Artblog of Pennsylvania Artist Claire Beadon Carnell

Saturday, August 27, 2011

JUST OPENING (SUNFLOWER)
by Claire Beadon Carnell
100 Paintings in 100 Days Challenge
'Inspirations from a Back Yard'
85/100

'Just Opening'
Oil on panel
6 x 6
85/100

Day 85

On a day when the clouds are getting darker and
more ominous, and the winds from the outer edges
of Hurricane Irene are blowing through the trees, I thought
it would be nice to post the painting I did yesterday
from a bouquet of sunflowers I picked while painting
on site at Eric and Nancy Olsen's Windmill Creek Studio
farm this past Tuesday. I painted the sunflower from life,
but brought up the memory of the color of the sky
from Tuesday to add as my background...think it works
better than an ominous shade of grey...

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Friday, August 26, 2011

GARDEN LILIES
by Claire Beadon Carnell
100 Paintings in 100 Days Challenge
'Inspirations from a Back Yard'
89/100

'Garden Lilies'
Oil on Canvas Panel
6 x 8
89/100

Day 89

The scent of the lilies is the reason I plant them in my

garden - even more than their beauty. I have planted

lilies of many types and colors, but am always

disappointed that they seem to revert back to

their native color. This deep red-orange asian

lily is one of the few that has kept its original color

from year to year. Now if I could just figure

out how to make sure the other lilies would do the same...

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Thursday, August 25, 2011

FIELDS OF GOLD
Original Plein Air
Oil Painting
by Claire Beadon Carnell

'Fields of Gold'

Oil Plein Air

12 x 9 on Raymar linen panel

On Tuesday of this week, artists met at Nancy and Eric Olson's

beautiful Windmill Creek Studio farm that included four acres

of golden sunflowers. The day was gorgeous, and the vistas

incredible every way you turned. It was an artists' dream...

The most difficult part of the day was to decide what to paint,

because there were so many choices. The most unique

part of the day was that we experienced the ground tremors

of the earthquake that travelled up and down the east coast.

I decided to paint the field of sunflowers with a view of

the tree-line and mountains behind. I loved the different

shades of blue in the background, and how they provided a

nice cool backdrop to all of that lovely yellow. This is entirely

plein air, except for my signature which I added when I took it

out of my pochade box this evening to take a picture.

- Pictures from our day -

Artists at work. Starting on the right - Linda Young,

Robert Hughes, Clare Klaum, and Jane Ramsey.

Clare Klaum gets right in the action to get a good photo.

Is that Linda Young in those sunflowers? It was fun to

take a silly moment while we were scoping out painting sites!

Mary Beth Brath savoring the beautiful view, and

taking some pics for potential paintings.

Jane Ramsey gets the prize for travelling the farthest

to participate in this amazing day of painting. Loved

having her there with us!

A day I am sure we will never forget...

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Sunday, August 21, 2011

ROSE OF SHARON 2
by Claire Beadon Carnell
100 Paintings in 100 Days Challenge
'Inspirations from a Back Yard'
83/100

'Rose of Sharon 2'

6 x 6

83/100

Day 83

I enjoyed painting my first 'Rose of Sharon' painting

so much that I decided to do another. Although this

one has some of those lovely lavenders I dound when

studying the flowers for the first painting, it is much

warmer in color than the initial study. I am finding that

my flowers are starting to dwindle - a sure sign that Fall

is not too far away...

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here on this blog, please contact me.

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Thursday, August 18, 2011

SPECIAL DAY AT PINE SCHOOL STUDIO

This morning I held a special acrylic painting class for some

very special children. We had a lot of fun working on creating

a painting from a photo of a double rainbow (that my daughter

recently photographed). Great color mixing, pushing of paint and

lots of creativity - Much fun!!!

Here are some pictures.

Everyone hard at fun!

Time for the critique...

Davis's painting, including 'Fluffy'

(Davis 6 years old)

Jake's painting...with wheels, of course!

(Jake 8 years old)

Maddy's Painting...love those greens

(Maddy 4 years old)

McKenna's painting really captured the beautiful

hills and double rainbow from the photo.

(McKenna 8 years old)

Stevie's painting ROCKS!!!

(Stevie 3 yrs old)

Monday, August 8, 2011

EWE AND LAMB
Original Oil Painting
by Claire Beadon Carnell

'Ewe and Lamb'

oil on linen panel

9 x 12

This summer I was fortunate to be able to paint several

times at the Dickinson College Farm. While I was there, I

took the opportunity to take many reference shots of

the farm, and also of their lovely sheep. The lambs

were adorable, and full of shenanigans. This little one was just

content to walk to the water trough with his mother.

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Sunday, August 7, 2011

CHANCE OF RAIN
(Ft. Hunter, Susquehanna River)
Original Plein Air
Oil Painting
by Claire Beadon Carnell

'Chance of Rain'
Ft. Hunter, Susquehanna River
Oil on Panel

8 x 16

Last Thursday I painted at Ft. Hunter, along the
Susquehanna River. The day was overcast, with a chance
of rain in the weather predictions. I particularly liked this
view of the river that included the receding mountains and
the cloudy sky. Even in the more subdued tones, there
were still many different colors.

Below is a picture of my painting in progress.

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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

ROSE OF SHARON
by Claire Beadon Carnell
100 Paintings in 100 Days Challenge
'Inspirations from a Back Yard'
82/100

'Rose of Sharon'
6 x 6
82/100

Day 82

I did this painting for the Daily Paintworks 'Nature's Arrangement
Challenge'. The instruction was to paint some flowers plein air using
a very limited palette of one blue, one red, one yellow and
white. You were to use only a large, medium and small paintbrush
and you had to stop after painting for one hour and call it
'done'! This worked out well for me because it also fulfilled
my own '100 Paintings in 100 Days Challenge - Inspirations from a
Back Yard' Challenge, and also provides me with a new
plein air painting to post on the SVPAP blog - and most of
all was just a lot of fun to paint. Can't ask for better!!!

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interested in purchasing any of my paintings you see

here on this blog, please contact me.

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Tuesday, August 2, 2011

UNEXPECTED VISITOR
by Claire Beadon Carnell
100 Paintings in 100 Days Challenge
'Inspirations from a Back Yard'
81/100

'Unexpected Visitor'
Oil on Panel
8 x 6
81/100

Day 81

About a week and a half ago when we were under the
'Heat Dome' that graced us with temperatures over
100 degrees, I was doing everything I could to stay
cool and conserve energy, so I was painting in the house
instead of the studio. At one point I had to run up to
the studio for some supplies, and just as I got to the bottom
of the steps leading up to the studio I happened
to see this strange little bird in the corner of our yard.
I slowly backed up and got my camera from the house,
and was quite surprised and pleased to find that he was
still there. As I crept forward to take closer pictures,
another one of these birds flew out of our huge hemlock.
I turned to look up into the hemlock and saw three more
of these birds!

My immediate thought based on the curved neck,
long beak and legs on this bird was that it was in the
heron/cormorant family. I got my pictures then went into
research what I had photographed, and learned that
these were juvenile green herons. We had the
pleasure of seeing them again two days later - not
sure what brought them into my yard...perhaps
they heard that I was coming close to finishing my
100 Paintings in 100 Days Challenge 'Inspirations from
a Back Yard' Challenge and wanted to get painted!
I try not to disappoint...

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interested in purchasing any of my paintings you see

here on this blog, please contact me.

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