Cheerful and Colorful Paintings

Cheerful and Colorful Paintings in Oil, Acrylic, Mixed Media and Collage
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Monday, February 25, 2013

Indiana Pink Tulips 13036, Dreama Workshop, Carmel, Indiana by Texas Artist Nancy Standlee

Indiana Pink Tulips 13036
12x12" in Ampersand Gessobord Oil

I've flown back into DFW today from  a Dreama Tolle Perry oil workshop at the Renaissance Gallery in Carmel Indiana and the pink tulips were painted on Friday, February 22, the first day of the workshop. A question one of my friends asked before I left, "Why Carmel? It's cold there?" Well, I guess it was an oversight on my part because I signed up during a hot Texas August and IF you've ever tried to get into one of Dreama's workshops you know it's just not that easy as they fill up quickly. There was an opening posted so I took it. It was a great workshop but the Midwest storm followed me there making for a little flight turbulence along the way and I got up Friday morning with about of 1/2" thick ice on my rental car windshield. Fortunately a scraper was included but cold, oh, my. I gingerly drove to the Indiana Art and Design district and the class was held in Kathleen Stevens previously owned Renaissance Fine Art Gallery. Kathleen had a great spot saved for me. There were 19 in the class. 

Dreama's teaching style is geared for student success. I've taken many workshops and her method is a super way for students to learn how she uses the transparent oil colors. Dreama will talk and demo in broken segments of study and it gives us plenty of time to go back to our easels and paint, then regroup for the next session. She continues breaking down this process into easy to grasp portions until by the end of the day each of the 19 students had a very nice painting. 
See some of the group shots below. 

CNN Money Magazine named Carmel the #1 best place to live in America for 2012 and it is north of Indianapolis about 20 plus miles. I loved all the statues around the design district and this one was outside the gallery.
The post would be complete without a photo of Dreama and her tulip demo.

Dreama's Tulips

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This is one of the 4 floral designs.

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Friday, February 22, 2013

The Red Vase 13035, Contemporary Acrylic Floral Paintings and Check Advantage by Texas Daily Painter Nancy Standlee

New Name, New Number.. This was originally Christmas Floral which is fairly specific so decided to  give it an update to "The Red Vase, 13035 and list it on a print of demand site of Fine Art America HERE. The original is still available at Daily Paintworks HERE. It is 12x12" on a Cheap Joe's prime acid free canvas panel. It is painted with bold colorful acrylics.

Thanks to my friend Suzy Pal as a reference I have 20 painting images licensed on checks through Check Advantage and the checks are now available for ordering. The Nancy Standlee Collection can be viewed at http://new.checkadvantage.com/nancy-standlee-checks  and a typical set of checks will consist of 4 rotating images that relate design wise. The sets include: farm animals, roosters, floral, high heels, and painted figures. These images can be used on personal checks, side tear checks, address labels, and checkbook covers. A photo and a short bio is included on the site http://new.checkadvantage.com/nancy-standlee-bio so you are invited to order your next series of checks from Check Advantage. I decline to autograph them for you. Thanks for looking and for any orders that you might place.


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Monday, February 18, 2013

Poppies 13033, Acrylic Floral on Paper Mounted on Canvas, Artbook for the iPad and iPhone, Free Lessons Palette Knife by Arlington Texas Contemporary Artist, Nancy Standlee

Poppies 13033
12x16 Acrylic on Paper on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

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Poppies is an impressionistic floral in bright reds and oranges with a yellow vase in acrylic on watercolor paper and mounted on canvas. This is an older piece from my collection and I have decided to release it. I learned this technique in a Robert Burridge workshop and he gives detailed instructions in his Artsy Fartsy newsletter here http://robertburridge.com/newsletter/article_archive/assignments_how_tos/assignments_how_tos1.html. In the instructions he uses 300 lb paper and this was 140 lb. I used in Poppies.

Opportunity for Texas Artists:
Artbook Archive is a collection of digital books and the first volume was of art from Tampa Bay. They are now accepting art for a collection of Artbook Texas and 75 artists are needed for the book of compelling collection of original artwork that will be delivered to world via the iPad platform. The work and bio and contact info will be featured in vivid high definition portfolios. If you'd like to be considered here is the link http://artbookarchive.com/artbook_texas . I've entered my 10 images, bio and contact information and the Tampa book is ready for a free download now. Search for Artbook Tampa for the iPad or iPhone. 

Palette Knife Painters
I was using the palette knife a lot in the January 2013 paint 30 paintings in 30 day challenge and joined the organization Palette Knife Painters and post on their blog. I have discovered classes on YouTube using the palette knife with acrylic paint with lessons by Will Kemp and there are other lessons and mediums available. A great resource. 

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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Once Upon a Time 13032, Acrylic on Paper, Imagekind Print by Texas Contemporary Artist Nancy Standlee

Once Upon a Time 13032
10x8 in acrylic on watercolor paper in a white 14x11 in. mat ($75 + $8 s/h)
Available on my online gallery at Daily Paintworks and a print is available at Imagekind. 

I have a new coordinated look with my Facebook Fan Page and my new website and my blog. January has been a busy month and it has carried over into February as I tweak the website and I've started adding some prints to my gallery at Imagekind. Not one workshop as yet but there is one in the works so stay tuned for the details. One of the WebinARTs class objectives was create a newsletter and I'm not even planning on thinking about that until maybe in the summer but as Alexander Pope stated "Hope springs eternal in the human breast." 

SOLD
This sold on Sunday and will be delivered to a Colorado art collector. In fact it sold twice in about an hour so that's why I chose to add this older floral above on paper and add it to Imagekind.
Golden Days

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Saturday, February 9, 2013

Golden Days 13031, Flowers Still Life, Acrylic on Watercolor Paper. Imagekind Prints by Contemporary Texas Artist Nancy Standlee

Golden Days 13031 SOLD
15x11 in.
Acrylic on Watercolor Paper, 140 lb.
SOLD 2/10/2013 to a Colorado art collector
This painting is available at my online gallery at Daily Paintworks

Life after the 30/30 January challenge has been one of attempted catch up and revamping. Thank you for still following this blog and hanging in with all those blog posts each day in your inbox. In fact, I haven't painted one painting this week and Golden Days is an older work on watercolor paper with acrylic. It is not as fragile as a watercolor and would not have to be under glass. I did manage to paint one color chart that will be for a later post. I love to experiment with bold and expressive color. 

Imagekind:
I've started a print/poster gallery of some of my work at Imagekind and Imagekind offers prints and posters from international artists in affordable reproductions and sizes. My gallery is at http://nancystandlee.imagekind.com

My Blog and Website:
As you might have noticed this blog has been updated and I'm coordinating it with my Facebook page and my website; however, the website nancystandlee dot com is not active yet but the process has started. You can view my website here at http://nancystandlee.weebly.com/ . If you haven't, please follow the Facebook Icon on the top right where it says "Like My Page". Thank you in advance.

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Friday, February 1, 2013

Collage of the 30 Paintings in 30 Days January Challenge by Texas Artist Nancy Standlee

"Looking Back" 30 paintings in 30 days
Leslie Saeta is posting our collages on her blog Slices of Life and we did the collages by using Pic Monkey.

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BLOG                  Nancy Standlee Art Blog
WEBSITE            Nancy Standlee
WEBSITE            Canvas by Canvas
Contact:             NancyStandlee@sbcglobal.net
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