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Friday, May 20, 2022

Waterside Wildflowers

 



Waterside Wildflowers,  5.5x7.5" watercolor on paper
matted in white for 8x10" frame. 

More information on this painting here!  

 Late last summer, I spent a day at the Chicago Botanical Gardens.  It is a beautiful acreage of plant life in all  shapes, sorts and sizes.
This little lake had a profusion of flowers growing wild along the edge.  I'm glad I snapped a photo, because it has come to life once again in watercolor!  


 Ready to ship and hang! 
There is an option for framing.  Check out the link above for all the details. 

Friday, May 13, 2022

St James Wood

 


At the end of a busy and somewhat stressful day, a sketchbook pen and ink landscape study is restful. I love the textures and values that can be found with this medium. St. James Wood ~  pen and ink on watercolor paper.  There's great value in getting thoughts and ideas out with sketchbook studies. 

Saturday, May 7, 2022

Eden's Dawn

 

Eden's Dawn, Abstract  18.25 x 24" oil on constructed canvas
©Helen Read 

unframed, painted around sides
(see images below)

 Link for all the information on this abstract painting. 

 

As this painting progressed, the abstraction began to look more and more like a garden to me; a beautifully vibrant and rather untamed garden.  I felt a sense of motion and a bubbling energetic life emerging.  Jewel tones insisted on their brilliance, greens required variegated variety, and an unexpected roiling of color began to unfold from above.  

 

No one knows, of course, what the imagination or hand of God brought into existence at the formation of the first garden. We can imagine, though.  Was it a tidy, orderly formal garden? Or was it something more wild and free, tumbling with abundance, extravagant in color, bursting with energetic life…. beautiful and good, yet untamed and filled with possibilities? 

 

This painting explores that question using color and brush stroke, with an unconventionally constructed canvas.  Experience an idea of Eden’s Dawn.

 

This painting is painted around the sides. No framing needed. The canvas is a constructed canvas, with unfinished edges and fraying becoming part of the composition. The canvas was primed and gessoed prior to painting. 

 

(Detail of the right side of the painting. Highly textured.)

(painted around all 4 sides. Painting is 1" deep)
 

 

 

Tuesday, May 3, 2022

Herrick Woods

 


Herrick Woods
7x5" - matted in white for 8x10" frame - Watercolor on paper |
shown in a solid wood frame w/cherry finish.
Ready to ship!

The woods holds a sense of wonder for me, particularly when the golden light of autumn filters through leaves just beginning to change.

Nearly every color of the rainbow can be seen for the eye that looks deeply.
This painting is an invitation into the beautiful, jewel tones of God's lovely creation as seen with wonder! 

See all the details on this painting right here!


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