O-120 Roots Before Branches acrylic 60x48 $7500 |
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Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Artist Stephanie Benedict, Spring Obsession OPEN DIVISION accepted artist
Stephanie Benedict
O-134 Malakoff Diggins oil 6x12 $250 |
Stephanie Benedict paints landscapes in oil, acrylic, and gouache. She came to painting one evening in the middle of her life, while wandering through an art supply store. She was looking at racks of stretched canvas - small ones, big ones, square and long ones - all empty, white, and standing in rows against the wall. Suddenly, Stephanie started seeing paintings on them: cityscapes, mountains, views through windows. She decided that night to study painting, and she's never looked back.
O-135 Mustard and Goldfields oil 12x24 $495 |
Stephanie earned a BA with honors from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in History/Theatre Arts. Since that night at the art supply store, she's studied painting and drawing with Kathleen Dunphy, Scott Christensen, Terry Miura, Susan Sarback, and Dan Samborski.
Stephanie is a native Californian, born in Burbank and raised in Sacramento. After sampling life in Eugene and Boston, Stephanie returned to California. She now resides in Orangevale, near Sacramento.
O-133 Heading North oil 24x36 $1500 |
You can find Stephanie's work on her website, sbenedictstudio.com. She writes about painting, nature and painting nature on her blog, sbenedictblog.com.
Meet Artist Timothy Mulligan, Spring Obsession OPEN DIVISION accepted artist
Timothy
Mulligan
A Contemporary Northern California painter
O-131 View from Tower Bridge acrylic 24x20 $1800 |
I attended Sacramento City College and received a degree in
Fine Art from CSU, Sacramento. I studied under notable artists as Greg Kondos,
Gerald Walburg, Peter VandenBerge, Laureen Landau, Larry Welden, Jack Ogden,
and Steve Kaltenbach.
After I
graduated, I worked as a printmaker creating etchings and prints, and produced
several watercolors, pastels, and large pencil drawings. I exhibited my
earlier works at the Crocker Art Museum, the Haggin Museum, the California
State Fair, and several local art galleries.
In 2011, after taking a long break to teach my two children
at home, grades K-12, I returned to art to pursue my passion to paint on
canvas. I painted multiple landscapes, cityscapes, and waterscapes which
include the local farmlands, coastal beaches, and quiet neighborhoods.
My paintings have been exhibited throughout the Central Valley and in the Bay Area, and in 2013 I received over a dozen awards in national and regional art competitions, including First Place in the 2013 KVIE PBS Art Auction. My work has also been recently recognized in two national art magazines, The Artist’s Magazine and Southwest Art Magazine.
My paintings have been exhibited throughout the Central Valley and in the Bay Area, and in 2013 I received over a dozen awards in national and regional art competitions, including First Place in the 2013 KVIE PBS Art Auction. My work has also been recently recognized in two national art magazines, The Artist’s Magazine and Southwest Art Magazine.
View Under Tower Bridge acrylic 24x20 $1600 |
I paint with acrylics on site and in my studio using a
variety of paint knives and brushes. My earlier works are mostly
representational; often combining impressionistic and expressionistic painting
styles. My later works are exclusively expressionistic inspired by the painting style of the
Bay Area Figurative Movement; synthesizing forms with dynamic raw colors
and using aggressive paint strokes.
What inspires me to paint is seeing a
subject from a fresh and unique perspective. I try to minimize the details and
focus on the light, shadows, colors, and shapes. I make a new color palette for each painting and try not to
follow conventional methods. Oftentimes, I allow the texture of the painted
surface to help create form and movement. To separate and energize the shapes I
use colorful seams, marbleized flattened planes, and lines scratched into the
paint. I’m beginning to explore combining multiple
perspectives of a subject into a single cohesive image.
My recent paintings can be sorted into
three groups: The Raw, The Real, and The Inventive:
The Raw paintings are made up of basic forms, which are quick and
organic. They strive for an honesty built from intense color and light, in an open and exposed
way.The Real paintings seek to take the raw style to a strange, heightened level of reality.
The Inventive paintings embrace abstract form and restrict the raw style. These paintings flatten shapes, heighten color, and avoid a sense of realness.
www.timothymulliganfineart.com/
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Meet Artist Connie Carson - Romano, Spring Obsession Theme Division accepted Artist
Art is an expression of the way the Artist
views the world in which he lives.
Through my paintings, I try to communicate the emotions that made the
subject something I wanted to share with others whether it is joy, serenity, or
the excitement of the beauty of nature.
I know I have succeeded at my Art when someone looks at a painting or
drawing and says, “That painting makes me feel….”
Expressing
myself through art has always been a form of meditation and relaxation for me. Acrylic paint is my favored medium; I love the
way it works and forms on the canvas. Recently I have discovered a new joy in oil
paints; the viscosity of the medium that allows for extended outdoor work
whether it is on a windy beach or a dry desert landscape.
The
colors that are present in nature are phenomenal and I love trying to create
the same shades. Having been raised in
the mountains of New Mexico I found myself immersed from
an early age in the amazing palate of nature and the challenge of trying to
recreate that on canvas. Now as a
resident of Northern California, I am awed at the diversity of landscapes we
live in and the unlimited array of challenges awaiting my brushes.
Two Artists
looking at the same object or same landscape will create completely different expressions
of what they see. I find it is amazing
and exciting that so many different interpretations of the world around us are
available through the eyes of Artists. I
love visiting galleries and museums to view the varied presentations of life as
expressed by different individuals. It
is my pleasure that I am able to add my own personal expressions to this
collection.
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