HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY

NINE PAINTINGS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY
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VALENTINE PAINTINGS
ONCE AGAIN

    I love holidays,
birthdays
even half birthdays

Yes I shared this with you several days ago 
but today is a must.

Happy Valentine's Day
to my wonderful
blogging
friends

I love everyone of you
dearly

   

FLOWER SHOP III

Flower Shop III
Framed, 6x8 oil on museum quality board
Available soon at upcoming show

FLOWER SHOP III

 6x8, oil on museum quality board.

I am painting a series of flower shops for an upcoming show at the New Mexico Cancer Center Gallery, a NM top ten gallery. More information will be posted soon.

Oslo, Norway,  New Year's Eve Day, 2013, shops were open though little else was.  The day was misty, warm, and no snow was anywhere to be seen.  On this day in Oslo there was about six hours of daylight, an increase of three hours over that which I had experienced only days earlier in the Arctic.

 This was a most unusual trip, with many experiences never had before and likely never to be experienced again.  I am truly grateful and
recommend we always be ready to delight in the
 unknown.

Flower Shop II

Flower Shop II, Framed
5x7 oil on canvas covered board
Available Soon

'FLOWER SHOP II"

5x7. oil on canvas covered board, frame has a mahogany finish.

I have painted flowers for years so after a recent trip to Norway where there were flower shops on nearly every block, walkway, street corner, all transportation stations and malls, I couldn't wait to paint flowers in flower shop settings.  See the series on www.carolhopper.com

I have been asked by the curator of the New Mexico Cancer Center Art Gallery (Gallery with a Cause) to include my flower shop series and my cupcake/dessert series in the upcoming spring show.   Very soon I will be able to provide a link for purchase of the paintings.  Purchase of these paintings assists cancer patients with medical bills.

One more note:  Due to multiple problems I no longer use Google + as so many of you had trouble following me or commenting on my blog.  Join Friend Connect, or sign up by email, and especially comment below on my paintings.   I want to hear from you.  And if you are still having trouble, let me know!

POPPY STRONG, Day 13 of Thirty Paintings in Thirty Day Challenge SOLD

POPPY STRONG
18x24, oil on canvas, gold leaf frame
SOLD

POPPY STRONG

"Poppy Strong", 18x24, oil on canvas, in a gold leaf frame.  Bright, rich, cheerful with strong reds.  Every home and office decor should include the color red.  This painting is full of hope and happiness.  It is also a painting done earlier as I got behind a whole day in the thirty day challenge.

SO….I like the painting a lot, but I struggled mightily.  I needed to invent so much and I wasn't feeling the least bit secure.  See the photo references below that I used.  The photos were taken in the patio market in Old Town, Albuquerque, NM.

Fjord Spring

Fjord Spring
Little Gem
6x8 oil on canvas mounted

"Fjord Spring" 6x8 oil on canvas mounted on board with a black painted edge, suitable for framing or placing on a tabletop easel.

Norway is about landscapes, water, mountains, snow, waterfalls and varying landscapes based on a number of latitudes.  The color most often seen if BLUE.  This painting is the essence of peace and tranquility.

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Santa Fe Adobe V, Day Four of Thirty Paintings in Thirty Days Challenge

Santa Fe Adobe V
6x8 oil on canvas, mounted

SANTA FE ADOBE V, oil on canvas, mounted on Masonite suitable for framing or display on a tabletop easel.  Day Four of the Thirty Paintings in Thirty Days Challenge



Isn't this organic natural wall interesting?  I would have liked to watch it being built.  This type of wall is very prevalent in Santa Fe, but walls are found around property throughout the state.  It may just be the style, but I was told they were built to keep out rattlesnakes.  I have lived in NM for 45 years and have never seen a rattlesnake.

The Russian Olive tree inside the wall is messy and thisrty.  It doesn't belong in the desert and is considered by some to be a nuisance.  Yet it is a very beautiful tree with an incredible fragrance in the spring.

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Spring Light
6x8  oil on canvas mounted

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I’ve decided to offer one of my Daily Paintings for subscribers to my blog.  Subscribe there and you will receive email notifications whenever I post a new painting to my DailyPaintworks for auction. In September I am participating in lesliesaeta.blogspot.com Thirty Paintings in Thirty Day challenge.  I am really excited about this.

And all subscribers will automatically be entered into the raffle, to be drawn October 1, 2013.   There is also a link to my blog www.carolhopper.blogspot.com on my website.


Sorry this painting is sold.

Norwegian Painter, Sophus Jacobsen

This summer I had the most wonderful opportunity to be in Norway and to see a few original pieces of art by Sophus Jacobsen.  His winter scenes brought me to tears with their beauty.  Norway in winter is pretty dark as you can imagine and I found that Jacobsen captured that limited light perfectly.  The city of Oslo is on the same latitude as Anchorage, Alaska.            

 

 

 

 I will be returning to Norway over the Christmas holidays for skiing with my grandson.  This will also give me an opportunity to see more of Jacobsen's art.  Can anyone advise me on a great place to ski in Norway and activities a teenager might enjoy?                                                    

 Oil Painting by Sophus Jacobsen

Painter's Journey

"Turquoise Potting Bench"  6x8 oil on canvas, mounted


Since 1998 I have been on my journey as a painter.  It is been fun, intense, stressful, happy, disgusting, laughable, but always full of opportunity.  Now the journey has taken a new and exciting turn that involves both painting and the Internet.

Painting daily, or almost daily, is my goal.  Posting on my website (www.carolhopper.com) and www.DailyPaintworks.com, blogging on www.carolhopper.blogspot.com  and interacting on www.facebook.com/carolhopperstudio have also become part of being an artist in the Twenty-First century.  Technology cannot be avoided but is always second to painting.  

Having fun is one of the top priorities and painting "Little Gems" is very enjoyable.  I am using a palette knife more and intense color more.  My work is more Impressionistic.

I hope you will sign up to follow me on my journey!