SOC4: Week 6, Abstract Sailboat Sunset

Summer of Color4:  Week 6

Challenge:  Raspberry, Tangerine and Lemon Yellow

"Abstract: Sailboat in the Sunset" on auction at Ebay

 The ACEO is done on 1/8" thick masonite, not paper.

I had trouble photographing it to show the colors, but the first thing I thought of when I saw the swatches was SUNSET.   Now that I think about the names of the colors, I should have gone with a bowl of fruit.

I have attached magnetic material to the back so this one is an ACEO Magnet Art Piece that can be displayed on your Frig.  

SOC4, Summer of Color

Red, Royal Blue and a splash of light blue.  Be a Clown

For Sale on Ebay

This week's entry, just in time!!!

SOC Week 4, plus an Abstract PBJ on toast

This week the colors are Pink, Apple Green and Dark Greek for

the Summer of Color Challenge.  Here is mine. 4x6 acrylic on heavy paper, mounted into a pink mat, making it 5x7, fits a standard size frame.

Auction on Ebay

AND


Another different Challenge this week:

Abstract Open Faced Peanut Butter and Jelly on Toast. 

Painted for the DPW challenge this week. Impasto Acrylic on Canvas Board.
We were supposed to paint from life, but I don't eat bread, jelly or Peanut Butter, so I had to use my imagination.  I smeared the paint around like it was really peanut butter.  What fun!

For auction at DPW: http://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/236477

Funny thing about Abstracts, they can be displayed in different directions.

I cannot decide which way I like it, so I will not sign it on the front.

See more of my art at www.pennyleestewart.com

SOC4 Week 3

 Summer of Color, Week 3  - a challenge using a limited palette

This week: Lavender & Grey with a Smudge, Splash or Pop of Plum

Here are the colors we were supposed to use. My lavender is too pink and my plum is too red, not to mention that there is too much of it. Watercolors did not seem to work for me to achieve this color palette. So I switched to Acrylic.  

Here is my Door Hanger, without words. I am not good with hand lettering. Who would think "Welcome" would be so hard to paint? I must have painted over it 3 or 4 times. That's one of the advantages of acrylics, very forgiving. I used to do a lot of tole painting on wood and I had some of these wooden pieces left over from years ago, so I thought it might work for SOC. But I kept wanting to add green leaves, colorful flowers and vines. These colors are too dull for me, I guess. Oh, well. The acrylic colors are closer, yes?

Here is a Black Cat, and the colors are better, but I don't like the background.  LOL.  I give up.  Maybe the next palette will suit me better.

P.S.  In case you are wondering about the cats, I have been painting 30 ACEOs in 30 days for June 2014.  I chose Rainbow Kitties as a subject.  If you want to see all the colorful felines I have done so far, go to my Ebay Store.  

SOC4, Week 2, plus Silly Rabbit, Rusty Old Truck and a Lion's Head

(Still time to sign up to win a FREE abstract on my blog.  

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SOC 4, Week 2: Coral, Teal and White

Acrylic on 140# paper, on Ebay, with Mat, ready to frame

Plus my Watercolor Rabbit, which is almost the right colors, 

Silly Rabbit!

5x7 Watercolor Rabbit Pet Portrait Painting, on 300 lb. paper, embellished with white ink and pen liner, loose style, colorful, fun silly rabbit. FREE white mate included, ready to frame in 8 x 10 standard size. Painted from a reference photo by Steve Meisler on Artist Reference Photos. DPW Auction

. . . and in WC class this week, I painted the Old Truck

8.5 x 11 Watercolor of an old abandoned rusty truck with Bullet holes, obviously used for target practice out in the country. Painted from a photo by Gail Klett on Artist Reference Photos.  DPW Auction

and an 8x10 Mixed Media Lion Head with Colorful rainbow mane

 Inspired by Debra Spence's photo on Artist Reference Photos

Done for the June Art contest.
Watercolor, Gouache, pen and ink.

Auction on DPW

Summer of Color 4, Week 1

NOTE:  You can enter the drawing to win a FREE Abstract ACEO HERE

Summer of Color 4, Week 1

Challenge:  Use Aqua Blue, Yellow and a bit of Hot Pink to Create something new this week.  Next week there will be a NEW color challenge.

I am making Rainbow Kitties for a 30 in 30 ACEO challenge on Facebook this month, so I used that theme to create "Rainbow Tiger Kitty" for the first week of SOC4.  I love twofers!  The surrounding pieces of abstract art are my random smudges to test out the colors.  I put blobs of acrylic paint on the little scraps of paper, then smush them together. They might end up as bookmarks or inchies or twinchies or gift tags.  I hardly ever throw anything artsy away.

This is my ACEO/ATC #705, which is how many of these little gems I have made over the years. Some have been traded, lots of them have been sold in my Ebay and Etsy stores.

Friends, Family and Acquaintances, strangers, please go to my Pet Portraits page and LIKE it if you have not done so yet. I would like to combine my two pages into one but the one with the most likes will obliterate the other one, and I need about 100 more likes on Penny Paints Pets to make that happen.  THANKS for your help.