"Forest Light", Molly Hilton, Turchin Center for the Arts, Boone, NC

"Forest Light" is a lovely acrylic painting by Molly Hilton. The painting was completed on location in Green Valley Park outside of Boone, North Carolina. Molly used wonderful texture and color to capture the planes in the rocks and to achieve perspective in the painting as we look through the forest to the light that is cast through the trees. Delicate forest flowers are expressed in hints of white in the underbrush. I love the color and reach of the tree to the right in this painting.
"Forest Light" Molly Hilton, Turchin Center for the Arts, Boone, NC
Acrylic 12x14
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"Mountains at Green Valley Park", Charlie Chatham,Turchin Center for the Arts, Boone, NC

 This painting is loaded with expressive color. Charlie is a lovely soft painter and for this session he experimented with color. This is a wonderful expressive painting that demonstrates skill and presents a bold dramatic color story. The work is a story about the dramatic interaction between color and light. The clouds in the sky are moving and this is achieved through active brush work. We see the shadows on the mountains which give us a perception of depth and dimension. The yellow ochre in the road drifts off and blends into the brilliant summer greens of the mountains. This is a dramatic and successful exploration into the world of color. 

"Mountains at Green Valley Park", Charlie Chatham, Turchin Center for the Arts, Boone, NC

Oil 18x24

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"Hay Fields", Pegge Laine, Turchin Center for the Arts, Boone, NC

"Hay Fields" is a very free, energetic plein air painting that is full of the joy of life. There is a great sense of happiness in the activity and relationship of the colors in Pegge's work. I love the heavily textured trees that rise above the fields reaching into the rhythmic brush strokes of the clouds. The colors are brilliant and perspective is achieved in the deeper blues and purples of the mountains that recede into the cerulean blue of the sky. 

 "Hay Fields", Pegge Laine, Turchin Center for the Arts, Boone, NC
Acrylic 18x24
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"Hay Barn", Charles Maling, Turchin Center for the Arts, Boone, NC

"Hay Fields" by Charles Maling is a wonderful, soft watercolor that tells the story of the light in the Appalachian Mountains surrounding Boone, North Carolina. I love the way Charles applied yellows in this painting. The yellows bring forward the light that is reflected in the band alongside the road and the flowers give us perspective on barn in the distance. I also appreciate the deep shadows in the hills and the rough nature of the roof of the barn which is achieved through a series of dry brush techniques.



"Hay Barn", Charles Maling, Turchin Center for the Arts, Boone,NC 
Watercolor 18x24
Available for Sale

"300 Years in Boone" Molly Hilton, Turchin Center for the Arts, Boone, NC

"300 Years in Boone" is a total delight. This is a lovely, bright painting of one of the oldest trees in Boone painted from the grounds of  the historic Jones house downtown Boone. I love the brilliant mix of colors and attention to detail in this delightful, bright painting. The tree is full of life as it spreads its huge branches across the painting. The details in the stone wall and bright colors of the buildings bring light through the huge branches of this wonderful old tree. 


"300 Years in Boone", Molly Hilton, Turchin Center for the Arts, Boone, NC
Acylic 12x14
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"Iris in Full Bloom", Mary Lou Heine, Lumberyard Art Center, Baldwin, KS

Mary Lou Heine is a skilled watercolor artist. She uses bold color against a very white background which accents the drama in this wonderfully organic watercolor. Wet into wet is used to create delicate transparency within the powerful mix of color underneath each petal. The whole image seems to be growing right before our eyes. The interior stamens are moving and seem to be intertwined in their efforts to expand into the outer petals.  This is a powerful painting.  It is a representational piece yet itss very abstract nature draws the viewer into the interior of the image.
"Iris Full Bloom ", Mary Lou Heine, Lumberyard Art Center, Baldwin City, KS
Watercolor 18x24

"Iris Petal" Krista Pojman, Lumberyard Art Center, Baldwin City, KS

I  love this abstract use of watercolor in this painting of an Iris petal. Krista is a wonderful expressive artist.  I am so excited by the abstracts that have recently come forward in the workshops.  is a high school student and her painting, although simplistic being only one petal, the image is dramatic and full.  Krista's use of wet into wet is just wonderful and the uneven edges of the petal express great movement. Krista was also able to maintain the lovely transparent effects of watercolor in this highly expressive painting.
 "Iris Petal", Krista Pojman, Lumberyard Art Center, Baldwin, KS
Watercolor 18x24