Grey Skies by Kay Wyne - Sold

Grey Skies

Sold

30" x 40" Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas

Contemporary Palette Knife Painting

Using my palette knife to push, pull and blend the paints on this canvas, "Grey Skies" has very soft and subtle colors.  It just sold to a local collector and I believe it is being placed in a new contemporary home setting.  It is getting a new custom frame to dress it up, and then it will be placed in it's new home.  I hope to be in the studio today working on a new series of paintings.  Thanks for looking at this blog....contact Kay Wyne for more information on my art.  KMW

Wheat Fields by Kay Wyne

Wheat Fields

30" x 30" Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas

Contemporary Landscape Painting

A big sky with fast moving clouds and a colorful wheat field is my subject matter for this canvas.  Using a wide flat brush I built up the paint on the clouds, giving them some shape and movement.  The tall grass has reflections of the sky painted in it.  This painting has been excepted into the Master's of the Fall Juried Art Exhibit at Dutch Art Gallery in Dallas.  Contact the gallery for more information.  Thanks, Kay Wyne

Untitled Commission by Kay Wyne

Commission - Untitled

Sold

40" x 40" Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas

This was a fun piece as I was able to work with the collector from start to finish.  It was a great experience, and I was thrilled to have this contemporary landscape painting go to a new home in Texas. I was focusing on the soft color palette, especially the spa greens and grey blues, with hints and shades of peachy-oranges, naples yellow, soft lavenders and turquoise blues.  I started with a base coat of grey and then took a large filbert brush and sketched out the shapes.  Using my palette knife, I applied layers and layers of oils.  I put a fan on it every night to help the drying process.  I hope that the viewer can stand in front of this painting and get a pleasant and positive feeling from this palette knife painting.  I am going to let the new owner title this contemporary landscape painting, so for now it is "Untitled".  Thanks for looking at my blog...Kay Wyne

Lost by Kay Wyne

Lost 

16" x 12" Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas

Contemporary Palette Knife Painting

Day 8 in the 30/30 Paint Challenge

Contact Kay Wyne for purchasing information---Thanks, Kay

 

 

MISSOURI MEMORIES by Texas Artist

Dyan Newton

 

Missouri Memories

11 x 14 Acrylic on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

Available

Dyan Newton Website

 

This was an old house/barn? in Missouri.  It was fun bringing it back to life with my vivid palette of colors.

 

Wildflower Fields Forever by Kay Wyne

Wildflower Fields Forever

$250

8" x 8" Oil on RayMar Cotton Panel

Contemporary Floral Landscape Painting

Spashes of wildflower color are dotting the field in this painting.  The Texas blue bonnets and wildflowers are in full strength in the springtime, but all the time in this painting! This is a small contemporary landscape that can be framed or can sit on an easel.  Contact Kay to purchase this painting.

Wildflower Fields by Kay Wyne

Wildflower Field

12" x 24" Oil on Canvas

Framed in a beautiful pewter moulding, this contemporary floral landscape painting is ready to hang!  The colors are fresh, the flowers fade into the distance, and it is a very pleasant piece to view.  The foreground flowers have texture.  Contact Kay for purchasing info.  I am back in town and heading to Dutch Art Gallery's Annual Fall Show and 50th Anniversary Celebration today.  If you are in Dallas, be sure to stop in the gallery to view the artwork submitted to this juried show.  Thanks for looking at this blog....Kay

  DAYS OF PAST

by Texas Artist Dyan Newton

 

 

 

Days of Past

16 x 20 Acylic on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

Available

Dyan Newton Website

 

I did this painting as a demo in Hobbs, NM.  This painting will be available for Local Studio Tour, November 14 and 15, Lubbock, Texas at the Marsha Davis Studio

 

 

 

 

MORNING SUN

 by Texas Artist Dyan Newton

 

Morning Sun

15 x 22 Watercolor on paper

Available at Studio Tour

Dyan Newton Website

 

This was an old barn or home, not sure, in New Mexico.  Just gave it life with my palette of colors.

This will be available at Local Studio Tour, November 14 & 15, Marsha Davis Studio, 3602 28th, Lubbock, Texas

Landscape of My Mind by Kay Wyne

Landscape of My Mind

12" x 12" oil on RayMar Cotton Panel

Contemporary Landscape Painting

Day #5 in the Leslie Saeta Paint Challenge

My panel was painted with an underpainting of magenta.  I decided to use a new bright brush by Monarch on this painting...It was loaded with thick juicy paint as I put my paint down, and did not go back in to move it around.  I wanted the texture the paint to be seen.  The road is winding through the countryside...fading into the horizon.  This painting is very abstract.  I did not use a photograph as a reference, just what was in my mind....thus the title, "Landscape of My Mind".  This panel is drying at the studio, and is for sale.  Contact ME for purchasing info.  Thanks for looking.....Kay

Joyful Day by Kay Wyne

Joyful Day

Contemporary Floral Landscape

60" x 36" Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas

Contact Kay Wyne for more info on this painting!

I love to paint on a large surface.  It is liberating to make big wide brushstrokes with a brush or apply loads of paint with a palette knife.  A 60" x 36" canvas is fun, challenging and my image/subject matter is always changing....as you can see below I did stop and take some pics along my painting journey.  

First, I had an idea in my head and thought that I would sketch it out with charcoal on the canvas.  Then I scrubbed in some colors.  And more colors.  Finally getting the white canvas covered up. 

I wanted my color palette to be in cool lavenders and greys....and some greens.  I got off-track as you can see in the fifth photo.  I cut loose with some oranges, reds, and blues.  The next day when I came into the studio, I realized that I had gotten de-railed.  So I spent more than two hours mixing wonderful purples. magentas, greens, and greys to bring the colors back to my original plan.  Of course I used huge amounts of oils and there is texture and depth to this painting.  

This painting is drying at the studio, and tomorrow is day #1 in Leslie Saeta's 30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge.  Check out Leslie's blog...It's always fun to see what everyone is posting on a daily basis.  Thanks for looking at my blog....Have an artful day.  Kay Wyne

Color of Summer by Kay Wyne

Color of Summer

10" x 20" Oil on RayMar Cotton Panel

Contemporary Palette Knife Painting

This landscape was painted with a palette knife.....all the way.  It was fun to paint because I mixed my paints as I moved the paint around.  There is texture on the surface of the canvas panel because I put in thick chunks of paint as I worked on this painting.  Color of Summer is framed in a handsome frame, and is needs a new home!  Contact Kay Wyne for purchasing info.  Thanks for looking.....Kay

Field of Color by Kay Wyne

Field of Color

30" x 30" Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas

Contemporary Palette Knife Painting
Floral Landscape

Field of Color is now drying at the studio...the thick layers of paint will take some time to dry.  My focus on painting this landscape was achieving harmonious colors that work well together, and please the eye.  Here is a close-up---you can see the thick application of paint and the texture.  I used a palette knife all the way.  I was in the studio mixing and mixing piles of paint, getting the colors all to relate to each other.

Contact ME for purchasing information.  Thanks for looking at the art posted on this blog. Have an artful day....Kay Wyne  p.s.  Happy Birthday to my Dad, Charlie Miller...he is the best!  He is 87 years young.  

Misty by Kay Wyne - Sold!

Misty

30" x 30" Oil on Canvas

Contemporary Palette Knife Painting

Thanks to Pam Massar, owner of Dutch Art Gallery for framing and selling this large landscape painting.  I love the colors on this canvas, they are soft and harmonious, leading the eye into the horizon.  I enjoyed painting the dramatic clouds...I am so pleased that Misty has a new home!  I have more paintings on the easel in the studio as it is too hot and humid to paint outside right now.  Thanks for looking at this blog....Kay Wyne

 

Mountainside Cottage

 by Texas Artist Dyan Newton

 

Mountainside Cottage

12 x 12  Acrylic on Canvas

Sold

Dyan Newton Website

 

 

From The Porch by Kay Wyne

From The Porch

6" x 8" Oil on RayMar Cotton Panel

Contemporary Michigan Landscape Painting

I set my easel up on the front porch at the cottage in Michigan, overlooking Lake Charlevoix.  The Heroy's boat, Hemingway Point and some buoys are scattered in the water.  The color of the water changed on me because the sky was filled with clouds, with the sun popping in and out.  Contact Kay Wyne for more info on this painting.  Thanks for looking....more Michigan paintings coming!  Kay

Anyway The Wind Blows by Kay Wyne

Anyway The Wind Blows

36" x 36" Oil on Heavy Duty Gallery Wrap Canvas

Contemporary Landscape

My color palette with just about every color in the book....lots of violets, reds, greens, ochres, turquoise, raspberry ....it is all in there.  I can imagine standing in a large open field with the wind blowing, and seeing so many colors, with them fading off into the horizon.  Every blade of tall grass is a different  in color, giving this painting a fresh contemporary feel.  I would hope that the viewer would look at this painting and be able to feel the wind whipping around.  This painting is ready to hang...with or without a frame.   Contact Kay for more info on this painting.  Kay

Big Sky by Kay Wyne

Big Sky

36" x 36" Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas

Contemporary Landscape Painting

This contemporary landscape is ready to hang...frame is optional as the sides of the canvas are painted.  This is a calm and peaceful painting.  The clouds are moving and have abstract qualities...you can almost imagine looking up and seeing images and shapes develop as they move across the sky.  This painting is for sale.  Contact Kay for more info.  Thanks for looking at this blog...Kay

Color My World by Kay Wyne

Color My World

14" x 10" Oil on Canvas Panel

Contemporary Floral Landscape

Painted with vibrant oils, this contemporary landscape painting is on display and for sale at Dutch Art Gallery in Dallas, Texas.  I mixed and mixed the oils for this piece...using my trusty palette knife to mix and to apply the layers of paint.  Thanks for looking at this blog...have an artful day.  Kay

Contemporary Landscape Painting by Kay Wyne

Contemporary Landscape

36" x 36" Oil on Heavy Duty Gallery Wrap Canvas

(Untitled)

This painting is finished.  I think.  I would like to take a few days to let it sit on my easel, giving me a chance to live with it and make some minor changes.  I also need to name it - so if you have any suggestions, I am open-minded about that, and would love to hear from you.  My color palette with just about every color in the book....lots of violets, reds, greens, ochres, turquoise, raspberry ....it is all in there.  Meanwhile, I am working on a couple of roosters....Thanks for looking at this blog.  Contact KAY for more info on this painting.  Kay