Bursting Forward by Kay Wyne

Bursting Forward

36" x 48" Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas

Contemporary Floral

Layers of color, texture and variety in brush strokes give this large canvas interest.  The subject matter is one of my favorites to painting....florals and more florals!  Using the palette knife gives me the opportunity to fraction the paint and change up my edges on the petals.  This floral is looking for a new home...and does not require framing.  Contact Kay for more information on this contemporary floral.  Thanks for looking...KMW

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

Lost by Kay Wyne

Lost

16" x 12" Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas

Contemporary Palette Knife Painting

Framing is optional, although this is ready to hang as the sides of the canvas are painted a neutral grey.  This contemporary abstract painting was painted with a palette knife, has beautiful greens, greys and corals, and lots of texture.  Contact Kay Wyne for more information on this painting.  Thanks, KMW

Missed The Boat by Kay Wyne

Missed The Boat

12" x 12" Oil on RayMar Cotton Panel

Contemporary Palette Knife Painting

This colorful dinghy was aching to be painted when John and I came across it in a small fishing village in Maine.  It had lots of character, and was tied up to the rocky shoreline.  This small piece is framed in a dark mahogany frame, and is ready to find a new home.  Contact Kay for more info.  Thanks, KMW

Quiet Time by Kay Wyne

Quiet Time

8" x 8" Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas

Contemporary Palette Knife Painting

Soft colors, a variety of shapes and texture make up this small contemporary abstract painting.  The colors were layered on the canvas with lost and found edges.  This small gallery wrap canvas has the sides painted in ice blue, along with my signature.  Framing is optional...it's ready to hang.  Contact Kay for purchasing info.  Thanks, KMW

Busy Busy by Kay Wyne

Busy Busy

40" x 30" Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas 

Contemporary Abstract Painting

Layers of grey blues covered the canvas in the beginning, then I applied fresh color with the palette knife, scraping it back.  After several sessions with this canvas I pulled out a wide brush and some oil sticks drawing in lines and shapes.  That gave the painting movement on the canvas, adding interest and depth.   I pushed and pulled the paint around, moving it until I was satisfied.  Once I stood back from my easel I could see that the corals, pinks and oranges gave it energy.  The blues, greens and turquoise are cooler and give the painting balance along with a variety of lines, brush strokes, palette knife.  There are hints of yellow and creamy yellow in the painting....hidden under the layers.  The sides of the canvas are painted in the grey-blue color, and framing is optional.  Ready to have a new home, BUSY BUSY will be dry and varnished, ready for purchase soon.  Contact Kay Wyne for more information.  Thanks, KMW

Quiet Time by Kay Wyne

Quiet Time

8" x 8" Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas

Contemporary Abstract Painting

Using a brush and palette knife to move the paint around, this small abstract is painted on a gallery wrap canvas.  I started with greys, blues, soft greens and a fleshy-orange color.  The palette knife helped me scrape the canvas several times.  The caribbean blue and rose pinks were added to give it some pop and interest.  The sides of the canvas are painted in the grey-blue background color, and signed on the side.  This painting is drying in the studio, and is for purchase.  Contact Kay Wyne for more information on this abstract painting.  Thanks for looking....Kay

Double Trouble - Abstract Diptych by Kay Wyne

Double Trouble
NFS

40" x 30"  Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas

(Diptych size:  40" x 60")

I have finished Double Trouble!  This contemporary abstract was created to hang as one large piece, measuring 40" x 60", plus any wall space that might be in-between the two canvases.  With this commission, I concentrated on the color palette, and once I established my colors, put some shapes and movement on the canvas.  I used a large palette knife to apply the layers of oil colors.  The soft colors over-lap and blend into each other.  There is some texture on the surface, and you can see some choppy knife marks in the paint.  I did use impasto to get some body into the oil paints.  This painting is drying...and ready to hang!  Thanks for looking at this blog and the art posted.  Have a creative day.  Kay

Anticipation by Kay Wyne

Anticipation

40" x 40" Oil on Heavy Duty Gallery Wrap Canvas

Contemporary Floral Landscape Painting

Layers of color and texture make Anticipation a painting with depth and interest. The palette knife was used to mix my piles of paint, and the apply it on the canvas.  Bold colors over-lap.  Shapes formed to make patches of colorful patches of flowers in this landscape.  Here are a couple of close-ups of the canvas.... 

My favorite colors to mix right now are the pinks, corals and tangerines.  Thanks for looking at this painting and blog...Have an artful day!  Contact Kay for more information on this contemporary landscape.  KMW

Vortex Abstract by Kay Wyne

Vortex
Abstract Diptych - Vortex I and II

40" x 60" Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas

Contemporary Palette Knife Painting

These two canvases started out as a landscape, but ended up with the energy and movement of a vortex.  (According to my studio mates.)  This was a painting that ended up going in a different direction once I got into it.  I had put my darks in first, and went over-board, and after letting it sit on my easel for several weeks, I painted out the darks, and scraped some of the dark greens and grey out.  My favorite colors in this are the cad oranges mixed with the pinky beiges.  There is a hint of turqoise under the layers of greens. The blues and grey are beautiful...I mixed and mixed piles of them and layered them on with the palette knife.  There is a lot of depth and texture.  It is drying at the studio.  Contact Kay Wyne for more information on this diptych.  Thanks for looking at this blog....Kay

Joyful Day by Kay Wyne

Joyful Day

60" x 36" Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas

Contemporary Palette Knife Painting

This large canvas is hanging at Dutch Art Gallery in Dallas, Texas.  The colors flow well together, and the eye moves through the field.  I like this painting so much that I put it on my new business cards!  I am working outside the studio on a collaborative painting project, and missing my easel.  I hope to get into the studio soon!  Thanks for looking....Kay

Blaze by Kay Wyne

Blaze

40" x 30" Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas

Contemporary Abstract Painting

It is finished!  I wish I had photos of the progression of this painting.  It has gone through lots of phases.  I worked with oil bars, tubes of oils, after starting with a base coat of turquoise in acrylic.  I used a wide brush throughout most of the painting, along with a palette knife and impasto to give the paint body and texture.

Here's a close-up.  

You can see the layers of color and the texture on the canvas.

I purposely signed the canvas on the sides --- 

as I could not decide if this painting

looked better horizontal or vertical.  So when this painting goes to a new home,

the owner can decide which way to hang.  

I am working on a couple of new abstracts in the studio, but they are in the beginning stages.  Thanks for looking at this blog.  Contact ME for purchasing information.  KMW