"Her Secret Garden"
Inspired by the sparkling snow over the weekend, I wanted to create a whimsical abstract that might also be interpreted as hanging glass holiday ornaments and tinsel. I painted this with oils on a tinted canvas using a brush and a knife for a variety of textures. 
Happy Sunday! Waking up to lots of fresh snow this November morning, so was inspired to quickly finish my abstract snow landscape. I'm continuing to work with the painting knife this week. I particularly love using the painting knife for snow because it's like frosting your landscape as if it were a giant cupcake. I also like to see how many colors I can use for "white" snow.
It's a sunny, warm November day here in Denver without a snowflake in site--But I decided to paint an abstracted snow scene continuing my colorful knife painting series. Here I tinted the canvas a warm golden yellow to help warm up the mostly cool landscape hues.
I had such a good time yesterday panting an abstract landscape with the painting knife, I thought I'd do a quick still life study this morning. This is a pear sitting on a antique studio chair that my grandmother owned.
Happy Monday! Hot off the today's easel, here's a loose, abstract forest landscape. I love painting evergreen forests, particularly the positive and negative tree shapes and their cast shadows. I also love to do all painting knife oil impressionistic landscape paintings like this. Using a painting knife is a great way to get both texture and to keep your colors vibrant.
Happy Halloween everyone! Like many abstract painters, I love to incorporate a variety of symbols into my work and I particularly enjoy mixing Western and Eastern symbols as I've done hear with hearts and Chinese calligraphy symbols representing peace, harmony, the elements, etc.
This is a quick oil painting abstract study on linen. My primary goal with was to keep the overall feeling of the painting abstract, but still present a clear sense of the figure. That balancing act can be a challenge, but also very rewarding.
Despite my proud Scandinavian heritage, I'm afraid I'm not much of a cold weather person and so this time of year I begin to get more than a bit anxious.