Thursday, May 22, 2025

Sunlit Meadow

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Sunlit Meadow, 10x8" oil on canvas ©Helen C Read These last few weeks, I've been working on a commission.  To prepare for that com...
Friday, April 18, 2025

Morning Chill

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  Morning Chill,  11x14" oil on canvas ©2025 Helen Read Winter in the north can have very minimal color. While creation is sleeping, th...
Monday, April 7, 2025

Day's End

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  Day's End 7x5" oil on Canvas SOLD

Don't Miss This Spring Super Sale!

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  How do you bring vibrant spring color into your home?  Color that never fades...    Visit my collection of Spring Paintings   that are lis...
Thursday, March 6, 2025

Sketchbook Explorations are Essential!

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  Playing with color and with marks and with composition - you figure out possibilities with sketchbook explorations.  Starting with no expe...
Friday, February 28, 2025

Thundering Waves - Abstract Painting

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  Thundering Waves,  16x20" acrylic on canvas ©Helen C Read  If you love an oceanic theme and colors, that is what this painting evokes...
Thursday, February 6, 2025

New Floral Painting - Amber in Blue

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  Amber in Blue  -  12x6" acrylic on canvas SOLD This painting really was an experiment.  It started on a gessoed canvas, painted with...
Saturday, February 1, 2025

Winter Wonder - watercolor painting

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 Winter Wonder watercolor on paper  This painting is my Free Download to my Artful Friends for the month of February. 
Monday, January 20, 2025

Overshadowed - Abstract Painting

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 Overshadowed,  18x24" oil on canvas          More experiments in the realm of abstract painting.   This one uses some metallic gold oi...
Friday, December 27, 2024

Win this FREE original painting in January!

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  Sparrow,  3x3" oil on canvas panel with magnetic backing ©Helen C Read  This bright-eyed little sparrow will wing its way to one of m...
Saturday, December 21, 2024

Windswept Tide

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  Windswept Tide, 20x20" acrylic on canvas ©2024 Helen Read  More information on this painting can be seen here Delving into abstract p...
Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Landscape Paintings in a Local Exhibit!

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 Your invitation to a vibrant, colorful landscape painting exhibit December 2 - 29th, 2024 at Indian Prairie Library 401 Plainfield Rd., Dar...

Abstract Experimentation!

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 Abstract art has many different "styles". I'm not a fan of all of them, but some styles and textures and colors really draw m...
Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Beside Still Waters

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  Beside Still Waters 16x20" Oil on canvas © Helen C Read  The beauty of still water - even on this hot summer day - reminds me of the ...