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New Painting: Rolling Hills

 


 
Rolling Hills, 30"x24" original painting, acrylic on flat panel (she will require framing), sold (thank you so very much!).  Link to purchase prints is here. Please reach out with any questions.

This is the final painting featured in my Intuitive Painting online workshop.** I created three pieces during the filming of this course, all originating from the same idea (a fusion of Bear with the California landscape), each one remarkably different and carrying her own distinctive personality. Also worth noting, this is a rare landscape oriented Momma Bear piece - they usually are portrait format.

In addition to naked panels, I brought this one, containing a very loose color study of fall colors I did in October of last year, not knowing what I was going to paint overtop her. In the first day of drawing and planning designs, when I began layering my bear contour drawings together, suddently I knew what I was going to do. I flipped the painting on it's side and sketched two bears overtop. The original design, gold and yellows in the middle surrounded by blues and greens, steered the bulk of the color choices. A conversation started right away - I saw trees, hills, sky and ocean blues, the colors of the redwood forest, sunrises, sunsets, wildfires, all buried inside the looser marks from the fall landscape that originated in my midwest neighborhood. And thus Rolling Hills was born.

She can be viewed up close, in a room setting, with a link to purchase reproductions, over  on my website.  

Ask if you'de like a payment plan. A 30% non refundable deposit reserves the painting, with the balance plus shipping and handling satisfied within 12 months. 

Also, returning collectors can use the coupon code "COLLECTOR10" for 10% off new purchases.

**Intuitive Painting is a streamable self study course with over 10 hours of video and lifetime access. If you are curious about creatively tapping in to your intuition or want to learn how I build my paintings, this will get you there. Enrollment is open for a year. If you join now you'll get the added bonus of engaging with me daily via the Facebook classroom. 

Thanks so much for your interest in my artwork,
All my best, warmly, Kim

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