Winter bouquet
Winter bouquet painting just finished! Oil painting on linen, small format but just gorgeous colors. Love using palette knife, allows me to paint fast and in bold colors 😉
Oil on canvas closeups – painting ”Napoli Street Market ”
”Napoli Street Market” oil on canvas closeups
Painting process consists of solving many smaller and bigger problems. Yet painting done is no more just a sum of problems solved, it has to be much more. It has to live on its own. Finished painting presents as it’s own entity. Painting details reveal the path the artist has taken during the process. I’ve thought presenting you some of the closeups of my oil painting ”Naples Street Market” would be interesting. Hope you will like it:)
Landscape with trees, watercolour on paper
Forest path oil on canvas
Forest path oil on canvas abstract landscape was painted this summer. It feels strange to me how long it took me to paint it. I basically knew what I wanted to make. This picture of the forest path near my home is in my head since I can remember. We used to walk it with my late mother, with my family, with my dog, as kids we used to play there. As I close my eyes I can see this path….I painted this canvas ”from inside”, relying on the photo I made just for certain details. But otherwise the Forest path oil on canvas painting was growing by itself, once started I couldn’t end, it was like all years of memories guiding my brush…..I was only concentrated to pick the right colors, to make the correct composition….
Rudbeckia contemporary still life oil on canvas
Painting this contemporary still life oil on canvas was a real joy. For this small nature morte I used palette knife and brushes to capture a Rudbeckia bouquet from my garden. Yellow color of flowers and green color of the table cloth were so strong, and there was a pink vase, all together making a vivid nature morte composition. I wanted to keep this contemporary still life oil on canvas simple and clean. Playing with textures and color main aim was to represent joy of summer colors. Note the patterns of the table cloth, the trembling background and strong yellow flowers arranged with some grasses. And the blue patches, just to mirror the blue sky….. And an interesting detail, the pattern used in the green table cloth appears also in some of my Garden series watercolors. Check the previous blog post: Garden with blue colors. Thinking about the table cloth representing garden and the garden being just a table cloth with patterns of nature…..
Bouquet still life
August bouquet
August is the time when summer turns toward warmer colors,preparing for autumn to come. There is still all that colorfulness in the air. Garden is as a big bouquet on its own. But all the colors are, little by little, loosing the sharpness of early summer, when all the promises were still in the air. Second half of the summer bears with it that certainty of coming September, ripe apples, end of summer holidays and fall colors of the trees… I loved painting that simple perception of the tranquility and transience of an August late afternoon, of the colorful flowers from the garden, off all the yellows of the summer days caught in a glimpse of a bouquet I made for the vintage glass vase. I wanted to get that feeling of trembling summer light, warm as summer can be, catching the viewer in the vertigo of August colors, just to make him remember it was a hot summer day……
Garden painting series, work in progress
Garden painting series, work in progress, is on my drawing desk right now, as Garden has been my inspiration since I remember. All the colors, smell of the flowers, contact with soil, way to immerse in nature, to escape daily life in a way, just to be part of it in its most profound way. My new painting series works on capturing all those elementary senzations from the garden. When all the colors and hues overtake over senses, when there are only fragrance from the flower bed and birds singing left. When the smell of the soil fills the air and sun colors all the greens even greener. When garden beds fill the horizon and everything seems possible. When the perception of the entire garden shrinks in its most fundamental elements, when colors, lines and textures left play with the time of memories from the future….
Garden colors Tamara Jare photography
Bouquet no. XVI
Bouquet no. XVI , some reflections
I still work hard on capturing the subtle moment of a gaze. A moment when I feel trembling of the summer light among the petals of a flower. When a small reflection on the porcelain vase reminds me there have been summers like this. When I know there will be colors like today, this tiny little flower will be reborn next July again,and the sky will be as blue as today. But newer again there won’t be that feeling I have today, never again there won’t be that mingling of the late afternoon summer light like it is today at that hour of the late July afternoon……. Analyzing the croquis of all those feelings, using all the colors, brushstrokes I could to catch them, I decided to title this work in a numerical way, building an archive of captured moments ordered in a sort of a scientific way, Bouquet no. XVI ,just to save them in an unpredictable, visual way…
