Cheerful and Colorful Paintings

Cheerful and Colorful Paintings in Oil, Acrylic, Mixed Media and Collage
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Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Paintings for Thirty Paintings in Thirty Days Challenge, Canvas by Canvas New Acrylic Truck Painting and Gallery Show by Texas Artist Nancy Standlee

Time Out 14055
Acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas
24x18x1.5" sides painted background color 
available on Daily Paintworks

This acrylic painting met several criteria. I'm finishing up the Leslie Saeta Thirty Paintings in Thirty Days Challenge, I spent a long weekend at a rented Lake House in Gun Barrel City to paint with my Canvas by Canvas peeps, and I needed to begin painting for our food and beverage gallery show in January at the Old Post Office Museum in Graham, Texas. 

While painting with Canvas by Canvas, we finished a collaborative truck painting and this is my square, 10" acrylic 
and this is the finished painting and it can be seen in January in Graham TX for a gallery exhibit and is available on CBC website
To inquire about the truck painting purchase email canvasbycanvas@gmail.com.

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Monday, September 29, 2014

Paintings for the Thirty Paintings in Thirty Day Challenge and Sold Tulips and Torn Paper Collage by Texas Artist Nancy Standlee


Banner Roses 14051
Acrylic, 12x24x1.5"
Available on Daily Paintworks

I have painted this design before and used it for my banner on my website, blog and Facebook. I build up the roses with molding paste and I will sign on the side so this painting may be hung upright or horizontal. 


Indigo Bunting #2  SOLD
8x8x1.5" acrylic 
Available on Daily Paintworks

California Beach 14053
16x20 Acrylic
Available on Daily Paintworks

This was painted in California on canvas and I've finally gotten around to mounting it on a canvas board and it is now ready for a home and a frame.  

Sold Late Night Tulip to a Texas Art Collector.


Sold a collage and is on the way to a New Jersey collector.
I have an affordable collage artbyte tutorial available on Daily Paintworks HERE.

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Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Impressionist Oil Flower Painting, White Tulips, Girly Things and More Rose Acrylic Paintings for the Thirty Paintings in Thirty Day Challenge by Texas Artist Nancy Standlee

White Tulips 14046
Oil, 10x8" on New Traditions linen panel
This painting is on a C-15 linen panel from New Traditions and will need to be framed or displayed on a table top easel.  

Girly Things 14049
Oil, 8x8x1.5 on gallery wrapped canvas

I see more paintings with perfume bottles as I have a perfume weakness and have a few bottles sitting around. Lipstick is a necessity and nail polish not so much anymore. 

 Coffee or Tea 13088 Sold today and will go to an art collector in New Jersey.

Banner Roses 14050
Acrylic, 12x12x3/4" depth

I've enjoyed the painting I used for the banner for the blog, website and my Facebook page and decided to paint a smaller version in acrylic with the same molded paste relief on an Ampersand Artist panel. Check back for one painted on a 12x24" canvas. 

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Sunday, September 21, 2014

Ice Cream and Double Dip Oil Painting, Thirty Paintings in Thirty Days and Sold Paintings by Texas Artist Nancy Standlee

Double Dip 14047
8x8x1.5" Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

This was painted for the Leslie Saeta 30 paintings in 30 days challenge and also for the Daily Paintworks Challenge.

Good news today as this Seagull Painting 14044 sold and will be shipped to an art collector in Alabama.

Also, sold this week an acrylic painting of wine bottles that was shipped to an art collector in New Jersey.

Double Dip #2 14048
Oil, 6x6x1.5" on gallery wrapped canvas

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Friday, September 19, 2014

Seagulls in Oil, Paintings for the Thirty Paintings in Thirty Days Challenge by Leslie Saeta and Painted by Texas Artist Nancy Standlee

Seagull 14043
Oil, 8x8x1.5" on gallery wrapped canvas
All of the paintings for the 30/30 challenge can be seen as a group on my website at http://nancystandlee.com

I am now in my bird phase of the 30/30 Leslie Saeta Challenge.(The last time I checked there were 1053 artists are enrolled.) I've found a great site for artists to join and use copyright free photos on Paint My Photo and that is where I found this guy. Later you are invited to post your painting on the site. 

 Seagulls Resting 14044
Oil, 3x16x3/4" on gallery wrapped canvas
Available on Daily Paintworks 


Mr. and Mrs. Seagull
12x16x2" Oil on Ampersand hardbord cradled with 2" deep, painted red
Available at Daily Paintworks

The painted sides:

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Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Pears Oil Paintings for the 30/30 Leslie Saeta September Challenge and a Few Watercolors and Workshops by Texas Artist Nancy Standlee

Three Pears 14039
8x16x3/4"
Oil on gallery wrapped canvas 3/4" depth

Pear 14040
10x8 on Linen panel

Truck Yard
Watercolor Moleskine
 Saturday 3 of my girlfriends and I made it over to Dallas for the Urban Sketchers of Texas Meeting at the Truck Yard for a fun afternoon of sketching and people watching. (If you are young and have a dog this is a happening place.) If you would like to join check out this blog site for information. Urban Sketchers



Roses and Lemon 14041
Watercolor 6x8"  on Rtistx board
I thought I'd try my hand at some watercolor and practice on some new boards I got at Rtistx.com and with some wax protection, these can be hung without glass or on a table top easel like below. I am using Renaissance Micro-crystalline was made in England that I purchased from Amazon. Julie Ford Oliver has posted a short video of how she applies it.

Purple Roses 14042
Watercolor 8x6"


If you want some instruction in watercolor and are in the area, Richard Stephens is conducting an October workshop at Artists Showplace Gallery in Dallas.

Suzy and I have sadly cancelled my October sketchbook journaling workshop in her studio. We just didn't have enough to sign up for me to make the 5 or 6 hour drive. I appreciate the ones who were interested and maybe another time, but journal on.

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Friday, September 12, 2014

Paintings for the Leslie Saeta 30/30 Challenge Roses and Lemons, Small Oil Paintings by Texas Daily Painter Nancy Standlee

Roses #4 14036
Oil, 6x6x1.5" gallery wrapped canvas

As some of you know I have been painting for the 30 paintings in 30 day challenge by Leslie Saeta. My goal was to revisit some workshop notes and DVD's with a follow up study of technique and study. This is the 4th rose study but with a different color scheme.

Lemon 14037
Oil, 6x6x1.5"
In this 30/30 challenge as I was reviewing some notes I found Hedi Moran's treatment of a lemon is something I had to try. I've taken two workshops with her, in Arkansas and Arizona and she has several DVD's if you can't get to a workshop. She is known for her florals. She will be at the Scottsdale Artists School in February 2015 and Scottsdale is easy to get to and easy to get around once there. 

Lemon #2, 14038
6x6x1.5" Oil on Gallery wrapped canvas

Another lemon today ? I hope not but these are fun to paint and a little like painting pears, fun!



Good news this morning Three Roses 14033 has found a Texas home and I hope this art collector enjoys a small oil in their collection. 

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Tuesday, September 9, 2014

More Roses and the 30/30 Leslie Saeta Painting Challenge and a Journaling Workshop by Texas Artist Nancy Standlee

Three Roses 14033
Oil
6x6x1.5

Pitcher with Blue 14031
Oil, 6x6x1.5"

Vase of Roses
Oil 10x8




 Three Roses #2, 14034

Oil 6x6x1.5"

Three Roses #3, 14035
Oil, 6x6x1.5


I am one of a thousand plus artists who are participating in the September 30/30 painting challenge, paint each day and post on the Leslie Saeta blog. After awhile the paintings begin to stack up and the oils will need to dry before being shipped. I've devised this cardboard and plastic cups (different sizes for panels or gallery wrapped) structure to keep the space problem to a minimum.


If a painting states it is on gallery wrapped canvas it is usually on a 1.5" depth canvas that does not require framing. Here is a close up of what one of these paintings might look like with the sides painted and I coordinate the colors to the front of the painting. 


I'm teaching a two day sketchbook journaling workshop in October and on the last blog post HERE are some more details. 
I have a short affordable artbyte collage tutorial available on Daily Paintworks.

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