Santa Barbara Mission

This Santa Barbara Mission ahh, what a beautiful destination. The Mission on New Years day 01/01/11, after a down pour of rain. Done from a photo, and missing CA.
Photo Courtesy - Patrick McWherter
Happy Painting

Santa Barbara Mission

Just a little preview of the next coming attraction.

Ten Min. Glass Study

Carol Marine is a well known Daily Painter. She has been painting Daily for over three years now and has inspired many of us to paint daily. This is a huge discipline and a commitment. Carol has recently developed a website for artist where she has a weekly challenge. This week it was to take an object, paint it for ten minutes six times. Wow what a fun challenge! I think many of us had so much fun that we are going to do it a few times this week. Check out her site at
http://www.dailypaintworks.com/Challenges
and all the art work by many different artist, styles and mediums.

WINTER

WINTER
12 x 12 x .75
Watercolor
Watercolor Canvas
$65.

This piece was inspired by our recent snowstorm and from photo taken by Rachel Allen. I explored a couple of things that are somewhat new to me. For example using friskett on the watercolor canvas for the first time. Friskett acts as a resist to keep the canvas white. Enabling me to paint freely without worry about loosing my whitest white. I also used texture medium on the trees. This is advertised as giving a 3/D effect, and I think it did, as much as it could. So then I was worried about using the texture medium over the friskett. Not worried but wondering if I would be able to lift the friskett now that the texture medium had been painted over it. And of course it lifted.
The result is a haunting winter night during a snowstorm. And I am thoroughly pleased!

Six Koi

Six Koi
unframed
22 x 30
$225
Teresa Beyer

I started this piece before the New Year and just finished it today. Not that I was working on it everyday, contrare I havent been in the studio much since ThanksGiving. The bodies of the Koi are painted in a shiney silver to give the effect of scales. Painted on a full size sheet of Arches 300 lb. watercolor paper.

Koi are an ornamental domesticated varietiey of the common carp that are kept for decorative purposes in outdoor koi ponds or watergardens. They are culled for color and will revert to the original coloration within a few generations if allowed to breed freely. Koi are among the longest living vertebrates, with some living over 2oo years.

The Koi varieties tend to have a common body shape, but have a greater variety of coloration and color patterns.

Such a pleasure to be back in the studio.

Happy New Year to All of You!

Teresa

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! To all of my collectors, supporters, and fans! May 2011 bring you nothing but joy, love, health, peace and prosperity!

Ballet Slippers

Ballet Slippers

7.5 x 5.5

Watercolor on

Arches 300 lb paper

artist Teresa Beyer


This is a commissioned piece I have yet to deliver. Painted a few weeks ago for a dear friend.

Two Cups of Coffee

Two Coffee Cups
Both images were painted in my oil painting class with Paul Abbott. Both are approximately three hour paintings each. The one on the right was done in my first class. I think it has a little more personality. The one on the left was done in the second class, it may be more accurate and offers more of a 3/D effect or quality.

What do you think? Be honest but please not brutal.

Coffee Cup 2

Coffee Cup 2

16 x 16

oil


Hmmmmm another wonderful workout in oil painting with a palette knife and with the wonderful guidance of Paul Abbott. Learning to see the lights and darks, keeping the values true and correct. Wow what an exercise!.


I did this same coffee cup last week, and felt I still needed this valuable exercise. So here it is.


On December 4th I had my first art reception. Just for me! It was a wonderful night with good friends, music, drink and food. Thank you everyone for making the reception a perfect night!


With much gratitude and love,

Tess

Coffee Cup

Coffee Cup

oil on canvas

20 x 16

Teresa Beyer


Usually when a cup of coffee is unfinished it usually means there is still coffee in the cup.


I have dabbeled in oils over the years and recently I have a strong desire to learn how to paint in oils. I went to my first class with Paul Abbott at the Art Store here in town. Wow what a challenging experience. For my first piece he had me paint a white coffee cup on a white background. This alone is a challenge in any medium but on top of that I was painting with a palette knife. This is as far as I got in 3 hours.


Paul is teaching me to look and paint what I see, for me it is a much needed review.


Painting in oils and using a palette knife feels like a huge change from brushes and watercolor which is just what I needed! I'm inspired and excited!


So not only will I be learning to paint in oils but I am going to learn to get messy, my hands, supplies, clothes, everything! Learning to not be so OCD.


Happy Painting,

Teresa