sweetest thing.....

'Sweet Thing'

Acrylic on 16" x 20" x 3/4" canvas, $150.00

Available for purchase through PayPal, here or Email me

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Out picking cherries this morning with my SWEET grand-daughter....actually she's been out picking them each time she's out to visit only this time they are actually ripe and ready.  We know have a large bowl to pit and then.....cherry smoothies!!!

 looking them over....

perfect...there's one!

Sweet!!

Elizabeth Chapman

Contemporary Abstract Artist

Website: www.melizabethchapman.artspan.com

Contemporary Abstract Painting, "Surefire" by a Missouri Artist, Elizabeth Chapman

'Surefire'

Acrylic on 12" x 12" x 3/4" canvas

To purchase contact me: elizabethchapman@artlover.com

Small palette knife painting with lots of surface texture.  I have just placed this one on the DPW site with a beginning price of $57.00! ...and is ready to hang!  Check it out by clicking the above link where you can also mouse over to magnify and get a closer look at the detail.

Please visit my Web Gallery to see a complete portfolio of my abstract paintings: www.melizabethchapman.artspan.com

Alegre, Contemporary Abstract Painting, Modern Art, Elizabeth Chapman

Alegre

Acrylic on 8" x 10" x 1.5" canvas


To purchase contact me: elizabethchapman@artlover.com

Time management and the importance of a routine is most definitely something that I am needing to work on.  Having read this blogspot by Paulette Install has helped me to become more aware of this.  Click here to read more.  I have nine LARGE canvases sitting in the studio with two more on the way, so I am realizing that I need to become much more disciplined with my work habits.  Picked up alot of good tips from her post.  Hope to be posting the first of these next!!

Web Gallery: http://melizabethchapman.artspan.com

Tola, Modern Art, Contemporary Abstract Painting, Original, Elizabeth Chapman

"Tola"

Tola stands for "Tree of Life - Apples".

Acrylic on 12" x 12" canvas panel 

Currently available from DPW, click here.

From the cool colors of "Oceanic" (last post) to the warm colors of "Tola".  As I worked on this abstract I began to see abstracted apples emerging, thus the title.  This is what I saw....what do you see?

Website: www.melizabethchapman.artspan.com

Ambiance, Modern Art, Contemporary Abstract, Original Painting, Missouri Artist Elizabeth Chapman

'Ambiance'

Acrylic on 12" x 12" canvas

So what's next!  Bringing in a New Year...2012!  Currently, I am excited about setting new goals for the near.   Honestly, I have never been a goal, goal oriented person.  More like go with the flow and make adjustments as needed.   But, I have been getting ideas for goal setting from my daughters who have always been pretty much goal oriented.  Click here for daughter Emma's insert and click here for other daughter Elsie's goal setting advice on the blog A Beautiful Mess.


Hope you are as inspired about these tips as I've been and are now ready to begin forming fresh ideas for the new year to come.  One of mine is changes for this blog, so stay tuned!

www.melizabethchapman.artspan.com 

Adela, Modern Art, Contemporary Abstract, Original by Missouri Artist Elizabeth Chapman

Merry Christmas!

'Adela'

Acrylic on 24" x 36" x 1.5"

Available

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Bordeaux, Modern Art, Contemporary Abstract Painting, Original Art, Elizabeth Chapman

'Bordeaux'

Acrylic on 30" x 30" x 1.5" canvas

SOLD

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The painting reminds me of one I completed a few months ago titled "Chateau", you can see it here.   It was purchased very quickly and if you really liked "Chateau", then now is your chance to grab a "Bordeaux"!

I worked on "Bordeaux" over many sessions.  Struggling to bring it to that point when you just know that the piece is finished.  Sometimes in painting it all comes together rather quickly and at other times, as with this one, it's just a matter of not giving up or settling for something that would be far less.  Winning through persistence!

It also can be a matter of perception.  I got to the point, after having spent so much time with it, that I had lost my objectivity.  I needed to step away and spend some time elsewhere, in order to regain my perception.  Photographing "Bordeaux" to capture it as true to real life as possible was also a challenge.  Those thoughts were all about yesterday .... and today ...... I LOVE it!!!

Happy Holidays to you and yours! ..... Elizabeth

www.melizabethchapman.artspan.com