Showing posts with label miniature seascape oil by Carol Reynolds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label miniature seascape oil by Carol Reynolds. Show all posts

Monday, January 30, 2012

Jubilant (Children On The Beach)


"Jubilant"
8" x 10" Oil on gessobord
$500

I photographed these children at a beach here on Oahu.  The little girl was positively jubilant, half dancing and half leaping and the expression on her face was precious.   I made the figures too small to see their expressions, but I wanted to show them against the vastness of the ocean.  Maybe another time I will paint a close up of the girl.   The seagulls I painted from reference photos of black-headed gulls (laughing gulls) that I photographed on Padre Island, Texas.    There are no seagulls in Hawaii, but I felt the painting needed them.

Seagulls are mostly scavengers and found along major continental coasts and inland waters where they find their food; they cannot feed in the open ocean like terns and some other seabirds.  Gulls sometimes visit Hawaii, perhaps during migration periods, but they soon leave for lack of proper habitat.   Just another note, there are no squirrels here either.   

Thank you for stopping by to visit !

Saturday, December 31, 2011

Rain Clouds - Sunny Plumeria


"Rain Clouds - Sunny Plumeria"
6" x 8" Oil on linen panel 
$325.00

Just finished this miniature a few minutes ago.   I had misplaced my reference photo that I intended to use for this painting....could not find it anywhere...so I painted this from memory and imagination.   The yellow plumeria complement the blues nicely.    

Below are two reference photographs of mine that will give you a hint of what else is on the easel right now.


This longhorn I photographed in Michigan.   When I lived in Texas I took very few pictures of longhorn cattle; just wasn't that interested in painting them back then.   


This is a scene somewhere in Texas.  I believe I will make that a wooden windmill when I finish working on the painting.   Please check back soon to view the new work.


Studio :  Carol Reynolds
              P O Box 22246
              Honolulu, Hawaii 96823-2246