Carrie L. Lewis | July 26, 2010
Blue Sky & Water
3-1/2 x 2-1/2
Original Oil Painting on
Gessoed 300 lb watercolor paper
Only one original ACEO was completed this week and it took my two sessions to do it!
Part of the reason was the beginning to two new projects, one paid and one in memorial. Those two things, surface prep and working on other paintings [...]
Carrie L. Lewis | July 21, 2010
16″x20″
Oil on Oil Primed Linen Canvas on Baltic Birch
This is Keyodee Star, my latest portrait.
Odee, as he is affectionately known around the stable, is a Michigan bred Standardbred. The day the photograph was taken upon which this portrait is based, he was at Midland, Michigan. He finished a close second at, but was overtaken in [...]
Carrie L. Lewis | June 28, 2010
Flint Hills Thunderheads
3-1/2 x 2-1/2
Original Oil on 300 lb Watercolor Paper
Carrie L. Lewis | June 22, 2010
Many of you will remember this image. Buckles & Belts. It was one of the lesson paintings I started early in 2009, when I was learning the Flemish technique of painting.
Most of those paintings didn’t survive due to paint film failure, support failure or just plain boredom with the image.
This painting wasn’t officially abandoned, but [...]
Carrie L. Lewis | June 21, 2010
Evening at the Thinking Tree
3-1/2 x 2-1/2
Original Oil on 300 lb Watercolor Paper
ACEO landscape painting was ‘in the pink’ last week! Literally and figuratively.
Although I worked in two mediums and with a variety of supports, most of the finished miniature paintings were painted on 300 lb. watercolor paper.
The paper started out life as a scraps [...]
Carrie L. Lewis | June 14, 2010
The new ACEOs for this week represents varied subjects and mediums.
I started the week by doing four quick color studies on Rising Stonehenge paper. All four used the same colors, Titanium White, Manganese Blue, Azo Yellow, and Transparent Red Oxide. The plan was to use these four paintings as the foundation for creating four unique [...]
Carrie L. Lewis | June 7, 2010
Flint Hills Thunderheads
3-1/2 x 2-1/2
Original Oil on 300 lb Watercolor Paper
When painters think of 300 pound watercolor paper, they aren’t usually thinking about oil painting. But that’s what I did this week.
Last week’s trials with Rising Stonehenge 90 pound paper prompted me to conduct another experiment this week. This time, it was with Arches 300 [...]
Carrie L. Lewis | May 31, 2010
Distant Rain, Flint Hills
May 25, 2010
Oil
Rising Stonehenge paper
Last week, I mentioned beginning an experiment with Rising Stonehenge paper. As you may recall, I’d painted the last of the prepped mat board cards the week before and needed to find or buy something to paint on.
Before I could get to the frame shop for more mat [...]
Carrie L. Lewis | May 24, 2010
The sale of six original ACEO landscapes in oil sparked a flurry of painting energy. In addition to finishing a new portrait, I began painting new ACEO landscapes in oils and colored pencil, beginning with two brand new oil paintings on Wednesday alone.
ACEOs found their way into spare time between work sessions on other projects, [...]
Carrie L. Lewis | April 19, 2010
Original Oil Painting
Raphael Belgian Linen Panel, 16″ x 20″
Always in Style is now officially complete! The final touch was brushing up the background with Titanium White and Manganese Blue. That was all it needed.
The portrait was photographed and a digital image sent to the client the same morning and approval has since been received.
The finished [...]
I am a self-taught artist for the most part. Lots of trial and error in the past forty years! Formal art training consists of a couple of years of high school art, a painting class at a community college, one semester in the Fine Arts program at Abilene Christian University and a couple of local workshops.
I am always looking for ways to better my artistic skills, so I am a permanent student in the School of Trial and Error. I love reading and have been known to spend hours online researching materials and techniques. As a result, I've painted in several different styles, including the direct method (which goes straight for the color) and Classical methods (which involves underpaintings, layering and glazing).
I have exhibited paintings in locations such as Lone Star Park Race Track, Grand Prairie, Texas and Remington Park Race Track, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Since the early 90s, I've worked with the Michigan Harness Horseman's Association, donating custom portraits to their annual benefit auction.
In the course of maintaining a growing art business, I have taught myself web design (a skill that will no doubt prove to be a continual learning experience).
I also enjoy puttering around the yard, chasing trains with my husband, Neal, travel and, of course, looking at horses whenever they appear on my horizon.
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