Spring is coming!

 Well, here we are in mid March again. I hope you all had a pleasant winter. We did!

It's been a busy winter with lots of painting and plenty of lazy days, too. It's time to get motivated now that the sun is shining and the days are getting warmer.

Splash, 5x7 oil, nfs

Sometimes I just have to keep a painting for myself.

Thanks for visiting with me.

Happy painting!

Celene

All those extra tubes of paint...

Ok, so you want to simplify your palette of colors to the double primary palette. But what about all those extra tubes of paint you bought?

Sorting - Get out all your tubes of paint and sort them into 7 piles. A pile for each primary color - red, yellow and blue. And a pile for each secondary color - orange, green and purple... And one pile for all the "odd" colors.

Now choose two versions (a warm and a cool, or a bright and a dull) of each of the three primary colors  - 2 reds, 2 yellows and 2 blues. This is your basic double primary palette. Six tubes of paint.

As you become familiar with this simplified palette, you can begin to expand your primary color range - example - substituting a purple or green for one of your blues, or an orange or purple for one of your reds, etc. See image above.

You can also add special colors for a special needs. But try to limit your palette to 6-8 colors, plus white.

You now have an interesting and controllable range of colors that you can adjust as needed.

(Remove that "odd" pile of colors and put them away for another use.)

After you have sorted through your tubes of paint, you might find that you have enough choices so that you won't have to buy any more paint - except maybe white - for a long time. Isn't that great!

Happy painting!        

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Touring Mid Coast Maine - A Photo Journey

Belfast Harbor, Maine

I've been updating the website of our former Belfast art gallery  - The Working Art Gallery, which we owned and operated for 15 years in beautiful, downtown Belfast, Maine. I had created this year long photographic tour of our area as part of the website. 

I shot these pictures of Belfast and the surrounding areas - month by month for over a year. It was great fun!

As I reviewed this photo tour, I was again moved by the beauty of our area. I thought you might like to see our corner of Maine.

Come along and enjoy - Click Here for the tour.

Celene

Gone Home

A quick follow-up on my last post. This painting has now gone to live with the granddaughter of the old couple who lived and raised their family in that wonderful old house. The perfect ending....

 Celene

Remember Me?

 Remember Me? Welcome Home 11x14, oil

There was something about this old house....

Located on a country road between my home and Belfast, I would drive by this wonderful old house every day on my way to the gallery. This old house, full of old stories and memories, with its stately manner and bay windows, always made me think that it belonged on an island overlooking the sea instead of on the “flats” overlooking quiet fields and woods. Driving by in the evening, its welcoming light told me that I was almost home.

I stopped one night to snap a picture knowing that I had to paint it. The old house is gone now, replaced by a modern home and the road has lost some of its charm.  

This painting hangs in my living room, and its light says “Remember Me? Welcome Home”.  

Thanks for visiting,

 Celene

And I hope you will visit my Facebook page - Celene Farris, A Maine Artist

and My Ebay Store

and www.CeleneFarris.com

Back Street, 5x7 oil

 

Another nocturne from my studio.

Back Street, 5x7 oil

This painting is now available in my Ebay Store or directly through me.

Thanks for visiting.

 Celene

And I hope you will visit my Facebook page - Celene Farris, A Maine Artist

and My Ebay Store

and my website  www.CeleneFarris.com

Uptown Saturday Night, 5x7 oil

Another new painting in my rainy night series. 

Uptown Saturday Night 5x7, oil, sold

This painting was available in my Ebay Store.

Thanks for visiting.

 Celene

And please remember to visit my Facebook page - 

Celene Farris, A Maine Artist 

And My Ebay Store

www.CeleneFarris.com