Every Thursday I paint with PulseArtists. We are a group of artist friends who paint and show our work together in the Washington Metropolitan area. We paint in a variety of media: oils, pastels, acrylics and watercolors, and our work represents a wide range of genres from realism to abstraction, from small watercolors to large canvases. We encourage, support and critique each other. Sometimes instead of painting, we go on field trips to galleries and art museums. This week we are going to a painting demonstration at the Vienna Art Society by the oil painter Armand
Cabrera.
For more information on this active group of artist friends, visit our website http://www.pulseartists.com/
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February 09, 2009
February 04, 2009
Commissions
I have recently finished two commissions.
'Grandmother's Memory (Copyright 2008)
This is a 30" x 24" acrylic on canvas. I was inspired by Elaine's story of hunting for Pink Lady''s Slippers on Sunday afternoons with her grandmother. The various woodland images evoke the landscape they would have encountered in their search for the rare orchid as light filtered through the canopy of trees: mountain laurel, ferns, periwinkle, pachysandra and fallen leaves surrounding the pink lady's slipper, the sought after orchid at the end of the hunt.
'Snowbound' (Copyright 2009)
Sharon wanted a watercolor of a winter snow scene. She looked through my website gallery of landscapes and chose the acrylic painting of a summer storm: "Fallen Tree". She asked me to paint this landscape as it was in January, with snow on frozen Deep Creek Lake in Garrett County, Maryland.
'Grandmother's Memory (Copyright 2008)
This is a 30" x 24" acrylic on canvas. I was inspired by Elaine's story of hunting for Pink Lady''s Slippers on Sunday afternoons with her grandmother. The various woodland images evoke the landscape they would have encountered in their search for the rare orchid as light filtered through the canopy of trees: mountain laurel, ferns, periwinkle, pachysandra and fallen leaves surrounding the pink lady's slipper, the sought after orchid at the end of the hunt.
Sharon wanted a watercolor of a winter snow scene. She looked through my website gallery of landscapes and chose the acrylic painting of a summer storm: "Fallen Tree". She asked me to paint this landscape as it was in January, with snow on frozen Deep Creek Lake in Garrett County, Maryland.
Visit my website http://www.lindajonesart.com
February 03, 2009
Looking at the world with an artist's eyes.
This week the subject of my watercolor class was portraying light and shade to give a painting life. In the studio I had a range of different still life objects set up with directional lights and a list of 12 questions to encourage analysis of warm and cool light, color temperature, soft and hard edges, transparency and the the effect of the native color on which shadows fall. As the students were arriving, I looked out and noticed the wonderful, clear, February light falling on the trees in the yard, casting shadows on the patches of snow, the grassy areas and the fallen leaves. With the questions in my hand, I greeted the class and we spent the first few minutes analysing the light and shade in the surrounding woods. Their surprise in realising that shadows are not all gray or black, that their colors and intensity vary, led to a more successful and fun class once we moved into the studio to paint apples and pears. Next week we will be using light and shade to add interest to a landscape.
Visit my website http://www.lindajonesart.com
Visit my website http://www.lindajonesart.com
Linda Jones Art: Welcome to my Art Blog.
I have had a website: http://www.lindajonesart.com/ for some time. On my blog you can receive the latest news of my paintings in watercolor, acrylic and mixed media; the newest additions to my portfolio, current shows and classes. I am an active member of Great Falls Studios here in Northern Virginia, I teach private watercolor classes in my studio and through the Great Falls School of Art. Keep in touch with what is happening in the local art world and please contact me via the blog or my website.
About me.
Living in wooded Northern Virginia near Great Falls on the Potomac and Chesapeake Bay gives me a wonderful environment in which to paint. My work reflects an intimate relationship with nature, whether it is a landscape or an individual element such as a flower, fruit or tree. Many of my pictures depict nature in close proximity such as a bee on a flower or the morning dew on the grass by the creek in my backyard.
Current shows.
Anticipation: This is a solo show at the Great Falls Library, 9830 Georgetown Pike, Great Falls, VA 22066. You can see my watercolors and acrylic painting in the small conference room during library hours until the end of March 2009. The paintings anticipate the warmer days ahead with a display of spring flowers, butterflies and bees, painted in the gardens of northern Virginia.
About me.
Living in wooded Northern Virginia near Great Falls on the Potomac and Chesapeake Bay gives me a wonderful environment in which to paint. My work reflects an intimate relationship with nature, whether it is a landscape or an individual element such as a flower, fruit or tree. Many of my pictures depict nature in close proximity such as a bee on a flower or the morning dew on the grass by the creek in my backyard.
Current shows.
Anticipation: This is a solo show at the Great Falls Library, 9830 Georgetown Pike, Great Falls, VA 22066. You can see my watercolors and acrylic painting in the small conference room during library hours until the end of March 2009. The paintings anticipate the warmer days ahead with a display of spring flowers, butterflies and bees, painted in the gardens of northern Virginia.
Swallowtail: Watercolor (Copyright 2008)
I also have three paintings and art cards in the winter show through at the Garrett Arts Council Gallery, 206 E. Alder St, Oakland, MD 21550. My painting: Rolling towards the Blue was selected by the Garrett County Chamber of Commerce for a show at Deep Creek Lake Visitor's Center in McHenry, Md 21541.
Rolling towards the Blue: Acrylic on paper. (Copyright 2008)
Visit my website http://www.lindajonesart.com
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