Next up in the Coral Seas series…
Shoal Water
oil on 6″ x 6″ gallery wrapped canvas
Artwork
Copyright Jean Burman 2008
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Genesis heat set oils
“Castaway”
oil 6″ x 6″ on gallery wrapped canvas
Copyright Jean Burman 2008
3/4 view
Copyright Jean Burman 2008
Here is the next one in the Coral Sea series. Still fun… but I can feel a cartoon coming on!
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“Life in the Fast Lane”
oil painting 6″ x 6″ on free-standing gallery wrapped canvas
artwork & content Copyright Jean Burman 2008
This little painting was inspired by the notion of how fast life passes… regardless of which lane we might find ourselves in! Here we are… already… 12 days into the brand New Year… and I have been having a lot of fun with the Genesis heat set oils as you can see!
The thing that astounds me the most with this paint is the sense of comparative freedom and ease you have… by comparison to the watercolour medium I mean! I almost have to pinch myself (and can’t believe I am actually saying this, as anyone who knows me at all, knows how much I love the unique challenges and magic of watercolours!)
But… despite myself… I am becoming almost seduced by the delicious leisurely pace of this new-to-me oil painting medium. I still have lots to learn (as you oil painters out there can -and no doubt will- attest to! ~grin~) but I feel confident that it’s going to be a cruisey laid-back and rather enjoyable learning curve. What a nice change this will be from the frenetic fanaticism that almost always accompanies the never ending quest for the large, perfectly executed and flawless watercolour wash!
Oh… I’m so looking forward to it!
Copyright Jean Burman 2008 3/4 view
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“Beyond the Reef”
6″ x 6″ oil painting on freestanding gallery-wrapped canvas
artwork & content Copyright Jean Burman 2008
Most people take advantage of the opportunity that a brand new year presents to reflect on the past year and to come up with ways to do things better in the new year. Whatever it is they want to do… be it “to get more out of life”… or maybe even to “get a life” in the first place… to lose weight… or maybe to put some on… read more… paint more… write less… sell more… or to become an overnight success (however long that may take ~grin~)… whatever… resolutions require promises be made! To this end… the theory goes… we should use the information gleaned from the experiences of the past year to formulate a complicated and ambitious “resolve” to do better and get more done in the coming year.
FUZZY LOGIC – In case you were wondering… I don’t DO resolutions. I reckon resolutions set us up for failure… relying so heavily (as they do) on hindsight… which of course as we all know… we can’t have until it’s too late to do anything with it!
Everyone knows that no-one follows through with resolutions made at New Year and that most have fallen by the wayside by the third week in January. So why do we do it?
Wouldn’t it be far wiser to make a series of rolling action plans spread out evenly throughout the year? That way we can more easily mould and shape our ambitions around the inevitable and always unpredictable life events that crop up for each and every one of us throughout the year. Besides… plans don’t inflict nearly as much guilt and regret that we have (once again) failed to accomplish what we so ambitiously set out to do on that heady happy champagne-soaked occasion way back on January 1 (in whatever given year it was!)
And that way… when things happen… like when the family car becomes submerged beneath several feet of rising sea water in a flash flood on one of the last days of the year… we can just say… “Hah!… c’est la vie!” There’s always next year… and another rolling action plan! (((LOL)))
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