Karen F. Rose ~ My Painting Journey: Cloudscapes

Sunday, September 15, 2013

The Light Lies Softly

High Springs Art Co-op

High Springs, Fl

on exhibit through September

Here's a peek at my featured artist exhibit at High Springs Art Co-op in High Springs, FL.

The opening night was so much fun and I appreciate each and everyone that came out on opening night.

There are 18 paintings, pastels and one archival print of mine on exhibit. This gallery is a co-op of talented friendly artists and so enthusiastic. What a joy to be there.

The gallery is chock full of art and each artist has a wall space that rotates every several months. When you walk in the door you will immediately see the space for the Artist of the Month.

The gallery is hung in a Salon Style. Here's a rather interesting article about the history of this type of display: Salon Style

Monday, September 9, 2013

The Weather Channel John Constable Style

Earlier this year I had a chance to visit the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, CT to study several of English landscape painter John Constable's cloud studies on exhibit. These are small works that he kept in his studio and never really intended to sell. They were preliminary studies for larger works.

My painting The Promise of a New Day is a study after one of his studies! He was well known for being very precise in notations of the atmospheric conditions, the prevailing weather conditions, direction of the light and time of day on the back of his sketches.

And speaking of weather. On Friday night, the opening of my art exhibit in High Springs, the rain came down in buckets.
So here's a special thank you to all who came out to the exhibit. Thanks!
I had a chance to talk to old and new friends and had a wonderful time despite the rain clouds.
The Light Falls Softly exhibit is on through the month of September.
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