"Pink Statement"
12" x 12" Acrylic on canvas
Available
This is fresh and brand new on the easel ! Hope you enjoy !
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Thursday, December 8, 2011
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Full Moon At Dawn (Hawaii)
Full Moon At Dawn
5" x 7" Acrylic on canvas on panel
Available
I finished this painting a few minutes ago; it is one I had mentioned in an earlier post that I had been working on. Sometimes it is difficult to know when a painting is finished. But then, perhaps it is like Paul Gardner has said, "A painting is never finished - it simply stops in interesting places."
This scene is based on a photograph I took on the Big Island of Hawaii.
Below is a better photograph of my wood duck painting I posted previously.
"Oh So Blue"
12" x 16" Acrylic on panel
Available
Please feel free to contact me at reynoldsrenditions@gmail.com
Friday, December 2, 2011
Oh So Blue - Drake Wood Duck
Oh So Blue
12" x 16" Acrylic on panel
Available
This was finished in the wee hours this morning (Friday). The blue water is really very blue, but this photo exaggerates the blue a bit. I rather like how the water turned out, especially the refreshing blue. Let me know what you think.
Carol Reynolds
Studio : P O Box 22246
Honolulu, HI 96823-2246
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Second Stage - WIP Wood Duck
Work In Progress- Second Stage
12" x 16" acrylic on panel
Guess it is pretty obvious that I made the water more blue now instead of with a lot of green in it. This is still very much unfinished and I need to tone down the water more and correct and add some things. Hopefully it will be finished tomorrow or the next day.
I welcome any questions and comments !
Monday, November 28, 2011
The Going Is Slow
This is a photo taken about 4 years ago on the "Big Island" of Hawaii. I recently worked for about 3 days on a miniature painting inspired by this photo; although in the painting I put in a white farmhouse and a red barn and it is dawn with a full moon . Now that I got your curiosity up, I'm not ready to post the painting yet because there is something just not to my liking about how it turned out so I am setting it aside for now and will begin work on my wood duck painting this afternoon. But I did want to share with you these photos below of a beautiful waterfall on the Big Island. Well, I goofed trying to align the pictures. I hope to paint this waterfall found in a botanical garden whose name I can't recall at the moment. I included the photo of myself and my son just to give you an idea of the scale of the waterfall.
I have been painting very slowly lately ! Hopefully the wood duck painting will be finished in 2 or 3 days, so please visit again real soon.
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Wood Duck - Work In Progress
Wood Duck - Work In Progress
12" x 16" Acrylic on panel
This is a brand new start on a favorite subject of mine - the Wood Duck drake, but also the ripples and colors in the water are always fascinating for me to paint. This image was photographed outside. Below is a photo taken inside on my easel. Note the difference .....
Colors always look bluer when photographed outside; however, the lights inside on this photo is not 100% true either. I am also working on other paintings, so please check back real soon !
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Somewhere Spring Flowers - reworked
"Somewhere Spring Flowers"
5" x 7" Oil on canvas on panel
Available
I stayed busy today painting to my heart's content. I wanted to add more bluebonnets to this painting I first posted here on October 31. The title of this painting says "Somewhere" but it is somewhere in Texas along the highway between towns; so exactly where this scene was I am not sure. I use to live in Texas and every Spring I took great pleasure in photographing the wildflowers there. To see the previous post of this painting go here
I also worked on my flamingo painting today but I am having trouble with the flamingo's body. I think I need to make the flamingo a bit larger. Actually, it was larger but the proportions weren't exactly right so in trying to correct it I made it smaller.....too small. Below is where it stands now.
work in progress
16" x 8" Oil on canvas
It is rather embarrassing to show this obvious mistake, but actually seeing it photographed here helped me see my error more clearly. Sometimes when you have your face right in the painting while working, you lose sight of "the big picture". Also, the pink waterlilies would be better if they were white maybe. Painting is really a problem solving process !
Studio: Carol Reynolds
P O Box 22246
Honolulu, Hawaii 96823-2246
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