My art in the Blick Catalog

My Art in the Blick Catalog



















In the dead of winter I was contacted by a
representative from Blick Art Materials  to get permission to use a few of my paintings in their catalog.  I sent a selection of images to the company laying out the Spring Catalog and here it is. Two of my pieces are featured on page 60 in the framing section.  The dahlia is a sold piece, but the hobnail pedestal with chocolates is still in my collection. You can see the pieces in either of my galleries on Dailypainters.com or Dailypaintworks.com.  It was quite an honour to be chosen and just about as thrilling that my husband finally scanned it for me to post! 

Carol

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Catch Them If You Can

"Catch Them If You Can"
10" x 20"
Oil on hardboard
I found these girls casting a demure gaze toward the drawing board in my studio and thought someone might enjoy their less than stellar beauty. They were healthy, and just as enthusiastic and fragrant as the more perky blossoms in the vase, but their flaw was that they weren't looking up at ... anyone. 

I continue to get mileage from my bouquet of cheap roses from the grocery store.  Lucky me for seeing them and bringing them home.

Carol

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Dee's Dogwood Wreath

"Dee's Dogwood Wreath"
12" x 12"
Oil on wrapped canvas
My sister makes wreaths from the vines and beautiful things she finds and grows in her yard in Michigan. She made this wreath over the weekend, but hers was more lovely, with graceful, dried, ornamental grasses tucked in it. But I wasn't about to paint a gazillion grassy fronds and cover up all of her twisting vines. SHE can do it, but I wasn't about to.  

This was a challenge, in that the vines and shadows and petals all overlapped and intermingled. I might not do one like it again, but I at least tried it!

Carol

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Mother

"Mother"
24" x 24"
Oil on Museum wrapped canvas
April seems to be the month for losing mothers in my circle of friends. I lost mine in April, too. My post of a pink peony today is in honour of all the mothers who have left us and are now "safely home."  

All those petals pointing in so many directions in a gazillion shades of pink, may have daunted me in the past, but I rose (peony, actually) to the challenge and passionately painted this piece without fear or trepidation.  Love was the motivator.

Bless our mothers.

Carol

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Heaven Scent

"Heaven Scent"
18" x 24"
Oil on wrapped canvas
I plucked this bloom from a bouquet comprised of her siblings. I held her full-blown countenance sideways under a light in my studio, so her petals would cast striking shadows. While I twisted her stem, a heavenly fragrance spritzed the air like an old fashioned perfume atomizer had been squeezed.  

Not only did she smell good, she was also heaven sent. I was in want of new roses to paint and a simple bouquet from the grocery store afforded me subject matter for many new paintings. As you probably know, I love to paint white roses—the most colourful of all. 

Carol

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Peep, Egg and Rocks

 Peep, Egg and Rocks"
6" x 6"
Oil on canvas panel 
Wee small children came bearing gifts to me, their Granmama over the weekend; rocks with stripes. Then all the Eggs we coloured turned out PINK.  And the Easter Bunny left a gazillion yellow Peeps bunnies for us. These things seemed to make a nice little still life, so I painted it for the wee ones.   

Back to more serious art tomorrow, but today — I played and loved every minute of it.

Carol

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Priscilla

"Priscilla"
12" x 12"
Oil on wrapped canvas
Slowly, she unfurled one petal after another to reveal her tender bits. Priscilla's heavenly scent would now attract a myriad buzzing suitors to gather her fragrant pollen. Imagine the taste of the honey this beauty might flavour. 

It's been a while since I've painted a rose, my favourite subject matter.
 
Carol

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Easter Grass

"Easter Grass"
6" x 6"
Oil on hardboard 
It's Easter, and my morning sky is mimicking the striped eggs nestled in clusters in spring's verdant grass. The bunny has delivered sweet treats and surprises for the wee ones, too.

Here is an example of my four new colours again. The green is an "I" green: Indian and Indanthrene.  I love it's freshness.

Carol

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Saturday

"Saturday"
6" x 6"
Oil on hardboard
Morning's primary colours, in spite of the time of day they're on display, are some of the prettiest nature has to offer. If I have to see the world at this time of day, I'm always grateful when the show is as gentile this one. 

Primaries: Naples, Inthanthrene, Quinacridone Scarlet, are the stars in this sky.  I adore using primaries and these three are quite luscious for painting sky.  Why these three?  Because the Naples doesn't turn green when it gets close to Indanthrene.  Green sky is another indicator entirely.

Carol

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Too Early To Be Up

"Too Early To Be Up"
6" x 6"
Oil on hardboard
It's spring, and the time changed, but for heaven's sake, it's still too early for me to be up when the sun is doing her morning magic over the lake near my home. Lake Michigan, that is.  It comes up, in my mind, from a night of rest in Michigan. I know it's silly, but that's the image I live with.  

I painted This with three new colors and one of my favourite new yellows, Indian Yellow.  I got a new tube of Naples,  Indanthrene Blue and Quinacridone Scarlet. I love the sky they make.  And I love fresh tubes of paint.

Carol

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Morning Light

"Morning Light"
6" x 6"
Oil on hardboard
The light was bright that morning. The sky hung overhead, mingling like a wet into wet watercolour of primary colours that would fade into a solitary shade of blue as soon as they dried. 

 Another day, another sky.
Carol

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Lighting the Way

"Lighting the Way"
6" x 6"
Oil on hardboard 
The grasses on the slope blew in the breeze while we hiked toward the top of the hill. What was on the other side would be a surprise to me and my friend. Neither of us had been here before. 

 Here's another sky for my composite piece.  Of course they are for sale individually, as well.

Carol

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Fire Down Below

"Fire Down Below"
6" x 6"
Oil on hardboard 
There were forest fires down on the ground as we flew overhead.  They looked small from the air, but the sky wore the residuals like ribbons and bows in her hair.  

 This is sky number 40 for the composite painting I'll compile for my show in July.  Not that I'll use all forty, fifty or sixty by then, but at least I have choices.

Carol

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New Day

"New Day"
6" x 6"
Oil on Hardboard
It was shortly after sunrise, that time when the promise of daylight comes to pass. The clouds were still wearing festive raiment from the predawn party, but would soon don daytime togs to saunter across the sky.  

Here's a new sky painting for my ongoing collection that will culminate in one big piece for a gallery exhibit in July.

Carol

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