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ACEO Landscape Painting A Day
ACEO Landscape Paintings
by Carrie L. Lewis
One new painting almost every day
Week 1, 2007
January 7, 2007
Landscape Study #21 2006
The Long View
Since I do not generally paint on Sunday's, I thought I would take the opportunity to share with you another recent ACEO Landscape completed in late 2006.
THE LONG VIEW was completed on December 26, 2006, and it is one of those paintings that happen every now and again. One in which I was astonished and thrilled with the unexpected reality of the distance. I absolutely love the cool shadows and distance in the background and the warm, bright sunlight in the foreground. My biggest disappointment with this piece is that it is not a larger painting!
Ah, but therein lies part of the challenge. Can I get the same atmospheric look on a large canvas? Maybe...just maybe!
3-1/2" x 2-1/2"
Original oil on triple-gessoed, archival 4-ply mat board.
January 6, 2007
Landscape Study #6 2007
Light & Shadow
The study today was light and shadow, as well as distance. I used a familiar motif with the rugged, rolling landscape of the Flint Hills, but I created it from memory and used a series of glazes to create the transparent blues of the shadow areas. There are some glazes in the warm areas, as well, but I used slightly heavier applications of color. I have also learned the value of brushing color on, then quickly wiping it with a clean rag to 'lift' some of the color. The random gradations of color and value that result can never be planned and are often sheer delight.
3-1/2" x 2-1/2"
Original oil on triple-gessoed, archival 4-ply mat board.
January 5, 2007
Landscape Study #5 2007
Another visit to the Flint Hills in fall. This is the way I first saw the Flint Hills several years ago. It was a bitter cold day, with the typical Kansas wind. The tallgrass was brown and looked lifeless. There was a skiff of snow in some of the more sheltered areas.
There is no snow in this painting. In fact, if you look closely, you will see hints of green deep within the tallgrass. Winter is close at hand, but summer hasn't completely relinquished its hold on the land, even if the cattle are now gone.
3-1/2" x 2-1/2"
Original oil on triple-gessoed, archival 4-ply mat board.
January 4, 2007
Landscape Study #4 2007
Alone at the Top
The Flint Hills would never be called 'wooded'. There are cottonwoods and other trees along the rivers, creeks and runoff routes. Wild yews dot the hills, sometimes with profusion and sometimes a solitary tree grows on the top of a hill.
That is the study of ALONE AT THE TOP. I have painted variations on this theme three times, now. One of them was among the first three ACEO landscapes I ever painted and it is now sold. But it is a familiar theme and one that I enjoy repainting, testing painting techniques, testing color choices and even experimenting with the seasons.
3-1/2" x 2-1/2"
Original oil on triple-gessoed, archival 4-ply mat board.
January 3, 2007
Landscape Study #3 2007
Looking South
Today's ACEO Landscape goes back to my years growing up in Michigan. It features the dramatic light that often happens when a storm is either coming into an area or leaving it. The landscape shadowed by storm clouds to dim and vague and stand in brilliant contrast to the sunlighted areas. In this particular case, the foreground is still sunbathed, but the clouds obscure the middle ground and foreground.
This scene is a very familiar one to me. It is looking south from my parents' home and is less than a mile (as the crow flies) from the dairy farm where I grew up.
3-1/2" x 2-1/2"
Original oil on triple-gessoed, archival 4-ply mat board.
January 2, 2007
Landscape Study #2 2007
Fall is one of my favorite times of the year. That isn't surprising to anyone who knows I grew up in Michigan. The hardwoods around my hometown dress up in the finest collection of colors for weeks during the transition from summer to winter.
I cannot say that about Kansas. There are hardwoods, but the weather is not suitable to colorful fall foliage except on rare occasions. So I turn to the Flint Hills to see fall color. The play of autumn light across the hillsides and amber tallgrass is like the shy sister of the Michigan hardwoods. Anxious to show off ... but not too much! It has a beauty all its own.
3-1/2" x 2-1/2"
Original oil on triple-gessoed, archival 4-ply mat board.
January 1, 2007
Landscape Study #1 2007
A Little Patch of Sunshine
One of the neat things about the Flint Hills is that quite often, you crest a hill and find yourself looking across vast distances. The weather where you are may or may not be the same as the weather across that vast distance.
"A Little Patch of Sunshine" shows that distance under the influence of a rain storm. The far off distance is blurred and obscure by lowering clouds and a veil of rain. In the foreground, a sliver of the rolling landscape is bathed in A Little Patch of Sunshine.
3-1/2" x 2-1/2"
Original oil on triple-gessoed, archival 4-ply mat board.
Thank you for your interest in my ACEO landscapes. I hope you have enjoyed browsing them as much as I have enjoyed making them.
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