Paint your dreams
Carol L. Douglas Blog
by Carol L. Douglas
2d ago
Ravenous Wolves, oil on canvas, 24X30, $3,478.00 framed includes shipping and handling in continental US. I was fishing around on my desk and found an old Zoom class outline with a scrawled note that read, “paint your dreams.” Alas, I can’t remember the context or who said it, but it struck me as wise advice. What does “paint your dreams” even mean? “Paint your dreams” is used metaphorically to convey the idea of visualizing our aspirations and goals. When someone says “paint your dreams,” they’re encouraging you to articulate your dreams as a first step towards making them a reality. But her ..read more
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Monday Morning Art School: watercolor paper
Carol L. Douglas Blog
by Carol L. Douglas
3d ago
Clary Hill Blueberry Barrens, watercolor on Yupo, ~24X36, $3985 framed includes shipping and handling in continental US. “I was wondering if you can address the different types, weights and rag content of watercolor paper and what they’re best for,” a student asked. Sure, although I obviously can’t talk about every paper on the market. There are three general types of watercolor paper. (There’s also a plastic product called Yupo, which is non-absorbent so acts entirely differently than paper. It’s a gas to use.) Cold press has become a favorite because it gives you decent washes, scumbling, a ..read more
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Dreaming of spring green
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by Carol L. Douglas
5d ago
I can’t speak for people who live in the rest of the country, but in the northeast, March is ill-tempered. “Comes in like a lion and out like a lamb?” Hah. March comes in like a psychopath and goes out like a moody teenager, and only dreaming of spring green helps us endure it. Spring Greens, 8X10, oil on archival canvasboard, $652 framed includes shipping and handling in continental US. This week, we’ve been getting four seasons per day-snow, blustery winds, just enough warm sun to fool us into shedding our winter coats, then whipping rain and more wind. It blew so hard yesterday morning tha ..read more
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Art or vandalism?
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by Carol L. Douglas
1w ago
Ice Cream, oil on archival canvasboard, $869 framed includes shipping and handling in continental US. Street art Street artist Banksy is believed to be behind a ‘mural’ painted in Finsbury Park in London. It is a spatter of green paint that implies the leaves on a nearby pollarded tree. Banksy is, of course, a favorite of the high-end art market. He’s the guy who once got $1.4 million for shredding a painting. Meanwhile, Chris Kanizi, 65, who owns the Golden Chippy, also in London, has been told to paint over a mural that he paid to have painted on the side of his shop. It’s a fish, and it re ..read more
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Deadwood
Carol L. Douglas Blog
by Carol L. Douglas
2w ago
Deadwood, oil on linen, 30X40, $5072.00 framed, includes shipping and handling in continental US. I painted Deadwood, above, for a solo show at Roberts Wesleyan College’s Davison Art Gallery. The work was an exploration of the relationship between God and man, as seen in nature. At the time, I was thinking about how our mistakes impede the flow of life. “But fallen branches can actually change the course of a waterway,” my hydrologist friend Ken Avery told me at the opening. It’s the butterfly effect made apparent. I’d never thought about it like that. Branches that fall into streams tend to ..read more
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Exercise and creativity
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by Carol L. Douglas
2w ago
Early Morning at Moon Lake, 6X8, oil on archival canvasboard, $348 includes shipping and handling in continental US. I have never once gotten up in the morning and said, “gee, I can’t wait to get outside and climb Beech Hill.” That goes double for winter, but I still do it every day. I’ve been doing serious daily exercise (and, yes, I mean seven days a week) as long as I can remember. Even during chemo, I’d push my drip bag along on a pole and keep walking. In fact, I turned down a port because it would mess with my running schedule. On the Hard, 8X10, oil on archival canvasboard, $522 includ ..read more
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Monday Morning Art School: a Hail Mary with Dynamic Symmetry
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by Carol L. Douglas
2w ago
Apple Blossom Time, oil on archival canvasboard, $869 framed includes shipping and handling in continental US. I first learned about Jay Hambidge‘s theory of Dynamic Symmetry in a workshop taught by Steven Assael many years ago. I was looking for the Holy Grail of composition and fiddled with Dynamic Symmetry for several years before putting it in my Folder of Fundamentally Flawed Design Ideas, along with the Golden Ratio, Silver Ratio, Fibonacci Sequence, Rule of Thirds, and a lot of other stuff I’ve mercifully forgotten. You can go look it up and try to deal with the arcana of root rectangl ..read more
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Oh, possum!
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by Carol L. Douglas
2w ago
Possum, 6X8, oil on archival canvasboard, $435 includes shipping in continental US. On Wednesday, I mentioned our late Jack Russell Terrier (or Terror, depending on the day). Above all, Max was a fearless hunter, a skill that often got him in trouble. He was capable of snatching a songbird in midflight, and squirrels and chipmunks stayed away when he was outdoors. Sadly, he seldom got an opportunity to exercise that skill in a positive way. However, he’d periodically grow restive, whining and pointing at some blank section of wall. I learned to recognize that as a sign we had invaders in the ..read more
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Painting with dogs
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by Carol L. Douglas
3w ago
Shela Fero Geiss and Matthew Fero with their parents’ two labs, private collection, oil on linen. Dogs make lovely painting companions. Before I could bring my daughter along on painting trips, I camped and painted with my Jack Russell Terrier for company. He was a pleasant traveling companion (most dogs are), and he acted as an Early Warning System. As artists’ head are often in the clouds, painting with dogs is helpful. I’ve never been approached by a bear or a threatening person while painting. At the hoary old age of 65, however, my left hook ain’t what it used to be. I appreciate the sec ..read more
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Monday Morning Art School: meaning and mediocrity
Carol L. Douglas Blog
by Carol L. Douglas
3w ago
Night Hauling, 1944, Andrew Wyeth, courtesy Bowdoin College Museum of Art Yesterday my friend Barb and I peered at Night Hauling, a 1944 tempera painting by Andrew Wyeth. “I’ve lived here all my life and I’ve never seen bioluminescence in the sea,” she said. “Well, I also imagine at that time most people were using lobster boats with engines,” I countered. “Not if they were stealing traps,” she said, and we both laughed. In 1944, Wyeth was still trying to figure out how to emerge from the shadow of his famous father. It would be four more years until Christina’s World proved he was ‘not your ..read more
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