Tag: small painting

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Windward Coast

I used Gamblin’s Portland greys (light, medium and dark) and Chromatic Black.  The Ampersand gesso board is sometimes lightly brushed with Gamsol solvent before starting the painting.  I’m using fine sable hair brushes (and sometimes my fingers) for these little paintings.

"Windward Coast", 6" x 6", oil on board, © Anita C. Miller
“Windward Coast”, 8″ x 8″, oil on board, © Anita C. Miller
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Trail To The Summit

This little monochrome painting from yesterday is based on an Oahu hike my husband and I took this past winter.  I’ve included the reference photo this time and the link to my previous post on this hike where you can see the summit views.

"Trail To The Summit", 8" x 10", oil © Anita C. Miller
“Trail To The Summit”, 8″ x 10″, oil on board   © Anita C. Miller

I could have kept working on the painting, but decided I liked the ambiguity and stopped.  No clear view of the trail ahead.

my husband leading the way. I had the figure in the painting initially, but then took him out.
My husband leading the way. I had the figure in the painting initially, but then took him out.

 

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late summer field 9″ x 12″

oil on archival panel

© Anita C. Miller 2012

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Small Things

“Barn Swallows and Bugs”, 8″ x 10″, oil on board, © Anita C. Miller

There is a small delay sometimes between when I push the camera’s shutter button and

when I hear the shutter activate.  The swallows (maybe 50 of them) are flying around

very fast trying to catch bugs.  All photos then, are purely accidental… I like that.

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Quiet Place

“Quiet Place”, 9″ x 12″, oil on board, © Anita C. Miller 2012

There are muskrats beneath these waters.  I’ve seen them, but they are elusive creatures!

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Rain and Riptides

“Rain and Riptides”, 8″ x 10″ , oil on board, © Anita C. Miller

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 strong winds

thousands of white caps

–one very brave (crazy!) windsurfer

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lonely windsurfer far offshore on Lake Michigan north of Chicago – click on image to see large

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#30 — untitled (Great Blue heron)

9″ x 12″ study– oil on canvas

click on photo to see large– this guy is so beautiful!

the dead trees (snags) give nice diagonals

photos are from Middlefork Savanna forest preserve in Lake Forest, IL 

all content and images © Anita C. Miller 2012

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pond study

9″ x 12″ study…   A quiet place with many fallen dead trees in the water.

Often, I see Great Blue Herons standing in the debris, perfectly camouflaged, waiting to catch a meal.  Also, white egrets and woodpeckers come here, and turtles sun themselves on top of the logs.

I left out a lot of details…  the abstraction of the place was more important to me.

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Untitled sketch

oil study 9″ x 12″  Limited palette using cad. yellow light, cad. red light, quinacridone magenta, ultramarine blue, phthalo green, Portland grey (light, medium and dark) and chromatic black.

This is basically the Kevin Macpherson palette (except I’ve subbed the quin. mag. for aliz. crimson).