Being one who loves to try new things I have decided on the Typepad platform to see how it feels. You can continue to find me at www.vidaspaintings.com. I have a new series of small format paintings which sell for 30 euros plus shipping. They’re great and ready to hang and make for original and intriguing gifts. Have a look and contact me with any questions. I love to hear from you!
Be well….
Acrylic on Canvas
Work In Progress
Another painting from the Angel series. I believe I will spark things up in this one with a top layer of oil paints. I love oils…. Acrylics are wonderful and are so “user friendly” but the colors, smells and overall feel of oils has stolen my heart…
Be well…
Just wanted to check in and let everyone know that somehow my blog here acted up and I couldn’t fix it (having two left thumbs when it comes to computers) so I’m trying out new themes to see which one hits home with me.
In the meantime I continue to paint and study painting daily. At the moment I am stepping back and re-learning some basics such as the pivotal role of value/tone in painting plein air. Plein air is a challenge for me and the other day I went out into the sunshine to paint olive trees while my girls climbed on them. I think I painted the worse painting ever.
That is a good sign though. There was something I needed to adjust in my work and so I am going back to basics and painting grey-scale cubes and eggs under various light conditions. I am determined to “get it” with plein air landscapes (seascapes are so much easier for me). It’s the jumble of earthy tones (middle values) of the trees and wild brush and grasses filling in the spaces that I fail to interpret in a way that works in a painting.
On my easel I have a portrait of a monk (aside from the grey-scale eggs). I am searching for a different perspective… a new way of seeing the landscape… of seeing in general. In stepping back and building up my toolbox I am certain this new door will open…
Be well…..
Oil on hardboard
46 x 60 cm
Sea, sand and sky melt together in eternal, ever changing forms. It is said that the only certainty in life is change…. yet all change, in one way or another, is linked. We too, as boats of various shapes and color… some beached, others rocking with the movement of the sea… are affected by the waves and currents of the ocean, the winds and clouds of the sky and, on a subtler level, the delicate shifting of the sands. And through it all we are somehow, incredibly, all pieces fitting together in the holographic wholeness of life’s changes….
Be well……
Oil on Canvas
90 x 110 cm
I am still inspired by the red boat and at the moment I have 5 paintings, medium to large in size, on various easels in my studio drying and waiting for their next layer…
This one is nearly finished. I think the colors work well together and are well chosen for the mood I wanted to give… or rather the mood that took over me as I was painting this.
Be well…..
