tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24901545686645567022024-02-07T15:53:32.980-07:00CINDY REVELL-FINDING THE WHIMSYOil Painting - Still Life - WhimsicalsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13983576344422604210noreply@blogger.comBlogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490154568664556702.post-68202067247773718602016-04-20T18:38:00.000-07:002016-04-20T18:38:02.199-07:00After several years with Blogger I am moving over to WordPress. Blogger did some odd design things to my blog and I simply do not like it anymore. I've enjoyed sharing this art journey with you all, your comments and thoughts inspire me and I would love for you to continue on the trip.<br />
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WordPress was supposed to import my followers and subscribers to my new blog but it didn't so I invite you to visit the new <a href="https://cindyrevell.wordpress.com/2016/04/20/exploration-tulips-to-tigers/" target="_blank">blog</a> to subscribe and to read my latest post <b>Exploration - Tulips to Tigers</b>. It's all about exploration in art and life.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13983576344422604210noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490154568664556702.post-5054570511879552832016-02-02T20:42:00.000-07:002016-02-02T20:45:54.554-07:00Red Horse at Lando Gallery<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<i style="font-size: 12.8px;">Carmine Reverie</i><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">is part of a series of horse paintings that started last year when my husband and I saw some gorgeous appaloosa horses in a pasture. I knew I would paint them at some point but what I would do with them wasn't immediately apparent. That's inspiration for you, sometimes it's there, only partly formed until one day bits and pieces of ideas start falling into place. This is #5 in the series with more to come. You can see the rest at </span><a href="http://www.cindyrevell.com/#!whimsical/c1efn" style="font-size: 12.8px;">www.cindyrevell.com</a><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">. And you can see </span><i style="font-size: 12.8px;">Carmine Reverie</i><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> at </span><a href="http://www.landogallery.com/" style="font-size: 12.8px;" target="_blank">Lando Gallery</a><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> in Edmonton, AB. </span><br />
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My neighbour has a couple of peacocks. They like to perch on the roof of the house or her deck railing and they like to stand right in the middle of the road. I have some of their lovely feathers which eventually inspired this painting. Sometimes it takes a long while for an idea to come together.<br />
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And is often the case in my work there is a hint of mystery in the painting - is he getting or giving something?<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13983576344422604210noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490154568664556702.post-21088061212675891442015-08-11T09:39:00.004-07:002015-11-01T08:34:53.170-07:00An Orange Frog, A Wild Cat And Inspiration<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><br></b></span><span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Inspiration. It's everywhere and is filtered through other things that resonate with us. </span><i style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jeremiah</i><span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, the orange frog was an idea that came to me after a trip to the greenhouse where I saw a huge 4 foot tall green resin frog nestled among the water plants. Ok, so </span><i style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jeremiah</i><span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> is not green but I'd just painted the orange wild cat/cheetah/leopard hybrid </span><i style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Tangerine Reverie </i><span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">which was partly inspired by my petunias</span><i style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </i><span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and was still in the mood to paint orange. And more spots, stripes, flowers and pillows, motifs that I explore again and again in various ways. When I paint realism my subject matter is usually still life and here it appears as the setting for <span style="font-style: italic;">Tangerine Reverie. </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 1.7em;">You'll see piles of pillows in </span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 1.7em;">Maybe Later</i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 1.7em;"> and </span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 1.7em;">The Art of Resting</i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 1.7em;"> about 6 posts down from January 2015 and March 2013 which also show up in </span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 1.7em;">Jeremiah</i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 1.7em;">. It's a lovely organic melding of past ideas that I'm not finished exploring. </span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13983576344422604210noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490154568664556702.post-14484195540397916122015-08-03T07:13:00.000-07:002015-11-16T15:31:57.472-07:00Romeo - Blue Horse and Owl Oil Painting<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">These past months have been filled with inspiration as I paint for my upcoming solo show <i>"Be Your Own Bird"</i> October 15, 2015 at the <a href="http://www.daffodilgallery.ca/" target="_blank">Daffodil Gallery</a>. In this new series of paintings birds are the common element in a menagerie of uncommonly coloured exotic cats, horses and other animals that symbolize trusting in and being your unique self. We are spiritual creatures, enjoying our time on earth as individuals, different from one another with our own stories and paths to take yet interdependent and connected as suggested by têtê-a-têtês between the animals. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">See more of my recent works for this new show at <a href="http://www.cindyrevell.com/">www.cindyrevell.com</a></span><br />
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Limitations have a special role to play, they can provide focus and direction which may seem kind of a funny thing for me to say since my work ranges from whimsical illustration in 3 different mediums (scratchboard, acrylic and digital) to realistic oil painting to whimsical oil painting. To see how focus and direction can be fun and not boring at all visit my brand new <a href="http://www.cindyrevell.com/" target="_blank">website</a> which includes 4 different portfolios, different but very much connected through colour.</div>
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For those of you who followed this blog because of the still lifes I hope the shift away from realistic still life wasn't a disappointment. In fact, I hope the shift brought fun and pleasure. I've learned that exploration provides inspiration for other areas of one's art and is of great value. Stick around, I'm not done with still life just yet. Thank you for being part of my art circle. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13983576344422604210noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490154568664556702.post-70915028021682361622013-05-23T21:51:00.000-07:002015-01-04T12:17:50.152-07:00Portrait of a Rooster<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Morning Call was loosely inspired by my lovely bantam rooster Vincent who, in real life, has an interesting shock of orange feathers on either side of his comb reminiscent of the pageboy type hairstyle worn by a young Vincent Van Gogh. His hearty crow announces each new day.</span></span><br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13983576344422604210noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490154568664556702.post-1275961673706437002013-05-19T20:53:00.000-07:002015-01-20T09:21:52.192-07:00Portrait of Pete<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is our dog Pete, a handsome fellow with huge ears which were laid slightly back in the wind making them look rather average in this depiction. At only knee height Pete is short but his enthusiasm and love are tall. This painting was a gift for my husband. <br /><br />As the years have gone by I'm discovering a real love of painting in a more expressive manner. Lively brushstrokes and more interpretive colour have become more important to me versus painting exactly what I see. Although in this little painting the colour is, for the most part, as I saw it. The brushstrokes however, are looser and more descriptive than my usual work and I'm happy about that. This painterly and more expressive way of painting has an energetic give and take that I love!</span><br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13983576344422604210noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490154568664556702.post-87886223667162567382013-03-29T10:51:00.000-07:002013-05-19T08:05:16.137-07:00Cheetah and Pillows<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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'The Art of Resting' was painted after a month or so of doing primarily still life. As much as I love the zen of still life the lure of playing with my imagination and going wild with colour is irresistible.<br />
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It's fascinating to see the links and threads of one's own creative life, to see how old unformed concepts connect to the present. Even though I have only been painting these whimsical cats, birds and flowers for a couple of years the idea for something along these lines was lurking about only as rough scribbles for illustrations in sketchbooks and bits of paper. An idea that was sketched out years ago and found in a file cabinet was the inspiration for this painting. Suddenly I'm grateful for my propensity to note everything and save those scraps of paper that litter the studio, you never know when an old idea will come to life. <br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13983576344422604210noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490154568664556702.post-27690363022599588642012-09-30T09:25:00.000-07:002013-05-19T08:09:47.069-07:00Still Life, Tomatoes<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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The tomatoes are lush and plentiful this year and ripening madly in shades of greens, green-orange, orange, orange-red and deep rich reds. Unlike the perfect round specimens from the store homegrown tomatoes are alive with flavour and lumpy with character. Their colour and shape with it's lumps and bumps are just meant to be painted. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13983576344422604210noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490154568664556702.post-68892787718245195012012-09-29T08:34:00.000-07:002015-01-04T12:14:43.643-07:00Sunflowers and Red Wing Black Bird<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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This time of year is a sensory smorgasbord with geese calling their way south, birds feasting on berries, crisp apples right off the tree, yellow sunflowers, fields with golden swaths, and the crunchy sound and rich smell of fallen leaves. As if those aren’t reasons enough to love fall there’s a particularly soft and mellow quality to the light. It’s a golden colour that infuses everything with it’s soft warm hue.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13983576344422604210noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490154568664556702.post-27296661554145453992012-07-27T16:55:00.001-07:002012-07-27T16:55:48.824-07:00Back and Forth Between Still Life and Whimsicals<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Peonies, such seemingly fragile blossoms yet in spite of wind, hail
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I'm once again exploring still life after a couple of years of working on a series of whimsical
paintings featuring wildcats, birds and flowers. I am, as ever, in awe with the way light plays
upon flowers, fruit and objects. Light and me, it's a love affair that
never really goes away, it just sits quietly waiting while the
whimsicals with their bright color and opportunities for imaginative
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Some artists remain faithful to
one style and medium then there are others like myself who are a bit
more fickle. I've gone from watercolor to a
scratchboard/watercolor/pencil crayon mix, then turned to acrylic,
digital and eventually to oil paint. My style morphed and changed too,
going from realistic to a naive and whimsical style when I began
illustrating and then returning to realism once again when I began
exploring oils and still life. Each style has a hold on me for a time
but no one style ever wins, I work in whichever style suits my mood and
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One thing I'm sure of, different styles and mediums
enrich one another and they are all rewarding, I'm not sure I could
choose a favorite. What about you, what is your experience with working
in more than one style? Or are you loyal to just one? If you are an art
lover, do you like to see an artist exploring or do you prefer to see
them stick to one style and medium? Curious.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13983576344422604210noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490154568664556702.post-69775116201833287832012-05-23T18:47:00.001-07:002013-05-19T20:55:45.524-07:00Symbolism in Art<div style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-size: small;">Recently I had a conversation with some friends about how paintings are interpreted. How much of the understanding of a work of art is based on the various elements the artists use to get across their concept and how much of the interpretation is really influenced by the viewers own life experiences? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Sometimes the message is quite obvious and other times it's ambiguous and very much open for interpretation regardless of the artist's intent. My own work has it's own symbology which I hope comes across to some degree yet I rather like knowing the viewer relates to it in their own way too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Journey On</b></i> represents the passage of time, where it takes us, where we've been, how we get there and with whom. The moon symbolizes the rhythm of the years, the boat represents life's journeys and was inspired by ancient middle eastern vessels, while the cat and bird, two creatures typically not seen as companions become shipmates in this painting, as they do in much of my work. </span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13983576344422604210noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490154568664556702.post-57577088246669459862012-01-16T19:39:00.005-07:002014-08-19T20:37:00.101-07:00Orange Wild Cat Oil Painting<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7c_XtusnjLAFxY3BNPJPDHi6ChSCgzr9l_ViLxb25HptPGyU9NMjsdFueh62LzH3V1wY-P06m59Kw6u6hAy_e1kqnlOJDnQ_pxlqOWdUYhhSsYMBOZdVP940DcufRH5sssIudvwVejuo/s1600/leopardgrey2birdsverticalb.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7c_XtusnjLAFxY3BNPJPDHi6ChSCgzr9l_ViLxb25HptPGyU9NMjsdFueh62LzH3V1wY-P06m59Kw6u6hAy_e1kqnlOJDnQ_pxlqOWdUYhhSsYMBOZdVP940DcufRH5sssIudvwVejuo/s400/leopardgrey2birdsverticalb.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698431051384188130" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; height: 400px; width: 235px;" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: red;">Sold</span><br style="font-style: italic;" /></span><span style="font-size: 100%;">Another year has passed and with it some very good moments and along with some inevitable sad ones. We can't experience this great big wonderful life without having both, it's what gives life it's richness and depth. This painting is symbolic of our viewing of the past year, as we look back at the past and ahead to the future.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13983576344422604210noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490154568664556702.post-66386311261696319382011-11-06T09:52:00.003-07:002011-11-06T10:20:45.788-07:00Autumn Inspired Still Life<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTTqm-8x0WkJf5vT9eSdPTnfASiIgFmFCKFDgvTdMr35vfGTkeXX0O3xmMAVBuYP5G0ZTBdam6gsS5ZEasj7plVcLAn0ZE4GHGv6cNAdrzSh3B3Fjm-GnR1S2YIsJCjAGre0GlZTfCHtE/s1600/blackbirdindiansummersongs.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 396px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTTqm-8x0WkJf5vT9eSdPTnfASiIgFmFCKFDgvTdMr35vfGTkeXX0O3xmMAVBuYP5G0ZTBdam6gsS5ZEasj7plVcLAn0ZE4GHGv6cNAdrzSh3B3Fjm-GnR1S2YIsJCjAGre0GlZTfCHtE/s400/blackbirdindiansummersongs.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5671927278929802338" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Indian Summer Songs</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">18x18</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Sold</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">This painting was inspired during a walk through the forest to feed my chickens. The autumn light was a mellow gold that seemed to guild everything with the same dusty amber colour. I just stood there and smelled the fall air and enjoyed that gorgeous light, the mellow air, and the sound of aspen leaves flickering. It was a sublime moment which inspired a few golden toned paintings. It seemed right to include the cheeky blackbirds that visit our backyard pond in this painting of light and sunflowers. It's interesting that even though I'm not painting from life now light still influences my work.<br /><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13983576344422604210noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490154568664556702.post-17160479232392197972011-03-29T07:30:00.002-07:002011-03-29T07:45:03.485-07:00New Website and New Paintings<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsDfwCOmKtMm1JrCZM4HCInGKBCI-5nXs5nuwqBwl7zJ1F7ISKakA4zD7GRY8nHaQf26WjasVvlsxYlaRjrHguGgV6ebNfYLNm69vbHAJxG1yeIAH7kVfZkKpmJvkUSm4kXf6eTXYOa04/s1600/youcanthandlethetruthsmall.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 331px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsDfwCOmKtMm1JrCZM4HCInGKBCI-5nXs5nuwqBwl7zJ1F7ISKakA4zD7GRY8nHaQf26WjasVvlsxYlaRjrHguGgV6ebNfYLNm69vbHAJxG1yeIAH7kVfZkKpmJvkUSm4kXf6eTXYOa04/s400/youcanthandlethetruthsmall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589509583866229362" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">You Can't Handle the Truth</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">30x36</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Oil/Canvas</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">SOLD</span><br /><br />Yes, this blog is bla<span style="font-size:85%;">ck<span style="font-size:100%;">! I know some web designers and critics detest black blogs and websites but my work seems to look better o</span></span>n black so when I decided to build a new website I decided to take a chance on black. I wanted my blog to match somewhat so had to make the switch to black here too.<br /><br />As well as being completely rebuilt my website has a whole new category of paintings which you can see at <a href="http://www.cindyrevell.com/">www.cindyrevell.com</a>, click on oil painting then click on whimsical. My apologies for not providing a direct link to the portfolio but I have yet to figure out how to make the URL specific to a particular page.<br /><br />After contemplating a completely new look for my website and analyzing a lot of website templates I finally chose <a href="http://www.bigblackbag.com">Big Black Bag</a> who seemed to have the greatest amount of flexibility with the design and type of packages available. In terms of ease, unless you choose a template and not manipulate it too much it's probably pretty simple but the greater the manipulating of the design the greater the amount of work involved. Nevertheless I like the ability to make more than a simple template change. Big Black Bag’s customer service is fabulous.<br /><br />I'm continuing with these cat paintings and find it exhilarating to use my imagination and tell a bit of a story, to play with my favorite colors, to explore size, and see how loose I can get. The picture doesn’t seem very loose but in real life they are.<br /><br />No, I'm not giving up still life but I'm truly enjoying these new paintings and have so many ideas that I just need to let it play out and see what comes of it. I've found that art I've done in the past, like the fast studies, my illustration work, and motifs I explored about 15 years ago have an influence on my work. I can see the still lifes and these new paintings perhaps getting a bit closer to one another. I am loving it.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13983576344422604210noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490154568664556702.post-71290575715619085992011-01-13T08:46:00.003-07:002013-05-19T20:56:08.824-07:00Looking Back - Exploration in Art<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC1ccN2lCM8TNix0oGBOTI7aafNd8E6MwDpmD03QA1lmjMUuYkxcH5HuWrsdYpci8bGZ2sP0MEcHLjyFKBcNBbOfLXbTrsEkz8x-In2aAUCMbXcLOe7hyphenhyphenT5i7fXfgF-fmSCNCPvdcVleI/s1600/lookingback.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561698936469885538" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC1ccN2lCM8TNix0oGBOTI7aafNd8E6MwDpmD03QA1lmjMUuYkxcH5HuWrsdYpci8bGZ2sP0MEcHLjyFKBcNBbOfLXbTrsEkz8x-In2aAUCMbXcLOe7hyphenhyphenT5i7fXfgF-fmSCNCPvdcVleI/s400/lookingback.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; height: 324px; width: 400px;" /></a><br />
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This last year saw years of exploration bear fruit. Experimentation is important to artists and by trying different mediums, styles, new color palettes, or unfamiliar subject matter we make discoveries that lend greater depth to what we are already doing or take us in new directions. I'm not giving up still life but I'm certainly enjoying exploring this new direction and indulging myself in working purely from my imagination and playing with color, pattern, and considering the symbolism of the objects in the paintings.</div>
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This first decade of the 21 century was a wonderful journey in my artistic life and what this next decade will bring I don’t really know but I’m certain that it will be no less exciting as the last. I hope this next decade is a rich one in your own artistic travels.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13983576344422604210noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490154568664556702.post-5701027781232465682010-10-13T07:13:00.006-07:002012-01-16T19:32:26.044-07:00Last Peony of the Season - Oil Painting<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCXHIDodvno_5RL3xqEu1xtv1EUD6J0k1T8SLzwJUQ0dAPPynbHGqyrHbhEVZZXuxc3x9oyNUYm2Evvtha8a1EgLQhUBYagRbaEzMkqBsyr-jJyALDfyVtUs6kLKHh2C2Zn6cwFTmofwE/s1600/lastofjuly-peony-oil-painting-cindy-revell.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 297px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCXHIDodvno_5RL3xqEu1xtv1EUD6J0k1T8SLzwJUQ0dAPPynbHGqyrHbhEVZZXuxc3x9oyNUYm2Evvtha8a1EgLQhUBYagRbaEzMkqBsyr-jJyALDfyVtUs6kLKHh2C2Zn6cwFTmofwE/s400/lastofjuly-peony-oil-painting-cindy-revell.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527534504395207298" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Last of July</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">6x8, Oil on Canvas</span><br />© Cindy Revell<br />$325 Framed</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" >Sold</span><br /><br />I'm back to painting still lifes as I finish up the final painting for an upcoming show this weekend. <span style="font-style: italic;">Last of July</span> was painted at the end of July when my peonies were done blooming and there was this one final, lovely blossom left.<br /><br />This summer I did 3 <a href="http://www.cindyrevell.com/its-cgi/pa/pa.cgi?overlord=Search+Gallery&gallery_catagory=Oil%20Painting&pic=8931&page=1">peony paintings</a> and kept jars of them near my easel. Their fragrance mingled with the lovely scent of oil paint. The smell of the peonies and my paints, the sight of the dried flowers, bottles, and bowls, all set out as I planned still lifes and left them there to inspire me, windows opened to catch the sounds of birds and a crowing rooster. Delicious.<br /><br />At those moments I forget about the illustration assignments, commissions, and other projects that are waiting for me and just take it all in, such riches of the senses. Looking at that painting a few months later I remember just how it felt.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13983576344422604210noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490154568664556702.post-47021185982932213172010-09-23T07:25:00.004-07:002013-05-19T20:58:27.770-07:00Combining Illustration and Oil PaintingIt's an interesting back and forth process to switch between illustration and oil painting.They're very different stylistically but they each influence the other. Over the many years of illustration I've explored different ways of getting an idea or story across depending on the requirement for each particular assignment, that builds a bit of a mental storehouse to draw upon for subsequent paintings.<br />
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The idea of combining my illustration and oil painting has been lurking in the corners of my mind for a few years but it was a vague idea of exploring themes, patterns, and favourite subject matter in the naive style of my illustration in oils. I made a few stabs at it but it wasn't quite what I wanted, the vision was hovering but just not clear.<br />
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One day while doing my early morning writing I could see my vague idea become clearer. I was writing about my recent studies and the things that I was learning from them like painting colour more intuitively and much looser and freer brushwork when suddenly I could see how I could use these expressive ways of painting to combine my illustration style with the oils in a way that would be pure painting pleasure.<br />
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What to paint? I kept it simple, choosing motifs that I love like pattern, birds, cats, flowers, and still life. I began exploring different techniques and with each painting things began to fall into place. Where are they going? I'm not sure. I only know that it's the pleasure and exploration that's important for now and the joy of seeing how they change over the years. I would never have done this had it not been for all those years of illustration and then the oil painting, it's all the experimenting and the doing that brought me to these new paintings and it reminds me of the great importance of exploration in art.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bird with Tulip & Vase</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">20 x 16, Oil on Canvas</span><br />© Cindy Revell</span><a href="http://www.candlerartgallery.com/dynamic/category_artist.asp?ArtistID=68&CategoryID=Originals"><span style="font-size: 85%;"></span><br /></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Thoughts</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">20 x 16, Oil on Canvas</span><br />© Cindy Revell</span><a href="http://www.candlerartgallery.com/dynamic/category_artist.asp?ArtistID=68&CategoryID=Originals"><span style="font-size: 85%;"></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Spring Songs</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">20 x 16, Oil on Canvas</span><br />© Cindy Revell</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Russet Spring Songs</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">20 x 16, Oil on Canvas</span><br />© Cindy Revell<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">Sold</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13983576344422604210noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490154568664556702.post-40238498069603747552010-07-23T20:30:00.004-07:002010-09-25T10:39:21.541-07:00Peony Study<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg63Q5Nn1TFV-IxOmQQp8BXnhuq-KX8g1rIee_mIszHJ8HNGPI3F5z-eSvQQATAiVUF7g6o4LIS4D_wrFGvVAquw4Y6aSbrVkZoy66Yv4RvLlkWlvGWuDOZdZvSmgt4Csh8DsMhGK5S2UM/s1600/illuminatedsmall.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 277px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg63Q5Nn1TFV-IxOmQQp8BXnhuq-KX8g1rIee_mIszHJ8HNGPI3F5z-eSvQQATAiVUF7g6o4LIS4D_wrFGvVAquw4Y6aSbrVkZoy66Yv4RvLlkWlvGWuDOZdZvSmgt4Csh8DsMhGK5S2UM/s400/illuminatedsmall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5497311320201460594" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Illuminated</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">5x7, Oil on Canvas</span><br />© Cindy Revell<br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Sold</span><br /><br />This little painting was done early one July morning. The sun was hot and burning off the dew, the air smelled fresh and flowery, bees were buzzing happily and so was I. I brought this lovely peony into the studio to paint where it glowed in the light from a west window. Lately I’ve been exploring more complex compositions, sometimes just in drawings for future paintings but so often I come back to simple motifs like this which seem to have so much impact.<br /><br />This is one of the paintings that will be at the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Candler Art Gallery</span> from July 24 to mid August. I’m excited about this show because my still lifes will be hung with several of my new works which I call hybrids since they are a combination of my illustration and my still lifes. This is the first time that the hybrids have been shown publicly.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13983576344422604210noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490154568664556702.post-31062604990890872392010-04-16T07:02:00.002-07:002010-04-16T08:24:48.055-07:00Barn Cat - Early Oil Painting<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinxZmSeR5vjuc6KsbrXtokKN5vxnJgyZM1z5w3ICkmMDprzsaqCr8x90GjpEUEEwgbdCbSLnW1dz4XQgMUJ90hynIDwIEbpkxp_18_3A4bsaHRKrCKd1Xb9OK0hw46EZ-qxJ1U0BuVq5I/s1600/barncat1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 292px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinxZmSeR5vjuc6KsbrXtokKN5vxnJgyZM1z5w3ICkmMDprzsaqCr8x90GjpEUEEwgbdCbSLnW1dz4XQgMUJ90hynIDwIEbpkxp_18_3A4bsaHRKrCKd1Xb9OK0hw46EZ-qxJ1U0BuVq5I/s400/barncat1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460736702176297010" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Barn Cat,</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">9 x 12, Oil on Canvas</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">© 2004 Cindy Revell</span><br /><br />This year has been one of much introspection with regards to my art and the hows and whys of life in general. Yesterday I was thinking of serendipity and how the smallest of events can have a huge impact on your life. In 1989 I took a job as a graphic designer/illustrator and stuck around for about 8 years after which I freelanced as an illustrator. Gina, the woman who hired me back then, and I become friends and kept in touch. One day she told me about her oil painting classes and I shared my own first less that stellar attempt at oils which were done to invigorate my illustration by trying a new medium. Gina suggested I try her oil painting class. I did so in May 2002 but I was very busy and stressed with the demands of illustration and a husband with cancer and didn't love the classes right away. They were simply a way for me to learn what was then a rather vexatious medium. I hung in and a year later I was completely hooked and knew that something very special had taken over my life.<br /><br />So how does the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Barn Cat</span> fit in with all of this? When I was working as a designer/illustrator I was sent out on a field trip with some kids to take some pictures for an annual report. I spied this lovely Buddha like cat who was serenely lording it over the chicken coop, I snapped his picture thinking that I'd do a watercolor of him sometime. The photo hung in my office for years and I took it with me when I left, Gina loved that picture. As I was learning the oils it struck me that the time had come to finally paint that cat. At the time it was all I could do to manipulate the paint and the composition suffered from a too literal reliance on the photo. I changed a few things but missed a few critical ones which as an illustrator I should have spotted right off the bat. In spite of it's imperfections Gina fell in love with the painting and became one of my first collectors.<br /><br />Art had always been a fairly major force in my life and while illustration is still a big part of my days my obsession with oil painting fills nearly every other available moment. How I oil paint has changed hugely but looking back I'm amazed at how it all started.<br /><br />All because someone needed a graphic designer way back in 1989.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13983576344422604210noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490154568664556702.post-33699742664234130802010-04-02T21:52:00.005-07:002010-09-25T10:40:03.476-07:00Bean Pot with Pens and Brushes<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmGK9c3xQZYUGjKxnfgEohVlA1jThoEW4Yim5RmX3u-rd8v40gY_jg7vcdPDuDo-011aJEReFup40lWHnMqxbxpQfs97ubp_DTtDmKaJEoXo-37c4qEgbPr6iby-0jRUJhoWSBB2SMgfc/s1600/15beanpotwithpens.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 297px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmGK9c3xQZYUGjKxnfgEohVlA1jThoEW4Yim5RmX3u-rd8v40gY_jg7vcdPDuDo-011aJEReFup40lWHnMqxbxpQfs97ubp_DTtDmKaJEoXo-37c4qEgbPr6iby-0jRUJhoWSBB2SMgfc/s400/15beanpotwithpens.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455770141390490786" border="0" /></a><br />Bean Pot with Pens and Brushes<br />6 x 8<br />Oil/Panel<br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Sold</span><br /><br />With this little painting my goal was to paint as fast as I possibly could. My brush was flying and I found that soft edges came easily by painting fast and with thick paint. Strangely enough the colors and the 'feel' of the painting seemed truer in this speedy painting than some paintings in which I've carefully striven to capture the exact color of the light. Funny how painting fast can really shake things up, in a good way.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13983576344422604210noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490154568664556702.post-73103896230043824992010-03-12T11:22:00.004-07:002010-03-12T11:38:02.589-07:00Mandarin Orange - Study in OIl<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRo9MPtUV4HZpuu6rXeTDXbzr2-5-_RfnJemslZFhg_DtJwnO_uysl_07SH4NOnbWu9lrv_PE-EAphchq25Mfds1khDkE2PV3E0velZnRuqnY5Pu5Ul3NVQzfQb_1x0u8xKWfdMZutRHA/s1600-h/3orangestudy1colorcorrected.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 399px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRo9MPtUV4HZpuu6rXeTDXbzr2-5-_RfnJemslZFhg_DtJwnO_uysl_07SH4NOnbWu9lrv_PE-EAphchq25Mfds1khDkE2PV3E0velZnRuqnY5Pu5Ul3NVQzfQb_1x0u8xKWfdMZutRHA/s400/3orangestudy1colorcorrected.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447815147703428866" border="0" /></a><br />Mandarin Study<br />6 x 6<br />275.00 Framed<br /><br />Simplicity vs complexity. The straightforward approach to honoring the beauty of a humble orange can have as great an impact as a more complicated one. The small painting a day movement has done much to remind people of the incredibly beauty in simplicity. With nothing else in the painting to distract us we’re able to appreciate the variety of colours, textures, lights and darks in that one little object. Many artists become attuned to these kinds of things after years of close observation. The ability to notice these kinds of things make us very lucky people indeed. How enriching. <br /><br />A lone orange, so simple yet so lovely and rarely do we notice that aspect of it as we guzzle it’s tangy juices.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13983576344422604210noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2490154568664556702.post-80927990828898044202010-02-03T22:17:00.004-07:002010-02-23T21:41:58.697-07:00Finding The Colour of Light in a Still Life<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitHydVzbYJfrUEzg-d8zIpxXIZWI52xyNufyGqX0BGfeoZUcubKbNb8TRsPwAwcghOB4_WZNk5Fj4xNzLSMhSL6rFxvupZYgGPYZH2XUdCaAQa7eMBqVHCy-0Y01VSVLlkUlJAfnbLJUg/s1600-h/plumstudy1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 302px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitHydVzbYJfrUEzg-d8zIpxXIZWI52xyNufyGqX0BGfeoZUcubKbNb8TRsPwAwcghOB4_WZNk5Fj4xNzLSMhSL6rFxvupZYgGPYZH2XUdCaAQa7eMBqVHCy-0Y01VSVLlkUlJAfnbLJUg/s400/plumstudy1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434253497756179602" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Plum in Mexican Bowl<br />5 x 7 Oil on Panel</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" >sold</span><br /><br /><br />This little Mexican bowl with it's thin strip of intense blue is such a beautiful little thing. It sits on a table right beside my easel holding holding pebbles. In this little painting I was trying to do two things, work swiftly and create exciting and lively brushstrokes and to capture colour more intuitively. I've been working on this with <a style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" href="http://cindyrevell.blogspot.com/2009/05/snow-cranes-chilis-oil-painting.html">my studies</a> for some time now. Sometimes when you look at light in your still life set up the colours seem to shift right before your eyes, one moment they might appear orangey and the next more pink. When that happens it causes a lot of head scratching, peering, and squinting. The trick seems to be to look fairly quickly and paint the first impressions of a colour. It seems easier to capture the elusive colour of light with a quick look versus a long analytical look which is invariably when the second guessing starts. Art, strangely yet wonderfully perplexing.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13983576344422604210noreply@blogger.com9