Garden Roses

Garden Roses 16 x 11 o/b CtCummins

Hello all,  Sorry so long in posting but you know how painting goes.  It does come first.  The holidays also came first with family and friends.  My hope is that you all survived both the holidays and the weather.  It has been crazy in all parts of the USA.  I tried a little experiment here with a more realism and less brush work.  Would I do it again?  Not sure.  I do like texture but you can learn from all paintings you do.  Recently rereading Dan McCaw's book gave me pause to try something different.  I really am looking to go more modern.  But to push abstraction I believe you have to know reality.  I think with abstraction there is something to the mystery of the painting.  I am amazed by Steven DaLuz's work and the imagination that it stimulates to the viewer.  Steven's work along with Dan's  is like taking a person view into their creative mind.

 Thanks for looking and now I must paint a warm Florida scene to forget its so cold out.  May you always be painting.

Ct

Paint on Paint

"I wish you love"  oil on board 6 x 4 ©Ct Cummins

This was totally an experimental painting.  I needed to see as much paint in a small space as possible and still let it be a great little painting. Vincent van Gogh's painting technique was like applying frosting to a canvas.  I first saw the Van Gogh exhibit in Los Angeles, California and was awe struck at the thickness of his paint application.

It seemed like toothpaste on a canvas.  I knew at that moment that I was going to paint thick.  After a few years of looking and searching out other master painters I began to horde books on Monet.  I traveled to Santa Barbara Museum where they have his Cathedral paintings of the Rouen Cathedral and standing as close as security would let me without touching the art you could see just paint on top of paint on top of paint and not until you stepped back maybe 10 feet did the painting come into focus.  I have been on an artistic journey to replicate that in my work.  I would hope before I no longer can paint that I succeed in this endeavor.  I find no greater artist to  esteem too.  I recently found Sean Diediker and found a living artist mastering his paint application.  With today being 30 degrees in Florida flowers make me think summer can't be far away

Take time to smell the flowers

'Take time to smell the flowers' - oil on board- 16 x12 © Ct Cummins 2010

This is one of my newest works.  Thanks to a great friend and artist Michele Melina and her suggestion to try an added red to my palette.  You know palettes and the colors we use become very personal.  It's whether we use impressionist colors or tonal colors that really starts my engines raring to paint.  I love to paint flowers as did Franz Bischoff.
This is getting bigger for me as I painted mostly in the miniature size and only now have expanded my size and ready to paint much bigger....... Enjoy!!!!!!!