Small Studies...

A while ago, I started painting small studies in my classes to illustrate the lesson .

Some of my students asked if they could purchase them, so I mounted, varnished and framed a number of them to show and sell as small works.

They are priced well below retail as they were quick impressions.

I have posted about half of the available images.

These painting will be available for sale at the Winslow Art Center in Winslow WA on Bainbridge Island, Friday December 12th and Saturday December 13th.

 



          

A Bend in the River

12 x 16

$175 

Painted to illustrate the power of using fewer pigments

 

  

                                    

A Peaceful Place

 12 x 16    

 $175

We painted this image together using several different color combinations                

 

Apple Basket

8 x 8

$100

We each painted a copy of this from a black and white photo to see if we could find warm light, cool shadows and reflected light. I had the students work very quickly to not overthink.

 

 Backlit Aspen

10 x 8

SOLD

Painted as a quick Plein Air demo several years ago.

 

Bagno Vignoni

12 x 9

$150

Plein Air demo in Italy done during a short sun break between rain bursts.

 

 

Blue Shadow

9 x 12

$150

Painted as a demonstration exaggerating the coolness of shadows in warn light.

 

 

 Bright Winter

$250

In this class exercize, I gave my students a black and white photo I took in a small town in Eastern Washington, and a copy of a winter painting by Russian Impressionist, Isaac Levitan, and we attempted to merge ideas from both images.

 

 

 

Castella Di Piano

12 x 9

Sold

 

 

 

 

 Fall Colors

16 x 20

$550

Painted as an in class demonstration at Winslow Art Center to illustrate finding the unique color harmonies of Autumn

 

 

 

 

 

 Green Magic

8 x 10

$100

Painted to illustrate using an analagous color harmony (all greens).

 

 

 

 

 

Poppy Solo

12 x 9

$150

I had my students paint this several times using different triads of colors.

 

 

 

 Red Tea Pot

12 x 12

$175

Painted to illustrate ways to light, shadows and reflections on Red

 

 

 

Circles

Dianna Shyne (Me)

Susan Diehl

 

Susan Diehl Painting

So why am I not painting?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My 2012 painting trip to Italy and subsequent show at the Cole Gallery (Now through Mid July 2013)  began on a dark dirt road in Glacier Nation Park in 1990 where Susan Diehl and I first met. It was to be my very first plein air painting experience. Susan and I quickly became close friends…our children were the same ages, we lived in the same town, and were taking painting classes from the same teachers…Ron Lukas, Del Gish, William Reese....

We painted together for years until Susan and her family moved to Arizona.
Susan and I still get together to collaborate and travel, we are in some of the same galleries…we travelled to Western China together in 2008 to paint. So when the opportunity to bring a group of students to Tuscany arose, Susan was my first choice as a teaching partner. We decided to present a unique workshop where all the students were encouraged to use the iconic landscapes and ancient cityscapes to develop their own poetic voice.

This trip to Italy was the completion of a circle that started when I was 16 years old on my first trip to Italy…Until then, I had never really been exposed to original paintings. My first art experience of any kind was the Sistine chapel… Michelangelos iconic ceiling half cleaned and glowing with color, half dark with the grime of centuries. Until this moment, tiny pictures in text books were all I had. I stared at the ceiling until I was ushered out….I got it…art…painting…the profound immaculate and messy beauty of it. I knew I wanted to be an artist…to learn more (everything) …to see more…

Over the years, I longed to return to Italy to experience the landscapes that inspired both a Renaissance and my own life path. It was my dream, but career, children, finances, time constraints kept me away…now slow forward forty years and here I come full circle.

Returning to Italy as an artist and teacher, bringing eager and longing student artists with me to encounter this place as an adult with a whole life of experiences in tow became something entirely new… the completion of one circle and the beginning of a new one.

I will be returning to Tuscany again this fall with another group of students…It’s just me this time. It turns out I can’t be around oil paint at all. So Susan and I have parted ways as co-teachers, but continue our friendship and collaboration with this current exhibition of paintings. http://www.colegallery.net/searchresults.php?exhibitionId=270&start=1

Workshop Demo

Roses on the Ruins 36" x 24" Acrylic on Masonite

This weekend I taught another workshop at the Winslow Arts Center. This painting was a demonstration on using a limited palette.  It was completed in a little over an hour of furious painting.  I did it during the lunch break because I wanted my students to get back to their own work.
It was amazing to see the progress they all made in two short days.

Recent Demonstration

Daily Ritual 12" x 16" acrylic

Ruins in the Poppies  24" x 30" acrylic on masonite

  On Labor day I did two demonstrations at Daniel Smith art materials in Seattle.  Each of these demos was about an hour and a half long.  I finished the pieces at home, and promised those brave souls who  watched the demonstrations that I would post the completed paintings.  Here they are in this form....I may still do some tweeking.  I used plein air paintings I did in Tuscany this spring as the color inspiration, and photographs I took for the composition.