The One Green Shoe

 

The One Green Shoe    oil, 10x10 inches

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Have you heard of the phenomena of "the one shoe?"  You're driving around town, or even on a road trip, and you see one shoe by the side of the road.  What happened to the other one?  This has always amused me, and my painting brings it to mind. 

 I had a lot of fun painting this.  If you follow me on Instagram, you have probably seen the time lapse video.  In the video it's a bit hard to see, but at the end I showed the three tubes of paint I used to paint this: cad red light, cad yellow light and ultramarine blue (plus white of course).  No lime green or violet tubes of paint.  You can mix just about anything with the three primaries.  

Pistachio Pair -SOLD

 

Pistachio Pair   oil 9x12 inches

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From my series of Converse Allstars, I thank my friend Juli for loaning these from her converse collection.  

Magic Shoes

 

Magic Shoes  oil 8x10 inches

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And now for something different!  This was an experiment in invented color.  I used a triad I would normally never use:  viridian, alizarin and lemon yellow.  All very cool in temperature, yeilded an icy looking painting.  

Kicked Off Kicks -an original painting of Converse Allstars

 

Kicked Off Kicks    Original oil painting 9x12 inches

This is the third and last painting of the Converse Allstar "Woolrich".  There are just a few more in my Converse series.  

Colorful Kick

 

Colorful Kick   Original oil painting 8x10 inches

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Continuing the series of Converse Allstars.  This one might be my favorite, but there are several more.  

In other news:  I have openings in my September 12-13 and October 3-4 Workshops.  Geared toward beginner/intermediate oil painters, we paint from life and have fun learning fundamentals!  These are in person workshops at my studio in Upland, CA.  Limited to six students.  Email for more information:  karenwernerart@gmail.com

Stylin'

Stylin'   An original oil 12x12 inches  Purchase info here.   

These were SO much fun to paint!  My friend, Juli has a collection of Converse shoes.  In fact, she has so many, she can loan me a few pair and not miss them!  Imagine that!  More shoe paintings to come. 

 IN OTHER NEWS:  After ten years of posting on my blog, Google has chosen to significantly change the interface of Blogger.  I am learning.  So if you see something amiss, please excuse.  This old dog has to learn a new trick!

Red Shiny Shoes

oil 8x6 inches SOLD magnify I couldn't walk in shoes like this, but I can paint 'em. Teri Gammalo attended my March workshop, brought these shoes and asked me to demonstrate painting them. Fun stuff! IN OTHER NEWS: DEMO COMING UP JUNE 6, WESTLAKE VILLAGE ART GUILD. This is a dinner demo (what a great idea!). Location: Thousand Oaks. For more info click here.

Favorite Shoes

oil on canvas panel 6x6 inches

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Daily Paintworks gave us a "paint your shoes" challenge recently. These are my favorite shoes for style and comfort. I live in flip flops, so I don't wear these very often, but still they're my favorite shoes. I thought about leaving out all the gold stitching to simplify the painting, but the stitching is part of the style, so I decided to paint it in a simplified way. The color palette was enjoyably limited: burnt umber, ultramarine blue, yellow ochre, cad yellow medium and Twhite.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Stretch your imagination a bit, and my shoes could be 21st century pilgrim shoes: black leather with buckles.

Hot Pink Boots

oil on canvas panel 8x8 inches

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This one was a lot of fun. I used quinacrodone red in the previously posted pig's ear, and it worked here also for that hot color. These are my granddaughter, Grace's boots which added to the painting fun. I tried lots of background colors with them, but turquoise (a bit stronger than seen here) was the only one that worked well...reminds me of the fifties somehow.

Old Baby Shoes

oil on canvas panel 6x6 inches

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In nearby Ontario there's a still life painter's treasure trove called "Treasures And Junk"...two buildings full of cool old stuff. I bought these shoes there a while back. They looked like they'd been worn by about ten kids. The painting is full of neutrals so it had to be about the light...on the tongue, going inside, on the lace backed by darkest dark. If I don't have bright color, dramatic light can do the trick.

My demo at Associated Artists today was fun as predicted. I'll finish up the demo painting and hopefully post it tomorrow.

Little Shiny Shoes

oil on canvas panel 6x6 inches
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I had a great time with this one! What girl doesn't love to wear patent leather at least sometime in her life? These shoes have been worn by two of my girliest grandaughters. Set on pink, we have a painting that's about being a girl. I used two colors not normally in my palette: chromatic black and quinacrodone red...plus T. white and a smidge of cad yellow medium. Using just four colors made it even more fun to paint...and just looking at it makes me happy!