Celestial Synapses III

"Celestial Synapses III"
12" x 36"
Oil on museum wrapped canvas
After a weekend of joyful celebrating, gallery visits and art museum tours in Chicago I was happy to be back in my own studio today. Another snow storm stamped its approval on my decision to stay in. 

I've decided my brain is weary of looking at the same 35,000 photos I use for references and that's why I've gravitated toward this style of painting… for now. It's coming from within and I seldom allow myself to draw exclusively on what's going on inside me.  

Carol



Celestial Synapses II

"Celestial Synapses II"
12" x 36"
          Oil on museum wrapped canvas
Number five in the series is in complementary colors. I narrowed the field to two colors on this piece, opting to explore how little value change I could get away with before rendering it boring. 

I'm loving this process. It frees me to pull from within, rather than exercise my power of observation. I have two more large canvases to explore, then I'll have to order more and do something smaller in the meantime.

Carol

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Celestial Synapses

"Celestial Synapses"
16" x 20"
Oil on wrapped canvas
Happy Valentine's Day, my loves! 

 Number four in my celestial series was painted in three primaries. The secondaries and vague tertiaries were a result of blending. I'm enjoying developing this new process so much, it hardly seems possible that at this stage of my career anything could generate this much enthusiasm.  I feel as comfortable with this as I am when I paint a delicate petal of a rose. 

As with the other three, I have not signed my work on the front. They can be hung in any direction. It's not that I'm ambiguous, I'm giving my viewer options.

This post is number 800 on Dailypaintworks.com.  Eight hundred paintings in nearly as many days.

Carol

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