Daily Painting – Walking through the Neighborhood – abstract cityscape

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“Walking Through the Neighborhood”
by Carolee Clark
10″ x 10″
acrylic on wrapped canvas
$54 + $9 shipping and handling 

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This is a scene from northwest Portland, 23rd Street.

Ink Figure Drawing – Spent the day at Hipbone Studios

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Ink Figure Drawing
by Carolee Clark

I spent the day at a “Model Marathon” at Hipbone Studios in Portland.  They have 9 models in 9 hours and it is a exhausting, wonderful day of drawing the figure.  While doing this drawing I was feeling good, the model was relaxed and professional.  She was comfortable, and obviously a favorite of the artists present.   I rarely sell my drawings as they are fodder for my paintings, however, because I spent the day drawing, I didn’t have a painting to share with you.

Thank you so much for visiting my blog. 

Cheers, Carolee

Daily Painting – “Alternative Transportation” – abstract bicycle, cityscape

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“Alternative Transportation”   sold
by Carolee Clark
10″ x 10″
acrylic on wrapped canvas

Daily Painting – “Working Man’s Truck” – abstract cityscape

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“Working Man’s Truck”
by Carolee Clark
10″ x 10″
acrylic on wrapped canvas
$54 + $9 shipping and handling

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When I started painting a “painting a day” I really thought I would learn to blast them out in an hour or two.  Well, I don’t think that I will ever paint quickly.  It probably isn’t in my “make up.”  Too bad.

Daily Painting – “Mira Vista Ave” – abstract cityscape

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“Mira Vista Ave”   sold
by Carolee Clark
10″ x 10″
acrylic on wrapped canvas

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I recently found a website called the Virtual Paint Out.  It is an interesting concept where they use a google street view as a resource for a painting.  I thought I would try it, and this painting is a result.  Their area of concentration this month is the San Francisco area.

Daily Painting – “Orange Ave” – abstract, landscape

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“Orange Ave”    sold
by Carolee Clark
10″ x 10″
acrylic on wrapped canvas

I had a dream a few nights ago that my paintings were going to change.  I wasn’t sure how they were going to change and I still am not sure.  Even though I have no idea in what way my paintings will change or how rapidly, I undertook this year long “painting a day” challenge to see where it would take my painting. 

Those who have known me over the years know that I have painted with watercolor, pastel, used collage and finally acrylic.  I have explored the figure, portraiture, landscape, still life, non objective abstract and subject material abstracted.  Now an artist can use multiple types of subject matter and different media and still have his or her style be recognizable. 

A few years ago I had a local show at the hospital.  A woman came up to me and told me that she knew that it was my work without even looking at the name.  This was extraordinary to me as I had changed from watercolor to acrylic, and from landscape to non objective abstract!!  This happened overnight, yet she still knew it was mine.  Wow.

An artist cannot help that their work will change over the years.  Any retrospective of an artist will have a thread of recognizable style throughout their lives.

Change is inevitable and it’s always interesting (at least in painting).

Daily Painting – Coloring Book Drawing

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“Coloring Book Drawing”
by Carolee Clark
11″ x 7″ watercolor & caran d’ache, unframed
$49 + $5 shipping and handling within US

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I have never been able to stick with a job unless I was having fun with it.  The same principle applies with my painting.  I am serious about my art work, but I still want to have fun.  Sometimes I just want to scribble, scratch, blob, splatter and color outside the lines, run crayons right through the figure …. so I do.  No rules here.

I worked from a sketch I did earlier in the week (on my lesser known blog).

Daily Painting – “6 a.m.” – cow, contemporary

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“6 a.m.”
by Carolee Clark
10″ x 10″
acrylic on wrapped canvas
$54 + $9 shipping and handling within US

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Early in the morning, these big animals are often resting in the field.  By the time I am in the studio they are up and moving around.

Daily Painting – “Is it a Sign?” – abstract

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“Is it a Sign?”
by Carolee Clark
10″ x 10″
acrylic on wrapped canvas
$54 + $9 shipping and handling within US

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This painting is a response painting to a challenge from the artists from the Daily Painters International Gallery.   Three photos by K. Madison Moore were posted and we were to use at least two of the photos in our painting.   Below are the three photos we were to use.  Did I cheat? 

Update:  All artists are welcome to do this challenge.  Give it a try!  Click here to see the blog and larger photos.

Daily Painting – “Sleeping Beauty” – figurative, portrait, acrylic

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“Sleeping Beauty”
by Carolee Clark
10″ x 10″
acrylic on wrapped canvas
$54 + $9 shipping and handling within US

 
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Daily Painting – “Ocean Pilings” – abstract, contemporary, acrylic

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“Ocean Pilings”
by Carolee Clark
10″ x 10″
acrylic on wrapped canvas
$54 + $9 shipping and handling within US

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This painting was done in response to a reference photo by Pam Van Londen from the Painting Challenge blog.

Daily Painting – Catching Up

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“Catching Up”
by Carolee Clark
10″ x 10″
acrylic on wrapped canvas
$54 + $9 shipping and handling within US

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I thought you might be interested in the sketch for this painting (below).  It was about my third sketch before I finally got the figures in the composition that I liked.  I didn’t faithfully reproduce the image onto the canvas, deciding to simplify and change some things as the painting progressed.

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Daily Painting – Taking a Break

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“Taking a Break”
by Carolee Clark
10″ x 10″
acrylic on wrapped canvas
$54 + $9 shipping and handling within US 

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Daily Painting – Belly Dance

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“Belly Dance”    sold
by Carolee Clark
12″ x 9″
acrylic on wrapped canvas

Daily Painting – Friendship

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“Friendship”
by Carolee Clark
10″ x 10″
acrylic on wrapped canvas
$54 + $9 shipping and handling within US 

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Daily Painting – Waiting to Finish

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“Waiting to Finish”
by Carolee Clark
12″ x 9″
acrylic on wrapped canvas
$54 + 9 shipping and handling within US

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Daily Painting – Loving Large

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“Loving Large”    sold
by Carolee Clark
10″ x 10″
acrylic on wrapped canvas

Daily Painting – I Need a Break

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“I Need a Break”   sold 
by Carolee Clark
9″ x 12″
acrylic on wrapped canvas

One of the reasons that I don’t like painting in a group is that my paintings go through a really ugly stage.  I certainly don’t want someone to come along at that point in the painting and make a snap judgement about the quality, the process or the painting.  Sometimes at that “ugly stage” I begin to doubt myself that the painting will work at all, and don’t want the confirmation that it is indeed, ugly.  However, it is some of those paintings that I end up liking the most.  Like this one.   Keep plugging along at it!

 

Daily Painting – Dormancy

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“Dormancy”
by Carolee Clark
10″ x 10″
acrylic on wrapped canvas
$54 + $9 shipping and handling

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Acrylic Painting – Donna’s Bluff

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“Donna’s Bluff”
by Carolee Clark
28″ x 22″
acrylic on wrapped canvas
$575 (shipping within US included)

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This painting is named after a dear friend and fellow artist, Donna Beverly.  We have painted together once a week since 2000, and needless to say, I have learned a lot from her.  We even have a line of paintings (called Caradon which is a combination of both our names) where we paint on the same canvas, alternating turns.  

For those in the area we have a show of Caradon paintings at Art in the Valley on 2nd Street in Corvallis for the month of January.

 

Daily Painting – Wired #4

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“Wired #4″    sold
by Carolee Clark
10″ x 10″
acrylic on wrapped canvas

Daily Painting – Conflicting Emotions

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“Conflicting Emotions”
by Carolee Clark
10″ x 10″
acrylic on wrapped canvas
$54 + $9 shipping and handling

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Daily Painting – Mom’s Dress

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“Mom’s Dress”
by Carolee Clark
10.5″ x 7″ ink on watercolor paper, unframed
$49 + $5 shipping and handling within US 

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Daily Painting – Drat!

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“Drat!”   sold
by Carolee Clark
10.5″ x 7″ ink on watercolor paper, unframed

Daily Painting – Elegance

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“Elegance”
by Carolee Clark
10.5″ x 7″ ink on watercolor paper, unframed
$49 + $5 shipping and handling within US

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A group of artists meet at Oregon State University twice a week in the evening to draw, paint (or even sculpt) a model.  We encourage the art students to come, which they can do for $1 for 2.5 hour session (what a great opportunity to practice)! 

I love the practice, the people and the opportunity to hone my skills.  Drawing is pure pleasure for me and even after years of drawing the figure, I never tire of it.

Daily Painting – Target

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“Target”
by Carolee Clark
10.5″ x 7″ ink on watercolor paper, unframed
$49 + $5 shipping and handling within US

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Many of you know that I gave myself the challenge to paint a painting a day for a year.  I have been doing this for about nine months now.  I knew that it wouldn’t be feasible to do one every single day so I thought that 5 or 6 a week would probably do.  Yesterday I realized that I had painted one for 26 days straight and I was tired!

Hence my little ink paintings.  They are my breath, a tiny respite.  I find them totally calming  and thoroughly enjoyable.  They take me less time than my acrylic paintings so I have a little more time to post, answer email, enter shows and work on larger pieces!

You might see a few of these in the next couple of days so that yes, I can catch my breath. 

Daily Painting – Muffin

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“Muffin”
by Carolee Clark
10″ x 7″ ink on watercolor paper, unframed
$49 + $5 shipping and handling within US

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Daily Painting – To Walk or to Ride?

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“To Walk or to Ride?”   sold
by Carolee Clark
10″ x 10″
acrylic on wrapped canvas

Daily Painting – Daisy

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“Daisy”   sold
by Carolee Clark
10″ x 10″
acrylic on wrapped canvas