December 2012 Challenge Painting by Daily Painter of Pennsylvania Mary Beth Brath

Get it Done!

Self Explanatory by Mary Beth Brath

5x7" Acrylic on Board

 

"paint with colors you...um...dislike"

Happy New Year To All!!

I hope everyone has set goals for 2013.  Stretch and grow my friends. Reach for the stars. We have some great challenges planned for this blog in the coming year.

There is a thin line between love and hate...so I have been told.  My favorite colors to paint with are alizarin crimson and cadmium red.  I hate pastel and fuchsia pinks.  All other colors are just yummy to me and as an artist, I use them all.

www.marybethbrath.com

REFUGEE BY SUE MARRAZZO

DECEMBER 2012 DPP CHALLENGE

TITLE: REFUGEE
SIZE: ATC
MEDIUM: COLLAGE
BY: SUE MARRAZZO

DISLIKED COLORS USED: GOLD, BROWN, ORANGE, YELLOW, MAUVE

THE ABOVE COLLAGE ARTIST TRADING CARD (ATC) WAS CREATED WITH FOUND PAPERS, HANDMADE ART PAPER, AND A FOUND VINTAGE STAMP. THIS WAS CREATED USING MANY OF THE COLORS I USUALLY DON'T LIKE ON MY PALETTE. COLLAGE IS LIKE PAINTING WITH PAPER TO ME.
PLEASE VISIT MY ART BLOG AT:
www.suemarrazzo.blogspot.com

INFERNO An Original Oil Painting by Claire Beadon Carnell

'Inferno'
Oil on Linen Panel
10 x 8

 I was hiking in the woods and came across this area where
the brilliant yellow leaves of a tree were glowing behind
the foreground trees.  It almost looked like a burning fire.

I painted this for the DPP Challenge because it contains
yellow, orange and brown - the three colors
I like the least on my palette...


If you would like to see more of my work,

please visit my website or my blog. If you are

interested in purchasing any of my paintings you see

here on this blog, please contact me.

Claire Beadon Carnell

Member of:

Oil Painters of America

Daily Painters of Pennsylvania

Susquehanna Valley Plein Air Painters

DECEMBER 2012 CHALLENGE Paint with the Colors You DON'T Like! By Sue Marrazzo

LET'S PAINT WITH THE COLORS WE DON'T LIKE TO USE IN OUR COLOR PALETTE.

TITLE: MUM OF A KIND
MEDIUM: ACRYLIC
ARTIST: SUE MARRAZZO
DISLIKED COLORS: YELLOW, GOLD, WINE, AND BROWN

WE ALL HAVE COLORS THAT WE TEND TO USE OVER AND OVER! LET'S CHALLENGE OURSELVES 
AS ARTISTS AND CREATE ART IN ANY
MEDIUM, STYLE, AND SUBJECT. 

JUST USE THE COLORS YOU MOST DISLIKE!

"Every so often change your palette. Introduce new colors and discard others. You will gain knowledge of color mixing and your work will have added variety."

---Kenneth Denton, Artist 

Rules of the Challenge:

1. This monthly Challenge is for DPP members only,

but anyone is welcome and encouraged to make comments on the posts.

2. Submit your Challenge entry just as you would a regular post - with

a picture of your entry and anything you would like to write about

your experience with this particular challenge. You are welcome to

submit more than one entry.

3. All entries must be posted no later than midnight November 30, 2012.

4. To get a larger, high-resolution version of the monthly Challenge photo, 
just click on the photo in this post.

5. Please put only your name in the label section of your post - thanks!

(Your name should appear exactly as it does on the DPP blog)

6. Please follow the spirit of this challenge - all submissions should be created

after the Challenge has been posted.

7. Have fun!

DPP NOVEMBER 2012 CHALLENGE BY SUE MARRAZZO

TITLE: 2 BLUE PUMPKINS
MEDIUM: MIXED MEDIA
SIZE: 4" X 4"
BY: SUE MARRAZZO

WHEN I WAS RESEARCHING MY SUBJECT...THE PUMPKIN FOR THE DPP NOVEMBER CHALLENGE...I CAME ACROSS THE BLUE PUMPKIN. IT IS AN AUSTRALIAN HEIRLOOM, AND WEIGHS 6 - 10 LBS. I LOVE THE LOOK OF THESE...LOOK BELOW AT WHAT THEY CAN LOOK LIKE.

SO, I TOOK THE CHALLENGE (LATE), AND DECIDED TO MIX IT UP SOMEWHAT! THE PAINTING IS A MIXED MEDIA ONE MADE WITH FOUND PAPERS, ACRYLIC PAINTS, GAC, MEDIUMS, GESSO, AND MORE. IT'S AN ABSTRACT WITH 2 BLUE PUMPKINS. I WAS SO TAKEN WITH THE LOOK OF THE BLUE PUMPKIN...GUESS WHAT I AM GROWING IN THE GARDEN NEXT YEAR?

November 2012 Challenge PAINT YOUR PUMPKIN

Thanks so much to Sue Marrazzo for doing such a 

great job hosting the 

October 2012 DPP Challenge!

NOVEMBER 2012 DPP CHALLENGE

'PAINT YOUR PUMPKIN'

This is such a busy time of the year, so

this month's challenge is to paint this 

simple photograph of a pumpkin gourd

using your own unique spin.  

Can't wait to see the creative entries! 

Rules of the Challenge:

1. This monthly Challenge is for DPP members only,

but anyone is welcome and encouraged to make comments on the posts.

2. Submit your Challenge entry just as you would a regular post - with

a picture of your entry and anything you would like to write about

your experience with this particular challenge. You are welcome to

submit more than one entry.

3. All entries must be posted no later than midnight November 30, 2012.

4. To get a larger, high-resolution version of the monthly Challenge photo, 
just click on the photo in this post.

5. Please put only your name in the label section of your post - thanks!

(Your name should appear exactly as it does on the DPP blog)

6. Please follow the spirit of this challenge - all submissions should be created

after the Challenge has been posted.

7. Have fun!

Quilt Art by Daily Painter of Pennsylvania Mary Beth Brath

Quilt Art by Mary Beth Brath

14x11" Acrylic on Board

This was fun. The reference photo did not have a quilt hanging on the wall, but I used my license to meet the challenge for this month.  The photo of the painting did not come out well and this one must be seen in person.

NEWVILLE FARM QUILT An Original Plein Air Oil Painting by Claire Beadon Carnell

'Newville Farm Quilt'
Oil Plein Air
(View from the Clearing 10/14/2012)
10 x 20

Perhaps one of my favorite places up by our cabin

is this clearing that displays an amazingl vista of the farmland

and Blue Mountain Ridge below(this is only a small portion of

 what is visible).  We have put a picnic

table there where we can sit and absorb the view.  While

I was painting, there were Redtail hawks circling in the sky

and screeching out their distinctive call.  They floated on the

air currents, and like myself, just enjoyed the quiet beauty of the day.

If you would like to see more of my work,

please visit my website or my blog. If you are

interested in purchasing any of my paintings you see

here on this blog, please contact me.

Claire Beadon Carnell

Member of:

Oil Painters of America

Daily Painters of Pennsylvania

Susquehanna Valley Plein Air Painters

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OCTOBER 2012 CHALLENGE QUILTS Hosted by Sue Marrazzo

TITLE: QUILTED VISION
MEDIUM: COLLAGE
SIZE: 12" X 12"
SUBSTRATE: BRACED PANEL
ARTIST: SUE MARRAZZO

This October, DPP will pay tribute to QUILTS. QUILTS are made with function as their first priority: aesthetic concerns are secondary. Still in quilt making there is a love of beauty and attention to design in each and every QUILT. QUILTS are more than blankets to warm sleeping bodies. The makers of QUILTS use quilting as a way to show their individual creative expression. Please take this challenge and express your LOVE of QUILTS in your choice of medium. Feel free to share your quilt memories, and stories too.

Rules of the Challenge:

1. This monthly Challenge is for DPP members only,

but anyone is welcome and encouraged to make comments on the posts.

2. Submit your Challenge entry just as you would a regular post - with

a picture of your entry and anything you would like to write about

your experience with this particular challenge. You are welcome to

submit more than one entry.

3. All entries must be posted no later than midnight October 31, 2012.

4. To get a larger, high-resolution version of the monthly Challenge photo, 
just click on the photo in this post.

5. Please put only your name in the label section of your post - thanks!

(Your name should appear exactly as it does on the DPP blog)

6. Please follow the spirit of this challenge - all submissions should be created

after the Challenge has been posted.

7. Have fun!

I'LL HAVE A SIDE ORDER OF FUNGUS, PLEASE An Original Oil Painting by Claire Beadon Carnell

Thanks so much to Pat Koscienski for hosting this month's DPP Challenge.  

You still have three days to submit any entry!

'I'll Have a Side Order of Fungus, Please''
Oil on Canvas
8 x 6


You never know where your inspiration will come from...

I was in the very long, and very slow line of cars at

the Wendy's Drive-In window in Carlisle waiting to

get some of their GF chili for lunch.  As I was getting closer to 

my goal, I saw something in the crotch of the tree that grows

right by the curve that gets you closer to where you

can place your order.  I had to do a double-take,  were those

some small alien ships hovering in the shelter of that tree?  No, it

was three delightful fungi that had attached themselves 

to the tree and were flourishing - must be the Wendy's chili!

I painted this for the DPP Challenge Blog, hosted this month by 
Daily Painters of Pennsylvania Artist Pat Koscienski.

October's Challenge will be hosted by Sue Marrazzo

If you would like to see more of my work,

please visit my website or my blog. If you are

interested in purchasing any of my paintings you see

here on this blog, please contact me.

Claire Beadon Carnell

Member of:

Oil Painters of America

Daily Painters of Pennsylvania

Susquehanna Valley Plein Air Painters

Backyard Mushrooms - impressionistic acrylic ACEO painting by Pennsylvania Painter Pat Koscienski

Backyard Mushrooms

2.5" x 3.5"

ACEO

Acrylic

I found these mushrooms growing in the backyard and decided to paint them.   I have been trying to post this for several weeks.  However, everytime I tried to insert the photo it was posted in the vertical position.  I finally edited the photo and rotated it to the vertical position and when I posted it, it posted in the horizontal.  If anyone else has had this problem and knows the solution, please let me know.  This obviously worked, but is very time consuming.  If you have any questions, or wish to purchase, please contact PAT.  If you wish to see more of my paintings, please visit my website and blogspot at:

www.patkoscienski.com

www.patkoscienski.blogspot.com

Fungus Among Us by Daily Painter of Pennsylvania Mary Beth Brath

Fungus Among Us

6x12" Acrylic Alla Prima

Well...Claire put out a reminder about this month's challenge and I took the bait. I may decide to touch this up...or leave it alone...not sure yet.

I searched around my yard to paint the mushrooms plein air but could not find any today. So I went way back to photos I took in 2008 while at our family cabin in Northwestern PA.  Thank you Pat for hosting the challenge.  I have always wanted to paint mushrooms and this made me focus on the subject.

SEPTEMBER 2012 CHALLENGE, Mushrooms, Hosted by Pat Koscienski

Tomatoes and Mushrooms

8" x 10"

Acrylic

September is National Mushroom month.  Pennsylvania is the number

one producer of mushrooms making this a very appropriate subject

for September's  DPP challenge.  Mushrooms can be found  outside,

in markets, and in your kitchens.  So, if you take up the challenge, 

use your imagination and have fun. 

Rules of the Challenge:

1. This monthly Challenge is for DPP members only,

but anyone is welcome and encouraged to make comments on the posts.

2. Submit your Challenge entry just as you would a regular post - with

a picture of your entry and anything you would like to write about

your experience with this particular challenge. You are welcome to

submit more than one entry.

3. All entries must be posted no later than midnight September 30, 2012.

4. To get a larger, high-resolution version of the monthly Challenge photo, 
just click on the photo in this post.

5. Please put only your name in the label section of your post - thanks!

(Your name should appear exactly as it does on the DPP blog)

6. Please follow the spirit of this challenge - all submissions should be created

after the Challenge has been posted.

7. Have fun!

Heirloom Veggies by Rebecca Jennings

Three of these veggies grew in my garden.... the tomato is a figment of my imagination :) The tomatoes in my garden are a Roma variey, but I have been hungry for a sandwich made from

these big ol' tomatoes!!

This 8" x 16" oil is painted on prepared natural luan with the background

left as is, a different exercise for me.

Echinacea's growing in my garden by Linda Young

There are also black eyed Susans in my garden which keeps pushing these pretty little echinacea flowers around every year.  Every year I've had them, they have found a new place to grow away from the "susans".  You'd think the susans would get the hint:  The Echinacea don't like to be near you, so leave them alone!

Linda Young watercolors

P O Box 941 Carlisle, Pa.

Tomatoes on the Vine - Acrylic representational impressionistic palette knife still life painting by Pennsylvania Painter Pat Koscienski

"Tomatoes on the Vine"
8" x 10"
Acrylic on canvas

This painting was done initially for  Lela Stankovic's paint and draw together blogspot challenge.  However, I feel it, also,  meets the requirements of this challenge. It was done using a palette knife and acrylic paint with modelling compound. If you have any questions, or wish to purchase, contact PAT. To see more of my work, both representational and abstract, please visit my website  and blogspot at:

 

www.patkoscienski.com

www.patkoscienski.blogspot.com

Salsa! by Christine Marx

Well, this WOULD be growing in my garden this month if I hadn't broken my shoulder....had to buy these at the store. But next year these will be growing in my garden!

August 2012 Challenge by Jane Albin

                                                    "Two Pointy Tomatoes and a Roma"
                                                    5"x7" Watercolor on 140# cold press

August 2012 Challenge
I picked and painted these yesterday.  I never had pointy tomatoes before.  They are good sized so I put the 'Roma" tomato in to show scale.  Actually, the smaller 'Roma' one is a variety is called Amish Paste.  I planted all new-to-me plants this year.   Thanks for the challenge Claire.

SUE MARRAZZO DPP August 2012 Challenge

Sue Marrazzo submits an entry for:
 AUGUST 2012 DPP BLOG CHALLENGE...
WHAT'S IN YOUR GARDEN?

Summer Collective
by Sue Marrazzo
Mixed Media on Canvas
8" x 8"
Copyright artwork created and owned by Sue Marrazzo

The above art is mixed media painting. I used acrylic paint, found papers, ink, image transfers, gel medium, matte medium, glass beads and more to create the Summer Collective.
The colors remind me of late summer...
like an Indian Summer!
***ENJOY THIS SUMMER COLLECTIVE***

AUGUST 2012 CHALLENGE "What's Growing in Your Garden?" Challenge Hosted By Claire Beadon Carnell

'Heirloom'

by Claire Beadon Carnell

"What's Growing in Your Garden?"

The Challenge for this month...

Summer is flying by, and most gardens have an abundance

of veggies, fruits and flowers to eat and to PAINT!

What's growing in your garden this summer?  Hope you'll

paint something from your garden (or a friend's garden)

 and submit it to this month's DPP Challenge.

Rules of the Challenge:

1. This monthly Challenge is for DPP members only,

but anyone is welcome and encouraged to make comments on the posts.

2. Submit your Challenge entry just as you would a regular post - with

a picture of your entry and anything you would like to write about

your experience with this particular challenge. You are welcome to

submit more than one entry.

3. All entries must be posted no later than midnight August 31, 2012.

4. To get a larger, high-resolution version of the monthly Challenge photo, just click on

the photo in this post.

5. Please put only your name in the label section of your post - thanks!

(Your name should appear exactly as it does on the DPP blog)

6.  Please follow the spirit of this challenge - all submissions should be created

after the Challenge has been posted.

7. Have fun!

DOWNTOWN ANNAPOLIS By Cecelia Lyden

 Red, White, and Blue means to me-Patriotism and Freedom.

acrylic

9x12

acrylic

11x14

Patriotism displayed in the whole town of Annapolis, Md and on a solitary shed by the side of a road leading to Colgate in Hamilton, NY.

Canteloupe to Watermelon by Phillip Krivenko

Cantaloupe to Watermelon - My wife Kathy was cutting up cantaloupe when I took a photo with my iphone. During the painting process, decided to make it a watermelon, better color and made some composition changes. 

It's nice to be posting again to Daily Painters of Pa.

OPEN FOR BUSINESS By Cecelia Lyden

A TRIP TO BOONE

AMERICAN PROUD

When it comes to Red, White, and Blue, count me in. That color grouping means one thing to me--the American flag. I capture a display of American patriotism first with my camera and then with my paintbrush. "Open for Business" is in Gallery@Second; "American Proud" was sold; and "A Trip to Boone" is hanging in my red, white, and blue kitchen. 

Half Eaten Plum by Mary Beth Brath

Half Eaten Plum by Mary Beth Brath

Limited Palette of Chroma Interactive Pyrrole Red, Cobalt Blue and Liquitex Titanium White.

Completed in one sitting this evening. Another Daily Painting! Thanks for the challenge Claire!

(I could not finish eating the plum due to paint contamination.)

JULY 2012 CHALLENGE "Hooray for the Red, White and Blue" Challenge Hosted By Claire Beadon Carnell

'The Blue Pots'

by Claire Beadon Carnell

"Hooray for the Red, White and Blue"

The Challenge for this month...

This month's challenge will focus on paintings that have a

red, white and blue theme.  Your imagination is your guide,

just remember to HAVE FUN!

Rules of the Challenge:

1. This monthly Challenge is for DPP members only,

but anyone is welcome and encouraged to make comments on the posts.

2. Submit your Challenge entry just as you would a regular post - with

a picture of your entry and anything you would like to write about

your experience with this particular challenge. You are welcome to

submit more than one entry.

3. All entries must be posted no later than midnight July 31, 2012.

4. To get a larger, high-resolution version of the monthly Challenge photo, just click on

the photo in this post.

5. Please put only your name in the label section of your post - thanks!

(Your name should appear exactly as it does on the DPP blog)

6.  Please follow the spirit of this challenge - all submissions should be created

after the Challenge has been posted.

7. Have fun!

Lemons and Flowers - Original acrylic still life painting by Pennsylvania Painter Pat Koscienski

Lemons and Flower

12" x 12"

Acrylic

This painting was done for a Paint and Draw Together challenge last October.  It fit the theme of this challenge, also,  so I thought it would be interesting to post.  These lemons are begging to become lemonade.  If you have any questions, or wish to purchase, contact PAT.  If you wish to see more of my paintings, both abstract and representational, please visit my website and blogspot. 

www.patkoscienski.com

www.patkoscienski.blogspot.com

ANDY SMITH, watercolor ~ Lititz, PA

6"x 4" miniature original watercolor
June 2012 DPP Challenge
A Painting A Day

I have painted lemons several times but
it was the leaves that moved me today!

www.andysmithartist.com
www.andysmithartist.blogspot.com

Lemonade 25cents, watercolor by Linda Young

copyright Linda Young
"Lemonade 25 cents"
$300, double matted and framed
size: 16 x 18"

Due to not having much extra time to paint right now I thought this would be appropriate for the Daily Painters of Pennsylvania's challenge this month, Claire.  This is a painting I did two years ago for the "Lemon Show at CALC.  I used a photo reference from the world wide web and made it my own changing some details.

This painting is available for purchase; is double matted, framed and ready to ship.

When the world hands you lemons; make lemonade and serve it to the world.

Linda Young Watercolors
P O Box 941
Carlisle, Pa.

JUNE 2012 CHALLENGE "When Life Hands You Lemons" Challenge Hosted By Claire Beadon Carnell

"When Life Hands You Lemons"

The Challenge for this month...

At a time of year when lemons are prevalent, many will make

lemonade.  As an artist, what will you do with 

your lemons?  The photo above is only provided as an

inspiration...  You can paint a whole lemon.

wedges of lemon, a slice of a lemon - the 

creative possibilities are endless, and totally up to you!

Rules of the Challenge:

1. This monthly Challenge is for DPP members only,

but anyone is welcome and encouraged to make comments on the posts.

2. Submit your Challenge entry just as you would a regular post - with

a picture of your entry and anything you would like to write about

your experience with this particular challenge. You are welcome to

submit more than one entry.

3. All entries must be posted no later than midnight June 30, 2012.

4. To get a larger, high-resolution version of the monthly Challenge photo, just click on

the photo in this post.

5. Please put only your name in the label section of your post - thanks!

(Your name should appear exactly as it does on the DPP blog)

6.  Please follow the spirit of this challenge - all submissions must be created

after the Challenge has been posted.

7. Have fun!

Patricia A Griffin Mother Hen study 10''

 

A MOTHER'S LOVE Daily Painters of Pennsylvania May 2012 Challenge Painting by Claire Beadon Carnell

'A Mother's Love'
Oil on Canvas
10 x 8


I thought this picture really expressed a mother's love 

for her baby.  Thanks to Patricia Griffin for providing

such an inspiring project for this month's DPP Challenge!

Hope that everyone is having a very happy

Memorial Day weekend. Both my father and my

father-in-law were decorated WWII veterans, and I

have always been thankful for all of the people who

protect and serve our country so selflessly so that

we can live in freedom.

If you would like to see more of my work,

please visit my website or my blog. If you are

interested in purchasing any of my paintings you see

here on this blog, please contact me.

Claire Beadon Carnell

Member of:

Oil Painters of America

Daily Painters of Pennsylvania

Susquehanna Valley Plein Air Painters

Fathers can be mothers too by Linda Young

Fathers can be mothers too
6-1/2" x 7"
Watercolor 300# arches cp
by Linda Young

Every year a new clutch of Cardinal babies arrive in our pine tree; every year the father and mother yap at me to get off my patio because I'm in their space!  So, this time, I left my "perch" and ran upstairs to get on an even level with the baby and father Cardinal.  I watched from a place they didn't expect me to be and took the picture of daddy feeding his offspring which I have placed into a small painting.

Linda Young Watercolors
P O Box 941
Carlisle Pa. 17013 

MAY 2012 CHALLENGE "Mothering" Hosted By Patricia A. Griffin

 

"Mothering"

The Challenge for this month...

Capture the essence of Mothering through animals.

Happy Mothers Day!

PAG

Rules of the Challenge:

1. This monthly Challenge is for DPP members only,

but anyone is welcome and encouraged to make comments on the posts.

2. Submit your Challenge entry just as you would a regular post - with

a picture of your entry and anything you would like to write about

your experience with this particular challenge. You are welcome to

submit more than one entry.

3. All entries must be posted no later than midnight May 31, 2012.

4. To get a larger, high-resolution version of the monthly Challenge photo, just click on

the photo in this post.

5. Please put only your name in the label section of your post - thanks!

(Your name should appear exactly as it does on the DPP blog)

6.  Please follow the spirit of this challenge - all submissions must be created

after the Challenge has been posted.

7. Have fun!