New Web -- enjoy

This past year I have been concentrating on plein air and other landscape paintings.  The abstracts are still in the works -- my new web site has all the currently available paintings in both the landscapes and the abstracts.  Hope you enjoy visiting this new site.

  www.patricialappin.com 

Falling Waters 3

When the snow starts to melt on the mountain tops, the waters fall -- out of the rocks on the side of the mountain. It is exhilatating to witness the explosion of water gushing over the rocks. I tried to get the feeling of the force of nature this can be, I use a palette knife to move a lot of paint on the canvas. This is an oil painting -- 36 x 24 

Venice Dreams

Painting abstractly for me starts with music and color This painting was one of the first abstracts that started to take on a landscape effect I can almost fee the water taxies just aroung the corner. oil 28 x 22

Mountain Motif in Red

24" Square gallery wrapped oil -- a palette knife painting with fresh and vigorous strokes. A play of the complimentery colors dance through the warm fields of red and gold.

Festival

Oil Painting 16 x 20 

This painting was started on-site at the Lawn and Garden Show in March, 09, as a demonstration. I was working with the near-by display of hanging baskets of ferns, gourds, birdhouses and other hanging plants. The painting then sat in my studio for about 8 months with unresolved areas. I was invited to show my work at a Fall Festival at Neumeier's Nursery in October and with the atmosphere there, painiting plein-air and talking with people about my work, I was able to finish this piece, including the silouettes of two figures. This is a very festive Festival.

Golden Guitar

Oil painting 28 x 22  

Another guitar image evolving from my continued interest in working with music to inspire my paintings. John Williams Spanish Guitar Classics was the music I played while painting this beauty. Thick paint, applied with a palette knife, many layers deep, create a rich textured surface.

Red and Blue Fusions III

Oil painting 24 x 18  

I often use strong complimentary color schemes for my paintings. For this one I started with orange/reds and blue/greens and watched as the colors evolved toward the greens and yellows. I had painted a study of a woman in a wild print mumu type of dress and her clothing was the initial inspirition for this color scheme. You never know where the inspirition will come from -- you need to be open to new ideas. Even the angular shape came from her clothing.