Ethereal Dance is a WINNER!

The winners were announced at our Austin Pastel Society Juried Show last Thursday! And guess what, my painting 

ETHEREAL DANCE won 2nd in whole show! 

Thank you so much Margaret Dyer for judging the show. And congratulations to all the winners.. It’s a great show..

Well worth a look..

Please visit the Website at

austinpastelsociety.com 

For a list of all the winners and gallery address here in Austin.

Neptunea..Pastel..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

And here is my finished painting.

Image size is 9" x 25" unframed

$499 plus S/H

The surface is Sennelier sanded paper and the medium is PASTEL.

I hope you like this one..

Prints are also available through my Fine Art America site:

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/neptunea-rae-andrews.html?newartwork=true

                                                         
                                                                   Thanks for visiting..
                                      Rae works and  teaches workshops in all mediums.

Neptunea (the steps) ..Pastel..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

Neptunea was born out of wanting a 'sister image' to my post ETHEREAL DANCE.

I attacked this one in the same way as a previous painting, Ethereal Dance, with an abstract underlay.

I then superimposed my shells over the top and embellished parts of the colors and shapes allowing my shells to evolve.

This is not an easy way to get a painting done, but it's so much fun!

I felt completely stimulated all the way through this image, which is very important to me.. I get bored very easily if a painting I am tackling is too easy. LOL.

My next post is the finished painting.

Thanks for visiting..

Rae teaches workshops and classes in all media.

Like Music Adrift..Pastel..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

Hi again, I am finally able to get back to a post on this blog. My hubby has been in hospital yet again, and my life is just very scattered right now, so no time for painting. Grrr!


I started this one about three days ago. It is a 19.5" x 25.5" pastel on red Sennelier sanded paper (unframed). This one was cathartic for me, with all the stress over the last few months. Just to paint again has been a real treat!


I love to paint water in any form as you may realize, and this rock pool (without the shells) was on Maui . I again 'sparked up my colors using Photoshop on my photo.
I used my own shell collection to pop in a little more interest.


I hope you like it. It was a fun image to paint.


$450 plus S/H


Prints of this image are available through Fine Art America:


https://fineartamerica.com/featured/like-music-adrift-rae-andrews.html?newartwork=true

Rae works and teaches in all mediums.. please contact her through her website at:

                                                         http://raeandrews.com

Ethereal Dance..Pastel..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

I think if I were to describe my technique in any medium I use, on the whole, it would be OVERLAPPING and LAYERING .


With pastels this is, at times difficult, as it's an opaque medium; however one just has to use a light touch to get those underneath nuances to show through.




I began this with a totally abstract colorful start. I did not know what I would end up with. I just went with the flow.




The substrate is a red earth colored Sennelier paper.




I began with this..

I switched the image around in several directions, and kept doing that as the image progressed.

I have a large shell collection and thought I would go with that as a subject.

Over the top of my abstract beginnings, I drew some of my shells to intersect and overlap.

Now the fun begins!

I like to work in a  NEGATIVE PAINTING  technique with most all of my work, and the shells developed in much the same way.

Don't let anyone ever tell you that ABSTRACTS are easy, ("my child could do better".. 

Now where have I heard this before?

In fact, I think ABSTRACTS are the hardest .

The artist must rely on their sense of design and truly immerse themselves from the heart.

I hope you like how this one turned out.

This image is 9.5" x 25'5" unframed

$300 plus S/H

Prints  are also available through my Fine Art America site:

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/ethereal-dance-rae-andrews.html?newartwork=true

Rae works and teaches in all mediums.. please contact her through her website at:

                                                         http://raeandrews.com

Neptune's Court..Watermedia..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

NEPTUNE'S COURT began in a recent abstract workshop I took with Mary Ann Beckwith.


Lots of paint flying everywhere, textures and creativity.


I had just a big sheet of this Yupo (manufactured paper) covered in implied textures, very pretty, but now what?


The paint always GLOWS on Yupo, and yes, this is mostly WATERCOLOR with some acrylic GESSO over parts, NO INK is used, although I bet some of you thought I had used INK..
Anyway....


I love a challenge.


Pretty as my start was with patterns made by stamping objects or cloth into and over paint, I feel we as artists, should not rely on that alone. It's a trap.. and many artists deem a painting finished before they truly have done much of their own 'pulling together'.


The challenge is making A PAINTING out of all of this lusciousness.


For days now I have gone back and forth with this, breaking objects into the patterns I made, losing and diminishing the importance of my implied textures, to make my AQUATIC shapes evolve.


It takes a LOT of thought, and I constantly turned this around to show all angles before I decided on this vertical format. The painting actually works okay with most angles though.


                                                    I hope you like my result.


                                            This image is 21.5" x 30" unframed


                                                               $550 plus S/H


            Prints of this image can also be purchased through Fine Art America:


https://fineartamerica.com/featured/neptunes-court-rae-andrews.html?newartwork=true

Rae works and teaches in all mediums.. please contact her through her website at:

                                                         http://raeandrews.com

Shell Design ..Semi Abstract...Pastel...Texas Artist...Rae Andrews

This is another semi abstract design done in pastels over acrylics.

I simply love this process. I never know the outcome, and these designs are always a challenge to me.

The whole surface is eventually covered in pastels in the form of pastel pencils and the soft variety sticks, after a fluid start with liquid acrylics and water.

I chose this elongated format as an added challenge, this gets me away from the 'expected' and I like the surprise .

The substrate is a white Richeson Sanded Board , which are fast becoming my favorite substrate for this mixed media work.

Original image is 20" x 7.7" (unframed

$150 plus S/H

Prints of this image and more are also available at:

 http://rae-andrews.pixels.com

Rae conducts workshops and demonstrations of her techniques in ACRYLICS, PASTELS, OILS, and WATERCOLORS

For more information please contact her at:
rae4art@aol.com

Please visit my Web Site at:
www.yessy.com/raeandrews

or my Blog Site at:
raeandrewsgallery.blogspot.com

Rock Pool Treasure...Semi Abstract Pastel..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

I had the pleasure of doing this demonstration for the Austin Pastel Society last Sunday.

It was very enthusiastic crowd and lots of fun showing my techniques..

My start was using FLUID ACRYLICS on a SAND colored Richeson sanded board.

It was then allowed to dry before I used my pastels pencils and soft pastels to make my shell shapes come into being. I used real shells for my inspiration.

In the end, my board is almost completely covered with pastels.

The shapes from the acrylic pour give me some exciting shapes to enhance or cover up, as the case might be. 

I rarely know my chosen subject or how things will turn out using this technique. I rely on my sense of design and intuition.

This was a fun image to paint, I hope you enjoy this process.

This image is 16" x 20" 

$250 (unframed)

Prints are also available through Fine Art America:

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/rock-pool-treasure-rae-andrews.html?newartwork=true

Rae conducts workshops and demonstrations of her techniques in ACRYLICS, PASTELS, OILS, and WATERCOLORS

For more information please contact her at:
rae4art@aol.com

Please visit my Web Site at:
www.yessy.com/raeandrews

or my Blog Site at:
raeandrewsgallery.blogspot.com

I mostly use my mixtures of liquid acrylics applied with a needle nose applicator bottle

I manipulate the paint pour at times with a brush and water.

I used pastels over the top of the dry painted areas to make the shell shapes appear.

The finished piece.

Netted...Abstract Watercolor and Liquid Acrylics...Texas Artist...Rae Andrews

NETTED   was done a long time ago for an Australian Artist magazine article.

The article was a showcase of my art and they wanted a STEP by STEP  demonstration to take up a couple of pages.

 I actually loved doing this demo, it was in watercolors and acrylics, and I used the    patterns within the image to augment MOVEMENT.

 At the time I painted this, (1999) I was well into DIVISIONAL  backgrounds, as      you will see. They still work though, even today and at times, I still use that technique.
                             
 It's great to take a step back in time sometimes, and see what you were producing as an artist. In those days I lived on Maui, so most of my art had a TROPICAL  flavor .                                           .

                                     The image size is 23.5" x 18" and it is unframed


                                                     $450(unframed) Plus S/H

                                           

              Prints of this image are also available through Fine Art America:

     http://fineartamerica.com/featured/netted-rae-andrews.html?newartwork=true

You might also check out the other items Fine Art America offers using this print, they are fun!

http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/rae-andrews/shop/all/all/all

http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/rae-andrews/shop/all/all/throw+pillows

http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/rae-andrews/shop/all/all/iphone+cases

Rae conducts workshops and demonstrations of her techniques in ACRYLICS, PASTELS, OILS, and WATERCOLORS

For more information please contact her at:
rae4art@aol.com

Please visit my Web Site at:
www.yessy.com/raeandrews

or my Blog Site at:
raeandrewsgallery.blogspot.com

                http://fineartamerica.com/featured/netted-rae-andrews.html?newartwork=true

Neptune's Nautilus..Water Media

I was living on Maui at the time of these SHELL and TROPICAL  paintings. I believe this was painted in the early 90's.

I am still very influenced by the nautical elements and tropical themes, as you might have noticed.

This one was published in a couple of books, one in Hawaii and one in Australia.  I also made a poster out of it which sold out.

Again it has the white ink overlays to make panels over the watercolor. The shapes of course are shells, and I used real shells as my reference. The background areas are completely made up.

This image was around 30" x 30" and is SOLD!

Shell and Geometry...A trip down memory lane

As with so many artists, I have bounced along in my long journey through my art.

I have been looking through my archives and found a few pieces I had not posted before.
Some are gone now, hopefully still hanging in client's homes.

It's interesting to look back at my older works, some of which I am very embarrassed about now, and the fact that I sold them. :((

In those days, it was just a thrill to have anyone take an interest in my work. It still is, but in my early days of painting I was not that discerning.. Yikes!

This piece, (which I liked by the way), was done back in 1990 or earlier I think, It sold the day I did it, and I regret that I did not have a decent photo of it at all. Until my search today through old photos, I had almost forgotten about it.

It was a full sheet of watercolor paper. I used watercolor mostly, and some white ink to make the lighter intriguing areas, a technique I went on to doing in several paintings later, up to the present day.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy my trip down MEMORY LANE.