Color Study after Connie Hayes, #3

Color Study after Connie Hayes, #3

5x7

oil on paper

$25

Another interesting color study from Connie Hayes. The red just glows and I love the way the glow of the gold seems to soften everything.

Color Study after Connie Hayes #2

Color Study after Connie Hayes #1

5x7

oil on paper

$25

This is the color study from the back of Connie's book, a very unusual one, very exciting. Don't you just love the violet? I do.

Color Study after Connie Hayes #1

Color Study After Connie Hayes #1

5x7

Oil on Arches Oil Paper

$25

A small color study done form the amazing photo on the cover of her book. As with the other artists I admired, I copied her colors and proportions but not her subject matter. The mixes of colors that take her away from "crayola" type ones and just amazing. I learn every time I look at her work.

Belfast Sunrise

Belfast Sunrise

Beautifully framed and deep matted

10x10 framed to 16x16

oil on prepared paper

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After my stint at Goose Rocks Beach, I headed north and spent 3 days in Belfast at a cottage complex. The owner gave me one right on the beach when I told her I was an artistand I did this painting from that porch. I had just attended a lecture by one of my  inspirations, Connie Hayes, the night before and used one of her ideas in this one and I loved how it came out.

Here is how the piece looks framed: