Wings Over Winecountry, Colleen's place (1 Viewer)

[buzzard12]

here is a photo of the display....someday this is going to make an amazing story...how I sold my first seascape:-O also sold the puppies playing and two other framed works, one of the egret studies I did last winter.

Congrats Colleen, the best praise of all, sales, nice to hear it.

 

[JTMB]

Congratulations on the show sales! Partly inspired by your 100 seascapes project, I've been doing a number of plein air landscapes, mostly 9 x 12's. I really think that oils are going to be my primary landscape medium - I'm really enjoying being outside and working with oils.

 

[phil baber]

Colleen. Am so very very sorry about your friend passing.
But to have a friend like you, must have been part of the joy of her life.
Am sorry have been away from catching up. My own life and lots of postings to get through, etc.
I hope you are well and bearing up. I wish you strength and happiness in these times.
Also, joy in perfecting the impossible.
Through your work? Life continues, and the potential for Hope impregnates us all.

Thank you! :t:

 

[timwootton]

Sorry to hear that Colleen.

 

[colleenc]

Thanks for all the kind words .....Feeling so lost right now, painting is the only thing that centers me somewhere. I'm trying to buck up but still having a hard time....so I decided to start another 100 challenge, if in a year I am living my dream of painting in a mobile studio, I want to hit the ground running so I am going for basics I need but don't know well.

the new challenge is to do long views as opposed to in your face waves, views from the beach, the cliffs, headlands and to get the skies going, and how the sky reflects in the water and on the beach. Many more parts than the waves so have a big job ahead. I'll be painting bigger and putting in gulls in every one for practice, but this photo was before I added them. I need them for scale and tho trite, they are just the perfect thing and fit everywhere. Only if I was painting Hawaii I couldn't put them in, no gulls in Hawaii.



here is #2 9x12 oil so much I missed on this, the list is so long I'm not even going to put it down here, but good to know what I don't know how to do yet.

 

[timwootton]

Terrific work - if you do 100 of this quality, the sales will buy you that camper!

 

[solitaryVSong]

Long view, short view, in your face view, you and the sea seem made for one another. This strikes me as a very strong painting. Keep this up as Tim says and you'll soon be selling enough for a luxury van.

 

[Woody]

I think there's a feeling of peace in this Colleen. The sea gets rough at times but always the calm returns over time.

Mike

 

[phil baber]

Your recent seascapes have left me breathless Colleen. You are one of the greatest artists in my life. And to see you still exploring and expanding your art has been a great lesson to me. Your spirit, tenacity and fight through art often come like a bombing raid on a city we all don't like. But the carnage you create is an unknown beauty from which we can all be inspired!
I've been writing songs since i was a kid. But could only write excellent ones when my heart was a bombsite.
At the present time my heart is fine. No songs.
Sometimes a broken heart has more in it than sorrow.
Sometimes it points us to a joy unbounded. A love of the life we have.
Keep on doing that thing. For it warms us all.
In your sorrow we share in it your need to find joy.
And we surely see it.
AND IT IS WONDERFUL!!:t:

 

[Lykos]

fantastic color composition

 

[colleenc]

Computer has been in the shop for a week. I have a lot to catch up on


I could call this one The Endless Tweak and I'm calling it quits here, I wanted the little surf birds to be hidden in the rocks like I saw them. The whole painting drove me nuts trying to get all stuff settled down...I will in the future not try to put so much stuff in one work, ie the water, or the birds or the rocks should be the main thing and all the rest subordinate to the main thing...

 

[mcw]

...I will in the future not try to put so much stuff in one work, ie the water, or the birds or the rocks should be the main thing and all the rest subordinate to the main thing...

No, keep going and cram them all in there! I love the way the birds are not too overt, and you have to find them - as in life - and also the light in the water. It's a rich painting that satisfies, holds interest and takes you there! Far more satisfying than a single interest bird-on-twig pic. As for the struggle to get there, who says doing this stuff is easy?! Well persevered. :t:

Mike
www.michaelcwood.co.uk

 

[mattybohan]

Those little calm areas of bright colors, offer a very nice place for the eye to rest. Well done!

 

[colleenc]

Thanks for the kind comments....this is for me a pic that I only just barely managed, I think the main problem is in the comp and the "wall" the wave makes across the near center of the painting and how the 2 parts don't really relate well. Not the kind of work that I really enjoy all the nit picking it takes...better leave that to the detail oriented people, who do that with love.

But it's good to find out what doesn't work and that alone was worth it. In the small oil sketch I did it worked out better.

 

[jacquot]

I definitely like the painting! The main take is just great. It took me a second time to see the birds clearly, and once I did, it seemed to take away from the impact of the whole. I agree with your demure, I guess. I think it may require more 'license.' What you see and what you feel may be different, and then what you show something else again. I love this series, and you are right to expand the scope, but keep going with it. Process is so important with art, and I love what you are doing with these.

 

[JTMB]

Having just gotten back from a workshop on the Oregon coast, I have to say how impressed I am at your ocean pieces. Really nicely done!

 

[ed keeble]

Computer has been in the shop for a week. I have a lot to catch up on


I could call this one The Endless Tweak and I'm calling it quits here, I wanted the little surf birds to be hidden in the rocks like I saw them. The whole painting drove me nuts trying to get all stuff settled down...I will in the future not try to put so much stuff in one work, ie the water, or the birds or the rocks should be the main thing and all the rest subordinate to the main thing...

still the great conundrum- do the birds get their natural prominence, or little bit more..

 

[nickderry]

I love this so far - there are rocks I'm turning into surfbirds and vice versa - no need to worry about cramming them in and taking over - be ambiguous in what they are, which is already how I'm reading the picture. Such a natural scene.

 

[solitaryVSong]

It's a rich painting that satisfies, holds interest and takes you there! :t:

Mike
www.michaelcwood.co.uk

Have to agree with this Colleen. I see the virtue of making something the focus but life is often more complex. So complexity is appealing and rings true as well. This is a nice combination. You do eventually go to the birds just not right away. All in all though I think it is a very satisfying painting.

 

[colleenc]

here is a seascape more my style, in fog 6x12 oil on canvas

Ken, even if I can bring off these detail pieces, I don't really enjoy painting that way, its sort of boring in the end, so thats why I want a different road. Sometimes tho it's Ok just wouldn't want to do it all the time.

and the first page of gull flight studies these are done free hand with a brush only, as on a seascape I will have to brush these birds in like the chinese brush painting just a few strokes that have to be right...so practice will make perfect I think


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