Owl Be Seeing You

Title: "Owl Be Seeing You"
Subject: Animals
Medium: Acrylic on Yes! panel
Size: 5x7 inches

This is my entry for Nibblefest Art Contest for May 2020. Nibblefest is on eBay, all entries start at 99 cents, and the one with the most individual bids wins.

Courage and Wisdom Caught Me Napping

Title: Courage and Wisdom Caught Me Napping
Medium: Acrylic on panel
Size: 5x7 inches
Genre: Magic Realism

This is an allegory about how it's easier to remain comfortably asleep instead of waking to face the challenges that courage and wisdom have to offer. It's a study for a larger painting.

Owl Be There

Title:  Owl Be There

Medium: Acrylic on panel

Size: 6x6 inches

Genre: Animals

I wanted to portray some magic in this little owl study-- hence the purple, as well as focus on the patterns in its feathers. To echo that, I put some patterning in the sky. This little fellow has been entered into the "Patterns" challenge at Daily Paintworks.

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Wisdom Cometh

"Wisdom Cometh" 3rd in my Monster series. The Monster is the reptilian brain, which has its own charm but doesn't always make the right decisions. The Owl represents the coming of wisdom. The two have got to make friends with each other.

Acrylic on wood panel
5x5 inches  -- it's tiny!

Owl Be Your Friend

"Owl Be Your Friend"
11x14
Acrylic on panel

This was a different palette from what I'm accustomed to using with viridian, alizarin crimson, and napthol crimson taking prominence. It's produced a very cool looking ambience, and that's something else that's new to me. Usually I'm into the warm palettes

Owl Be Around

"Owl Be Around"

6x6 inches, acrylic on birch

Genre: animals

©Theresa Taylor Bayer, 2015

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At present with all my caregiving responsibilities, I'm doing a series of small studies. This allows me to keep improving my skills and provides inspiration for future projects. 

Well Owl Be

"Well Owl Be" Acrylic on 8x10 Fredrix panel.

©Theresa Taylor Bayer, 2015

Another one of my small studies. I was shooting for more realistic but the Owl said no, it wanted to be stylized, and you just can't argue with stylized Owls. Also on this one I tried out a Zorn type palette: black, yellow oxide, cad red med., and white.

Owl Be There

Just a quick little study...

"Owl Be There" 6x6 acrylic on panel. Purple seems to go well with an owl. It's the mystique.
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©Theresa Taylor Bayer, 2015

Owl About It

"Owl About It"
©Theresa Bayer, all rights reserved.
Medium: Acrylic on panel
Size: 5x7 inches
Genre: Animals, fantasy, whimsical

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Last year for Christmas my husband gave me a charming little owl figurine, and I've been wanting to paint it ever since. I've also had this teensy silver key for a long time, so many years I've forgotten what it goes to. So I put the two of them together. The orbs in the background just appeared while I was painting, well you know how that goes, right?

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Beginner's Mind NFS

Beginner's Mind and Conventional Wisdom

Acrylic

NFS

Schrodinger's Cat Always Lives, experiment # 3

 #"Schrodinger's Cat Always Lives," 6x4 inches, acrylic on panel, genre: fantasy. SOLD.
The cat is holding an infinity loop, meaning that cats always survive experimental boxes. This box is very experimental indeed, with a face, and topped by an owl. A dragon lurks in the background. The cat dangles a key from his tail.

This piece started out as an experiment with ink on the panel but it didn't work. The painting wanted to be a normal painting, and you have to respect what it wants. Conclusion: ink is for paper, at least for me, and I will be doing some more ink/paper collages on canvas.

Keeper of the Keys

"Keeper of the Keys" oil  on 12x12 inch canvas.

This started out as a regular figure painting, but I redid it in monochrome, keeping the original pose.  The underpainting is done in violet oxide acrylic, with oil glazes over it. I learned a lot glazing the painting. Also had lots of fun with the owl and the cat.  It still needs to dry for several months; then I will put a varnish on it.

Jester with an Egg

Acrylic, 8 x 10 on canvas. Don't have a name for it yet (any suggestions?). It's a jester, walking through a cave, holding an egg. This one also has cutouts on it (like the previous one) and that's the LAST time I ever glue on a cutout piece of canvas. Too hard to finesse the edges!

This one is glazes over an underpainting. Love painting that way; the more I do it the easier it gets. Helps a lot with values (although I am a Libra I appreciate values and value them highly).

Trying like crazy to keep up with blogging after a schedule change. Also I don't paint fast enough (yet) to post more often, so I'll have to throw in a WIP or two from now on. Thanks for tuning in to this blog.

Completed Sphinx

Finally got this Sphinx painting done! (scroll down and you can see the original study for it in watercolor). Acrylic, 11x14 on canvas. The Sphinx is wearing a little sundial which indicates her Riddle: "What goes about on 4 legs in the morning, on 2 legs at noon, and on 3 legs in the evening?" She is holding the Answer in her hands. "Sphinx" is 11x14 acrylic on canvas.