Fireflies Twinkling..Original Firefly Painting Artwork by Jadee Slayton

Original Artwork by the Artist, Jadee Slayton. Whimsical and Fun..get swept away in all those places you’ve long forgotten. God Bless everyone, I lOVE yOU! In Jesus’ name, Amen. My work is a dedication to Jesus Christ Painting with Jadee…. “Fireflies Twinkling” 16″ x 20″ x 3/4″ Canvas with a black acrylic base coat. After covering a used canvas with black acrylic paint. I recycled an old painting and created something new. I used a variety of colors in Acrylic Paints. I favored the Impasto application technique to apply the paints loosely with my fingers. Progressing to the final image by layering the colors for depth and interest. A free and open stroke left the finished work with an abstract appeal and an impressionistic nature. The subject matter of fireflies and the naive use of color and lines give it a folk quality. You can purchase my original artwork via the links below. Thanks for stopping by. I hope you enjoy what you see. Make yourself at home and come back often. Abstract Impressionism with a Folk Quality. Vibrant colors with a touch of whimsy. Firefly Painter JadeeValleyGallery Just Help Productions Websites jadeeslayton.com http Buy my original Firefly Artwork stores.ebay.com Buy Firefly Merch! zazzle.com Buy Firefly Prints! jadeevalley.imagekind.com SUBCRIBE, COMMENT, RATE, FAVE, SHARE! Add me as a Friend youtube.com youtube.com (Visit Here for Only my Original Art) youtube.com (Visit Here for Only my Original Music) youtube.com Copyright 2009 All …

Selected Works and Paintings by Christian Ward at the Saatchi-gallery

Christian Ward’s eye-grabbingly vivid paintings where Technicolor mountains, caverns and grottoes shimmer with rainbows, cascade with multicoloured waterfalls and are wreathed in iridescent mist.Ward’s wanderings have taken him from the mountains of Scotland and across America into the Arizona desert, but his most recent paintings – and the ones that caught Charles Saatchi’s eye – have their starting point in Yakushima, an island off the southern coast of Japan. This World Heritage Site with its virgin, swampy jungle and rocky mountains plunging into the ocean, is not only scenically spectacular, but also has a personal signiÞcance. Ward’s mother is Japanese and her family originally came from this area;

‘It’s always about a primary experience and then coming back and not doing a topography, but making something surprising and revealing about the landscape,’ he says. ‘Contemplation is a very big part of the process.’The influences of this 25-year-old graduate of the Royal Academy Schools range from Sixties psychedelic graphic design to ancient Chinese paintings, as well as the latest Japanese animation techniques. Yet for all their phantasmagoric otherworldliness – one critic described them as a cross between Fantasia and The Land That Time Forgot – they are always based on the direct experience of a real place.

Then there’s the physical quality of the paint itself: no shiny surfaces and quick-drying acrylic here, but juicy areas of oil paint that gives the work a direct physical immediacy that prevents it from tumbling into kitsch. Ward attaches great importance to technique and applies his paint in lush, sweeping brushstrokes that he’s compared to the raking of gravel around the rocks in Zen gardens. ‘I’m very interested in this idea of origin, and for me origin as a subject is very hard to pinpoint. Painting, because of its history, deals with origin very well. It’s got this life to it that isn’t apparent in a lot of other mediums’.While he’s happy to have been singled out by Saatchi, ‘it means I can carry on, which is a good thing.’ Ward is already pondering new avenues,

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