VENTURA HARBOR III

PAINTING HARBORS AND BOATS

VENTURA HARBOR III
9x12 oil on canvas covered cradled board
Palette Knife Painting
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After my very recent trip to Ventura, CA, I have completely fallen in love with

PAINTING BOATS AND HARBORS
A few years ago I spent a week in Maine at York Beach getting salt in my blood.
I can't stay away from the ocean at the moment,
 nor studying famous seascape artists,
 so I have decided to return to Maine again in July, this time for two weeks.
 Of course there will be time for sightseeing,
but my main purpose this time is more painting than vacationing.

To see many awesome painting in one place
click here to view my Pinterest board on Ships, Boats and Harbors.
Click here to view my board of Seascape Paintings on Pinterest.

Ventura Beach Workshop with Leslie Saeta

PALETTE KNIFE PAINTING 

WORKSHOP 

with 

LESLIE SAETA

Ventura Harbor I
11x14 oil on gessobord

Avocado Halves
6x6 oil on gessobord

Ventura Beach Sunset

8x8 oil on gessobord

Carnation Beauty
6x6 oil on gessobord

Many of you have asked me about my workshop in California with Leslie Saeta. Did I like it?  Emphatically YES! Did I learn a lot? YES! The hardest part for me was painting en plein air boats and a full harbor scene.
I am completely unfamiliar with boats.
  As you would expect of me living in the desert.
 And I learned the silliest things about matching color, something I should have learned with my first ever art lesson.



THIS IS THAT LESSON

Mix the color on your palette using your palette knife (of course).
 Now hold that fully-loaded-with-color knife next to the item you are about to paint.
 Does it match in hue and value?
 No more of this "You don't know what color you have until you put it on your canvas."
Do comment but don't tell me how on earth I could have missed such common sense.



SECOND BIG LESSON
(aside from painting that is)

My very supportive husband has listened to me for years tell him I am leaving him for a few weeks in the heat of the desert summer for a cool place. (He likes heat.) Year after year after year, I ask myself where that summer place is.  Besides cool it has to be where I can't wait to paint every day. After being in California on the beach, I am now in the process of searching for my "few weeks of cool" in Maine on the beach. I have contacted someone and can't wait to hear back.

VICTORIA

VICTORIA

18x18 Encaustic Mixed Media

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What fun!

This painting took days to complete as I added elements, fused those into the hot wax with a very hot heat gun, added more elements, fused, pressed a stencil into the hot wax for texture, fused, added flecks of gold, fused,  and on and on it goes to the end. Last to be done was adding the ribbon and the 3-D Victorian elements.

This painting is done on a birch cradled panel, ready to hang and needs no frame.

PERFECT PEACE

PERFECT PEACE

12x9 Encaustic Mixed Media

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"Perfect Peace"

A quiet piece

for 

meditation

prayer

thanksgiving

On wood cradled panel ready for hanging, no frame needed