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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here on this blog, please contact me.

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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.

If you would like to see more of my work,

please visit my website or my blog. If you are

interested in purchasing any of my paintings you see

here on this blog, please contact me.

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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.

If you would like to see more of my work,

please visit my website or my blog. If you are

interested in purchasing any of my paintings you see

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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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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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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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 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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interested in purchasing any of my paintings you see

here on this blog, please contact me.

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