Post Your New Art For August

'Uplifting' (Watercolor Painting)





*This is my most recent watercolor painting which was created from my head. It has an ethereal and dreamy feel to it.
Here is an inspiring quote that I found to go along with this Artwork:


'Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results' - Unknown




:) Marilyn

A strange submarine



A strange garden

I have spent the last decade focused on photography and digital art, but in the last few weeks I have rediscovered my love of drawing and have been having a great time! This is a graphite work based on a dream. I uploaded it and worked it a bit digitally to add some color.

A photo taken by my cousin was the inspiration for this hummingbird painting - I loved the colours and composition as soon as I saw it.

The only time I have ever seen hummingbirds myself was whilst on holiday to Jamaica and Canada. Here in the UK we occasionally see hummingbird hawk moths - similar body, different wings. None-the-less, both species are stunning.

Thanks for your nice compliment, Natalie : )

This acrylic is an eco friendly Manhattan, all of the buildings are made to look like tree bark or wood!

The opening post says

.N.o Photographs My apologies to the photographers. I was told to open a new thread for artwork only because we already have a photography thread. Please describe the inspiration or process behind your artwork. ~ Natalie Holland

I have removed the photographs

PLEASE discuss your work as you upload it

For a person who really doesn't care for birds, I seem to have an awful lot of images of them. lol This is a very loose pen and ink drawing from the early stages of a logo I was developing for a hotel.

When creating art, I often break rules. I love to experiment with color schemes, composition and texture. It's always fun to see the end results. One of my favorite quotes is by Van Morrison "No guru, no method, no teacher."

I love painting the sea in all its different moods and mostly use soft pastels now, especially when I want to convey the vibrant turquoise-green color of the Cornish sea.

This glass created with white texture ink on black pastel paper.
ive added extra sparkles for explosive effect.


Curious badger peering over the bark of a tree, again using white texture ink on black pastel paper, for night time effect.

This rooster painting is from my memory. Growing up I remember spending many summer days on my grandparents farm in Maine. They had roosters, chickens, cows, horses and much more. I have always been intrigued by the rooster's vibrant natural iridescent feathers. I love roosters, they're such beautiful birds.

As you upload your images, please describe the inspiration or process behind your artwork.

If you look at the picture on the wall it's the same picture you're looking at, including the picture on the wall. Long thought about it, but this is the first time I've ventured to do it

This is my latest of mother nature at her best :)

The original photograph was taken in a Monastery museum at Meteora ,Greece.The James Bond film " For your eyes only" was filmed there. It was edited to have a painted look

I found this painting of mine hanging on a wall at an old friend's place i visited last week. I took a picture of it and uploaded it here.

inspired by John Singer Sergeant 's work

http://fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/medium/1/mrs-skull-goes-to-linda-mcmillen.jpg?timestamp=1440246808

http://fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/medium/1/roses-are-linda-mcmillen.jpg?timestamp=1440246867

The Third in my "Geocracy" Series.



Peter

As you upload your images, please describe the inspiration or process behind your artwork.

Natalie, this is a whole new technique for me! I am so obsessed with detail in my work so letting go with loose color washes was great! After letting the colors bleed and tilting the paper many ways, I then had to visualize what the subject would become. This is a little lost calf that is being located (I hope) by the rancher on horseback.

Per my description, this is a symbolic Floral abstract, using perspective, boxes and curves. No matter how hard we try to put our lives into some sort of order, i.e. little boxes, along comes one of life's curved balls... While it may break the symmetry of our life as we know it, a curved ball also has the ability to change our perspective, and that's not always a bad thing.

I used a picture of some ivy from my garden as the photographic base to create this floral abstract. Ivy is a resilient plant - a characteristic necessary when faced with one of life's curved balls!

Probably my favorite place on the planet. Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, near Glen Arbor Michigan. Unfortunately we weren't able to vacation there this year. We have spent at least 8 summer vacations there, and find it one of the most beautiful places in America.

You know...the biggest problem I have with these long "latest work" threads is that I can never remember what I have posted in them, especially if there is a Big Skip. lol

Hopefully my trike is a new one here. Originally a graphite drawing on paper, I worked it digitally to add color. I love turquoise and red together and I think this combo used here makes this image a lot fresher and more fun. I can easily envision this in a kid's room or playroom, with a thin red metal frame to echo the line work.

Just painted this one today; it's of a Parry's Primrose plant - it blooms near mountain streams in the Rocky Mountains, with a series of small-medium blooms along a tall stalk. Nature inspires me. :)

Classy lady portrait, coloured pencils and black inkpen used.
the original is displayed for sale in local town hair salon.

Oil painting Lesser Flamingos.
This painting with a touch of humor (in description).

Original watercolor. I very loosely based this painting off of a photograph I took while walking along a beach in Abel Tasman National Park, on the South Island of New Zealand. Many multi-colored shells of various shapes and sizes rested on the beach, and in this piece I added bright orange, green, blue, purple, and brown tones to the sand, to create a more abstract, other-worldly, atmospheric effect.

Inspired by nature...my way! :)

It's pretty easy to see what has inspired me to paint these four paintings. The first three are oil paintings of the rugged northern coast of Maui. This area is very rocky with very little vegetation. The fourth one is an acrylic painting of Fleming Beach, which is close to where I live.

I've been working on this painting off and on for a couple months and finally got it more or less how I want it. This scene is in Ogden Valley, Utah near Pineview Reservoir.

The perfect walking shoe designed by me for me.

This is my latest piece, a seagull from the Dorset coast in the UK.

This is an old painting that I finally put the finishing touches on. I have zillions of paintings in this same category.

Decided to do 3 different garden scenes

8/31, final piece of this month...



I wanted to capture the heart of a forest... I'm really pleased with how it turned out. So often I never feel like I completely nail something, but I really like the results here

Purrfect Pampering for cute feline cat, having her hair rollers in at local pets parlour.
lm inspired by this lovely artist Dierdre Wilkes on Etsy, facebook.
She gave me permission to show my drawing of her adorable kitty.

Two new New York City prints:

I completed a series of dog and cat pieces (all in a dogs & cats gallery). This one, a chalkboard with quote "yes, I really need all these dogs" sold in just a week. It was inspired by a crazy cat lady who had to explain that she really needed all those cats, thus there is also a car version. My last two sales have been chalkboard pieces, so I guess I should focus on doing a few more. Ah, if I only had the time to do all the pieces that bounce around my head or are jotted down in my sketchbook.

Red blooms and buds painted with watercolor on 14" x 18" handmade paper



Flowers imagined deep in a forest in blue. On one side there are abstract butterflies. This is a digital blue version of the watercolor painting 'Deep in the forest'