Fancy Flight... Modern Contemporary Original Abstract Expressionism Painting by Missouri Artist Elizabeth Chapman

Fancy Flight

Acrylic on 24" x 30" x 1.5" gallery canvas

Palette Knife Painting

Available

This is the painting I painted last Thursday night live at the Springfield/Branson airport for a benefit.  You can scroll down a few posts to see me busy at work at my easel.  I chose to work with a palette knife for this event because I knew it would be much easier to wipe my knife off than to deal with changing out water for brushes.  There were other fine arts there performing as well.  I began with a blank canvas that had been undercoated with a terra cotta gesso and no other idea.  The painting is a response or expression capturing the feeling or mood to the evenings Flight of Fancy event.

"In the Sun"... Modern Contemporary Brightly Colored Original Mixed Media Abstract Painting by Elizabeth Chapman

In the Sun

Mixed Media on 9" x 12" 140lb. paper

Available from my web gallery

or contact: Elizabeth

I've always enjoyed painting with watercolors.  It began when I was in high school taking private lessons from an artist that lived in our town.  She taught me how to work transparently, building layers and either working from still lives she set up or photographs.  And so... I've mostly always worked realistically with the watercolors and have a tendency to revert back to realism when I get them out.   Lately,   though I've been transferring much of my abstract acrylic techniques to the watercolors, mixing gouache and acrylic in... and just having a lot of fun!!!

For the Lord God is our sun and our shield.  

"Fresh"..... Modern Contemporary Watercolor Floral Abstract Impression by Elizabeth Chapman

Fresh

Mixed Media

Watercolor/Gouache/Acrylic on 140 lb. paper
$50.00   

Sold, Thank you Bev!!!

This is my impression of a rose working from a photograph.  I began by wetting my paper down and drawing with the Martin's watercolor droppers and then switching to the regular watercolor paints.  I also used a roller and at some point a wide tooth comb that was laying close by for texturing.  The final layers were a bit of lime green acrylic and liquid black and white for the gesturally lines. (Click on painting for close up)  When I work from a photograph as in this painting I will begin somewhat realistically as in the drawing of it, but then will  put the photo away in order to go with the creative flow of the painting. 

He has made everything beautiful in its time.