admin – Nancy Salwen's Daily Paintings http://nancysalwenart.com i'm painting again! Mon, 05 Sep 2011 20:55:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.6 Crossroads 3 http://nancysalwenart.com/2011/09/05/crossroads-3/ Mon, 05 Sep 2011 20:26:53 +0000 http://nancysalwenart.com/?p=167 Acrylic, Gesso and Pencil. 7 x 7. Bid on this painting…

Iconic cloud, moon, bush and tree. I’m a kid at heart.

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Crossroads 2 http://nancysalwenart.com/2011/09/05/crossroads-2/ Mon, 05 Sep 2011 20:24:56 +0000 http://nancysalwenart.com/?p=163 Acrylic, Gesso and Pencil. 7 x 7. Bid on this painting…

When I get an idea I like, I like to keep playing with it.

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Crossroads 1 http://nancysalwenart.com/2011/09/05/crossroads-1/ Mon, 05 Sep 2011 20:22:47 +0000 http://nancysalwenart.com/?p=160 Acrylics, Gesso and Pencil on board. 7 x 7.

Thought I’d try acrylics. Still thinking about oil, but this is satisfying my craving for bright. This feels kind of fantasy midwest to me.

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Swimming Hole – Indian Love Call I http://nancysalwenart.com/2011/08/27/swimming-hole-indian-love-call-i/ Sat, 27 Aug 2011 21:05:16 +0000 http://nancysalwenart.com/?p=150 Continue reading ]]> Watercolor, gesso and pencil on board. 7 x 7.

This is a spot we found in Vermont where my son and his friends like to jump off a big rock into the water. I love swimming holes in general – there’s something magical about them, and if there’s something to jump off of, we’re all happy. This place doesn’t really have a waterfall – I painted this late at night after we got home from memory and imagination. This painting is how it felt to me there – and for the next few days I kept painting this place – I may still be on this roll – I don’t think I feel finished yet.

Because of the medium I’m using all my daily paintings so far have a very flat (no gloss) look to them. I’ve been enjoying that but I’m now getting a craving for brighter colors and a little more shine. I’m going to get hold of either some acrylics (which I haven’t painted with in years – never liked them but I think they’ve improved since I was 20!)  or some water soluble oils, and give that a shot.

We’re expecting a hurricane this weekend (a very unusual thing up here in New Hampshire) so maybe I’ll go get some paints when I go out for groceries, and shut myself in with them and play. Sounds like fun!

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Swimming Hole – Indian Love Call II http://nancysalwenart.com/2011/08/27/swimming-hole-indian-love-call-ii/ Sat, 27 Aug 2011 21:03:34 +0000 http://nancysalwenart.com/?p=147 Watercolor, gesso and pencil on board. 7 x 7. Bid on this painting…

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Swimming Hole – Indian Love Call III http://nancysalwenart.com/2011/08/27/swimming-hole-indian-love-call-iii/ Sat, 27 Aug 2011 21:00:22 +0000 http://nancysalwenart.com/?p=143 Watercolor, gesso and pencil on board. 7 x 7. Bid on this painting…

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Special Place #1 http://nancysalwenart.com/2011/08/17/special-place-1/ Wed, 17 Aug 2011 22:52:20 +0000 http://nancysalwenart.com/?p=131 Continue reading ]]> Watercolor, gesso and pencil. 7 x 7. Bid on this painting…

 

It’s kind of a funny name, but while I painted this I really did have that enchanted feeling of imagining my special place, in a childhood kind of way. This is from my imagination, with the help of a few glances at a David Hockney painting I like.

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Flowers #2 http://nancysalwenart.com/2011/08/17/flowers-2/ Wed, 17 Aug 2011 22:50:08 +0000 http://nancysalwenart.com/?p=128 Watercolor, gesso and pencil on board. 7 x 7. Bid on this painting…

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More flowers from my little garden.

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Abstract #9 http://nancysalwenart.com/2011/08/17/abstract-9/ Wed, 17 Aug 2011 22:47:02 +0000 http://nancysalwenart.com/?p=125 Watercolor, gesso and pencil on board. 7 x 7. Bid on this painting…

Here’s another one – even more “stacked figure” ish. I enjoy the personalities .

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Abstract #8 http://nancysalwenart.com/2011/08/17/abstract-8/ Wed, 17 Aug 2011 22:44:39 +0000 http://nancysalwenart.com/?p=121 Continue reading ]]> Watercolor, Gesso and Pencil on Board. 7 x 7.

I enjoy paintings like these – the gesso is thick and creamy. The images are reminiscent of my “stacked figure” series , which was done in marker and watercolor, but these are much looser by necessity – hard to be fastidious with gesso and a big brush!

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