Sunrise Over the Atlantic Ocean

Intangible
© Karen F. Rose
11 x 14"
pastel on board
NFS

In the last year I have had the pleasure of watching the sun rise over the Atlantic on more than one morning. The light of dawn brings such awe, wonder and peace.
Sunrise is a profound experience for me, a moment of spiritual connection that I hope you see in my artwork.

I wait and observe as the sun paints a beautiful canvas before me and I attempt to translate that moment....that intangible moment.

All this month I will be painting and posting more studies on my website www.karenfrose.com as part of a 30 in 30 challenge.

On a personal note there have been some challenging times for me this year and especially in the last few weeks. 

Let's see how life's canvas will be painted. 

Thanks for sharing the journey with me. Your comments and thoughts are so welcome. 

Climbing into the Clouds

Cumulous Crescendo
© 2012 Karen F. Rose
pastel on board
20x16"

Dropping off this pastel Cumulus Crescendo for

The Summer Exhibit at the Thomas Center
Mezzanine Gallery
302 NE 6th Avenue
Gainesville, FL
which runs from July 9 to September 1, 2012.
Glorious clouds are my mountains in the Florida twilight landscape.

And speaking of mountains. I had just the best time viewing the clouds on our recent trip to Colorado. We made the vertical climb 10,360 feet to Brainard Lake just outside Boulder. Spectacular!

If getting that vertical is exhilarating, coming back down to earth can be too.
Here's a road sign you just don't encounter in the Florida landscape.

Silver Linings, oil painting

Silver Linings
© 2011 Karen F. Rose
oil on canvas
11x14"
available

The famous English landscape artist John Constable studied clouds and often wrote notes on the back of his paintings noting the time of day, direction of the wind and speed of the wind. He was very detail oriented but then again he was a painter. Hmm does that make him right brained or left brained? Good question.

If you have the opportunity, visit Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, CT, which has several Constable's cloud studies on exhibit.

When I painted this study I was thinking of the quote "For every dark cloud there is a silver lining". The power of optimism. I like that.

Appleton Museum of Art Exhibit "On the Balcony"

Cumulus Crescendo

pastel on board

20"x16"

My pastel painting Cumulus Crescendo was accepted into the

juried art exhibit "On the Balcony" at the Appleton Museum of Art

in Ocala, Florida. 

Having my artwork hanging in the same museum that has featured

art by George Inness, Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, Winslow Homer and

William Bougereau is very special for me. Thank you to Ruth Grim

the Appleton Museum of Art curator of exhibitions for selecting my pastel

and the Ocala Art Group for organizing the show.

Cumulus Crescendo

I was pleased to receive an honorable

mention award at the Webber Center

Gallery in Ocala in a juried Best of

Season Show of the Visual Artists' Society.

There are 83 works of art accepted into

this show. The gallery space is inviting as
each work of art is so beautifully lit.

Many of the pieces are for sale with a

portion of the sale price going to further

programing for the Society.