JoAnne Houlsen - New Works
Well, this is it, I've finally begun a blog. I hope to use this site to post and talk about my new work and painting in general.
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Three more paintings from 2013. I read yesterday if you have a blog you need to keep it up to date so as to appear in control and active in your career. So, here it is, and now if I can maintain a virtual presence I think I'll be on my way. During this past year I did many more plants than I usually do. They are more challenging than landscapes because of their intricacy. Recently I painted a figure from a photograph that a friend gave me, usually I take my own photographs but this particular photo was taken on trip we took with a group of friends to Tuscany, and it spoke to me. I entered it into an art exhibit but will post it when I get it back. So don't be surprised it you see more figurative work posted here soon. Don't be surprised if you don't, either.
Friday, October 7, 2011
Fall 2011
Monday, April 18, 2011
Spring, 2011
Friday, September 17, 2010
September
I Started this entry way back in August and this is the first time I have actually been able to take time to finish. Today is October 8th so it has been quite a while. It still is a problem for me to place images where I want them to go and wonder if there is a way to do that.
The painting of the porch is one I did probably about 15 years ago and recently pulled out from the back of the closet I store a lot of my paintings in. Since then, I have completely repainted the entire surface. The colors now are so much more vibrant. In the older version, for some unknown reason, I greyed the colors down so much that they didn't really look blue. I also fooled around a little more with the perspective, and it is one of the problems I had with this painting from the beginning. I have actually repainted the perspective a number of times, changing the lines of the stairs and the clap boards. I think it's right now. One instance where perservarence paid off. The landscape, I painted for the Downeast Sails Uptown show and it was one of those paintings that pretty much painted itself. We were supposed to paint something, that in our opinion, represented Downeast. Nothing further represents, to me, Downeast than tall pine trees against a blue sky. It is so typical of our coastline and I just love driving on Rte 9 to Eastport in the Summer and seeing the pines, the blueberry barrens and the blue sky.
Since most of my energy has been focused on the art festivals I do in summer, I have not been able to complete many paintings lately. These are some I have completed this summer and some I have been working on that are not done yet.