Plein Air Sunflowers $250.00 Please click here to check out Jeffrey Smith Art on Etsy for purchase information. I painted the above still life on a sunny Sunday in my back yard. I love the idea of taking a still life outside. The colors are so much more intense, and I think flowers look fantastic …
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Front Yard Peonies Oil on linen panel 8×10″ Check out Jeffrey Smith Art on Etsy for purchase inforamtion on this painting. This has been a strange spring in Minnesota. Over all, it has been pretty cold. Plants are blooming much later this year than they normally do. That’s okay. It just means more time to enjoy …
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Sunflower Bouquet, Cloudy Day $150.00 Free Shipping in the US Sunflowers are my favorite flowers. I love them, I do. This painting may seem a bit oxymoronic, sunflowers on cloudy day. The great part about painting on an bright overcast day, is the quality of the light. There is a softness, but the color of …
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Peonies and Pewter Vase $200.00 Free Shipping I think peonies are one of the greatest things about spring. Every year, I look forward to painting these big, beautiful flowers. The painting above is my first of the season. I moved into a new house in February. The cool thing, has been watching the gardens as …
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I have been out exploring the world the last few weeks, armed only with my pochade box and paints. Today, however, I returned to the studio to complete the above floral painting that will be part of a live auction to benefit a local school. This will mark my second year working with the organization. Prior to last year’s …
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Flowers and Pears is done! I am quite happy with how this painting ended up. From a distance, this still life feels very tight, very detailed. When you get close to it, there is a lot of broken color, strokes of colors placed next to one another on the surface and left unmixed allowing your …
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The image above is a work in progress shot of the still life that I’ve been working on in my studio. In setting up this painting, my plan was to create an arrangement that would allow me to really push some of the visual textures. We have the rough wood of my studio table, the glass pitcher, …
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I do love reaching the end of a painting! I had such a wonderful working on this piece. I has been far too long a break from pastel this time, and I’m thrilled to be back at it. To celebrate my last day in the studio with my forsythia painting up on the easel, I …
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I’ve been digging through my boxes of pastels to find colors that I can use to unify areas of the painting. To do this, I try to find a color that can be applied to a few different objects. An example would be the light blue that I was able to use in the background, …
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