Susan's Tears 12" x 12" original oil painting

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Original Signed oil painting
12" x 12" gallery wrap canvas
Susan's Tears


This piece is inspired plein air created in the studio from memory.
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53 pieces of Plein Air sneak peek

here is a sneak peek at a piece or I should say 53 times 2 = 106 plein air pieces I have been working on.

The hard part is done and I will be posting more details soon.
So for now I leave you with these two teaser's.




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Original Black-eyed Susan Triptych Painting

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Each Panel Measures 5.5" x 12" on Gallery Wrap Canvas .
This piece is best told as half and half.
The sky and clouds were painted outside on site and the black-eyed susan flowers were inspired from a photo I took recently.

With this piece I wanted to capture the joy that swells in me and the summer memories I feel whenever I see black-eyed susans.

I loved creating the Rose of Sharon Series, from the flowering Lucy in my yard, it was an exciting blessing to work on and now that all the blooms have withdrawn and faded until next summer, I'm at a loss for colors here around my home. I will surely be painting the sunsets, but I ache for colors and paintings created at all times of day. Being that our five children are little yet I am tied to my homescapes and working from some choice photographs until Falls show comes. In the spirit of Monet it matters not whether a piece is created entirely onsite or with reference, It's the Results that matter!


~Wishing you all the best, don't forget to look up and around, inspiration and beauty are everywhere.
Rebecca

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Carnival No.2 original painting, Inspired Plein Air

After much work here is the 2nd Carnival painting, this is 18" x 24" and surely inspired plein air. I came this close _ to taking a pair of scissors to it. The day before yesterday I has said that's it I'm done and walked away.

and then in a sudden fury of palette knife hours that tumbled by I finished the piece into something that makes sense visually for me. I was trying to explain to my husband that I won't know it until I see it, that it's a visual thing and for many days this piece was just plain ugly and grated on my soul. I hated whenever he would look or whenever I would look at it.

Now I can present the piece satisfied visually and in my heart. With every piece I paint I learn more about myself as an artist and am slowly throwing off the layers of expectations. I was convinced this piece would be a failure, but one that I would learn from.

Now instead I learned that nothing beats working outside on site. And that when I need to I can recreate the emotions and memories. That's what I had to do here. Working from small 4 x 6 photos limited me to one single moment in time, it was when I let go of the photo reference, tossed them aside and relied on my emotions and memories that I was able to paint.

~Rebecca
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18" x 24"
Original signed painting on gallery wrap canvas

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