STILL-LIFE PAINTINGS by Karen Halpern
"Sparrow Visits the Tuscan Market"
In this painting I am using the Poppy image, representative of Italy's fields of poppies, as a backdrop for the array of colorful items in the street market in Italy. It's a pictorial device I am experimenting with to create a somewhat different still life scenario.
"Le Matin"
watercolor 22"h x 30"w
Enjoy the freshness of the morning, amidst a Jardiniere filled with roses, coffee cups with cream, and the loveliness of the new day beginning in the still of this moment.
"The Visitation"
The simplicity of this completed painting belies the intensity of labor involved in creating it. I love the freshness of the clean composition. Its graceful curvilinear shapes placed themselves for me, as I worked with the objects. I feel like I held my breath most of the time when I worked on it, hoping not to upset the perfection of how I felt it was developing.
"Still-life in the Studio" watercolor 22"x 30"
A recently completed painting inspired by the beautiful objects themselves, and the combination of them as I saw how they influenced each other. Painting the deep green bottle and the copper can are two real pleasures for me, because of the challenge they represent, and my delight in the results.
"In a Tuscan Market"
An outdoor market I encountered on my painting trip to Italy filled my thoughts with beautiful objects, unexpected, and so picturesque. The colorful and unique wares I saw displayed there, got me going on this painting.
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"Funky Tea" watercolor 22"x 30"
Here it's the interplay of the selected patterns and colors that generate excitement. The particular objects update still-life into 21st Century imagery.
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" In a Market in Tuscany" watercolor 22"x 30"
Items from my painting trip to Italy brought new items into my painting vocabulary.wares painted here.
"Street Market in Tuscany"
My trip to Italy was the impetus for this painting, and several others, as I recalled my excitement in coming upon different types of wares in the open markets, and, of course, bringing some home with me.
"Market in Florence"
A Myriad of objects revealed themselves to me, as I traveled from city to city, filling my vision to capacity, and then feeling anxious to move on, to absorb new sights, smells, memories.
"Glads and Rosebuds" watercolor 22"x 30"30"
"Pastel Day Lilies" watercolor 22"x30"
The patterns and colors of these objects inspired the grouping as a setup for this still-life painting. I painted much of it in demonstrating watercolor painting at the Michigan State Fair a few years ago.
