Brande Arno Art

12 x 16 inches, Oil on Gessoboard, - Sold My good friend and I were on our way to a grocery shopping trip when she spied this hay field.  The freshly bundled hay bales announcing a hard day of work for a local farmer.  I asked her to pull over so I could get a few pictures. She not only pulled over, but she wanted to commission me to do a painting of said field.  I enjoyed every minute of this painting.  The bales are more stagnant in real life, so I had to change that up a bit for the composition's sake.  My friend is rather literal, so I didn't have as much creative license in the composition area.  But I had fun with mixing color and brushwork, which I think comes through in this piece.

8 x 8 inches, Oil on Gessoboard -NFS There is a lot of imagination in this piece as the most of it is memory painting.  I let the painting take me in a direction I usually don't go with colors.  I enjoyed every minute of painting today and I highly recommend the practice of memory/imagination painting to my artist buddies.

4 x 4 inches, Oil on Gessoboard Sold Both Monday and Tuesday's paintings were scrapers.  I prefer to wipe away a failed attempt and usually do better with the second try.  But two days in a row...I went to bed last night thinking my painting career was over.  The photo reference for this painting was taken November, 2014.  What caught my eye was the contrast between the dusting of snow against a hill darkened with trees.  Perfect setting to insure those bales stand out.  Where are the trees in this painting you ask?  I  pulled an artist license and switched those trees out for pretty blue sky instead.