Solar Radiance
36″ x 42″, Oil on Canvas.
Details:
Like all of my paintings, this is on a gallery-wrapped canvas with the painting continuing onto the sides.
Solar Radiance
36″ x 42″, Oil on Canvas.
Details:
Like all of my paintings, this is on a gallery-wrapped canvas with the painting continuing onto the sides.
Your talent and connectedness just astounds me. I love these paintings more than you can imagine. My father was a very talented artist. I’ve commented on your site before. Due to several health conditions, this American Watercolor Society Member and one of the founders and ex-presidents of the Florida Watercolor Society can no longer paint. He’s in a nursing home in Illinois. I’ve added your site to his site (which I add art to from old slides that my mother kept and cataloged his work with as well as photos of paintings that people send to me to share on the site) and their comments.
However, my father was also an astronomer. He built his own telescope that is a phenomenal undertaking in itself. This wasn’t some rinky-dink creation. You can actually see the nebula with it as well as countless other planets and stars. For as long as I can remember he would tell us kids about the Leonid meteor showers or some other celestial event and give us the opportunity to come out at some ungodly hour (like 2 a.m.) if we wanted him to wake us up to observe them with him. I almost always took him up on those offers. In 1969 he actually did a painting of Comet West. Sadly there’s no photo or slide of that painting. He was also a friend of Jack Horchiemer from “Stargazer” fame.
Your paintings (especially these with the stars and sun and moon, comets, constellations, the movement of the trees and the relation to the planet) especially move me. I haven’t watched you paint this latest one yet, but I can’t say enough. Your lotus paintings are also a favorite. Falling leaves is another favorite of mine. I was pleased to see it hanging in your studio still. I couldn’t help but wonder if you’re going to miss painting outdoors.
I would be honored (as well as my father if he were able to know) if you would visit his site.
One of these days when I’ve saved up enough, I’m going to have one of your works on my wall. They say if you think about a nice thing enough it materializes. I can only hope.
Congratulations, too on such an adorable child.
with continued admiration,
Wendy Wells Sage
Cedar!! Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful video of you painting a complete painting right before our eyes. Absolutely amazing! I love it and great job with the music as well. Very cool. Very exciting! You are always inspiring in so many ways!
God bless you! Lisa
Wendy–
I apologize for my delayed reply. Your father sounds amazing! What is the URL of his site??
I love my new studio but don’t think I’ll ever stop painting outdoors, at least when the weather is fine. I paint a lot in the studio at night. 🙂
Thanks so much for your kind message!
Lisa–thank you! 🙂
You’re a mom. No apology necessary. Dad’s site is http:/www.millardwells.com. I know what you mean about outdoors. I watched the videos of you painting and you just seem so comfortable out there and I love it, too. I recently made myself a workshop out by my pool (Southern Alabama area) and I draw so much from just being in nature trying to paint it. When I had the studio in the house I just got too lost in the work and capturing true light was difficult etc., etc.
Dad always liked to paint outdoors whenever possible. Of all the people I’ve ever met (I haven’t met you) Dad has it all. He’s not just a talented artist, but also a brilliant mathematician, charismatic, spiritual — everything. Who gets both left brain and right brain, you know? Do you have that, too? I hope you get a moment to check out his site.
Thanks for the reply.
Wendy
I just looked at his paintings–he’s prolific! He must have been a great fisherman to have spent so much time observing fish and water!