Blue Ridge Parkway Artist
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It certainly has been cloudy lately. I don’t mind overcast weather but I would like to see the sun soon. It always amazes me that when I have a patron coming over for a studio visit it is almost always cloudy. We have an active solar house and it is a dark house on one side and bright on the other.
A lot of my artwork is on display in the dark side of the house, not just the studio. I turn on a lot of lights but the natural light coming in through the windows looks the best.
Anyway, I have finally started my Wintergreen sunset painting! It is great to back to oil paint but I think I will be ordering some very expensive colors soon. It would be great if professional oil paint was the same price as house paint. I knew an artist that painted very large works and he would use house paint. I can understand that! The colors are way too flat for me and I want my work to last forever so I use Gamblin and Utrect.
I mostly use the more expensive brand which is Gamblin but I don’t like Gamblin Cerulean Blue so I order that color from Utrecht. I also don’t use earth colors which are less expensive. I have a colorist palette so I order expensive blues, greens, yellows, reds, and purples. I can get any kind of earth color from those colors and I think the effect is more vibrant. Right now, Cadmium Red is $66 for a large tube. I always buy large tubes. The small ones don’t last long at all.
Okay. Enough shop talk! Time to paint. I hope everyone has a great day!
Church Snow Scene Original 16″ x 12″ Oil Painting $384
Prints on Wall Art, Household items, and Clothes available by clicking on the link below.
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Farm Near Fancy Gap Original 40″ x 30″ Oil painting $2430
https://kkesslerart.wixsite.com/website/blank-1/farm-near-fancy-gap
Be sure to check out my Independent website! The link under Farm near Fancy Gap will take you there!
Life with the Word and Bird Man – Clyde Kessler
Clyde and I are having more trouble finding things than usual. I usually get very aggravated and start cussing like a sailor. Clyde just keeps trying to find whatever it is we can’t locate.
Anyway I told Clyde the first nine chapters of The Marriage book are “Where is it?”
Chapter 10 is “I don’t know”.
You got that right Hubby!
Towhee Hill Studio on Etsy
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