Artblog of Pennsylvania Artist Claire Beadon Carnell

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

'Susquehanna Passage'
An Original Oil Painting
by Claire Beadon Carnell

'Susquehanna Passage'

Oil on linen panel

18 x 24

This is the view from the former offices of

Susquehanna Surgeons on Front Street in

Wormleysburg, PA. I was with my husband

for the follow-up for some surgery he

had last September, and when I walked into

the waiting room, the view of the river

was breathtaking. The late afternoon light

colored the sky and river, and there was a touch

of Autumn starting to show in the foliage. I got an awful

photograph of the scene through some really

bug-stained windows, but my visual memory

helped me paint this.

'Susquehanna Passage' can be seen at the

Art & Soul Gallery in Lemoyne, PA.

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Sunday, December 8, 2013

'A is for Apple'
An Original Oil Painting
by Claire Beadon Carnell

'A is for Apple'

Oil on linen panel

12 x 9

I have had some vintage wooden typefaces for
years. Some are large (6 inches high), and
some are much smaller, and I have always loved
them and wanted to do something with them.
When I got my apples this fall, the idea to
incorporate them into a painting with the
typeface came into mind, and here is the result.

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Saturday, December 7, 2013

'Great Marshes to Cape Cod Trail'
An Original Oil Painting
by Claire Beadon Carnell

'Great Marshes to Cape Cod Trail'
(Low Tide, Barnstable, MA)

Oil

12 x 12

I had never been to Barnstable, MA before, so

my husband and I decided to head in that direction

when we were up there this past September.

We found a treasure...a nature preserve called

the Great Marshes to Cape Cod Trail. It was a

very hot day (high 90's), but we hiked in about 2 miles and

saw the most incredible landscape. Gigantic sand dunes

flanked us on the left, and gorgeous marshes

were on the right. It immediately became one

of my favorite places in Cape Cod.

This painting will be on display at the

Mechanicsburg Art Center in the
Recent Paintings from the Cape exhibit.

The opening reception is December 14,

6:00 to 8:00 p.m.

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Thursday, December 5, 2013

'Blue Crab'
An Original Plein Air
Oil Painting
by Claire Beadon Carnell

'Blue Crab'

Oil

8 x 8

This blue crab got washed ashore on the wet sand one

cloudy morning in Cape Cod. We had stopped to paint

at a little inlet, and were worried about the

forecast of rain. It wasn't rain that chased us away,

it was the rising tide that suddenly appeared two feet

away from where we were painting!

This painting will be on display at the

Mechanicsburg Art Center in the
Recent Paintings from the Cape exhibit.

The opening reception is December 14,

6:00 to 8:00 p.m.

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please visit my website or my blog. If you are

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here on this blog, please contact me.

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Monday, November 18, 2013

SOLD
'Mountain View Shadows'
An Original Oil Painting
by Claire Beadon Carnell

'Mountain View Shadows'

Oil

12 x 16

They say the third time is the charm...

I have actually painted this scene twice

before, and was so unhappy with the results

that I abandoned the work. The stubborn streak

in me made me try one more time, and when

I reached the same point of frustration that

I had reached with the previous paintings, I

decided that I was going to fight through.

I am glad that I stuck with it and FINALLY

got the results that I wanted.

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Saturday, November 16, 2013

Commission - Firefly Paintings
Original Oil Paintings
by Claire Beadon Carnell

'Fireflies on the Farm'

Oil

6 x 12

'Firefly Magic'

Oil

6 x 8

These two commissioned firefly paintings were

recently shipped off to the client who lives

in Oregon. She had seen another one of my firefly

paintings, and asked me to do these for her.

I enjoyed every moment of it - pure fun!

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Friday, November 15, 2013

SOLD
'Evening Blues'
An Original Oil Painting
by Claire Beadon Carnell

'Evening Blues'
East Pond, Maine

Oil

12 x 9

I finished this painting several months ago,

but just wasn't able to let it go out into

the big world right away. This is a painting

from the deepest part of my heart -

it is a painting of a place that I love.

I felt that love each time the

brush touched the canvas.

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Monday, November 11, 2013

SOLD
'Summer Along the Hudson River'
An Original Oil Painting
by Claire Beadon Carnell

'Summer Along the Hudson River'

Oil

8 x 16

Last Summer, my husband and I traveled

to Albany, New York, and then down the

Hudson River Valley. The views were incredible,

and I found this one when we decided to take

a side road that led us right to the water's edge.

While there, we met four other people

visiting that spot, and we discovered that

the one couple was from the Army War College

in Carlisle (which is close to our home)

It IS a small world!

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Friday, November 1, 2013

'Tenderness'
An Original Oil Painting
by Claire Beadon Carnell

'Tenderness'

Oil

8 x 6

When I went up to the local orchard to

get my apples recently, I noticed this pear in

one of the bins. I was excited to see that the

leaves were still attached, and that they

hung at the top of the pear quite beautifully.

When I got home I set it up in the studio, and have

been working on it. Think I am done with this

tender little pear.

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Friday, October 25, 2013

SOLD
'Yellow Breeches Garden'
An Original Plein Air
Oil Painting
by Claire Beadon Carnell

'Yellow Breeches Garden'

Oil

12 x 9

This magical garden is located along the

Yellow Breeches Creek at the home of

my yoga teacher. She was so kind to let

my plein air group come and paint there.

It was like being in a little piece of heaven...

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Thursday, October 24, 2013

SOLD
'Zion Road'
An Original Oil Painting
by Claire Beadon Carnell

'Zion Road'

Oil

8 x 10

I used to travel a lot on the Zion Road until

recently when a bridge was closed for repairs,

which unfortunately closed Zion Road as well.

It's a favorite place that I have seen and

admired in all of the seasons, and every time

I drive down it I get such a sense of peace.

Hope this painting gives you the same feeling!

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Monday, October 21, 2013

'Spangler Farm Morning'
An Original Oil Painting
by Claire Beadon Carnell

'Spangler Farm Morning'

Oil on Linen Panel

14 x 18

I have often been asked what colors I use to get
the wide variety of greens in my landscapes, and
it always surprises people that I get these greens
by using a very limited palette.

This Saturday (11/26/2013), I will be teaching
a workshop about mixing greens in nature at the
Carlisle Arts Learning Center from 9AM to 3PM.
If you are interested in attending, you can obtain
information about the workshop by contacting
Carlisle Arts Learning Center
38 West Pomfret Street
Carlisle, PA 17013
Phone: 717-249-6973

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Friday, October 18, 2013

'Battlefield Blues'
An Original Oil Painting
by Claire Beadon Carnell

'Battlefield Blues'
(Gettysburg Battlefield National Park)

Oil on Archival Canvas Panel

24 x 18

I spotted these beautiful blue flowers up
on Little Round Top (Gettysburg Battlefield National Park)
one Summer morning when I had gone up there to paint.
It seems as though every time I go up there I see something
new. It's such an amazing place, and never fails
to intrigue me.

Note: This plant is known as Viper's Bugloss
(Echium vulgare), Blue Weed or Blue Devil.

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Thursday, October 17, 2013

SOLD
'Midsummer Morning'
An Original
Oil Painting
by Claire Beadon Carnell

'Midsummer Morning'

Oil on Linen Panel

12 x 16

Have you ever been driving somewhere and suddenly

have this irresistible urge to take a different

route from the one you normally take? I am

so glad I followed my instincts this past summer.

Instead of travelling my normal pathway to Hanover,

I decided to take another road and found this

incredible field of pinkish weeds

cloaked in the morning light.

This is why I always carry a camera with me...

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Sunday, September 22, 2013

'Windy Day at Fort Hill'
Cape Cod, MA
An Original Plein Air
Oil Painting
by Claire Beadon Carnell

'Windy Day at Fort Hill'
(Cape Cod, MA)

Oil
Plein Air

12 x 16

Finally, after a week of being home from Cape Cod,

I was able to unload my paintings! This particular

painting was painted on Sept. 11, on a very windy day.

I hadn't planned to go to Fort Hill to paint, but

stopped there so my husband could see what a

beautiful place it was. Of course when I saw the

way the wind was blowing the trees and the goldenrod

in the foreground, my muse started to call...

While we were there (at about the time the first airplane

hit the WTC twelve years ago on the same day)

an older gentleman (a fireman) dressed in full kilt

walked up to the peak of the hill, and started playing a

tribute to the victims of 9/11 on his bagpipes. When

he played 'Amazing Grace', there wasn't a dry

eye to be found...it was profound.

We will never forget.

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Monday, September 16, 2013

'Evening Light at West Dennis Beach'
Cape Cod, MA
An Original Plein Air
Oil Painting
by Claire Beadon Carnell

'Evening Light at West Dennis Beach'
(Cape Cod, MA)

Oil
Plein Air

6 x 8

While in Cape Cod last week, I had gone to
West Dennis Beach in the hopes of painting
the sunset, but when I turned my back to the
sunset and saw this gorgeous evening light, I
immediately knew what I would be painting. It was
cold and very windy that evening, but setting up my
gear beside the car to block the wind, I was able
to paint quickly and capture the fleeting light.

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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

'Late Summer Garden' (Kings Gap)
An Original Plein Air
Oil Painting
by Claire Beadon Carnell

'Late Summer Garden'
(Kings Gap, PA)

Oil
Plein Air

6 x 12

Yesterday I painted up at Kings Gap State Park with
my good friend and fellow artist, Mary Beth Brath.
She had suggested we go there to paint in the
garden, and the moment I started driving up that
long curvy drive to the top of the mountain, I
knew this is just what I needed! The garden is
gorgeous, and complete with a small pond with
water lilies and frogs.

The zinnias called to me, and when I walked
away from them to look at some of the other
parts of the garden, they just called louder - so
that's what I painted!

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Friday, August 16, 2013

'Golden Summer at Messiah'
An Original Plein Air
Oil Painting
by Claire Beadon Carnell

'Golden Summer at Messiah'
(Messiah College, PA)

Oil
Plein Air

12 x 16

Thanks to a friend up on Facebook, I was

made aware that there were rolling hills

of sunflowers being grown by Messiah College

in Grantham, PA. My friend and fellow artist

Pat Koscienski and I went there to paint

yesterday. The heavy rains we had the previous

week had beaten up the blossoms a bit, but

it still was an amazing sight to behold.

I did use some artistic license with this and had

the sunflowers facing toward me...for some

reason they were all being shy, and their faces

were pointing away from us, and toward the sun :)

My painting in progress

Pat Koscienski painting further down the hill

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Wednesday, August 14, 2013

'Still Waters'
An Original Oil Painting
by Claire Beadon Carnell

'Still Waters'

Oil

11 x 14

Two years ago, I got the opportunity to go

up to Nancy and Eric Olson's farm in Port Royal

to paint their fields of sunflowers. While I

was there I walked around and got some

photographs, and this is one of the amazing

views I found that I wanted to paint.

I even liked the little bit of algae in the water

that created breaks in the stillness.

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Monday, August 12, 2013

UPDATE
'Cabin in the Woods'
An Original Plein Air
Oil Painting
by Claire Beadon Carnell

'Cabin in the Woods'
(Kings Gap)
© Claire Beadon Carnell
Oil
Plein Air
12 x 9

After taking this up to the studio and studying
it for a bit while I was painting something else,
I spent about fifteen minutes just adding a little
more color in the foreground black-eyed susans
and a few other tweaks, then stepped back
and said 'FINISHED!'

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Friday, August 9, 2013

'Kings Gap Cabin in the Woods'
An Original Plein Air
Oil Painting
by Claire Beadon Carnell

'Kings Gap Cabin in the Woods'
© Claire Beadon Carnell
Oil
Plein Air
12 x 9

A great day of plein air painting with my friend
Pat Putz at her beautiful cabin in the woods.
We had to dodge the raindrops, but had
fun painting part of her home and her gorgeous
flower gardens. This is my painting - almost complete.
There are only a few things that I might
tweak once I get it home.

Here's a picture of Pat painting

Pat's little cocker spaniel, Caylee, decided to
stay inside to watch us paint!

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Tuesday, August 6, 2013

'Conodoguinet Reflections'
An Original Oil Painting
by Claire Beadon Carnell

'Conodoguinet Reflections'
© Claire Beadon Carnell
Oil
12 x16

When I was in elementary school, my
Great-Aunt Margaret's goal was to teach

me how to spell a new and difficult word

each time I visited her during summer

vacation. She always made it fun, but didn't

give up until how I learned to spell the word

she had chosen. 'Conodoguinet' (for the

Conodoguinet Creek that ran through

Camp Hill, PA) was one of the toughest to

learn, but I never forgot how to spell it after all

of these years!

I think Great-Aunt Margaret would have

liked that I painted this, and that I remembered

how to spell the name of the creek as well :)

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Friday, August 2, 2013

SOLD
'Dusk on the Serpentine'
An Original Oil Painting
by Claire Beadon Carnell

'Dusk on the Serpentine'
(East Pond, Maine)
© Claire Beadon Carnell
Oil
20 x16

This is one of the most beautiful places I have

ever visited, and the Serpentine holds special

memories of my first kayak adventure!

This is the Serpentine at dusk, with a softer

light and a path of water lilies inviting

you to enter.

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Sunday, July 28, 2013

At Long Last, Back to Plein Air
'MOONFLOWERS'
An Original Plein Air
Oil Painting
by Claire Beadon Carnell

in ages, so when a friend called me this afternoon to let

me know that the moonflowers were blooming in

the shade of her shed, I packed up a minimal

amount of supplies and went up to paint.

I liked the soothing palette of colors, and the relatively

simple design of this scene...and of course

those wonderful flowers. It's good to be getting

back to normal!

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Saturday, July 20, 2013

OFF THE GRID FOR AWHILE
Claire Beadon Carnell
Original Oil Paintings

Hello my blog friends! I have not been posting lately, and have missed all of you. About three weeks ago I had to have some surgery on the vertebrae in my neck, and I have been in the process of recovering. Just yesterday I was able to paint again for the first time in four weeks, and it was such a pleasure.

I hope to have some things to post soon, and look forward to catching up with everyone to see what you all have been working on.

Here's a glimpse of the start of an underpainting for a new painting that I just started this afternoon...

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Saturday, June 22, 2013

AN AMAZING GIFT
from Hilda Muxo Klinger

Yesterday I received a most amazing gift in the mail from

talented artist and Blogger friend Hilda Muxo Klinger.

Her pastel painting of my mother is absolutely incredible,

and will be something I will treasure forever.

Thank you, Hilda.

If you would like to see more of Hilda's fantastic work,

please go to her blog 'Pastels by H. Muxo'.

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Friday, June 14, 2013

SOLD
HEADING HOME
An Original Oil Painting
by Claire Beadon Carnell

'Heading Home'
© Claire Beadon Carnell
Oil
6 x 12

Over the many years that I have lived in this
area, I must have passed this farm thousands of
times on my way home. As each season has passed,
I have vowed to paint it. I am glad I finally
got busy and did it!

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Tuesday, June 11, 2013

APRIL SHOWERS
An Original Oil Painting
by Claire Beadon Carnell

'April Showers'
© Claire Beadon Carnell
Oil
14 x 11

'April showers bring May flowers...'
I have often thought that the rain gives a
certain richness to color. In this case, a light
April Shower brought out the colors in the
wet stone path, as well as heightened
the color of those Virginia bluebells.
When I saw this scene at my yoga instructor's
studio, I knew it just had to be painted!

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Sunday, June 9, 2013

FLOWERS FROM MY GARDEN
An Original Plein Air Oil Painting
by Claire Beadon Carnell

'Flowers from My Garden'
© Claire Beadon Carnell
Oil
12 x 9

I picked these flowers from my garden early
yesterday morning so that I could take them
to the annual student show that I hold for
all of my students to display the beautiful
work they have done over the past year.

They were so pretty that I decided to do
a plein air painting of them this afternoon right on the
deck of my studio. This is the result of a little
over two hours of work. I need to do a bit more
in the studio, but was happy with what
I was able to accomplish in that period of time.

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Monday, June 3, 2013

HEY, GOOD LOOKIN'
An Original Oil Painting
by Claire Beadon Carnell

month, I got to meet this charming (and quite

handsome) rooster. It took awhile for him to

pose for me, but when he did I was very

happy with the results. It was obvious that all

of the hens in the coop thought he was quite

a handsome boy too!

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Sunday, June 2, 2013

APPLE TREES ON THE HILL
An Original Oil Painting
by Claire Beadon Carnell

'Apple Trees on the Hill'
Lerew Orchard, Gardners, PA
© Claire Beadon Carnell
Oil
10 x 20

This Spring, a friend of mine from my high school days
let me know that her sister lived on an orchard that
was mere miles from my house, and that I was welcome
to go paint there. I got a great tour from my friend's
sister, and then did a quick study of a view of
the apple trees from the top of a hill.

When I got home, I realized right away that I wanted to
do a larger studio piece, because I loved the
way the blue of the mountains peeked through
the white and soft pink blossoms of the trees.
It is a gorgeous orchard, and hope I can go back
and paint there again next spring!

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