Chickadee & Berries

 

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.  Charles Swindoll 

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Garden Boss

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So if you’ve been following my art for anytime, you may be thinking this latest series is quite different.  Well true in a sense but it is rather I’m more revisiting an old style!  When I lived in Canada I painted flowers

In a very colorful and simple way.  So lately I’ve been thinking of how I can interpret and paint my current surroundings in a bright and happy way.  So it’s taken me a while and finally I’ve begun playing with paint and prickly desert scape.  I hope to add a gentler touch to an old southwest theme.  We will keep the cowboys out it.  Anyhow, hope you have a happy time painting whatever currently is inspiring you!  Let me know how you discover new inspiration?? Thanks for reading, 

Krista

You Surround Me

12”x12” oil on 3/4” canvas

"You Surround Me”

Love the season of fall and the colors of fall leaves.  I worked thin to thick with the paint on this.  Had fun layering fall colors, and then of course my favorite birdie!

Painted this on a professional canvas.

Hope you enjoy!

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Peaceful

 

Painting in a more contemporary style, but keeping with my classic training with light and shadow in mind.  I just love the feeling peonies give me that's why I named this painting peaceful.  I am going to work on larger ones next.  Feeling happy with how this one turned out!  To purchase this painting click the link below:

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Lady & Lilies

No matter what kind of day I may be having or how distracted I may get with the busyness of daily life I am always stopped in my tracks when I see the hummingbirds flying by the kitchen window.   I was reading about these birds the other day and here was an interesting fact the hummingbird takes 150 breaths per minute while resting!  I'm glad I don't have to take that many breaths per minute while painting it would make it difficult I think I'd take up abstract art.
Well I hope everyone finds some rest this weekend and can take a big breath of fresh air!
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Tulips

It is funny starting a new year sometimes seems both exciting and scary all at once.  There is always an overload of work and it just seems that it would be nice to just take it easy.  But, that would be boring so we all keep busy!  

I love painting flowers no matter how many I paint or how often, I never get tired of them.  

Tulips are one of my very favorite flowers to paint.  So in this painting I filled full of them and tried to capture the feeling of excitement I have when I see them! 

 

Daisy Days

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Did this daisy sketch while the kiddos were at school.  This morning was busy in the studio!  Now a week of kids off school for fall break.  Better set my alarm clock to get some time to paint before they wake up.

Lily of the valley

"Red is the rose that in yonder garden grows Fair is the lily of the valley

Clear is the water that flows from the Boyne But my love is fairer than any. 

This is a classic Irish song that's pretty and it reminds me of the painting!  Happy Painting!

Goldfinch & Pine

The goldfinch is such a beauty! I feel birds are flowers with wings.:).  I am straying from my usual florals these days because it's been so busy with kids in school and starting sports and music I feel my head spinning!  So a simple bird takes me out of the stress and into a world of simplicity.  I hope you have a great time in your studio!  Happy Painting

P.S.  The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Pablo Picasso

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Blue bird on Magnolia Branch

​Blue Bird on Magnolia Branch

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8"x8" oil on 0.5" cradled wood panel

The Eastern Blue Bird.  I painted this from a photo this bird is sitting on a blooming magnolia branch.  I tried to keep the background loose so as to not take attention away from our bird friend.

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Winter Rose

This was a challenging color scheme for me to work with.  I don't know about you but roses can be tricky!

They either seems to just come easy or very difficult depending on the day.  I enjoy them, and this time of year in Arizona they are in bloom.  So I will be busy painting more.

Colors I used:  Permanent rose, cad Yellow pale, transparent brown & red oxide, sap green, phalo turquoise blue, cobalt blue, titanium white.  For the background I mixed Terra Rosa hue with cobalt blue and white.  

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Hope you have a Happy New Year!  

Overflowing

Painted this rose that I cut from my garden.
Im very thankful this thanksgiving day for this Dailypaintworks site and all the new friends I have made an aquantance with here online. Some I have been able to have come to my class!   There is much more of course to be thankful for but this is an area of life that has been a surprise!  

I am almost completing my second year of dailypainting this December!  I'm thankful for all the encouragement that everyone has given me along the way.

Have a great thanksgiving!

Christmas Chickadee

Let's talk birds... This is another little creature I just love!! Growing up in Canada these cuties would hang out on our back porch in the snow.  The black cap chickadee!  Hope you enjoy!

Surrendered Beauty

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I've recently expanded my sales to Etsy!  You can check out my new store.  I feel like its a new adventure trying to figure out how to market your art in the internet!

How did I sell my art in Canada?

I would hang 8-12 paintings in high quality retail locations in Vancouver.  I did very well and by the third year I hardly needed to display in stores I had such a great referral system!  Then I moved!

So here in Scottsdale there was an overwhelming number of ways to sell my art but all were out of the question because they would have divided my time so I would have had to be away from my very young children.  That was not going to work.  So I decided to try selling on DailyPaintworks!  And since day one I have been so happy I did!  It has been such an amazing blessing to be  

able to do this.  So I'm very glad for unseen opportunities and new directions.

And I can hardly believe I'm saying this but it's a real online community!:)

Thanks for all your support!

Peaceful Moments 20" x 20" oil on thick canvas

Painted another in the series of Tulips!  This is a larger piece, more what I always painted before I became addicted to the "Daily" painting.  I forgot how much more challenging this larger format was.  

I really enjoyed being able make big loose brush stokes again.

Hope you enjoy!

Friendly Faces

There is a block in below!  I started by under painting the whole board with viridian green and transparent red oxide.  Then I used a white with a touch of transparent yellow oxide, and touches of viridian and purple lake to block in the whites.  I try to make warm whites!  It's hard you have to keep comparing with the surrounding colors!  It's a balancing act this painting game.  Anyhow as always I mean to take more pictures to show the process.  Hope you have a great weekend!