Friday, 9 February 2018

Carol Marine's Painting a Day

  CAROL MARINE'S PAINTING A DAY    2/9/18
   

Click Here to Bid - 6x6in. - "Salt the Asparagus"
 
I painted this today. All day. It's six by six inches, and it took all day. Amazing, right? So, getting things to look good with a palette knife isn't easy. Apparently I got lucky with the first one!! Or maybe I just have to be more selective about my subjects. And guess what, it wasn't the asparagus that was difficult! It was the bowls. I struggled and struggled with them, and then finally used my palette knife to scrape it all off, and started over. I think in the end the bowls were all brush. But I'm finally happy with it.

I've done oodles and oodles of abstract collage lately, and I think I'm finally ready to offer them up for sale. I experimented today with getting good images of a couple. I found that scanning was best, although no matter what I tried I couldn't get the oranges to come out right. In the image (below) to the left, the middle piece is a brighter, more saturated orange. And in the right one, the three red pieces are actually orange. Is it my scanner? Is there a better way to do this? Does anyone have any experience photographing collage? I would really appreciate any suggestions. Thank you!



WORKSHOP REMINDER:
I will be opening up registration for my Carmel Plein Air Workshop this Saturday (tomorrow) at 10am, PST.
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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 ...

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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Wednesday, 7 February 2018

Carol Marine's Painting a Day

  CAROL MARINE'S PAINTING A DAY    2/7/18
   

Click Here to Bid - 6x8in. - "Red Hot"
 
I've been wanting to really play around with the palette knife, so I gave myself this whole week to do nothing but experiment. I spent the first day simply playing with texture. Then I tried a few things that didn't work out, but that I learned from. This was the first one that started going in a direction I like. I started out with my brush and whenever I felt like it might work, I laid in some paint with the palette knife. About halfway through it was looking too tight, so I took another tool that's like a rubber spatula, and I made a sort of contained mess with the paint. Then I worked on it some more. And this is the result. I might have danced around a bit in my studio.

Unfortunately the paint is quite a bit thicker than usual, so this will take longer to dry and then varnish. I'm not sure how long, since I haven't really done this before. The buyer will have to bear with me.

WORKSHOP REMINDER:
I will be opening up registration for my Carmel Plein Air Workshop this Saturday at 10am, PST. My original post about this was confusing, so I hope this clears it up.

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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 ...

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

Friday, 2 February 2018

Carol Marine's Painting a Day

  CAROL MARINE'S PAINTING A DAY    2/2/18
   

Click Here to Bid - 8x8in. - "Squeezing Through"
 
Unfortunately this painting has nothing to do with what I have to say next. This painting is a tight scene from France, whereas what I have to say is about Carmel, California. I will be teaching a plein air workshop there, at the end of May. It's not something I plan to do regularly, but I'm going to try it, with a relatively small group. Ideally all the participants will have taken a workshop from me before, so I don't have to repeat a bunch of stuff. I will be opening it up for registration in one week, Saturday Feb. 9th at 10AM on the WEST coast ... of the US. : ) Click the link for deets...

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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 ...

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

Thursday, 1 February 2018

Carol Marine's Painting a Day

  CAROL MARINE'S PAINTING A DAY    2/1/18
   

Click Here to Bid - 6x6in. - "Cracked Egg"
 
I am happy to announce, finally, that I have a new ARTBYTE available!! For those of you who don't know, that's an online tutorial. This one is $10, and includes a video of the above scene being painted. I've edited out all the boring bits where nothing is happening on-screen, which cuts it down to about 30 minutes, and added a voice-over explaining things about my process. Happy watching!

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  Here are other paintings that are still available:

Yours in art,
-Carol
Quick Links

My Workshop(s)

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