Turquoisebrush

I love landscape. I love to paint trees, water and mountains and skies. When I tried to start my own photography business I advertised as a natural light photographer.  I would take pictures outside with nature as the background for any group family pictures.  Nature is just so soothing and refreshing and peaceful.  I started to think about what type of artist I am and researched the different types of landscape types.   The three types are impressionistic, abstract and representational.  Representational captures the natural beauty.  Its more realistic that attempts to capture the essence of nature, sometimes it could look photorealistic but not always.  I like to portray the outdoors.  It could be rolling hills, meadows, fields, mountains, lakes, rivers, seaside and beyond.  I discovered that there are a few names that I've known and you may have heard about that are listed as 10 of the top famous landscape artists.  I've only lis...

 

So the painting above these words with the purple, blue, and green was painted with left over paint from another painting.  This painting was also painted as trees in a forest but I posted it on my Facebook page and asked others to help name it and others saw flowers instead of trees.  They saw Spring!  I love to hear what others see and how it speaks to them.  This one I think I will call "Spring is coming"   I love this one! I love all the bright burst of color with the various shapes of flowers and the roses.  It also looks like it planted in the ground along a path mixed in with other green plants.   This one was an an attempt at abstract.  I like it and thought it was fun to work on.                                          I love the colors in this one!                    ...

 These two were fun to do.  The one on top took a long time to blend layers upon layers of color for the sky to look how I wanted it to look.  My favorite thing to paint is the sky, a beautiful blended background can set the tone for the rest of the painting.

  This painting was a fun one.  I really was working at letting go and see what happens.  It is very abstract and not my normal kind of painting.  I had watched a few videos on how someone starts the process for their abstract art.  It really just starts with a mark on the canvas, anything from a shape or a line or a dot and then you just go with it.  Some plan out their colors.  I used what I had left on my palette from a previous painting.  Letting go and just doing can be just as creative as having a plan on painting a landscape.   It certainly leaves it the eye of who is looking at it to see what they can see in it and how it makes them feel.  This one I see flowers and leaves but deeper than that a tree, I enjoy the colors.  The colors are bright and they make me feel cheerful and upbeat.  I plan on trying to do more paintings like this just to help loosen the creativity.  Like I've said in the past I enjoy blend...

 I live where we get all four seasons and sometimes all in one day. I'm surrounded by pine trees, which I love! Growing up in Chaparral NM our property had pine trees all around the perimeter that my parents planted after we bought the property.  I was born in El Paso TX and moved about 8 miles outside of town to Chaparral NM.  I loved living out there. I've lived in Albuquerque NM, Sandia Park NM, Fort Davis TX and have been in Flagstaff Arizona since 2009. I love nature before I started painting I had the dream of being a landscape photographer.  I bought a nice camera and practice taking pictures every where I went.  I even made a little money on the side briefly with taking a few family pictures outdoors for a about 4 or 5 families.  I took pictures at my brother's wedding and even was hired to take pics at an old fashioned Ball. I created several photo books and given them as gifts to family and friends.  I created a blog and tried to create a bus...