Where Light and Shadow Meet - 3 of 30 in my painting challenge

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Light and Shadow 
meet under a
purple hazed moon

5 x 7

I decided to try painting in a smaller size this time.  I really enjoyed it so I am definitely going to do more.  I also decided to try using a very limited color palette.  Only three colors where used to make this piece.  Gamboge (yellow), Cobalt Blue, and Cobalt Violet. I did a lot of negative space painting.  That's when you paint the air that defines the edge of an object.   I also masked out the moon and the Light figure with watercolor tape.   As far as the imagery goes the piece is about how everyone has a dark and light side of themselves and how they are what lead us down our paths in life.

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Filed under  //   Blue   Dark   Forrest   Light   Moon   Night   Purple   Trees   Woods   yellow  
Posted December 31, 2009
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Wishing for Sun

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Ending blooms
before the seed seek
just a taste of sun


The reason behind this painting stems from the fact that I suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder or SAD. I had been cooped up in the house during a long gray and rainy week and it was my birthday. I only wanted the sun to peek out and shed some rays on my dampened spirit. I gave up and finally painted myself some sunshine. All the other dandelions in the painting are going to seed. When I was a kid blowing on dandelions granted wishes...The one lonely light green dandelion in the middle signifies the desire to fight the blues while "Wishing for Sun".

Wishing for Sun (c) 2009 Shoshanna Bauer All rights Reserved

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Filed under  //   SAD   Sun   abstract   art   contemporary   dandelion   expressionism   green   landscape   melancholy   painting   seed   watercolor   winter blues   wishes   yellow  
Posted November 19, 2009
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