Time to add some trunks!
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Next I’ll need to soften up many (most) of the hard edges
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I think it’s done! Paradise Found, 40 x 30 inch mixed media painting by HVH.
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I started with my 6 inch brush, and am now down to the 2 and 3 inch ones.
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Enjoying the challenge of making this ‘forest’ more abstract than usual.
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On the Talk Art TV set with Katie Morton, before I interviewed her about her amazing art
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My studio wall
This paint that has built up on my studio wall over the last 4 years. If it could be peeled off, maybe it would make an interesting painting in itself!
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I move the paintings up and down the wall depending on which part I’m painting on. (Please excuse the paint on my face. It seems to be an every day occurrence!)
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Feeling very experimental today. I’m not sure whether this will lead to anything good, but it sure is fun to try this drip effect.
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Feeling very experimental today. I’m not sure whether this will lead to anything good, but it sure is fun to try this drip effect.
Lots more leaves. The background leaves need to be pushed back (to give it more depth). Want to be the first to see new paintings as they are released?Please sign up here http://hollyvanhart.com/VIP
The green clouds in this sky will soon turn into backlit leaves. Stay tuned for more!
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New landscape painting. I’m playing around with some new colors and brushes, and (in the finished painting) may have to take advantage of this curious green sky!
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Adding lots of yellows and some greens to liven up the colors.
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Moving back and forth between the dark leaves in the foreground and light trees in the background. What a fun job this is!!!
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This is the start of an abstract landscape painting. I’m kind of digging the colors, and may not do much more to it before calling it done.
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3 of my forest paintings are being shipped to Dean Day Gallery in Houston. Just in time for their April 8 reception!
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In front of a fabulous Nick Cave artwork, at the Anderson Collection at Stanford University. This place is awesome!
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Delightful art tour at Stanford University with my friend Maria Holtkamp!
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The whole canvas has been covered with paint, but this is just the beginning. Many more layers to go!
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Painted in some background trees to give it depth (detail shot)
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Happy to be starting a new forest painting . . . aspen trees in the fall
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Digging the stark white of this background (but plan to paint over it anyway)
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Spring has sprung in our front yard! (My husband Ike gets all the credit for the beautiful garden.)
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On the easel today. Is it starting to look like a forest?
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New painting . . . a forest on a sunny day. With this one, I’m aiming to make it more abstracted than usual.
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With curator DeWitt Cheng before installing my solo show at Stanford University
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Huge thanks to everyone who turned out for the reception at Jennifer Perlmutter Gallery!!
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New day, new painting! This one is 4 feet high and 5 feet wide. Starting with the leaves
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