Contemporary Paintings

                                             
                                                   A Man of Few Words but Read Many                                                                                                                       Acrylic on Paper

It has been good to work solely with brushes again. Big brushes. You can't get too many small details but you can make your color values work harder for you instead. This is a painting of my Dad reading the newspaper. This is a cropped section of it. When you see a photo of someone you don't always see their personality...that is what the artist adds. My recent studies have been contemporary paintings.


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Fauvism Painting

                           
                                                                   Garden Contours
                                                                    Acrylic Painting
                                                                      by Carol Yap


This is the time of bounty in the garden. Everything lush, blooming and growing like mad. One thing ends it's bloom cycle and another takes center stage. Lilacs, daffodils, tulips are finished blooming. Now it's peonies, iris, allium, azealeas and more! It's also hot, sticky thunderstorm weather, but that is what summer heat loving plants love. Like Dahlias and Cannas.

I'm still in the gardening mode even inside. Garden Contours is a portrait I painted yesterday. Basically I was feeling free and yet connected to the garden. The style is Fauvism, Impressionism, Expressionism and Modern Art. Does any artist fall into one category? Fauvism consisted of a small group of eclectic artists that painted landscapes and portraits in bright non realistic colors or in tonal hues.  It would have been shocking from the darker paintings of the Old Masters and rather delicious colors.

There are prints for sale at Saatchi Art online. They mail the prints directly to you.

Table Conversation Art

Table Conversation

Acrylic

Carol Yap

This red coffee cup is from United Airlines It really has been around the world a few times. My mother had sang praises about them to the stewardess. Just the right size, shape and weight. She has never liked large coffee mugs, but then she doesn't need coffee daily like her daughter.  The stewardess said she could keep it if she liked since they were changing over at that time to different cups.     

I used a palette knife for this painting for an expressionist and impressionistic feel. This past week I managed to get up a Carol Yap Facebook account. Hop over to visit.  We've been hit with cold weather and snow here on the East Coast. Shoveling again. I have coffee. I am fine.  

Carol Yap Artist

Painting Whites - Snow and Chickens

                                                                         Deliberate
                                                                        5 x 7 inches
                                                                          Acrylic

We have a few chickens left from the original free ranging flock. Out here in the country the devilish foxes have taken a few. Chickens are fabulous seedling thinners--that is both bad and good--and bug catchers. We are alike in one area that we all  would rather be outdoors and in the gardens.

With all of the snow we are having it doesn't deter the girls much. Snow is one of those things that can be painted many different ways, warm or cool.    Here is how I painted a white chicken on white snow with a palette knife in acrylics. Not just any chicken but one of my little chickens.  

Stop by The Artists Gallery in Frederick Maryland this month of February. Hours are Friday - Sunday 12-5pm. A  floral-bouquet-palette-knife painting of mine is for sale there in the Le Salon show. You can find me on Twitter now.

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