Gallery Three

Mexican Alley

The perspective of this composition intrigued me. working with a palette knife afforded me an opportunity to play with the colour and to carry colour by dragging it across the walls of the building. This is a very interesting composition, teaching angles, sharp edges, and how to develop a focal area. I wanted the contrast of warm and cool tones to balance the mood. Due to the heavy impasto brush and knife work, this painting should be viewed from a distance to appreciate the detail. if one looks into the rear of the painting, a small donkey can be seen moving between the buildings.

Spanish House

This painting was inspired by a great old home that I saw in San Diego, California. The sun was shining off the walls and the heavy stucco walls determined why I wanted to paint this with a heavy impasto finish. Impasto techniques were once reserved for oil painters where the paint was applied very thick and built up in layers. Using the acrylic texture medium mixed with the Traditions paint can result in the same effect as oil painters had achieved for years.

Mexico street

Light peeking around a corner, a narrow alleyway, stucco buildings and another opportunity presented itself for an impasto painting. This design was inspired again by the Spanish influence , but this time San Diego. A little restaurant was why I happened along this street and found this little treasure.

The Elephant

This painting began as a simple accent to a tropical theme. Distance, a large animal, and greenery and grasses. I had no reference material to paint from so this was created purely from imagination.

Spanish Arches

I visited an old monastery in Puerto Rico. I could imagine the silent monks walking quietly along the highly polished terrazzo floors. The old dark wooden beams on the ceiling, the light pouring in through the arches and the silence of the huge large rooms was quite fascinating. This was a study in light and and the contrast of the cooler floor colours against the warm sunlight and the plaster walls.

Carib. Flirtations

This is a little beach side restaurant on an island in the British Virgin Islands. Mostly made of collected driftwood, the old window offered quite an array of textures. The sandy foreground at high-tide also offered an opportunity to teach transparent water. The figures in the painting were actually family members, but more suitable to the painting was to transform them into local characters. With a little imagination anything is possible.

Neadeen Masters CDA - Country Carousel Art©

Gallery Three

Its warmer Down South

Mexican Alley©

Objective: textural painting with a palette knife. Using texture medium added to the paint to create an 'impasto effect'. The Composition is very simple, an alley way between building, but the colour palette is strong. light and shadow are stressed. Perspective is developed through the use of intensity and value control. This painting style is absolutely impressionistic and after studying the work of the impressionists, I couldn't help but be influenced by their 'painterly' style.

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My Recliner©

Objective: textural painting with a palette knife. Using texture medium added to the paint to create an 'impasto effect'. The Composition is moody but the colour palette is strong. Light and shadow are stressed. Perspective is developed through the use of intensity and value control. This painting style is impressionistic and after studying the work of the impressionists, I couldn't help but be influenced by their 'painterly' style.

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Spanish House©

Objective: Textural painting with a palette knife. Using texture medium added to the paint to create an 'impasto effect'. The Composition is large but the colour palette is soft. Light and shadow are stressed. Perspective is developed through the use of intensity and value control. This painting style is impressionistic.

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The Sanctuary©

Objective: The emphasis in this painting is to learn loose, painterly blending methods using JansenArt Traditions acrylics. Students will learn to create soft leafy backgrounds, a simple potted plant and filler tropical leaves. This lesson is an intermediate skill level teaching the basics of foliage painting including a plaster container. Framed with the railing, it establishes the foreground, mid and central areas of the design. Atmospheric and lineal perspective is stressed and the student is introduced to the beginnings of this concept. Working with a limited palette and creating several green hues is also stressed in this lesson.

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Mexico Street©

Objective: textural painting with a palette knife. Using texture medium added to the paint to create an 'impasto effect'. The Composition is simple but the colour palette is interesting and after the painting was dries, a warm burnt umber antiquing was applied to add further interest.. Light and shadow are stressed. Perspective is developed through the use of intensity and value control. Students learn about vanishing points. This painting style is impressionistic.

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Rainforest Floor©

Objective: The emphasis in this painting is to learn 'wet in wet' blending methods using JansenArt Traditions acrylics. Students worked with the effects of light on a focal area. 'Lost and found edges', toning a palette for harmony and details for finishing are stressed. Accents, tints, colour repetition and contrast are also applied. One of the greatest exercises was working with contrasting temperatures of green hues.

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The Elephant©

Objective: The emphasis in this painting is to learn 'wet in wet' blending methods using JansenArt Traditions acrylics. Students will study the effects of light on a focal area. 'Lost and found edges', toning a palette for harmony and details for finishing are stressed. Accents, tints, colour repetition and contrast are also applied.

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Giraffes©

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Spanish Arches©

Objective: The emphasis in this painting is to learn 'wet in wet' blending methods using JansenArt Traditions acrylics, reflections on a reflective floor. Glazing and scumbling are stressed. Students will study the effects of light to build a focal area. 'Lost and found edges', toning a palette for harmony and details for finishing are also stressed. Accents, tints, colour repetition and contrast are also applied.

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Caribbean Colours©

Objective: The emphasis in this painting is to learn 'wet in wet' blending methods using JansenArt Traditions acrylics, reflections on a reflective floor. Students will study the effects of light on a focal area. 'Lost and found edges', toning a palette for harmony and details for finishing are stressed. Accents, tints, colour repetition and contrast are also applied. The creation of shadows and dimension are also stressed.

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Objective: The emphasis in this painting was to learn 'wet in wet' blending methods using JansenArt Traditions acrylics, clear water, wet sand from the tidal change, loosely painted and emphasis is placed on 'Lost and found edges', toning a palette for harmony and details for finishing are stressed. Accents, tints, colour repetition and contrast are also applied. The creation of shadows and dimension were also stressed through perspective.

'The Painter in his Studio' by Francois Boucher (French)

Order.

The paintings on these pages are not listed in any order, nor the order that they were painted in. They reflect a body of work created over several years.

My Recliner

I enjoyed the complimentary contrasts of this palette. Working with texture and creating details with a knife offered an exercise in control. Glazing the dried under painting also offered an opportunity to strengthen the colour and increase intensity for the focal area. Creating the wicker furniture and the pillars in the background was fun.

The Sanctuary

This painting was created from a photograph that I took in Trinidad. I was visiting a local bird sanctuary in the rain forested of the central mountains of the islands. There is the most wonderful old estate home that has been turned into a B&B and hosts tours to see the birds at feeding time. the scene that I painted looks out over the balcony into the tropical humidity. It was quite an experience to stand there listening to the different birds calls, smell the rainforest and feel the wet humidity on my skin. This was an experience that affected all the human senses. I did not paint the birds into the design as I wanted to focus on the quiet. However I have plans for the future to replicate this scene with new additions.

Rainforest Floor

This study was inspired by a trip back to my birthplace Trinidad, in the West Indies. My Mom's garden had several garden-beds overflowing with these wonderful big leaves and I thought, "what a great way to study the colour green" The variety in hue and the shapes of the leaves also provided me with another focus and of course the ability to teach leaf details, shadows, contour and colour theory, it was too hard to resist. Besides the theory taught, this has been a popular design for anyone who lives in warmer climates.

Giraffes

This is a fun painting for a child's room. I created this with the intent of making a simple whimsical study. This was not intended as a realistic study of giraffes. Multi colours are used to create the grasses and to repeat the colours.

Carib. Colours

This painting was also from the Virgin islands. I was on a mission to do laundry in a little seaside port and decided to take a short cut to the laundry facilities. I cut through a little back street and there before me was this sunny Caribbean scene. the brightly painted buildings and the strong sunshine created the cast shadows on the road ahead of me.

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