Showing posts with label abstract paintings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label abstract paintings. Show all posts

Sunday, October 09, 2016

Music and Jazz Lovers: If Music Had Color

Title: The Color of Music
Medium: Acrylics on Canvas
Size: 14" x 11" x 1/2" 
             
 
The Color of Music immediately reminds me of the wonderful sounds of jazz with it's vibrant colors of blues, red, orange, lime green and black. This small, but bold abstract painting packs a punch of vibrancy for any office or room in your home. This ready to hang painting is not framed and has black painted sides. What a great gift this painting would be for you or your music loving friends.  

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Thank you for enjoying the Color of Music with me! 
Allison




Wednesday, February 19, 2014


 

A New Painting Submitted for the Twitter Art Exhibit 2014 in Orlando, Florida!

Hello everyone!
Voted of Florida's Best Artists, Robin Maria Pedrero is curating this 2014 Twitter Art Exhibit in Orlando to benefit The Center for Contemporary Dance, Special Needs Classes. This year I've been invited by Robin to participate in this year's Twitter Art Exhibit and each year since it's conception with Norway Artist and Founder, David Sandum. This is the fourth year and it's been fueling up each year... 

Here's the details if you live or planning to be in the Orlando area at the time of the show. Also, I've included the interesting young history of the Twitter Art Exhibits:

 WHEN
Thursday, March 20, 2014 | 6-9PM
Show runs March 20 - April 11, 2014


 WHERE
CityArts Factory, Magic Gallery | Orlando, Florida, USA


 The sale price will be $35 USD per card.

Twitter Art Exhibit: Orlando is an international exhibition of original postcard art benefiting The Center for Contemporary Dance, Special Needs Classes, a nonprofit (501)©3 organization dedicated to dance education and outreach. The Special Needs Classes include customized exercises that expand the student’s range of motion, creativity and social skills. Class work is further designed to enhance skills in memorization, problem solving and communication. Belinda Balleras, whose son takes classes every week, says: “He has a new sense of creative fulfillment and an additional pathway to productively express emotions.” 

Twitter Art Exhibit: Orlando is the fourth installment of an open international exhibition of handmade postcard art for charity, donated by hundreds of participating artists from around the globe.
While the first two exhibitions were held in Moss, Norway, the third installment held in Los Angeles marked the global launch for the concept by founder David Sandum, a Swedish-born artist who conceived Twitter Art Exhibit as a vehicle for doing good through social media and online community-building. The idea is simple: artists around the globe receive a call through Twitter social media to create original postcard-sized art, which they mail to a local curator, who then exhibits and sells them to benefit a local charity. 

Exciting stats: In its first year, Twitter Art Exhibit received postcards from over 260 artists in 24 countries, raising funds to buy 221 new children’s books for a struggling library in Moss, Norway. The second installment received entries by 360 artists in 32 countries, raising $4,000 USD for an abused women’s shelter, also in Moss. 

The 3rd exhibition held in Los Angeles raised $7,000 for an organization mentoring underprivileged young adults in preparation for careers in the visual arts, attracting 502 artists from 35 countries, with a total of 726 postcard entries received.

Twitter Art Exhibit Organizing Board:
David Sandum                     @DavidSandumArt
Nat George                           @natgeorgela
Robin Maria Pedrero        @robinpedrero


Now would you like to see my abstract postcard painting for the exhibit?
Here it is....

 "The Movement"
6" x 4" on vellum paper
Sold!

What do you think?


Wednesday, March 07, 2012

His Thoughts

Welcome!
I'm working with a little different color palette since my last two paintings. This painting came suddenly and easily. The paint colors are bold, bright, and the paints are slick, glossy looking.



 "His Thoughts"
36" x 24"
Mixed Media
Gallery Wrapped Canvas
BUY



Close Up View


Another Close Up View

Last Close Up View
BUY


Now, what do you think? Do you like this color palette? Would you like to see more in this style?

Thursday, March 01, 2012

"Lost Landscape with Broken Joy"

I'm back!
Just when you thought it was safe....oh no, she's returned with another wild painting!
Okay, sorry, so I couldn't think of a better opening line.  


Here's the other smaller painting I wanted to show you inspired from the series of postcard paintings in the Twitter Art Exhibit.
Let's see what you think.


"Lost Landscape with Broken Joy"
24" x 18" x 1.2"
Acrylic
Canvas


Lost Landscape with Broken Joy
Close up View

Another Close up View
You can see this one has lots of texture, a very rugged look. 

Next painting will be with a totally different painting and style. 
Now, what do you think of  "Lost Landscape with Broken Joy"? 

Monday, February 27, 2012

A Creative Explosion: Raw Energy

Hello!
I really liked how the last two postcard paintings looked for the Twitter Art Exhibit. So, I decided to make two more paintings with the same color palette for a larger canvas and a small canvas. This gives my collectors the opportunities to choose from two different sizes in this style of paintings. In my painting process, I use palette knifes of different sizes to create textures and layering colors on top of other colors. I like these bold color choices, hope you do as well. I adore color and it's relationships to other colors. This is why I am a color expressionist. Do these colors excite you? Inspire you? Or simply delight you? Enjoy.

Here's one of the paintings. I'll show you the smaller painting in the next blog post.


"Raw Energy"
36" x 24"
Acrylic
Canvas 
Sold!

Close Up View

 Another Close Up View 
See slight textures and colors peeking through

Last Close Up View
 

What you do think? Do you like this painting? And don't forget, I have another painting in this same style coming up in my next post. Please retweet or email this post with your friends or family! Thank you, Allison.

Monday, February 20, 2012

Purpose and Dream

Hello,
Just to update you, I was asked to participate in a charity event organized by a talented artist from Norway, David Sandum. The Twitter Art Exhibit has been a dream of David's. He asks Twitter artists from around the world, to participate by donating their art to raise money for causes close to his heart. This is the second year of his Twitter Art Exhibit and this year's purpose is to raise monies for the Women's Crisis Center. Each artist's works are done on paper about the size of postcards. Each postcard painting or drawing will be exhibited in a public library in Moss, Norway, and can be purchased at an affordable price which is a donation for the crisis center.
If you want to read about David Sandum's Twitter Art Exhibit or would like to participate as an artist click on the link.

Here's one neat connection in all of this. When I was a little girl, my parents had a foreign exchange student from Norway stay at our house.  She made such an impression on us, we've never forgotten her. Now, I've found a dear friend in artist David Sandum in Norway. So, as you can see when asked, I had to be involved in his great idea to raise money for his local library's childrens section and this year, for the womens's crisis center. 

I wanted to offer two small paintings for their patrons to choose from. Here is one of the abstract paintings I did and I'll post the other in my next post. 


If you like the style of these mini-paintings, you can look forward in the future to larger paintings in this same style. I want to further this work and make it available for you, as well. Please stay tuned.


So in honor of David Sandum and his passion to improve other's lives, I've named this mini painting.....



"Purpose and Dream"
6" x 4"
Acrylic
Paper


Close up 



Another Close Up


In my next post, see the second postcard painting that I'll be sending to Norway. Thank you.
Allison

Observations

Good Day! Here's another edition to my creative exercises on paper, "Observations". I really love this piece, it has an Ocea...