50-50 IV Miramar Beach (Diptych)

Miramar Beach (W/C), 6 x 6", created on 6/21/12
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Miramar Beach (Oil), 6 x6", created on 6/20/12
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These two are the first of my diptychs. I painted the oil to go with Surfer's Beach (W/C), but they didn't look married. I painted the watercolor above from photos and the oil.

50-50 IV June 20, 2012

Mirada Beach (Oil), 6 x 6", created on 20 June 2012

I painted my first oil for the 50-50 IV show yesterday on the bluff between Surfer's Beach and the Mirada Inn. My friend Catherine joined me and brought me lunch. Thank you, Catherine!  I was trying to paint the companion oil painting to go with the watercolor Sunlight on the Bluff, but when I got home, Eleanor concurred that they were not a fit marriage.

I've designed a nice little set up for painting in plein air.  I've got twenty-five  7 x 7" canvases taped down to  pieces of cardboard and my french easel stocked with the essentials. I'm ready! I'm on schedule and feeling up to the challenge of painting 41 more paintings in the next 41 days.

50-50 IV June 13 - June 19, 2012

 Sand Hill Road (W/C), 6 x 6", created on 13 June 2012

 Sunlight on the Bluff (W/C), 6 x 6", created on 14 June 2012

Rough Water (W/C), 6 x 6", created on 15 June 2012

 Bird's Rest (W/C), 6 x 6", created on 15 June 2012

 McNee Ranch (W/C), 6 x 6", created on 17 June 2012

 Ocean Avenue (W/C), 6 x 6", created on 18 June 2012

 Pillar Point Sunset (W/C), 6 x 6", created on 18 June 2012

Blue Tractor (W/C), 6 x 6", created on 19 June 2012

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Welcome to the first eight paintings of my work for the 50-50 Show IV, a fund raiser for the Sanchez Art Center. All of the paintings are for sale for $125 (+ tax). (Pre-sales allowed.) 

Email Mary Kay at jolleyart@comcast.net to purchase a painting.

50-50 Show IV

August 24-September 30, 2012 

Gallery hours: Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, 1-5 p.m.

Ticketed Preview: August 24, 6-7:30 p.m. ($10 in advance or $20 at the door)

Grand Opening Reception: August 24, 7:30-9:30 p.m.

Grand Closing: September 30, 1-5 p.m.

I hope that you will put this date on your calendar and come see the show. There are 70 artists who will each have wall space for 50 works attached to 6 x 6" panels, one inch apart,  in a 7 x 7 grid (with the 50th painting on the side.)

Warnings from Cheap Joe's

I ordered my paper and canvas to begin my work on the 50-50 IV show. These are the warnings on the box from Cheap Joe's. Don't miss the last one.

Paintings 130-138 Jeanne Carbonetti workshop

 Poppies, (Jeanne Carbonetti Workshop), 30 x 22", watercolor

 Dahlias, (Jeanne Carbonetti Workshop), 30 x 22", watercolor

 View from the Porch I, (Jeanne Carbonetti Workshop), 15 x 15 ", watercolor

 View from the Porch II, (Jeanne Carbonetti Workshop), 15 x 15 ", watercolor

 Study from View from the Porch, (Jeanne Carbonetti Workshop),
6 x 6", watercolor

 Study for Golden Mist, (Jeanne Carbonetti Workshop), 5 x 12", watercolor

 Golden Mist, (Jeanne Carbonetti Workshop), 15 x 30", watercolor

 Gestural Study for Barbie, (Jeanne Carbonetti Workshop), 8 x 6", watercolor

Barbie, (Jeanne Carbonetti Workshop), 30 x 22", watercolor

Jeanne Carbonetti's workshop was held May 21-25, 2012 at the Omega Center for Holistic Studies in in Rhinebeck, New York in the famed Hudson River Valley. The paintings above are my body of work for the five days. Jeanne was inspirational and an excellent teacher. I immersed myself in meditation and painting from within, using no reference photos,  painting what was in my heart and mind, allowing the painting to tell me the next steps, a style Jeanne calls Expressive Realism.

Golden Mist is my favorite from the series, an interpretation of Surfer's Beach. Jeanne gave me the  ultimate compliment during critique, calling it "high noon of Expressive Realism".

I spent the week with my dear friend Kristen, who painted beautifully in cool green, blue, and lavender.

50-50 Entry Sample Diptychs

Surfer's Beach, watercolor and oil
OIL AND W/C SOLD

Poppy Field, watercolor and oil

McNee Ranch, watercolor and oil

 Theme (10 words or less): California landscape in watercolor reexamined in oil.

I gained special permission to submit diptychs for the Sanchez 50-50 show, a juried show in which selected artists paint fifty 6 x 6" paintings in fifty days. Clay spend a good part of a day making the diptych JPEGs for me. (Dipsticks, he called them.)

I'm very excited about how these look side by side. The "dipsticks" show the difference in the two media: the vibrancy, the washes, the feel. The pigments are extremely close because when I went back to oils, after fifteen years of studying pigments with Evelyn, I researched the oils and choose those oils with the exact same pigments as my favorite watercolors. Finally, I feel that I have come into my own as an artist with these two media. I painted oils for four years in high school and then watercolors for fifteen years with Evelyn. I feel complete, now, working in both media.

Painting 129 Poppy Field in Oil

Poppy Field, oil, 9 x 12"


 I painted this in plein air and wanted the pea rows in the foreground. It ended up being so loose. After I got it home, I wasn't sure that I liked it, but it grew on me as it dried.