"MONDRIAN - ZORN" 11034, daily painter mixed media abstract © Carol Nelson Fine Art

This painting exhibits the design made famous by Piet Mondrian (straight lines dividing up the space), the color palette of Anders Zorn (yellow ochre, cadmium red, black, white), plus several textural elements (newsprint, acrylic medium grid pattern, crackle paste.)

Yes, the black lines ARE straight - the camera distorts them slightly.

It is a demo piece for my Metals and Mixed Media workshop. In the workshop, students choose from several design patterns, several color palettes, and numerous texture effects to make their own unique abstract paintings.

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"SEDONA," 11036, daily painter mixed media landscape © Carol Nelson Fine Art

This is a demo piece I did in the Granbury, Texas, workshop last week. It has embedded tyvek, glazed foil, and heavy texture. I haven't painted the backing board that it will be mounted on yet, but will get a picture of that in the next few days.

I have a big show coming up in two weeks, so have to really get busy painting for that. If you're in Denver June 11 and 12, be sure to stop by the Summer Art Market at the Art Students League of Denver, 2nd and Grant.

"Santa Fe Strata" ~ Mixed Media Abstract ~ by Texas Daily Painter Nancy Standlee

"Santa Fe Strata"
12 x 12 in. acrylic on MDF board, mixed media abstract

The Carol Nelson Workshop produced some exciting new work from 17 students.

"Santa Fe Strata" is a painting I started after a Carol Nelson demo during the Granbury workshop May 23-26, 2011. See my previous blog post for more info about the workshop. Later I'll cover it with an epoxy glaze.
Debbie Lincoln, one of the class group, thought we needed a blog to showcase some of the work inspired by the workshop so she has gotten this blog for us to post some of our Carol inspired paintings.

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PAINTED PAPER COLLAGE PAINTINGS ~ TORN PAPER PAINTINGS ~ WATERMEDIA ~
COLLAGE ART ~ MIXED MEDIA TEXTURED ABSTRACT PAINTING ~ TORN PAPER COLLAGE
~ TEXAS DAILY PAINTER ~ NANCY STANDLEE CONTEMPORARY ART ~ ACRYLIC

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Blogging opportunity

I am honored that you felt compelled to create "Carol's Clan."  Does that make me the Clan Master?  or Grand Poobah?

For those of you who do not have a blog, this would be an EXCELLENT place to dip your toe into the online world of art.  Debbie and I, and I'm sure Nancy too, attribute more than 50% of our sales to online transactions.

To get accepted into online galleries, such as dailypainters.com, or dailypainteroriginals.com or dailypaintersoftexas.blogspot.com, you have to first have a blog where you post you newest paintings regularly.

Creating your own blog is really easy.  The only skill you need to know is how to upload a photo.  You should all be photographing your work as you complete it anyway.  I create a new folder on my computer each year, and put the images there as I add more work.

ROTHKO-1, 11035

I give each painting an inventory number.  That Rothko demo painting is called "ROTHKO-1", 11035, meaning it was the 35th painting completed in 2011.  The more you paint, the more important and inventory numbering system is.  I have probably painted over 50 poppy paintings over the years.  They're all called Poppy This or Poppy That.
When someone purchases a painting, the number system assures that  we're talking about the same painting.
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"Bittersweet" ~ Metals and Mixed Media ~ Carol Nelson workshop ~ Texas Contemporary Artist Nancy Standlee

"Bittersweet"
Metals and Mixed Media, acrylic, 12 x 12 on MDF board, epoxy glaze

Nancy and Carol

This was my second workshop from Carol Nelson.
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See my blog post HERE to read about my trip to Colorado to learn some of her Metals and Mixed Media Techniques. There are posts and a slide show of some of the CO. students' work so it's very nice to be in "Carol Territory" again.

I've posted on my blog HERE about the Granbury workshop, May 23-26, 2011. Welcome to our new blog where we'll experiment and have some fun while sharing our research.
Here's a photo of our blog instigator, Debbie Lincoln, showing off her award winning oil painting while in Granbury. What beautiful art graced our "epoxy room" and "Tyvek room".

BLOG................http://NancyStandlee.blogspot.com

WEBSITE..........http://NancyStandlee.com

WEBSITE..........http://CanvasbyCanvas.com

PAINTED PAPER COLLAGE PAINTINGS ~ TORN PAPER PAINTINGS ~ WATERMEDIA ~
COLLAGE ART ~ MIXED MEDIA TEXTURED ABSTRACT PAINTING ~ TORN PAPER COLLAGE
~ TEXAS DAILY PAINTER ~ NANCY STANDLEE CONTEMPORARY ART ~ METALS AND MIXED MEDIA ~ RED ABSTRACT ~ EPOXY
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