Friday, 23 August 2013

Carol Marine's Painting a Day - "Frapple Dapple"

CAROL MARINE'S PAINTING A DAY     8/23/13
"Frapple Dapple" - 6x6in. -  click to bid

  
I just announced my workshop for Oregon next year. In case you missed it, here's all the info. Don't worry, there will be more, but I am cutting back. I will only be doing 6 next year total, rather than the 12 I've been doing a year for the last 6. I'll try to get the rest announced as soon as I can.

Meanwhile, I'm diggin' dapples! This is from an old photo reference I took in Arizona. I just heard tale of a ghost town about 2 hours NE of my house with lots of oldies, so my goal for this next week is to carve out some time to go there. Road trip!
 
-Carol
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Thursday, 22 August 2013

Carol Marine's Painting a Day - "City Stroll, Late Afternoon"

CAROL MARINE'S PAINTING A DAY     8/22/13
"City Stroll, Late Afternoon" - 6x6in. -  click to bid

  
This is from another photo in San Francisco (so was yesterday's, fyi). I thought the light was so cool I sort of parked myself against the wall of the building and took tons of pictures, waiting for the people to be just right.

This scene had a lot of subtly different darks, and historically I've always been terrible at mixing them. When I'm mixing subtly different lights and mids I mix them close to each other on my palette to compare, but somehow that never occurred to me with darks. Doh! So I did that this time and feel I managed them a lot better. Who'da thunk!? 
 
-Carol
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Wednesday, 21 August 2013

Carol Marine's Painting a Day - "Morning Market"

CAROL MARINE'S PAINTING A DAY     8/21/13
"Morning Market" - 6x6in. -  click to bid

  
Morning Market reference photo I won't do this every time, but I'm including the reference photo for this painting before anyone asks.
: ) 
You can see I omitted the little details, like writing on bags and the lines on the pavement. I also simplified the background somewhat. Well, I simplified everything! I've been inspired lately by Kathy Weber's people scenes, especially this one. 
 
-Carol
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Tuesday, 20 August 2013

Carol Marine's Painting a Day - "Colorful Stacks"

CAROL MARINE'S PAINTING A DAY     8/20/13
"Colorful Stacks" - 6x6in. -  click to bid

  
My husband got this set of colorful, little cups for me recently, complete with ceramic spoons. I guess you can't tell they're little, so I probably shouldn't have said anything ... ah well.
 
-Carol
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Monday, 19 August 2013

Carol Marine's Painting a Day - "Chatting on the Steps"

CAROL MARINE'S PAINTING A DAY     8/19/13
"Chatting on the Steps" - 6x6in. -  click to bid

  
First of all, I have a new workshop to announce. I am going to wait until Friday, August 23rd at 9PM CST. The location will be in Oregon, FYI. Check back then if you're interested. They tend to fill up fast.  

Second, I took the photo for this in San Francisco at the top of a hill, in front of a big building ... with steps. Not sure I can give you any more info than that.

Third, several people asked for the photo reference from yesterday's painting, so here it is (also on my blog).

reference photo for
 
-Carol
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Sunday, 18 August 2013

Carol Marine's Painting a Day - "Parked in Green"

CAROL MARINE'S PAINTING A DAY     8/18/13
"Parked in Green" - 5x7in. -  click to bid

  
My friend Raymond Logan recently said to me, "The landscape (and photography) serves you, you do not serve the landscape." I've been told this before, but it finally sunk in this time (thanks, Raymond!), and I changed the scene from what I saw in the photo. Actually it was a pretty boring photo, so I am positively thrilled with how it turned out!  

We are home from Texas and I am rarin' to paint tomorrow. Can't wait to experiment with more photos!
 
-Carol
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