Aurous

Aurous

30 x 30 x 1.5 inch
Acrylic on canvas

Available for purchase from my website: Here


When is a painting completed?...is a question if not the most asked question that I have heard over the years. My answer has varied over the years and I'm still not sure!! I want to say when you feel as if you really really like the painting. Sometimes I may not have taken a painting to that point and so it may be several years down the road that I decide to give a painting some more love. As in this one. To see the earlier version click on: Aurous

It's a continuation of a story. Layer upon layer. I love the added feel and richness of texture on a painting with many layers. It can be personal. You may like the earlier version of this painting. For me, this is it. I am in love with the way this painting has turned out. Leave a comment if you wish as to which one you prefer.

Close-ups of a few of my favorite areas of texture and mark making.

enjoy!!! xoxo

elizabeth

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Hello Fall....

Frolic

Acrylic on 30 x 40 inch canvas

Available for purchase from my website by clicking: HERE

Or

Email me: elizabethchapman@artlvoer.com

Whimsical fall like scene for your entertainment! What do you see?!

Enjoy!!

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MODERN ABSTRACT PAINTING "Resolute" by Elizabeth Chapman

Resolute

Acrylic on 40" x 40" canvas

SOLD

To purchase/and or for more information email me: elizabethchapmanart@gmail.com

Also, more abstract paintings can be viewed on my website: HERE

Thank you for viewing!

Modern Abstract Painting "Promenade" by Elizabeth Chapman

Promenade

Acrylic on 30" x 40" canvas

Available

email me: elizabethchapman@artlover.com

Website: HERE

Also available as a canvas print: HERE

or painting may also be purchased from my Etsy store: HERE

Enjoy!!

Expressionistic Abstract Painting "Stimuli" by Elizabeth Chapman

Stimuli

Acrylic on 30" x 30" canvas

Available 

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Strikingly different! Same approach as I take with the majority of my abstracts, but I overlaid this one with sweeping large strokes of paint.  A willingness to take a risk.  The uncertainty comes from knowing that it is either going to make the painting or ruin it.  And yes, it's possible that it may not work. That's ok, because it may just lead to the next step that is going to bring that painting to it's fullest.

Elizabeth Chapman

Contemporary Abstract Artist

Modern Expressionistic Abstract Painting "Confetti" by Elizabeth Chapman

Confetti

Acrylic on 30" x 30" x 1.5" canvas

Available

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Visit my website to see more of my abstract paintings by clicking; HERE

Simply working on incorporating more red paintings into my portfolio. It was at one time the primary color used with the majority of my paintings. Once I realized it, I made a change towards more cool colors. I now have a portfolio with more paintings in the blue range.  

Time to swing the other way....

Elizabeth Chapman

Contemporary Abstract Artist

Contemporary Abstract Painting "Aurous" by Elizabeth Chapman

Aurous

Acrylic on 30" x 30" x 1.5" canvas

Available

To purchase or for more information email me: elizabethchapmanart@gmail.com

Visit my website to see more contemporary abstracts by clicking: HERE

Enjoyed painting the florals, but time to move on to the abstracts and a larger canvas. It's been a while since I've painted a red abstract.  Challenging myself to work with mixing grays here. Harder than I thought it would be.

Elizabeth Chapman

Contemporary Abstract Artist

LARGE Contemporary Abstract Painting "Ultramod" by Elizabeth Chapman

Ultramod

Acrylic on 40" x 60" wrap canvas

SOLD

Painted back in 2013 and just sold! No, they don't sell fresh off the easel, at least not for me. The important thing is to just continue to paint.  Be encouraged that they do in their own time find their home.  Also, it seems, that sometimes the most popular paintings are the slowest to go...go figure.  This one became an extremely popular painting which I did not know at the time that would occur.  I just paint and work on finding a painting's composition, color palette and flow along the way.  It's own voice, so to speak.  Unique.

It brings me much joy to paint and even more to know a work  is going to be well loved!

To see more of my large available abstract paintings please visit my website: HERE

Email me: elizabethchapmanart@gmail.com

Elizabeth Chapman

Contemporary Abstract Artist

Contemporary Abstract Painting "Cabernet" by Elizabeth Chapman

Cabernet

Acrylic on 24" x 48" x 1.5" wrap canvas

ORIGINAL Available

Time for doing a little studio clearing out and...

Letting this large 2012 painting go at auction on the DPW site.  Price begins at $700.  It is a beautiful painting with lots of rich color and surface texture. Click on image for close-up or you can use magnifier on the DPW site: HERE

Elizabeth Chapman

Contemporary Abstract Artist

Small abstract painting "Tiptop" by Elizabeth Chapman

Tiptop

Acrylic on 8" x 8" x 3/4" canvas

SOLD

Making my list and checking it twice!  Actually, I have gotten all my holiday shopping done and am contemplating the ordering of new paints.  I've always bought my titanium white in a large 32oz jar as I use a lot of it. Recently, I have decided to purchase the basic colors in this size as well. Cadmium Yellow Med.  in a large jar was an easy decision as it gets mixed into nearly every color. Which red though? Should I get the Cadmium Red Dark and add yellow for my lighter reds? or should I get the Cadmium Red Medium  and add Allizarin  or Ultramarine Blue for the darker Reds? or maybe I should go with one of each in the smaller jars for now until I know for sure. Ultramarine will be my choice for blue. Anyway, I'm working on limiting my colors which would involve more mixing, but would also be more economical.  I use heavy body Golden Acrylic paints which I order from Jerry's Artarama or Dick Blick is another online source. 

This small abstract painting can be purchased from my Etsy Shop: here. , where I have been listing and selling (yay!... thank you), as they are completed.  Two large 40" x 40" and twenty-eight more 8" x 8" canvases are on there way! Excited for the fresh start of a new year in the studio!!

A complete portfolio of available large abstract paintings can be viewed in my website: HERE


May God Bless your new year with much joy and love!



Elizabeth Chapman
Contemporary Abstract Artist

Avola, Red Abstract Contemporary Painting by Elizabeth Chapman

Avola

Acrylic on 24" x 24" x1.5" canvas

$450 includes free shipping

Available

I love working with reds, but also find it a difficult color to balance and especially to photograph.  Truth be known, this is/was a painting from 2011 that I have updated.  More like total re-do as I gessoed over the whole painting. It's not such a bad thing. I love the texture that a previous painting brings to a new work.  Also, you don't have the intimidation of a white canvas to begin with as shapes and colors can be seen through the gesso. This inspires ideas, a fresh start and of course when working intuitively one idea leads to the next. Another adventure!


This painting can be purchased from my website: HERE, 
 from my Etsy Store or by emailing me: elizabethchapmanart@gmail.com 


Elizabeth Chapman
Contemporary Abstract Artist

Red Abstract Painting "Moxie" ORIGINAL Art by Elizabeth Chapman

Moxie

Acrylic on 12" x 12" x 1.5" wrap canvas

$150, shipping included

SOLD

Working more with the reds, oranges and golds that I had gotten away from for awhile. This is a little one and would be perfect for a small wall space or a gift! 

Please visit my website to see a full collection of my abstract paintings by clicking: HERE

Contemporary Abstract Painter

Elizabeth Chapman

Fall Colors Expressionistic Abstract Painting "Bountiful" by Elizabeth Chapman

Bountiful

Acrylic on 17"W x 26"H  heavy paper
(click on image for close-up)

SOLD



Painting ever so freely here.  Sometimes it can be hard in deciding how much is enough.  Time.  Can value always be measured by time? A questioned that is often asked of artist is "how much time did it take you to paint that?"  The answer is always "all my life!"  


More expressionistic abstract paintings can viewed by clicking: HERE

feel free to email me: elizabethchapman@artlover.om


Elizabeth Chapman
Contemporary Abstract Artist

Red Abstract Painting "Ascend" Original Art by Contemporary Artist Elizabeth Chapman

Ascend

Acrylic on 24"W x 30"H x 1.5" wrap canvas

SOLD

For the longest time red was a favorite color of mine.  At one time the majority of my paintings were in the red warm color palette.  Recently, as I was viewing my portfolio it dawned on me that the majority of my paintings are now mostly in the blue range.  How did that happened?  Well, I believe it began last winter and I just simply kept painting in a cooler palette.  Seems like blue is the new favorite.  As I was picking out a new background color for my blog, guess what color stood out. Yep, blue. I'm working on fitting more of the reds back in.  That was the inspiration for this painting!

To purchase or view a collection of my abstract paintings, please visit my web gallery by clicking: HERE

or email me: elizabethchapman@artlover.com


Elizabeth Chapman
Contemporary Abstract Artist

'Consider' ORIGINAL Contemporary Modern Abstract Painting by Elizabeth Chapman

'Consider'
Acrylic on 30" x 60" x 1.5" wrap canvas

SOLD

To purchase this modern abstract or to view more of my paintings please visit my web gallery: HERE

or you may email me: elizabethchapman@artlover.com


Shipping is included with this long horizontal abstract painting.

Ready to hang.


Perhaps it's the cooler than normal August temperatures and the anticipation of the upcoming Fall that has inspired the warmer color palette here.  This one reminded of several past paintings, "Prelude" and later "New Growth" that I had to revisit and reminisce.  Siblings.



Elizabeth Chapman
Contemporary Abstract Artist

tis the season

Apropos

Acrylic on 32"W x 36"H x 1.5" wrap canvas

Available

Winter seems to bring on a desire to work more with red.  In this painting I am working with those reds, a touch of turquoise, azo yellow and burnt umber.  My neutrals are a mixture of those colors in the painting plus white.  I began this one with the idea of of a vertical line composition using raw umber for the lines and then filling color in with a brush.  As the paint began to build up and thicken I switched off to a palette knife. This enables me to do a lot of my mixing of color on the canvas itself.  A roller was used for a softening effect. Lastly, I played around with the detailing. Do you like?

This painting along with a complete portfolio of my work can be found in my Web Gallery: HERE

Hope you are having a wonderful week and staying warm!

Elizabeth Chapman
Contemporary Abstract Artist

moving along...

Baroque

Acrylic on 30"H x 40"W x 1.5" wrap canvas

Ready to hang

New in house large abstract.

An elaborate piece with many layers of paint creating a richly textured surface.  This one will definitely keep your eye moving!  So much to see.....

.....and more: HERE

Ultramod

Ultramod

Acrylic on 40"H x 60"W x 1.5" wrap canvas

Available

SOLD

One of my larger abstract paintings which can be purchased from my Web Gallery: HERE or by emailing me: elizabethchapman@artlover.com.

Elizabeth Chapman

Contemporary Abstract Artist

higher ground....

Eminence

Acrylic on 30"H x 40"W x 1.5" wrap canvas

Ready to hang.

SOLD

Where does your inspiration come from?.....  For me this time it was music that has been written by an Australian group called "Sons of Korah", but the lyrics are straight out of God's Word in particular the book of Psalms.  The music is so beautiful and helped me to get centered upon higher ground.    Nothing like being inspired by The Creator God himself!

A collection of my available abstract paintings can be seen: HERE

Elizabeth Chapman
Contemporary Abstract Artist

go ahead, play....

Inspira

Acrylic on 36" x 36" x 1.5" wrap canvas

Available

I've been working on creating some paintings with thin layers of paint.  This one began that way...and as you can see it ended with thick layers of paint. Next to color,  I enjoy having textures in my paintings. Kinda difficult to get away from. The something new that I learned with this one is that an interesting contrast can be created by having a textured shape next to smoother areas.  As the paint continued to be added and I had switched over to working with a palette knife, I decided to squeeze some Liquitex coarse sand texture directly into the golden yellow paint. Then mixed it in with a palette knife.  (Ordinarily I will layer my textures on the canvas first, letting it dry before painting or the texture is built up by the paint itself.)  Pretty much only used it in those areas and left it to dry.  Loved the contrast it created in texture on the surface of the canvas.  Playing more with different types of shapes as well....so overall, it's just time to play!  Perhaps I'll give the lighter layers of paint another try... ?? or not!!

"Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play." Henri Matisse


More abstracts can be seen and purchased directly from my Web Gallery: HERE
or email me: elizabethchapman@artlover.com

Elizabeth Chapman

Contemporary Abstract Artist