Abby Laux

Tag: landscape painting

  • Nightfall

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    While in Yosemite National Park, we watched the sun set from Glacier Point overlooking Half Dome.  As the light faded and the darkness became absolute, more and more stars appeared.  I had my camera set up and photographed the emerging stars.  To make this painting, I wanted to try the thick layers of  transparent medium again…

  • Meadow Creek

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        This is another painting from Yosemite National Park.  I tried a violet underpainting this time.  In an effort to become more efficient at starting paintings, I used a larger brush to block in colors within a couple of hours.  Details and reworking took considerable time after that though.  

  • Snow Creek

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     Snow Creek, 2014, oil, 36 x 48 in During an evening walk, my husband and I wandered up this small creek with exposed bedrock.  The setting sun warmed the snow with an orange glow, and the remaining beech leaves shone as if fragments of stained glass hung in the air.

  • Sycamores in Winter

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    This winter of polar vortexes, possibly a result of climate change, did lend itself to a couple outdoor snow studies.  I started this particular one while my husband, nieces, and nephews went sled riding down the hill on the right.  I was drawn to the crispness of light and how the reduction of hues in…

  • Yosemite Valley

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      This painting was the result of a trip to Yosemite National Park last summer.  Within the square canvas, I was striving for a circular  composition.  The dark green of the valley forest and the darker upper sky forms a ring around the lighter, cooler space between the granite cliffs.  It was challenging to create…

  • A pause for a moment of togetherness

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    I recently had the honor of completing this commission for a guy who wanted to give a girl a Christmas gift that would commemorate her treasured memories of baseball games spent with a beloved grandfather.  The view of the field is from their usual seats when watching games together.

  • Hobbit Hill

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    Another plein air painting on a hillside near my studio that my husband and I always joke is our own hobbit hill…

  • The Cove

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    Working to improve my efficiency with colors and values, I have been working on these smaller plein air paintings.  I want to be able to quickly and effectively give a sense of the space of a scene.

  • Stand

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    Here is another little plein air painting I completed this summer at Spring Mill State Park in Indiana.  It was a hot, humid, 90-degree day, hence the intensity of the light on the field behind this stand of trees.    

  • Riverwalk in progress

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    I did this little plein air painting on a foggy day at Jasper’s Riverwalk this past summer.  The fog was lifting as I finished blocking in the masses, so the result does not quite have the atmospheric quality I thought it would when I started the painting.