As Time Goes By…Texas Artist…Rae Andrews

 I finished this one two days ago, had oodles of thought provoking steps.. I loved painting is one

Image size is 12” x 16”

Watercolor on Arches CP paper

$450 plus S/H

Water Patterns..Watercolor ans Fluid Acrylics..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

I just felt like playing today. 

This one began from nothing at all in mind, and I just experimented with Fluid Acrylics, and let them flow on the page, helped by my blow dryer.

I dried it completely then and began to find my lily shape into and over the paints. 

With negative painting I brought my flowers and lily pads into focus.
                                                                    Great fun.


                                                           12" x 16" unframed
                                                                 $350 Plus S/H

                                                           

             This image is also available in prints through Fine Art America.

      Rae also conducts online workshops called Dancing Brushes With Rae Andrews

                     For more information please contact her through her website 
                                       
                                                     raeandrews.com

                                                  Thanks for visiting

Through Rose Colored Glasses..Watercolor..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

 This semi abstracted watercolor image is on Arches CP Paper.
It is presented unframed.

16' x 20'
$500 plus S/H

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

Rae conducts workshops in bot Europe and the USA..

Contact her through this blog or her website for more info.

raeandrews.com

Thanks for visiting..

Design in Turquoise and Magenta..Watercolor..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

 This was a bit of an experiment in design. 
I began with a lot of squiggly lines on the dry paper with masking fluid, and delineated some floral shapes as well.

On went the paint, and the 'pulling together' later of making something out of the mess. LOL

One just has to stay focused and check composition regularly when intuitively painting like this. Great fun though, gets the cobwebs out.

This image is 16" x 20" unframed
Watercolor on Arches CP paper

$500 plus S/H

Prints of this image are available through Fine Art America..
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/design-in-turquoise-and-magenta-rae-andrews.html

Rae teaches workshops in Europe and the USA. For more info please contact her through this blog or her website..
                                                            raeandrews.com

                                                          Thanks for visiting..

Ghost Leaves 2..Watercolor..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

 This is actually a mixed media watercolor, with some opaque white ink.
I painted it a long time ago and just found it in my archived works.

Image size is 6" x 21.75" unframed
$250 plus S/H

Prints of this image are also available through Fine Art America

Rae Teaches workshops in both Europe and the USA.. Please contact her through this blog or via her website for more info.

raeandrews.com

Thanks for visiting..

Ghost Leaves..Watercolor...Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

GHOST LEAVES is an older painting I did years ago and revamped recently. I loved the colors and just the confusion of perspective.

This image measures 13.75' x 14" unframed

$450 plus S/H

Prints of this image are also available through Fine Art America.
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/ghost-leaves-rae-andrews.html?newartwork=true

Rae paints and teaches in all mediums.

She conducts workshops in the United States as well as Europe.

Contact Rae through his blog or her website for more info..

raeandrews.com

Thanks for visiting..

Bangalay Corroboree..Pastel..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

I had Aboriginals in mind when I painted this one. in their language, BANGALAY means Eucalyptus Tree and CORROBOREE means an event/ dance..hence the title..

**** I have since discovered that the language can differ regionally (throughout Australia )and for the species of tree ..

So BANGALAY might be incorrect in a general sense , but for the sake of this painting I will keep the title as is..

19.5” x 25.5”

Pastel on Sennelier La Carte Paper

$800 (unframed) $1200 (framed)  plus S/H

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

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

Thanks for visiting..

Rae teaches workshops in Europe and America..

For more info please contact Rae through this blog or via her website..

RaeAndrews.com

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.

Chain Reaction..Step by Step......Pastel..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

I decided to get back to my semi abstracted marine elements with this one. See the page below for my process. This was a great challenge for me, I hope you like it. The next post will be the finished painting.

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

Chasm Interrupted..Pastel..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

I am on a roll with these abstracts now, hope you are not sick of them.
This one was a challenge..


As you will see from the step by step page below, it began as a full sheet of Sennelier paper on which I had done a quick demo for an art group years ago.


 I am going through all my old filed paintings and reconstructing them. I hate to waste this wonderful substrate.


So...  I first turned the old demo upside down before deciding to cut the paper in half vertically.
 
I find if I view an old image upside down first it changes my perspective on that piece, and I begin to see possibilities for another painting.


This one, as with my previous posts, changed a great deal throughout the process of painting it. I could easily have gone with a horizontal format, but in the end, decided on this vertical.
I am constantly rotating the work as I paint.


This image is 10" x 25.5" unframed
$350 plus S/H




Prints of this image are also available through Fine Art America:
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/chasm-interrupted-rae-andrews.html?newartwork=true

See below for the thought process behind this pastel painting..

Thanks for visiting..

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

                                                         http://raeandrews.com

Mantled Epoch..Pastel..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

Mantled Epoch is cut from the same paper as the previous post. I am glad I stuck with this set of abstracts, always a little worrying to rely on one's design sense, but I do love that 'angst' in my art.


 I began (after I had cut the full sheet in half as with my previous painting) by turning the remaining 'demo' image upside down.


As I worked by blocking in some hefty darks, I rotated every few minutes, and kept doing that till I settled on a pleasing composition.


Just by rotating the piece as I progressed, I saw so many opportunities evolve. Each rotation looked so different, and the focus became a different area of the painting.


 I had a hard time, as with my previous post, to finally decide which rotation pleased me the most.
Eventually it was this one.


See the process of my thinking below, remember I had no reference with any of these abstracts, I just 'went with the flow' so to speak (pun intended).


This piece is 13" x 19" unframed
It is a pastel on red Sennelier paper.


$350 plus S/H


Prints of this image are also available through Fine Art America:
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/mantled-epoch-rae-andrews.html?newartwork=true

See the stages of this painting below..

Thanks for visiting..

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

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Cavernous Tumble..Pastel..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

This painting started as a demo start, only partly done, and I did not want to toss the great paper.

It was a full sheet of reddish  Sennelier paper, which I turned upside down and cut in half so I have two pieces I can work on. (there will be another painting coming up soon from this paper)

I liked the color contrast in the demo, so just went with it.

I wanted to abstract my image (though) and after my France workshop last May and a visit to some amazing caves, I felt this image could be an 'echo' of that .

See all the steps below, to better explain.

This image is 13" x 19.5" unframed

$350 plus S/H

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

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

                             Below is a little on the thoughts behind my process.


As a finished painting the sheet directly below shows the image in all directions. I could still change my mind on this, it's an easy thing to erase my signature and place it elsewhere if I decided to perhaps go with a vertical format, I will have to live with my chosen top image for a few days and see how I feel.

 

 






The sheet below is my whole thought process throughout this painting. From an old demo partly done on a full sheet/cut in half/turned upside down/ and then gradually working around the shapes in a new painting.

Thanks for visiting..

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

                                                         http://raeandrews.com

Prism Lights..Watercolor..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

This is an older painting I found in my files.. It was a demo for a workshop on abstracting a still life.

It is a watercolor with a few charcoal pencil lines integrated into the design.

This image is 22.5 x 28" unframed
$425 plus S/H


Prints of this image are also available through Fine Art America:
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/prism-lights-rae-andrews.html?newartwork=true

                                                               Thanks for visiting..

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

                                                         http://raeandrews.com

Coupled..Pastel..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

And now for something completely different!

I started this one a few weeks ago, and I am now finally wanting to get back into it.

It's a pastel on a sanded Richeson board.

Some of you might recall I had a mishap a few weeks ago when my studio leaked and rain splashed my pastel BACKWATER STICKS AND STONES.

The surprise of the lovely texture the rain left on my pastel surface made me want to repeat the whole process, this time deliberately.

I had this close focus photo of marine elements I took in Maui, and thought it was just the ticket to experiment with spontaneous texture.

I wanted the painting to be 'mottled' and 'worn looking, such as one sees when walking around a marina and looking at the ropes etc.

I hope you can see this effect okay, I am sort of liking it.

This image is 9" x 24" unframed

$250 plus S/H

Prints are also available through Fine Art America:

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/coupled-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.raeandrewsgallery.fineartstudioonline.com

Or..

rae-andrews.pixels.com

All That Glitters, Is Not Gold...Semi-Abstract..Pastel....Texas artist..Rae Andrews

This is only my second effort trying this pastel pencil on cold press watercolor paper. It certainly keeps me interested, so maybe I will do more. I began with a bold watercolor start, then when dry, I worked my pastel pencils and some hard pastels over the top.

I saw a great demonstration by Jeannette Cuevas....http://www.jeannettecuevas.com/#home
 (who is the 'QUEEN' of this technique), a few weeks ago. 
Although my work leaves a LOT to be compared to Jeannette's lovely work, I am 'sort of' happy with this one.



This is a 14" x 20" pastel over watercolor.
$250 Plus S/H

Prints are also available through Fine Art America:

alhttp://fineartamerica.com/featured/all-that-glitters-is-not-gold-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.raeandrewsgallery.fineartstudioonline.com

Or..

rae-andrews.pixels.com

Blog Site at:
raeandrewsgallery.blogspot.com

Vertical Splendor..Abstract Floral.. Pastel..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

Again, this painting began as a wet into wet under painting for my pastels. 

It is on a Richeson sanded board. 

I guess I am on a roll with these florals, I hope you are not getting sick of them yet.. 

Maybe my next painting will be different genre, but I never plan things with my paintings, I just go with the flow, excuse the pun. :)) 

This image is unframed and measures 12" x 18".
$170 plus S/H

Prints are also available at Fine Art America:
http://fineartamerica.com/featured/vertical-splendor-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.raeandrewsgallery.fineartstudioonline.com

Or..

rae-andrews.pixels.com

Blog Site at:
raeandrewsgallery.blogspot.com

Sea Breeze...Pastel Abstract.. Texas Artist.. Rae Andrews

SEA BREEZE began with a liquid throw of paint, and the I found shapes to enhance with my pastels over the top.

I think you all know how I love to create 'confusion' and play with DEPTH in my art. Well this one was a great deal of fun, although at times it almost drove me to drink!

It is a 16" x 20" pastel on a Richeson sanded board.
$300 plus S/H

Prints of this image and more are available at Fine Art America:

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/sea-breezes-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.raeandrewsgallery.fineartstudioonline.com

Or..  rae-andrews.pixels.com

Blog Site at:
raeandrewsgallery.blogspot.com