Purple Primroses ~ 10 x 12 Acrylic on Canvas

This flower painting of Primroses, is the fifth in my series. As you look at this painting, you can just imagine yourself standing in front of them, admiring their brilliance as they bask in the warm sun. Looking up, are the distant mountains, an after thought, that I think gives it that special interest. I read that Primrose flowers come in many shapes and colors and apparently, are also edible. They symbolize not being able to live without someone, and so they are a special flower to give as well as plant in gardens. Enjoy.

Category › Acrylic Painting , Canadian artist , flowers , mountains , purple primroses , sunshine.

The Fruit of The Spirit

Above is the "digital tracing," of the image. Students may look at the original sample below in order to practice shading techniques on top of the printed digital tracing. After a student learns shading techniques with a number 2 pencil, he or she may choose to try working with colored pencils or even watercolors in order to enhance the digital tracing above.

Scripture On the Coloring Page is from Galatians 5:22-23

"The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is not law."

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Category › Book of Galations , butterfly , digital tracing , digital tracing for coloring , flowers , Fruit of The Spirit

Job 34:29 Passion Flower

Scripture Depicted is Job 34:29.

When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only:

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Coloring suggestion: markers or colored pencils

Category › Book of Job , flowers

Isaiah 55:12 Lilies and Pansies

Scripture Depicted: For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. Isaiah 55:12

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Coloring suggestion: markers or colored pencils 

Category › flowers , Isaiah , lily

Psalms 143:8 Wild Rose

Scripture Depicted: Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning. Psalms 143:8

Above is the "digital tracing," of the image. Students may look at the original sample below in order to practice shading techniques on top of the printed digital tracing. After a student learns shading techniques with a number 2 pencil, he or she may choose to try working with colored pencils or even watercolors in order to enhance the digital tracing above.

Category › digital tracing for coloring , flowers , illuminated scripture , Psalms

Wrought Iron Bougainvillea - Silk Painting

Last week I taught my niece how to paint on silk and that made me miss silk painting so I decided to paint one this week.  I have some photos of bougainvillea against an orange building and am working on painting it in watercolor so I thought I would try painting it using silk dyes on silk also.  It has a completely different look than the watercolor painting.

I was planning to put shadows from the bougainvillea on the wall but felt that this design was already too busy and the shadows  probably wouldn't read right in a silk painting.  I am going to make the shadows fairly important in the watercolor painting.  That painting doesn't have the wrought iron so it's busy in a different way.

In this painting, I used salt to give a suggestion of stucco in the wall but the color I used didn't react very much with the salt.  I probably had the color too light.  I also experimented with using colored resists for parts of the details but need to go darker next time.  It's all a learning experience, right?

By the way, my niece is a natural at the silk painting.  Her painting is turning out great and she's already planning her next project.  Silk painting is VERY addictive but it's a pretty healthy addiction.

Wrought Iron Bougainvillea
Image Size 15.5" x 23.25"
Silk dyes on silk
Stretched but unframed

Category › bougainvillea , flower paintings on silk , flowers , nancy goldman , painting on silk , wrought iron paintings

Fuchsia Fuchsias - Oil Painting

This is an oil painting that I actually used a brush to paint.  I've used only palette knives for oil paintings for the past year.  I've started out using brushes on a lot of paintings but after a couple of strokes, I've picked up my palette knife and dumped the brushes.  For this one, I felt I needed a little more control so that I could give the flowers a more delicate look.  It was a lot of fun and I think I'll pick up the brushes again soon.

Fuchsia Fuchsias
Image Size 6" x 6"
Oil

Category › 6" x 6" oil painting , daily paintings , flowers , Fuchsias , nancy goldman

"A Quite Corner" 24x24 Acrylic on canvas

This painting is from a photo that I had of one of the gardens, at 3 Valley Gap in B.C. My husband and I were passing by along the Trans-Canada highway on our way home from vacation in June of this year. We often stop there to take a few photos and enjoy the view of the lake before continuing on. There's a large hotel there and anyone who has ever stopped or stayed there, can appreciate the wonderful work they do with the gardens. It's well worth the stop. I would say that it is a floral painter's haven. You can spend a lot of time there painting small quite sections of the flower beds or painting the great views of the lake and surrounding mountains. I was just thinking that this area would make a nice destination to go to, to attend a painting workshop. Any artist's out there listening!  As for this painting, it's painted loosely and I just had to capture the Lupins in it, which were huge at the time I photographed them. It reminds me of a Gauguin style painting. I will have to do more garden paintings, they're fun to do and a real challenge at the same time. 

Category › acrylic painting. , Daisies. , flowers , garden , Lupins , Poppies

"Pansy Print" 8x10 Acrylic on canvas

I didn't think that I would be painting pansies again, but they are one of my favorite garden flowers. They are easy to plant and care for, and come in many colors. I think the orange-yellows, blues or periwinkle varieties are the ones I like best. A few years back, while vacationing in Victoria, B.C., Canada., I spotted several planted rows of pansies in one of the many large flower beds that are situated by the harbor. Anyone who has been to the harbor in front of the Empress Hotel will know what I mean. Flowers are planted in large numbers all along the harbor and throughout the city every spring. You can't help but notice all the flower varieties, the city is a haven for flower lovers! While the tourists are taking camera pictures of the scenery, I seem to stick out from the rest and focus my camera on the flowers instead. My husband thinks I'm a little nuts, but does understand my need for reference photos to use in my paintings. The painting that I did above was done by combining 2 separate photos together, and I painted the flowers, leaves and stems at random against a dark blue background which was painted last. I find that as you look at it, it gives you the impression that you are looking at floral wallpaper. This little painting was a joy to paint.

Category › Acrylic Painting , flowers , pansies , wallpaper print

New Painting in progress

I thought I would start the year off by doing something that I don't normally do and that is, to show a painting in stages, so that viewers can see my approach and techniques that I use. So many artists now a days are showing their work in stages like this on their blogs. So here I am giving it a try. To begin with, I usually do an underpainting with most of my paintings, but in this case, I didn't. I decided to draw the image first which came from a photo I took last September of flowers in a flower bed. I cropped the image several times on my computer, before deciding on the best composition or one that I found most pleasing to look at. I use a stay-wet pallet for my acrylics and I tend to squeeze out the paint at random on the surface and do all the mixing there as well. My pallet after a while looks a mess! I then always start with the background first and move forward on the canvas to the front by doing it in layers. As you can see, all the background is done and now I am working on the foliage at the back and moving forward towards the bottom front. Later I will start on the flowers by painting the smaller ones first and work towards doing the large one last. As I paint, I usually apply the dark tones first, then mid-tones and lastly the highlights. I try to bear in mind, the principles for building a painting, but quite frankly, if I only have a few of them down then I know I have a reasonably good enough painting. I then do all the details at the end of the painting. Sometimes I sign my paintings and other times I don't depending on the image, I'll sign the back instead. ( I have seen some paintings spoiled because of the signature on it.) I then apply a few coats of satin or matte varnish mixed with water and carefully apply it with a varnish brush onto the painting to protect it. And that's it.
Stay tuned for more progress on this painting!

Category › Acrylic Painting , flowers , progress

"Poppy Triptych" 12x16 each Acrylic on canvas

This is my newest work. My inspiration to paint these textured poppies came from seeing the art of a well known Artist from the Daily Painters website. I have been following her work in recent months and I admire her talent and creativity. Her willingness to share some of her techniques prompted me to try it myself. I decided on keeping it simple by not adding any leaves at the bottom and instead keeping the focus on the textured flowers. The flowers are quite large on the canvases and they appear a little top heavy but I think it adds to it's abstract quality. I painted a soft light blue background to cool the orange reds of the flowers and did a wash over them using Iridescent copper mixed with Burnt Umber. I like how they turned out in the end. 



Category › flowers , Poppies , triptych

Christmas Poinsettia Coloring Pages

Add color to these Christmas Poinsettia Coloring Pages to hang them as decorative background stuff in your scrap book and activity sheet made during holiday season of Christmas. Usually dark red and cherry red are colors painted in the poinsettia flower. Its simple to get access by clicking, downloading and saving.

Category › coloring-printables , flowers

"Garden Bouquet" 8x10 Acrylic on canvas

This is a cute little jem. I painted this for a special lady in my family for a Christmas present. I found a small easel in a department store and painted it black. The easel and finished piece fit perfectly together.

Category › acrylic art , Acrylic Painting , black , easel , flowers , garden

"Abstract Lillies" 9x12 Acrylic on canvas board

I threw caution to the wind on this one. I painted it in less than 2hrs, working quickly. I wasn't sure how it would turn out,but in the end it looked nice. Certainly not my best work, but its one of my most colorful.

Category › abstract , acrylic art , Acrylic Painting , flowers , garden , green

Fuchsia Vignettes

This week I painted two small vignettes to go inside of a garden club yearbook. They were done to complement the cover which was a more complex fuchsia painting. It is a watercolor titled "Hanging Fuchsias" and you can find it on my website. The original is sold but Limited Edition Giclees are available.

Fuchsia Vignettes
5" x 5" each
Watercolor
Sold

Category › flowers , Fuchsias , watercolor