Showing posts with label spring. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spring. Show all posts

Saturday, May 21, 2016

"Garden Song" - New Acrylic Abstract Series by Marcy Brennan

"Garden Song" Acrylic Abstract Series

8" x 8" x 1.5" gallery wrap canvas









This is an acrylic abstract series in all the colors of spring. It has lots of texture and lively brush strokes.  These would look great in a contemporary home or apartment where a nice pop of color is needed.

The edges are painted black and it is wired and ready to hang. However, they would look wonderful set in black floater frames.

There are a couple of different ways to hang these paintings:
four in a row horizontally
four in a row vertically
two by two

What sort of art do you like?  Representational (an artistic interpretation of something that exists) or abstract (something created that never existed before).  Most people think it's much harder to create a representational work of art and that an abstract is "something my kindergartener could do".  That's because they've never attempted to create an abstract painting!

There's nothing to look at when creating an abstract painting.  It comes totally from inside the artist - it's their thoughts and feelings that come out onto the canvas - not a copy of something they see.  The color harmonies and values (light and dark) must work, the composition must be pleasing and the brushwork or palette knife work and texture or lack thereof must all fit together like a jigsaw puzzle - only there's no picture to refer to while putting it all together.

Does this change your view of abstract art or not?  Let me know your thoughts.

Saturday, April 9, 2016


It's looking like SPRING in my studio!
New for spring - works in progress

My palette and one of the two new paintings in progress. 
I use all Golden acrylics professional artist quality paints except for the white paint you see. I just love the viscosity of the Basics white paint. It's too luscious not to use and mixes so well with the Golden paints.

Hoping to finish these this weekend for the new Loft Gallery show going up for next Wednesday's Art Walk.


 

Sunday, April 14, 2013

Tulips! Spring is Here by Marcy Brennan


Tulips! Spring is Here - 8" x 10" watercolor on paper - $65

I painted this for this week's challenge on the Daily Paintworks website where I place my paintings for sale.  This week's challenge is all about spring and Farmer's Markets, and amazingly, it's the first challenge I'm submitting to ;-).

We have one of the best and longest running Farmer's Markets in Florida here in Fort Pierce right on the waterfront every Saturday morning year 'round, rain or shine!  We love the sights, smells, food, coffees, smoothies, flowers, sounds from the different live band each week, fresh produce and arts and crafts all set along our beautiful Indian River.

We don't often find tulips at our Farmer's Market, but the orchids are wonderful and they are on my list to paint.  So much to paint....so little time....sigh :-)))

Purchase this painting here.


Saturday, December 22, 2012

Nitra Slovakia Springtime by Marcy Brennan


Nitra Slovakia Springtime - 5" x 7" watercolor on paper

This is my second painting for the Virtual Paintout blog for December.  I love old buildings and when I was "walking" around Nitra in my virtual trip via Google Street View, this old building stopped me in my "virtual tracks".  ;-)  I love the angle of the building and the beautiful complimentary colors of blue and orange.  The church in the background was simply perfect.  I had fun with the sky colors - it says happy morning to me!

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Thursday, December 20, 2012

Springtime in Slovakia by Marcy Brennan


Springtime in Slovakia - 5" x 7" watercolor on paper - $25

I've never been to Slovakia, but from "walking around" in Google Street View, it looks like a beautiful country.  I did this painting for this month's challenge at the virtual paintout blog site.  It looks like the Google crew was there during spring as all the areas of the country I "walked" had beautiful green buds beginning to come out on the trees.



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