Exploring The Floral-Flowers

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 Oil on 7x5 canvas panel.

 This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Lin was the gracious hostess.

I decided on the flowers. Actually, I used the reference as a springboard to get the painting started. From there on, I stopped looking at the photo and just developed it by playing with color and using the painting knife. A lot of fun.
 I first applied black gesso...love that stuff!

I came up with a term which is completely my own invention! It's "artful departure". Ain't that a beaut??? It means don't let the subject source, whether real life or photo, get in the way of creating a painting. I think the duty of an artist is to create rather than replicate. But then, that's just my humble opinion.

 C&C welcome. Thanks for looking and commenting.  

Available ... If interested, contact me at kkayangel2(at)yahoo.com

My Etsy

Psalm 4:2     "How long will you people turn my glory into shame? How long will you love delusions and seek false gods ?"

Warm Summer Thoughts-Cow

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Oil on 7x5 canvas panel.

Ah...This one is painted just because I felt like painting it....not in answer to a challenge or a group event. Feels good to do that once in awhile.
I have been asked to paint another cow from some time back. So here it is. There's something about a cow's face that seems so inquisitive and innocent.
 I had fun pushing the colors and strength of light source for this one.
Hope ya like it!               
C&C welcome...Thanks for looking.

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My Etsy

  Matthew 22:37     Jesus answered: Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind. ³⁸ This is the first and most important commandment.

Fancy Ears-Caracal Cat

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Oil on 7x5 canvas panel.

 This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Maureen was the gracious hostess.

This is  a caracal. A very interesting desert cat. It has long tufts of hair at the tips of its ears.

Mostly done with a brush. Some painting knife.

C&C welcome. Thanks for looking and commenting.


Available ... If interested, contact me at kkayangel2(at)yahoo.com

My Etsy

Matthew 17:20    “You don’t have enough faith,” Jesus told them. “I tell you the truth, if you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it would move. Nothing would be impossible."

Apples And Orange

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Oil on 7x5 canvas panel.

 This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Jean was the gracious hostess.

 I chose the still life because I felt this would be a good subject to continue with the thick, painting knife, technique I used last week.
First I used brush, then the paint shaper, then the painting knife.
I like the active looking surface this gives a painting. Plenty to look at.
I'm not really adept at this style of painting, but I think it would have great possibilities with practice.

C&C welcome. Thanks for looking and commenting!

Available ... If interested, contact me at kkayangel2(at)yahoo.com

My Etsy

Matthew 9: 12      On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. ¹³ But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’^[a] For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Roses

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Oil on 7x5 canvas panel.

 This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Patricia was the gracious hostess.

 I chose those roses this week. My goal was to play with broken edges. This was done by first using brushes...then a paint shaper to move paint and influence the edges...then painting knife. I like the resulting impressionistic and active surface this technique brought about.
This technique was developed by a very sharing blogger Julie Ford Oliver.


C&C welcome. Thanks for taking a peek and I appreciate your comments.

Available ... If interested, contact me at kkayangel2(at)yahoo.com

My Etsy

 

Matthew 5:3   “God blesses those who are poor and realize their need for him,^[a]
    for the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs.