Incandescence – 18 x 24 inches – acrylic on wood panel – reserved for Mayberry Now on to one of the softly glowing trees. Set against a background of burgandy and pumpkin, the yellows and purples in the trunk really do seem lit from within… I had originally planned this to be a 12 x [...]
Abstract Landscape Painting
Mandy Budan – Abstracting the Landscape
Browsing the blog archives for the year 2009
27 Dec 09
Incandescence WIP1
Incandescence – 18 x 24 inches – acrylic on wood panel – reserved for Mayberry We were walking though the woods a few weeks ago, looking for hidden tupperware containers of tiny bounty (geocaching – lol) when I came upon these trees – aspens I’m pretty sure. And they were just glowing! On fire but [...]
21 Dec 09
Cleome – Done
Cleome – 9 x 12 inches – acrylic on wood – commission This was great fun to paint. I loved bisecting the painting surface with bright thin pinks and purples and then echoing that in the background greens. And the delightful flowers bursting forth from the center of the plant provide a soft counterpoint to [...]
14 Dec 09
Cleome – WIP 1
Cleome – 9 x 12 inches – acrylic on wood – commission I’d never seen these flowers before being commissioned to paint one. (My favourite part about commissions is the opportunity to paint something I wouldn’t have thought of on my own.) This plant is also called a’ spider flower’ or ‘grandfather’s whiskers’. Delicate petals [...]
7 Dec 09
Reflections – Done
Reflections – 24 x 24 – Acrylic on Wood – Reserved for Mayberry Fine Art Reflections is now finished. The quiet purples and greens and grays complement the more vibrant foliage in the tree overlooking the water. The reflections are more intellectual than physical, but there are enough of both kinds I think.
4 Dec 09
16 Squared
Sunrise is currently in the Mayberry 16 Squared Exhibition and Show at Winnipeg Square. The show runs from now until December 24th. Sunrise has sold but will be available for viewing for the rest of the show. 16 Squared – view the exhibition online
3 Dec 09
Reflections – WIP 7
Reflections – 24 x 24 – Acrylic on Wood – Reserved for Mayberry Fine Art Ooh I’m nearly done! I have completed all the darker reflections and just have to finish up the lighter bits of the lake. The shapes in the water seem to be jostling each other, overlapping and intertwining, never keeping still. [...]
25 Nov 09
Reflections – WIP 6
Reflections – 24 x 24 – Acrylic on Wood – Reserved for Mayberry Fine Art Now to the lake… The reflections are going to include a few spots of brightness from the last leaves still on the branches over the water. The lake is mostly quiet and pulls in the greys from the sky and [...]
18 Nov 09
Reflections – WIP5
Reflections – 24 x 24 – Acrylic on Wood Moving now into the background trees… Lots of grays and lower contrast set the stage for the lake to come. The somber forest is a nice counterpoint to the more active vegetation in the foreground. I have a little more to go on the forest and [...]
10 Nov 09
Reflections – WIP4
Reflections – 24 x 24 – Acrylic on Wood Now to the greys in the sky. It’s fall so even the blues are grey and the clouds shift from bluish grey to greenish grey with little bands of white to mark where they thin enough to let a wan and tentative light through. There are [...]
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