Gorgeous Fall Colours this year!

Summer has come and gone... and the beautiful FALL colours are spectacular this year!

Available on canvas, framed/unframed prints & cards at Claire Bull Art website 

Have been able to get out and take photos with great walks and fun with the dog - she loves Boating!

Fun Boat Rides and Water in the Sunshine = Happy Dog!

New art available from summer - This original is acrylic on 6 x 12 inch wood panel - LOTS of SIZES available as canvas art or prints ;)

Dancing Boots - Original available at Claire Bull Fine Art , or you can choose any size Canvas, Framed and Unframed Prints, Cards available here  Claire Bull Art Selections

The Guardians - from part of a larger acrylic painting - this is available as canvas art, prints, cards at my website on Fine Art America

Also working on some Christmas cards - putting them up at my Zazzle Shop 

Handmade Cards for Christmas - from my original art - available through me at my ETSY shop

or printed professionally through my Zazzle store  http://www.zazzle.com/artbyclaire*

Thanks everyone - I will keep you updated when I can ;) Hope you had a great summer!

Winter Trees

Winter Trees
5x7 acrylic on canvas
75.00
Art by Claire Bull

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 - Hope all of you survived the ice storms and power outages and we are all back to "normal". The only good thing about the horrible winter storms is the ability to have some new material and photos to paint - if you were lucky enough to watch from indoors all cozy by the fire and have your shelter, heat and food, you would appreciate the beauty and know that we can somehow take away a bit of positive from it all.

My parents suffered tremendously and so many others have suffered true devastation. We saw streets with driveways full of trees on cars and houses with trees on them and ice and cars in ditches and we ourselves experienced it all with my parents and it was worse than I could ever have imagined and cannot describe 

I hope this gives some of you a bit of winter's positive side and the glory of the snow and ice 

This is a second one in the series ... the first was "Winter Wonderland" and this matching 5 x 7 is called "Winter Trees"

both available as originals, prints and reproductions - enjoy  

Art by Claire Bull

http://clairebullfineart.com

Merry Christmas Everyone - Stay Safe in this Ice Storm!!

We have had snow every day for three weeks straight (or longer) and it is piled high to the sky... there is nowhere to put it all and now with the ice storm and high winds and colder temperatures, I hope everyone is safe and can make it through alright - I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas - hopefully you have a wood burning fireplace or access to a warming centre.

A Bit of the Process

It takes many layers to make a lot of my paintings and sometimes it takes weeks. I use different materials and techniques to make the textured backgrounds and work on more than one painting at a time so the crackling will crackle or the mediums will work their magic.  I thought I would just post a few "Progress" pics here so you can see a bit of the process.
This one is called "Under the Sea" and is 30 x 30 on gallery sized canvas. This is one of the acrylic paintings that took me weeks of work.

With the Fibromyalgia and arthritis and the back injury, I do have to work at the paintings in increments and take breaks - sometimes it is hard to hold a brush so I use my fingers and sponges. I paint each day and it is my favourite part of the day.

that is a day's work for me ... I cannot work faster than that or do more and all of that motion with my hands meant pain later in the evening but I loved the start of this and it was a large canvas for me so - then it had to dry for a couple of days while I worked on another one. Here is another progress pic...

Lots of colour added (this was over a few days also as i added the colours separately or they would mix together )  we are getting some depth now




And the texture is growing - I don't think I took more pics but will see if I can find any and insert them here - otherwise you can see from this closeup, the texture and the detail increasing. I work on portions at a time and do not work right to left or left to right, I work on where the music takes me and then step back and let the painting tell me where it is going.

So stepping back, you can see the fish now and the way it is building up in layers.

I always love LOTS OF COLOUR so of course, this one was fun to do with the transparent colours and layers and mixing some and leaving others right out of the tube

Eventually it was done and turned into a fantasy seascape of underwater fish and coral and maybe that is what it is really like down there !! Remember the story about Atlantis?? Maybe ....

Then some final touches and wait again a few days for it all to dry thoroughly - this is acrylic so it does not take too long, but with oil paints you wait months before varnishing. So with this acrylic, then you can choose to varnish it (which brings out the colours and seals it) or leave it ... and I like to varnish most of mine. I did not varnish this one as it is such a large painting and I have nowhere to put it in the house to do it !! But I think when the warmer weather comes, I will spray it to seal it and at least get that vivid colour.

This is now available as prints, cards, reproductions on canvas, acrylic and metal surfaces through my websites   here is my Fine Art America website   Have a happy day no matter where you are, full of colour and fun ;)