"Lightning Against Blue" palette knife oil painting

Here's some more of the heavy atmosphere to which I referred in a previous post.  I am mesmerized by Mother Nature, who wouldn't be?  Just when you think you got it all under control (!), here she comes with intensity from the skies, the thunderclaps, the electric show, flying down the various colors looming overhead.  Ooooh!  I makes me shudder just thinking of it!  And, yes, I LOVE to paint it! 

"Lightning Against Blue", 4"x6" unframed palette knife oil painting on linen panel, $48 includes s/h in continental U.S., click Paypal button below or write me at KarlaNolan@gmail.com for more information

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"Gold and Purple, Perennial Favorite" palette knife oil painting

This is for all of you iris lovers out there, albeit maybe it should be a springtime post, rather than an autumn post.  We still need to cut down the garden here in northern Colorado and it is going to be a beautiful weekend to do it.  I hate to say goodbye to the spring and summer flowers, but, ah it must happen.  I love autumn, dread winter, and then look forward to the spring where I know I can zip around the yard seeing the lovely iris bursting forth.  All of this is painted with palette knives, speaking of zipping around, and I can tell you, it's quite a challenge! 

"Gold and Purple, Perennial Favorite", 10"x8" unframed palette knife oil painting on gesso board, $160 includes s/h in continental U.S., click Paypal button below or write me at KarlaNolan@gmail.com for more information

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"Last Year in Jerusalem" palette knife oil painting

Honestly, I waited a lifetime for this trip to Israel.  Oh, sure, it was an intimidating thought, going to the Middle East, the hotbed of the world.  I grew up hearing "next year in Jerusalem" at the High Holy Days, but I never really thought I'd get to visit that city.  What a dream!  My husband and I planned this trip long in advance, very thoroughly.  We were most likely the only couple in Israel without a GPS unit or a cell phone, having a firm belief in consulting paper maps, instead.  

This trip took place in May last year, so it was very warm but not yet the heat of summer.  The section of Jerusalem in which we stayed was a pedestrian area only, named "Yemin Moshe".  All of the old houses and paths were made of light beige, pink, white stones.  Great pride was taken in the gardening in this region and, of course, my very favorite plant of all time was crawling up the walls at every turn:  bougainvillea in a range of colors!  The skies were bright cerulean blue, it was a very calm and peaceful area just steps from the Jaffa Gate, where all the hustle and bustle occurred.  Sweet, small, feral cats roamed the pathways, they owned the terrain but stayed out of our way.  So much to see and experience.  An unforgettable and most wonderful adventure! 

"Last Year in Jerusalem", 7"x5" unframed palette knife oil painting on gesso board, $70 includes s/h in continental U.S., click Paypal button below or write me at KarlaNolan@gmail.com for more information

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"Zapping Through the Nighttime Sky", palette knife oil painting

 Living in Colorado is a meteorological adventure, a weather puzzle.  As you must know, we have had "biblical", monumental flooding recently, plus wildfires not only this year but last year.  In 1997, a friend of ours had to swim for her life, along with her young son.  It simply is never dull around here!  

Earlier in the spring, we seemed to be having a lot of thunderstorms, complete with incredible lightning, of course.  I started mulling this over -- what if I try to paint the sky when it's uproarious, zipping with electricity, zapping toward the earth.  This is the first in a series of fun:  lightning storms painted with palette knife and oil.  They are a creative and artistic effort to convey emotion, not a literal one, my imagination was involved here, not necessarily realism.  I hope you enjoy viewing them as much as I enjoyed painting them!  What a blast!  

"Zapping Through the Nighttime Sky", 6"x6" unframed palette knife oil painting on gesso board, $72 includes s/h in continental U.S., click Paypal button below or write me at KarlaNolan@gmail.com for more information

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"Red Poppy Field in Aveyron (France)", palette knife oil painting

Springtime in France brings opportunities for me and my camera and potentially my paintings.  Whenever we drive the roads, I am on heightened alert, my antennae are up, seeking out the crimson fields, the coquelicot in full bloom.  Fortunately, we find them in May in France and in Italy.  Sometimes we drive in circles, looking for the best angles from which to photograph them so I can translate the flowers to paint upon returning home to Colorado.  This field was beautiful, in southwestern France, a hilly part of the land.  I reminisced when I used the palette knives, moving the oil painting around on the panel.  Ah, I love vacations! 

"Red Poppy Field in Aveyron (France)", 8"x10" unframed, $160 includes s/h in continental U.S., click Paypal button below

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"Suite Morning Glories" by Karla Nolan, palette knife oil painting

Okay, I guess you would say I'm back to blogging.  This has been a terrible year, a "horriblus annus" or whatever it was Queen Elizabeth said some time back.  I lost my beloved father at the end of January.  He was a hero to me, an inspiration, a man whose life was unbelievable.  He survived the Holocaust, escaping Nazi Germany as one of the last Jewish people allowed out of that country.  Family was lost, taken from him, but the wretched people who did such vile things never took his soul.  I miss him dreadfully.  

We've had major flooding in Colorado; last year, major wildfires (as well as some in 2013).  Sometimes I wonder, what can keep me going?  I don't want to be a sad, depressed, dis-spirited person, that's never been my style.  The answer is, of course, beyond true family and friends who have become family, art.  Painting.  It's the only way right now.....

Back to the palette, the palette knife, the colors, the flowers, landscapes, skies, travels.  Revelling in the memories.  Experimenting with the colors, the textures, the subject matter.  That's the way to go.  

"Suite Morning Glories", 9"x12" palette knife oil painting on gesso board, $215 plus $17 s/h in continental U.S., push Paypal button below 

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