Friday, 11 May 2018

Carol Marine's Painting a Day

  CAROL MARINE'S PAINTING A DAY    5/11/18
   

 Click Here to Bid - 6x6in. - "Red on Red"
 
This composition was SO SIMPLE! But painting it was haarrrddddd. So many subtle variations of red. OMG. What was I thinking?!


  Click Here to Bid - 8x6in. - "Hitting the Wall"

I think that as I paint more and more, I see more and more. I see more subtleties of color and value. But this leads to new challenges. Which is why I'll never get tired of this.

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  Here are other paintings that are still available:
Yours in art,
-Carol
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My Workshop(s)

May 28 - June 1, '18 - Carmel - FULL - get on wait list

July 3-14, '18 - France 
- FULL - get on wait list 

I am no longer teaching still life workshops, sorry. : (
 
Check out my ArtBytes (online tutorials), and instructional book,
Daily Painting.

 
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Tuesday, 8 May 2018

Carol Marine's Painting a Day

  CAROL MARINE'S PAINTING A DAY    5/8/18
   

"One at a Time in the Ring"
 
I decided to head back to my comfort zone for a minute and paint some apples.

And here's another one of the framed abstracts I put up in my "store" a few days ago -->
 Click Here to Buy - 6x6in. - $150
"Neon Sunrise"






 Click Here to Bid - 8x6in. - "Clingy"

I'm not sure which caught my eye first - the little boy or the glowing soda. It was one of those reference photos I took so fast my trigger finger hurt afterwards. Not really, but you know.

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  Here are other paintings that are still available:
Yours in art,
-Carol
Quick Links

My Workshop(s)

May 28 - June 1, '18 - Carmel - FULL - get on wait list

July 3-14, '18 - France 
- FULL - get on wait list 

I am no longer teaching still life workshops, sorry. : (
 
Check out my ArtBytes (online tutorials), and instructional book,
Daily Painting.

 
Follow Carol Marine's Painting a Day on Twitter!Connect with Carol Marine's Painting a Day on LinkedIn!Read our Blog!
Carol Marine's Painting a Day, 1560 Em Ray Dr, Eugene, OR 97405
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Saturday, 5 May 2018

Carol Marine's Painting a Day

  CAROL MARINE'S PAINTING A DAY    5/5/18
   

Click Here to Bid - 8x10in. - "Treasure Hunting"
 
Here's another scene from France. It didn't photograph perfectly because some of the darks have dried already and until I can varnish it, they will look a little chalky.

NEW ABSTRACT COLLAGES
I've just added a bunch of abstract collages to my Daily Paintworks "store." It took me a while to frame and photograph and all that.  I wanted to post them all at once so it would be possible for people to get enough for a grouping - I think they look SO good like that. Please let me know if you have any questions.


 Click Here to Bid - 8x8in. 
"How to Spend Saturday Morning"

I've been working on a people ArtByte (online tutorial) the past couple of weeks, and yesterday I got all set up to record a video for it. I pressed record and started painting this. You wouldn't think it, but painting for a video is always more stressful than a regular painting. So when I got all done and found that the memory in my recorder ran out before I was done painting, I was ... frustrated.

But don't worry, I jumped right back on that horse, with more than enough memory this time, and did another painting. My goal is to have the ArtByte finished before my Carmel workshop (last week in May). Fingers crossed.


Click Here to Bid - 6x12in. 
"Walking Home in France"

This size/orientation never shows well online, but I like to paint them now and then. Please see my blog for an enlargeable version.

Meanwhile, I'd like to tell you about a project I've been working on. I got some big, flat Ampersand panels recently, intending to do some larger paintings. I did two before I realized they are too big to store vertically. Which sucks, because I recently built myself a vertical storage rack - doh!!! So I set out to buy a horizontal rack. But the only ones I could find were ridiculously expensive, and wouldn't fit in the space I had for it. So I invented and made myself one. You can see it here, on top of  my vertical rack. I used hemlock to build the frame, and metal shelving for the ... shelving. I also recently built myself another work table, which you can just see the corner of in the photo. I need to make one adjustment to it, and then I will share that as well.





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  Here are other paintings that are still available:

Yours in art,
-Carol
Quick Links

My Workshop(s)

May 28 - June 1, '18 - Carmel - FULL - get on wait list

July 3-14, '18 - France 
- FULL - get on wait list 

I am no longer teaching still life workshops, sorry. : (
 
Check out my ArtBytes (online tutorials), and instructional book,
Daily Painting.

 
Follow Carol Marine's Painting a Day on Twitter!Connect with Carol Marine's Painting a Day on LinkedIn!Read our Blog!
Carol Marine's Painting a Day, 1560 Em Ray Dr, Eugene, OR 97405
Sent by me@carolmarine.com in collaboration with
Constant Contact

Tuesday, 1 May 2018

Carol Marine's Painting a Day

  CAROL MARINE'S PAINTING A DAY    5/1/18
   

 Click Here to Bid - 6x6in. - "A Simple Gathering"
 
It always takes me a while after a break to hit my stride again, but I think I finally got it here. I believe part of the problem was that I saw a lot of demos at the Plein Air Convention, and each painter had a different process. Possibly my brain got a little discombobulated, because I feel like I forgot my own process ... in the process.


 Click Here to Bid - 6x6in. - "Pieces of Life"

When I was halfway through painting this, my son wandered into my studio. Amazingly, he could already tell what it was going to be, and asked if I had a title picked out yet. I said no, so he suggested this one. He was tickled when I said I would use it, and that you all would see it. My baby.

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  Here is one other painting that is still available:

Yours in art,
-Carol
Quick Links

My Workshop(s)

May 28 - June 1, '18 - Carmel - FULL - get on wait list

July 3-14, '18 - France 
- FULL - get on wait list 

I am no longer teaching still life workshops, sorry. : (
 
Check out my ArtBytes (online tutorials), and instructional book,
Daily Painting.

 
Follow Carol Marine's Painting a Day on Twitter!Connect with Carol Marine's Painting a Day on LinkedIn!Read our Blog!
Carol Marine's Painting a Day, 1560 Em Ray Dr, Eugene, OR 97405
Sent by me@carolmarine.com in collaboration with
Constant Contact