Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Getting started on a new painting

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I always find it interesting to see the process an artist uses in their work, don't you?  My process is always being re-evaluated and p...
Thursday, January 19, 2017

Winter Blooms

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Winter Blooms ,  8x10" Oil on canvas panel ©Helen Read  Winter is unrelenting.  Gray, cold... the colors of our world seem to rec...
Saturday, January 14, 2017

January's Blooms ~ still in progress

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If you look backwards a couple posts, you'll see the beginning of this painting .  It's still not completed, but I'm making p...
Saturday, January 7, 2017

3 Sisters Watercolor Painting

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Three Sisters,   4.5 x 6.5" Watercolor on Yupo Paper matted in white and ready to frame in a 10x12" frame  Several years...
Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Oh... bleak January.

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We are in need of warmth and color!   ... and flowers!  I've just started a new painting - this time a floral.  It...
Monday, December 26, 2016

Looking Back - Thinking Ahead

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What a busy year it has been!   From tattoo designs to packaging designs to developing my landscape repertoire... my year has been vari...
Wednesday, November 30, 2016

An Autumn Duo

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Glowing Light I,   11x14" Oil on Linen Panel ©Helen Read     Glowing Light II ,  11x14" O...
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Saturday, November 26, 2016

A few final touches until these are done

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I've been working on these 2 for most of November...  The beauty and magic of the autumn sun filtering through leaves just beginning ...
Friday, November 25, 2016

Looking back

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What a great opportunity with Christmas just around the corner. But visit soon - this opportunity will end on Monday and sales are being m...
Sunday, November 20, 2016

Glowing Light

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  In my last post I showed what I'd done for the under painting...  And now, the painting has begun.  This is still a work in ...
Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Underpainting!!

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As busy as it has been, my work has begun on this 2 part painting (diptych) I've gotten the underpainting done and started laying in...
Sunday, October 30, 2016

Beautiful Mystery

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Beautiful Mystery Last week, on a visit to a nearby forest area, as the sun was sinking low in the west, it lit up the landsca...
Saturday, October 22, 2016

What Inspires You?

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What beauty awaits the patient eye. Quiet wandering ~ observation ~ a listening ear. Taking time in a busy day to slow down, to v...
Sunday, October 16, 2016

Changing Seasons - Seasons of Change

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It is a gray, rain drenched morning- easy to think of staying in bed - of hibernating another few hours.  But.... there is beauty to be...