Rejoicing Light, Layers of Oil and Texture, Landscape of Trees and Waterway, Janet Bludau

12" x 12"

Oil on Canvas

$300

This painting was created with many layers using brushes and palette knifes of different sizes. Layers were scraped back to reveal under paintings. It was a fun piece and one I could have kept working on forever - it is difficult to know when to stop!

Patch Of Farmland, Janet Bludau, Abstract, Impressionistic Landscapes and Seascapes

5" x 7" Oil on Board

This is #4 of the Monthly Challenge. 

All the paintings on Leslie Saeta's Challenge Blog site show up as squares and you miss part of the painting. Here is what it really looks like.

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Contrasting Beauty, Abstract, Impressionistic Lavender Fields, Janet Bludau

SOLD through Collector Art in Berkeley

6" x 6"

I have been a very lazy blogger of late.  Not so much lazy but having to put a few other things first in my life.  I am thinking I have a period of "back to normal" here for awhile so its back to painting for me.  Kind of intimidating to start.  I keep finding other little jobs I have to do to prep for painting.  Then I tell myself, "no more, just open the tubes of paint and go!"  We'll see if I do it today.

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"Contrasting Beauty", a Colorful Abstract Landscape by Janet Bludau

6" x 6"

Oil on Archival Panel 

$75 Unframed with complimentary table easel

or

$125 in a contemporary floater frame

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"A Bowl Full" Abstract, Modern Still Life of Fruit - Janet Bludau

20" x 20"

Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

This is one of those pieces I really enjoyed painting.  There were virtually no struggles with it.  I had the usual decisions to make of course.  After the bowl was painted blue I thought, "No, wrong color."

I knew that changing it at that point could be a mistake though.  I still had other parts of the painting that had to be worked on, including some color tweaking.  I instead, worked on these areas.

As sometimes happens,  my "wrong" blue became a "right" blue.  Dana Cooper calls this the Push And Pull of painting.  Working on one area changes the look of another.  You have to keep pushing and pulling until the painting as a whole works.

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Small Abstract Perfect For A Gift "Holiday Party Goers" by Janet Bludau

6" x 6"

Oil on Archival Panel

$75

Painting will arrive gift wrapped and includes an easel

Feel free to inquire about larger sizes, additional color palettes.

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Website:  http://janetbludau.fineartstudioonline.com/

Abstract Beach Scene "Ocean Series 9" by California Janet Bludau

12" x 12"

Oil

Bits of red underpainting showing through.

I suppose I could have titled this painting "Strange Trees"!  They are done by palette knives, as is most of the painting.  The piece is very "edgy" (abstract) - I hope you like it!

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Abstract Landscape of California Wine Country Lavender Fields "Sonoma Stream" Janet Bludau

6" x 6"

Oil 

$75 includes a tabletop easel

I have been working on a series of wine country paintings, primarily inspired by Sonoma and Napa Valleys.  I find the lavender fields very beautiful as well as the geometric shapes of the farmlands, and the romance of the olive trees.

Small Abstract Seascape "Row" Janet Bludau

6" x 6"

Oil on Archival Board

$75

Ships with table/bookcase easel

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Thank you for following my painting blog.  I appreciate the freedom to keep my posts "sweet and simple" some days, and on other days, to run on a bit interweaving my trips down memory lane and interjecting humor that I can only hope you sometimes find amusing!

Abstract "Happily Potted" small, floral, palette knife floral by Janet Bludau

6" x 6"

Oil on Archival Raymar Panel

Really liking the color palette on this one.

Chunky paint combined with thinner broad strokes with background 

color showing through.

$125 framed in contemporary floater

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Abstract "Spicy Vacation" Red Umbrella, Pool and Ocean by Janet Bludau

8" x 8" Oil

I am wanting to be in this pool right now!

The reflection was painted with the help of a palette knife.  

The knife was also used for the thicker paint on the red umbrella and

soft turquoise sky.  

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"Ocean Series 3" Abstract Seascape by Janet Bludau

12" x 12" Oil

Palette Knives were used on this painting to get the variation of paint thickness that I was after.

Hope you like it!