Fishing On The Flats, Original Oil Painting

Fishing on the Flats, 12 x 16, Oil on Gallery Canvas w/edges painted

$400 plus S/H/appl. taxes

Fishing On The Flats is a painting capturing one of the beautiful sunsets God gives us everyday.  The joy of getting to fish in one of these remote spots is shared by many fisherman on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.   I love to fish, but I think I enjoyed painting this scene more than going fishing this week.  Many Thanks to my friend Rockey for letting me use his photo for reference.  I can paint a favorite fishing memory for you.  Email me for information.

Hope your like the painting.  Now let's go fishing!  

God Bless You,

jimmie@jimmiesart.com

Schulenburg Art, Music & Wine Festival

I will be showing art in the Schulenburg Art, Music & Wine Festival, Saturday, March 9, 2013.  Hope you can make it.

Jimmie@jimmiesart.com

Another Butterfly Oil Painting in Progress

If you follow this blog, you probably think I am stuck on painting butterflies.  Yes, I really like painting butterflies!  They are colorful and interesting.  I plan to finish this one soon and move on to other paintings for awhile.  I am considering painting a series of Native Indian series next.  I am researching famous chiefs now.  So intriguing.

This work in progress is on a 14x18 inch canvas.  There is a prior post that discusses the start of this one.  Here, the image on upper left is basically where I stopped on it to finish the other butterfly painting with the exception of showing some sky blue spread on with a palette knife to get it going.  (Using the knife helps spread the paint on faster in large areas of canvas.  The evenly spread and detail with a brush.  You may like the knife effects and want to leave them on your painting)  I also penciled in more of the flowers to help the composition.  I didn't follow the photo for the background and flowers, but used it as a guide to create a less busy and more painterly effect.  His antenna got painted over, but can be put back in later.  The flowers are based in and will get more attention later today.  The greenery is the next step.

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Let us pray before we paint,
jimmie@jimmiesart.com

Tall Sunflower Oil Painting

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Tall Sunflower is the oil painting I finished today.  It is painted on a 14x11 gallery wrapped canvas with edges also painted for hanging without a frame, although I think paintings look much better framed.   I wanted the sunflower to stand alone much taller than the rest backlit with a beautiful blue sky.

I used two photos from www.wetcanvas.com reference library of images for artists to make up the composition using the best features of both.  I like to paint flowers especially a single flower in portrait mode so we can focus on the great beauty and anatomy each and every flower has.  When several are bunched in nature, or an arrangement, the view becomes multiple and sometimes the focal point becomes one flower anyway with the rest in varying degrees of importance to the composition.  I placed the flower to the left side of the canvas and located the leaves to maintain the overall balance of the painting.   I hope you like the painting.

Let us pray before we paint,
Jimmie@jimmiesart.com

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Poppies in Blue Vase, Demo/Study

The Poppies in BlueVase painting is a freestyle painting I did for demonstration outdoors at the Burr, Texas Trade Days last weekend.  I paint at shows when possible to pass the time and customers like to see art in progress.

This painting was done without a reference and freely out of my imagination.  I don't mind people looking over my shoulder at the easel, as I can talk and paint at the same time.  After days of painting by myself in the studio, being able to talk with others about art is a real treat.  Especially with people wanting to learn to paint.  Who knows, maybe watching an old guy throw paint on a canvas might inspire them to give it a try.

The palette was:  Yellow ochre, Yellow Medium, Alizeran Crimson, Cad. Red, Prussan Blue, Black, White, Sap Green, Yellow Light, Unbleached White, some tidbit of Purple.

Acrylic paint on 14x11 inch canvas hardboard.


Thanks for looking.

Let us pray before we paint,
jimmie@jimmiesart.com

A Matagorda Beach Sunrise Oil Painting

This one was finished yesterday.  I painted it in oils on a gallery wrapped canvas.  The challenge of the contrasting values in the daybreaking light was fun.   I plan to do some larger canvases of ocean scenes as I really like to paint water movement.  Painting a scene puts me there while I am at the easel.
I hope you like this one.  Email me if you wish to purchase.

Let us pray before we paint,
jimmie@jimmiesart.com

Bluebonnet Painting 20x16

I needed another original bluebonnet painting to take to shows and decided to take the study I had done on 16x12 and paint it in acrylics, rather than oils, on a larger 20x16 format and hopefully make some improvements as compared to the previous study.  My biggest obstacle turned out to be the summer heat.  My studio a/c running full blast could not stay ahead of it during the day.  So, I painted furiously in the early morning and late evening and even then, it seemed I spent more time keeping my acrylics wet enough to paint with, than actually painting.  The humidity was also low which made the paint dry quickly.  I am switching back to oils for the next couple of paintings.

I should be in the doghouse for not posting much last month.  Most of my efforts went to rebuilding my website, where you can use paypal to purchase originals and prints of my work, and painting on the Bluebonnet.  Please check out http://www.jimmiesart.com/ .  I will be posting more paintings and prints on it.

We have two indoor Arts/Crafts shows next month.  On August 13, we will be in the El Campo Civic Center and on August 20, in the KC Hallettsville Market Day.  I hope those of you in the area will visit our booth.  We got some rain today.  I pray for more.

Let us pray before we paint,

Jimmie@jimmiesart.com

The Cornfield Barn

Original Sold, Prints Available at www.thebartlettpair.com

This is an acrylic painting I did today on a 9x12 gallery stretched canvas with edges painted.  This beautiful field and barn is located in South Texas on hwy 111 between Midfield and Lake Texana.  The weather is very hot and dry and the field looked like it could really use some rain. I used a bit of impressionism for the field and took artistic liberties with the barn.  I really liked the way the tall corn was crowding the barn and the colors blended like a storybook scene.  This was another one I knew I had to paint.  I hope you like the painting.

Let us pray before we paint,
Jimmie@jimmiesart.com

Pelican At The Marina

 I finished painting Pelican At The Marina today.  The painting is in acylics on a gallery wrapped 13x20 inch canvas which I custom made for this work.  The scene is continued on the edges of the canvas so it can be displayed without a frame.  We were out taking pictures a couple of weeks ago at the marina in Matagorda, Texas and saw several beautiful pelicans waiting for a hand out at the fish cleaning station.  These big fellows let me walk up close and take all the pictures I wanted.  It made me wonder, as if I had tried to get close to them in the wild marshes they would have flown away.  But, I thank them for modeling and giving me a chance to study the birds up close.  This particular view had great light and little in the background.  I took the image and transferred the sketch to the canvas and used a little artist license to put in a brighter background sky to make him stand out more.  I plan to mount the painting in one of my floater frames.  I have to build one first.  I hope you like the painting and story.
 
Let us pray before we paint,
jimmie@jimmiesart.com

Portrait Demo Pics

Some of the pictures taken by Raymond at the El Campo Art Association Show on June 5, 2010.  These four are typical of the demonstration.  I used a photo of my grandson Damon as a model to paint from.  The first pic is the start adding color to the underpainting sketch.  I started out not noticing I had given him a lazy eye.  It was pointed out to me halfway through the demo, thank goodness.   In pic 2, the group had gotten smaller and became more interactive.  I really enjoyed their enthusiasm.  People browsed the art in the competion and revisited us during demo to see the progress.  We discussed the portrait, paint, brushes, and anything else folks was interested in.  I had planned to be there for one afternoon, but they gave me the opportunity to demonstrate on the next day, so I came back on Sunday.  Pic3, I even changed my shirt for the second day.  LOL Pic 4, this is as far as we got with the portrait.  His lazy eye was fixed and the skin tones reached a reasonable valve at this stage.

Thankyou El Campo Art Association for enviting me to participate in your show. 

Jimmie

Countryside Church, Original Palette Knife Oil Painting

This is one of my first attempts using a pallet knife to paint with.  Countryside Church is 14x18 on stretched canvas and heavily textured.  I used a palette knife to spread paint for the sky and then used a blender brush to smooth the sky somewhat.  The rest of the painting is entirely done with the knife.  I got real excited when I saw how smoothing the sky in the background really made the rest of the textured painting pop forward.  Email jimmie@jimmiesart.com to check availability/purchase via secure transaction using online PayPal. 

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Flight Over Carancahua Bay, Original Oil Painting by Jimmie Bartlett

This is an alla prima oil painting of a Roseate Spoonbill flying over the wetlands of Carancahua Bay just off Texas Highway 35.  I painted the scene wet on wet technique on a 8x6 inch gesso'd masonite board yesterday.

Doing this painting brought back memories of when I was a kid fishing with my Dad in this very same spot.  We fished out of a little wooden boat with an old Johnson outboard on back. There wasn't any houses on the shoreline back then.  I haven't been fishing in several years but, Carolyn and I go down to the coast all the time, with cameras at the ready, and have just as much fun.  Sometimes we get lucky enough to capture something like a Roseate Spoonbill for me to paint. 

The painting has SOLD, but prints are available.  jimmie@jimmiesart.com .

I hope you enjoy the painting.

Jimmie Bartlett