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| After the Rain©2012 19 x 8 oil on canvas panel $325 plein air painting
All threats from tornado activity of yesterday gone...phew...
This was created just after the rain stopped. Low lights, clean flowers.
Lovely day in Virginia, cool, clean and bright.
Happy painting and have a great weekend!
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Saturday, June 02, 2012
After the Rain : Landscape by Virginia Fine Artist Cathyannn Burgess
Friday, May 18, 2012
Three Tiny Zinnias by Viriginia Fine Artist Cathyann Burgess
Three Tiny Zinnias©2012 C.L.Burgess 8x6 oil on raymar panel $175
This is another plein air piece I did last week. The sun filled still life had some great shapes.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
TheYellow Board/Art Takes Times Square
Ahhh...to ride the surf and feel the sun. I envy how agile these young people are as they glide over the waves. Yellow was the challenge in the DPW this week. I happened to have a reference from a beach visit and thought this would fit the bill.
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Sunday, May 13, 2012
To Mothers everywhere..Pansies an Original Oil painting by Virginia Fine Artist Cathyann Burgess
Happy Mother's Day!
Flowers blooming, sunny day, and a light breeze supported my plein air painting at Bella Arte Gallery. This all prima oil painting of pansies was one of two done at a demo for mothers day event at the gallery on Friday.
My mother is the flower gardener extraordinaire. My love for them ties directly to her and her mother.
What would life be without flowers?
"I must have flowers, always and always." Claude Monet
Monday, May 07, 2012
Tulips in Glass Jar by Virginia Fine Artist Cathyann Burgess
To every thing, there is a season.
I kept humming the song written by Pete Seeger in 1959 based on Ecclesiastes in the Bible, made famous by the Byrds, in 1965, as I painted. Therefore, I chose that title for my painting of my tulips. I remembered the term vanitas from art history study. Often, we recall the still life of 17th century Northern European painters who loved allegory.
Vanitas in art, hearkens to the viewer that all things return to dust. Usually a human skull will be included in a still life with other worldly objects to drive that notion and raise our consciousness to a higher order of thought.
We, as still life painters try to capture, for all time, that fleeting moment of beauty. I prefer to leave out the gruesome in my paintings. But there was before me the evidence of death, and the beauty in it, as the petals dropped. Each day I painted, the tulips faded, leaving me with the medusa of twisting stems and rotting leaves in the jar. Of course, by then, I had most of the information I needed to continue, but I was sad they were gone.
These tulips were my subject is a smaller study in the last post. I spent the rest of the week with them, looking from all angles, turning and inspecting, enjoying the brilliance of their color and the grace in their form as they opened and turned their gaping mouths this way and that. Their season short, but the memory long and lovely.
Tuesday, May 01, 2012
Tulip Trio by Virginia Fine Artist Cathyann Burgess
How else to bring warmth, sunshine and cheeriness into your life?
I bought these magnificent 24inch tulips at the Maymont Herbs Galore festival last Saturday. They come from a place called EcoTulips in Brightwood VA. Just the most elegant and graceful flower to behold. More paintings of them will follow.
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Saturday, April 28, 2012
Pink Peony by Virginia Fine Artist Cathyann Burgess
Can't resist these beauties. Fluffy and in the pink of perfection!
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Rainy Day Iris by Virginia Fine Artist Cathyann Burgess
Just as the rain subsided a bit, yesterday, I ran out into the yard to capture this flower near my pond. I don't know how this color arrived in my garden as I have blue iris, but not variegated and not the plum color seen here. But I will keep it! Nature's gift on a cold April day. (sorry about the glare)
Friday, April 20, 2012
Landscape by Virginia Fine Artist Cathyann Burgess
Variation on a theme I return to again and again.
Monday, April 16, 2012
Landscape: Cool Water by Virginia fine Artist Cathyann Burgess
This is a palette knife painting. Early in the day along the James river, the water runs cool and fast. My palette was limited to rose, manganese blue, cad lemon and white.
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