Fauve Farm Commission

Fauve Farm Commission
Original 40" x 40" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

My patron requested a 40" square edition of my Fauve Farm composition, which is always a pleasure for me to paint.

Quote of the Day
"Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy."

Joseph Campbell

New Commissions - 12.12.09

Fauve Farm
Original 30" x 40" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Asparagus
Original 16" x 20" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

These paintings are commissions I recently completed for my patrons. Many of my commission orders are selected from compositions from my web site portfolio.

Quote of the Day
"If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love."

Thich Nhat Hanh

Today's Paintings 6.12.09

Creek in Autumn II
Original 24" x 36" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Stormy Day on the Farm
Original 30" x 40" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

Today's work includes a new edition in the Creek in Autumn series, as well as a new landscape composition. The Creek in Autumn piece is a new variation on a previous composition. The previous painting in this series was purchased by a patron who stated that I had captured the essence of her property without ever having seen it, which was very gratifying.

With Stormy Day I wanted to capture the soft, bright tones the landscape takes on during one of those cloudy, rainy days.

Quote of the Day
"Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion." --Buddha

Today's Paintings 6.4.09

Fauve Farm VII
Original 24" x 30" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Oriental Blossoms XI
Original 24" x 36" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Chroma acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

I've spent the past couple of days working on commissions and needed to take a break from that to paint something to list on my sales venues. Today's work includes the latest editions in the Fauve Farm and Oriental Blossoms series. One of my commissions is a fauve piece as well, which I will post when it's finished. Sales have picked up a bit this past week, which is wonderful, and the commission work keeps trickling in as well. Thank you patrons!!

Quote of the Day
"Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance." --Virgil

Today's Paintings 3/17/09

Boulder County Farm II
Original 30" x 40" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Atelier acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

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Still Life with Red Wall
Original 24" x 30" x 0.75" painting
Golden, Liquitex, and Atelier acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas

Today's work includes a composition that I have not used in quite some time. Boulder County Farm II was inspired by the rural settings in eastern Boulder County, Colorado. The second piece is a floral still life, which my patrons really love. I find that depicting the glass and floral arrangements are challenging and fun to paint.

Quote of the day: "No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination." --Edward Hopper

Word of the day: Fauve

Fauve Farm VI

Original 8" x 10" x 0.75" painting
Golden and Liquitex acrylic paints on gallery-wrapped canvas

The paintings of the Fauves were characterised by seemingly wild brush work and strident colours, while their subject matter had a high degree of simplification and abstraction. Fauvism can be classified as an extreme development of Van Gogh's Post-Impressionism fused with the pointillism of Seurat and other Neo-Impressionist painters, in particular Paul Signac. Other key influences were Paul Cezanne and Paul Gauguin. The leaders of the movement were Henri Matisse and André Derain. (Wikipedia)

Matisse is one of my favorite artists of the last century. The boldness of his color choices and the seeming simplicity of his compositions were a major draw for me when I was an art student.

I love the Fauve style of painting because it allows me to use bold, bright colors--and I love to play with color.