Second Abstract

My second abstract painting turned into a landscape.  Oh well.  Acrylic on 20 X 16 canvas. 

The Language of Abstraction

I'm taking a class at the Art Students League of Denver, "Exploring the Language of Abstraction" from Karen Roehl.  This is my first under painting layer using black ink, white and green acrylic paint.  I divided the canvas in half thinking I would make two paintings, but think I will make it one piece.  We are not supposed to do any more on it until next week, but I see where I can change things.  It only took me 15 minutes to do this step. 

Evergreen Fine Arts Gallery

 

When: Saturday, February 23, 2013.

            Families welcome 3:30pm to 5pm.

            Adults only     5pm-8pm.

 

Where: Evergreen Fine Arts Gallery

             3042 Evergreen Parkway

             Evergreen, CO 80439

 

Free:  Donations Appreciated.

 

We will have some truly amazing artist at our event "A Tasting of Talons and Art" You don't want to miss this! Here is a list of Participating Artists: Pati Stajcar, Cathy Goodale, Lindsey Bittner-Graham, Ken Valastro, Rodgers Naylor, Keith Bond, Rosetta, Dan Oakleaf, Jim Biggers, Nikolo Balkanski, Kathy Beekman, Tom Lockhart, Stephen LeBlanc, Susiehyer, Edward Aldrich, Marjie Eakin-Petty and Errol Beauchamp and additional artists.

 

Free art demonstrations by local artists.  Free wine tasting by Talon Winery.  Live birds of prey on display from Nature's Educators. Art and wine for purchase. 

www.evergreenfineart.com; www.natureseducators.org; www.talonwineryco.com 

Hope to see you there.  I'll be volunteering with Nature's Educators to help present our beautiful birds of prey.

Ann Troth

 

Prairie Sunset

Can't believe it's been three months since I posted anything.  I have started a painting of a sunset scene.  I took some photos at Pawnee Buttes on an archaeology survey I did with History Colorado.  In the painting I combined a sunset photo and a photo of some cattle and a windmill.  The progression  shows the start with the clouds, then added darker clouds, the sunset and then the windmill.  Still working on the cattle in the foreground. Oil on canvas 24 x 30.

Tree Collage

Fluid Acrylics on 6X6 board with bushes from egg carton and tree trunks from old strips of water color paintings. Finished with epoxy.

Desert Collage

This is a collage I did with pieces of paper and fluid acrylics. The cactus on the left is done with corrugated cardboard painted green, other papers are tissue paper, torn up egg cartons. The gessoed board was covered with moulding paste for texture before painting. The scene is the same one I did an oil painting of in a previous post.

Arctic, Nature's Educators Gyrfalcon

This is a painting of Nature's Educators Gyrfalcon Arctic. Oil on 8X10 canvas. He came to us from a breeding facility in the pacific northwest and is now part of our education program. He is 18 years old.