Friday, January 29, 2010
"Odd One Out"
Oil on canvas panel - 8 x 8
Completed 2010/01/29
Purcahse - $45.00 Contact me for details.
The story this painting tells is that the little bowl has room for only two fruit, so the tangerines pushed the lemon out.
This painting was done with primary colors - ultramarine blue, alizerin crimson, cadmiums (red medium, orange, yellow medium, & light), and a little Winsor yellow. Once again, a purple mix of ultramarine blue and alizarin crimson was used to create the browns and grays in this painting.
This painting took a few days to complete because of interruptions. I finally put down my brushes and said, "Enough!" Sometimes - in fact, too often - I find myself at the place where anything more that I do is the wrong thing. I have learned from having created problems before that this is the point I quit and say, "Done!"
Rick Petersen
Monday, January 25, 2010
"Marsh View II"
Oil on linen mounted on archival hardboard - 10x8
Completed 1/25/2010
Painting has been sold.
This is an interpretation of the view from JTB across the tide marsh toward the San Pablo River and the Intercoastal Waterway. I have purposely intensified the colors and arranged the composition to emphasize the contrasts and harmonies that make this view so special to me.
I used only primary colors (blue, yellow, and red) with white in this painting. All the greens are mixed from cobalt and ultramarine blue with cadmium yellow medium and light. I mixed alizarin crimson and ultramarine blue to make a deep, deep purple which I then used to tone most of the greens and to create the warm browns and grays of this painting.
Rick Petersen
Friday, January 22, 2010
"Not Enough Room"
Oil on canvas panel - 8 x 8
Completed 1/15/2010
Painting was displayed in JCVA Winter Show (juried) 1/21/2010 - 2/13/2010
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This is a painting of 5 forelle pears. The pears are quite small and exquisitely colored. I placed them in a small bowl, but not all of them would fit - thus the name of the painting.
This painting required quite a bit of wiping out and starting over. The bowl and shading to the background gave me the most difficulty.
The afternoon light from my studio window shines indirectly on my workspace. The light was ideal for capturing the color of the pears. I used warm yellows and lavender for the background to enhance the subtle shades of cool yellow to light green in the accent areas of the pears.
Rick Petersen
"Autumn Marsh"
"Galas on Purple"
"Ponte Vedra Dunes"
Thursday, January 21, 2010
“After the Storm, Jacksonville Beach”
Rick Petersen
Imagination 2
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