"Mood at Sunset" abstract painting by Lynne Cunningham

"Mood at Sunset" by Lynne Cunningham

acrylic and oil paints on panel, 11" x 14"

$250.00 (unframed) 

November, 2013 

   If interested in this painting, contact me   H E R E;    this one will be going to a gallery soon.

I haven't posted much in the last few weeks due to being busy with a couple of other art-related projects going on behind the scenes; I'll have more news about one of the very exciting projects later!   When I have some images and details I'll be posting those - but for right now all I want to say is the project focuses on the topic of abstract painting.

Here's a work-in-progress photo below, that I took when "Mood at Sunset" was in the first stage, working with acrylic applied with a palette knife and just playing with shapes and the color palette.  It seemed that continuing in acrylic wasn't the way to complete the painting so I played around some more with this in oil paints, palette knife and in a very close color palette in oils adding scratching, texture and impasto paint.  I'm much happier at the completion of this - - much can go on in the start of a painting, in the underpainting stage.

 work in progress photo

My website:   http://www.lynnecunningham.com

My painting blog:  http://paintboxjournal.blogspot.com

"Abstracts from Life", abstract painting classes by Lynne Cunningham

"Stand of Birch Trees"

oil on canvas, 20" x 20"

The painting above was painted in 2007 after I spent a couple weeks as an artist-in-residence with Whiskeytown National Recreation area , located within Shasta County, Northern California . . .that place made a longlasting impression on me!  "Abstracts from Life" has been an ongoing theme in my paintings.

So how DO you get from the first step, of being inspired by the beauty of the natural world, to creating an abstract painting of the landscape?  The painting above and the painting below have had great feedback so that I know these appeal not only to me, they also appeal to a big variety of art appreciators.

This process is what I find the most interesting to instruct, and I've taught "Abstracts from Life" either incorporating a condensed version into another class, or instructing as a focused class.  In the next few weeks I'll be instructing how to abstract forms from nature , distilling and extracting the shapes, and coming up with finished paintings that are expressive . . . .a key idea for painting.   I have a private-instruction student flying in from the East Coast and we'll spend a week in my studio, painting in acrylics.  I'm now prepping supports (panel, paper) for technique demonstrations and playing around . . .another key idea!

If your group is interested in hosting a workshop on this topic, or if you can travel to Northern California please contact me for some details.  I promise it's a fun and highly informative approach to painting abstracts. Acrylic on paper is my preferred medium .

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selected "Abstracts from Life"

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