask: what, where, why, how, do you have an idea and can you help me. Is this too moody, to light, to dark, to yellow, and should I just trash it and start over? The feedback comes and it is so helpful, just the icebreaker you needed to get you going again.

With this is mind I ask;” I have painted this small painting Sierra and now I am thinking about doing a much larger one. This one is 8x10 and I am thinking of doing one 20x24 what do you think?

It’s okay to say OMIGOD it’s so bad why would she want to make it larger. I have had worse critiques and after all I am strong, so go for it.

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Collecting Art II

Collecting Art II

Develop a long term strategy in your collecting that reflects your personal interests. Collectors who speculate on art as an investment may be disappointed in their end results. Be suspicious of dealers who promote investment stories. When a collector buys art they love there is always a return on the investment every time you view the work. If it happens to increase in value, that’s just another benefit.

Collecting Art

Collecting Art
I

Are you a new collector wishing to start a collection or are you just searching for an additional work to enhance your environment. Many believe that it is out of reach. A collection can be started with as little as $500.00 to $4000.00 per year. When spread over 20 years of purchasing, one or two works a year, you can grow a modest but meaningful collection.

First Show of 2007

Downtown Dunedin street Art Festival

The first show of the season is always fun. This is a Howard Alan Art event and if you are an artist and have done one of his shows you know how well run they are. Set up was a breeze, of course it was at 5 AM bright and early. Actually this is wonderful because it's cool, there is lots of time before the first clients come out, and a little time to get breakfast also. Speaking of breakfast, if you have never been to Keely's for breakfast it is a must so yummy and wonderful service.

Art lovers were out in full force at this show. There were plenty of lookers and just as many buyers because the weather was as beautiful as the art.

Now I have to paint for my next showto replace all the painting that I sold.

Thank you to everyone who came out and bought my art and thank you to everyone who took a few minutes out of there day to say hi.

Trip to Florida

It's been a busy week. I'm getting ready to do shows in Florida; then off to Mexico to paint. Gee Whiz everything is in boxes,I hope. What have I forgotten? Next year I need to make a list. Do any of you have ideas on how to do this better?

Happy New Year

40x30
Christmas in Mexico.
This is a new oil painting that I just finished.

I am thrilled to be starting a New Year. We often skate through life with our heads down missing so much. I am going to start my New Year off right by living my dreams.I have written my goals for the year, what I dream, what I want to learn, what I want to accomplish and what I would like to give back. I am lucky to be an Artist and dream big dreams. This year I will write in my journal daily about all the wonderful things that I am so lucky to have,do,learn, and share.
Thank You for sharing my art.

Delilah