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.
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.
This is an abstracted landscape using Golden liquid acrylics on synthetic Yupo "paper"--one of my favorite watermedia painting surfaces. I love the way the paint reacts to the super smooth surface and the mercurial color mixing you get as a result.
This is an abstract painting of my beautiful Arabian horse, which I owned many years ago, and his stablemate. It's one of my favorite equine paintings and it always reminds me how much I enjoy painting horses. Owning a horse was a lifelong dream come true and I tried to express that feeling in the colors. In this particular painting, I used high chroma, layered acrylics.