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Storm cloud 1.
written by Julie R. Neidlinger 0 comments link this post
This painting is part of my growing fascination for the extremely vertical layout.
Storm clouds seem to hover low and parallel to the earth they are about to pummel, and I often see them depicted in such a horizontal fashion, particularly when show over plains. However, the clouds are really quite high, stretching up into the sky like a tower. I thought that a vertical presentation might be more fitting.
I find that when I take such a slender cross-section out of a landscape and strip it of reference points, a non-abstract subject becomes abstract. Clouds tend to be that way, especially.
Materials: Acrylic paint on heavy rag paper
Size: 4" X 13.5"
Other: Shipped without frame or mat
Price: SOLD
Labels: landscapes, nature, paintings
Copyright (c) Julie R. Neidlinger 2:15 PM
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City park.
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This painting is part of my growing fascination for the extremely vertical layout.
Using thick (partly dried) paint, and scrubbing techniques that are a little hard on my brush, I wanted to create a kind of hazy softness to the hard-edge city buildings. And then, at the bottom of all this vertical, include a little green.
The city park.
A little patch of paradise in the middle of concrete and steel canyons.
Materials: Acrylic paint on heavy rag paper
Size: 3" X 13.5"
Other: Shipped without frame or mat
Price: $60
Labels: buildings, landscapes, paintings, whimsical
Copyright (c) Julie R. Neidlinger 2:10 PM
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The City Where I Love You.
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In a college class, I read the poetry of Li-Young Lee. His book entitled The City In Which I Love You captured my attention for a while. The title itself worked its way around my mind.
I know this feeling of a place where normal life seems to stop for a bit and the strangeness of a different place made me certain that this was the city I loved someone. Leaving the city meant I left that behind, whether I wanted to or not. It's this thing I relegated to a place; the person, the feeling, the moment, the memory -- left there. That way I could associate the memory with geography and find it easy to locate and easy to leave, like a city.
There are people I loved in cities, in places, whether they knew it or not. Maybe it wasn't love. But it was something.
Materials: Acrylic paint on BFK Rives paper
Size: 4.5" x 11"
Other: Painting is sold and shipped unframed, no mat.
Price: SOLD
Labels: abstract, landscapes, paintings, sold
Copyright (c) Julie R. Neidlinger 10:57 PM
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The Great Cathedral in Leon.
written by Julie R. Neidlinger 0 comments link this post
This is a painting of part of the Great Cathedral in Leon, Nicaragua.
I've had the privilege of visiting there in the past few years, through missions trips. You can read more about that here. I've written more about my experiences here.
If you'd like to read about why I chose this subject matter, I discuss that in a blog post here.
However, if you're more interested in learning about the specifics and step-by-step methods that I went through to arrive at the final painting you see, you might want to check out this post on my art blog where I take you through it.
Materials: Acrylic paint on BFK Rives paper
Size: 15" x 22.5"
Other: Painting is sold and shipped unframed, no mat.
Price: $200
Labels: buildings, landscapes, paintings
Copyright (c) Julie R. Neidlinger 8:20 PM
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Go West
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Using my beloved horse as a model, this drawing is a take on the old saying "Go west, young man."
I wanted to achieve a hazy sort of softness to the look, with the horse taking one last look before leaving. I drew this after my horse had died, and it was kind of my depiction of letting go.
Materials: Graphite on unbleached paper
Size: About 15" X 8"
Other: Shipped without frame or mat
Price: SOLD
Labels: drawings, horses, landscapes, sold
Copyright (c) Julie R. Neidlinger 4:06 PM
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Basilica Barn
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The lofty title of a basilica probably shouldn't go to a farm building that was used to house sheep, and then pigs, in its early years, but the building always reminded me exactly of the basilica floor plan.
Inside, the barn had three "aisles" made up of a main walk-way and side rows of stalls. The front didn't have the usual three doors of a basilica, but the back did. And the front, with its extended floor leve, reminded me of the grand entrances of those early chruches.
I use the past tense to describe this building because, sadly, the huge storm on June 19, 2005 brought the building that my grandfather grew up with to its knees, it's weathered gray wood and slight lean to the east unable to stand winds over 100 mph. Still, I've often drawn and painted it, more than any other farm building, so it is well documented and not soon forgotten.
Materials: Oil on canvas
Size: 1' x 2'
Price: Sold
Labels: buildings, landscapes, north dakota, paintings, sold
Copyright (c) Julie R. Neidlinger 8:58 PM
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Foggy Trees
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Trips to the Pacific Northwest always bring up magical memories of towering pines and the misty fog that seems to rise up from the green carpeted floor of these pine forests.
Rather than trying to capture the effect of the ghostly haze and the trees that seemed to rise out of thin wisp of existance by using fussy brushwork or complex layers, I inked the trees out quickly with a sharpened stick. Then, using a combination of water and sponging techniques, I scrubbed a water gesso and some faint tints of watercolor into the negative spaces, letting the ink from the trees pool and spread as it needed to.
The result is subdued and uncomplicated depiction of the early morning sun trying to push its way through the fog and trees to its home at the top of the sky.
Materials: Ink, gesso and watercolor on masonite
Size: 9" x 6"
Price: Sold
Labels: landscapes, mixed media, nature, sold
Copyright (c) Julie R. Neidlinger 8:56 PM
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Deck View
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My "outdoor" studio, which is the second floor deck just off my office and regular studio, is what allows me to use oil paints and other typically noxious smelling materials in my art. Since I am not able to work outside during the cold winter, you will find me only working in water-based media until the weather warms up again.
Since I spend so much time out on the deck, it was inevitable that I would try to capture the scenery from my favorite deck view. This painting is what I see, late-summer, when I look to the south. The cottonwood tree frames my view on the right, its rustling leaves keeping me company as I work on my projects. The slough and every-yellowing fields are beautiful, indeed. I think of it all as visual music to work by, the foundation for whatever I'm working on from my vantage point on the deck.
My goal with this painting was to not get lost in the detail, of which there was much, and instead capture the blocked-in colors I get a sense of out of the corner of my eye as I'm working. The cerulean sky, the rich green grass, the ochre fields of grain, the blues of the sloughs and gray ribbons of road all play a part in the final scene. These are, coincidently, colors I find myself constantly restocking in my own paint collection, colors I'm naturally drawn to including in paintings that have nothing to do with landscapes or similar subject matter.
It's funny what an outdoor studio can do in influencing an entire palette, and way of working.
Materials: Acrylic paint on paper
Size: 22" x 30"
Other: Painting is sold and shipped unframed, no mat.
Price: SOLD
Labels: abstract, landscapes, nature, north dakota, paintings, sold
Copyright (c) Julie R. Neidlinger 8:55 PM
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Evening Lighthouse
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I may be from the very land-locked state of North Dakota, but that doesn't mean I can't dream a little bit.
I certainly have enjoyed my trips to the ocean, though I haven only seen lighthouses from a great distance. The sound of the waves, the smell of the marine life - it all makes me appreciate the power and beauty of other places.
This painting captures the abundance of water at the oceans edge. The water rushing about at the base of the rocks, the water mist in the air, and the fog all combine to make subject matter begging to be captured in water as well.
Avoiding fussy brushing, I used quick and simple washes over the top of loose charcoal line-work. I let the paint run and blur and did nothing to stop the "happy accidents" that watercolor creates best. Since I often paint on a verticla surface, you see the water patterns in the paint as water ran to the base of the painting and onto the floor.
The nice thing about working with charcoal under watercolor is that the charcoal mixes with the paint and creates soft edges and smudgy gray areas. If that's not what I wanted it would be a disaster, but for this particular painting, the combination of hard and soft edges seemed perfect for a building built near the water meant to warn ships of sharp rocks.
Materials: Watercolor and charcoal on paper
Size: 7.5" x 11.25"
Other: Painting is sold and shipped unframed, no mat.
Price: $60
Labels: buildings, landscapes, paintings, watercolor
Copyright (c) Julie R. Neidlinger 1:12 PM
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East Landscape
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A prairie landscape can be thought of as barren by those not familiar or in love with it for the simple reason that, to be blunt, it is.
The prairie is about subtlety, not grandiose mountains and waterfalls.
This simple line drawing, looking east of my house, was all about capturing the complex prairie in as simple manner as possible.
Each line became important as I was very much practicing economy of line. There is nothing extraneous, nothing throw-away. And in focusing my attention on the landscape and finding out what bare minimum of information I needed to tell the story, I found myself nearly overwhelmed with the complexity of the endless view.
Materials: Pen and ink on paper
Size: 9.5" x 6.75"
Other: Drawing is sold and shipped unframed, no mat.
Price: Sold
Labels: drawings, landscapes, sold
Copyright (c) Julie R. Neidlinger 1:11 PM
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