C O L O R S T U D I E S

Many artists paint a series of paintings using the same subject or theme over and over. Each has their own reasons for doing so; exploring, observing and learning about the same subject.

In this blog post I want to show you a series of paintings I have been working on, as well as a look at two famous artists from the past.

Over the past 6-9 months I have been working on a series of paintings of underwater images with light filtering down and hints of bright colors. Each time I visit the subject, I learn something new. I have more to explore and we'll see where it leads.

CLAUDE MONET
Monet painted twenty-five haystack canvases from late summer 1890 to spring 1891; capturing different times of the day, light, seasons and weather. He worked on multiple canvases throughout the day. I had the pleasure to see a whole room of haystacks at an exhibit at The Art Institute of Chicago in 1995. It was a joy to be standing in the room and compare one to the other just as Monet would have done 96 years earlier.

VINCENT VAN GOGH
Van Gogh first started painting sunflowers in a vase to decorate his friend Paul Gauguin’s bedroom. He continued to paint a series of seven paintings with the sunflowers in different stages of life. Yellow was a newly invented paint pigment and his use of the yellow spectrum was considered innovative.