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the angel strides across the land in this oil painting

Angel Gabriel

$600
White Roses on Yellow.
(9x12") Sold

White Roses

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Sunshine

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“There’s no such thing as JUST your imaginatio “There’s no such thing as JUST your imagination,” he said by the setting sun. “It’s ‘Imagination’, with a capital I.” ***The left brain (logic, detail, know-it-all-ness) exerts an inhibitory influence upon the right brain (wonder, whole picture, harmony). Iain McGilchrist, the authority on the topic, says that we have an entire culture, these past 300 years especially so, which demonstrates overreach left brain overreach. The dead heart of materialism has now colonized art and spirituality, and we are much impressed with ourselves and not even wondering if maybe we are wrong? Maybe we are wrong? What if we are wrong? The right side has the wisdom to ask. It is enlivened by good company and nature, by art, perhaps some Bach? Imagination is a thing like a muscle. It is a thing like a road. Image the nation within.  #imagine #imagination #themasterandhisemissary #iainmcgilchrist #art #spirituality #love #rightbrain #bach
Enjoyed a beautiful birthday- thank you, friends a Enjoyed a beautiful birthday- thank you, friends and family! 🥰
Red Roses in a Jar. 12” x 16” #redroses #ba Red Roses in a Jar. 12” x 16”  #redroses #balljar #art #connecticut #connecticutartist #oilpainting #rosemadder #grey #love #foliage #stilllife #floral
Red Roses in a Jar as it progresses. I’ve been p Red Roses in a Jar as it progresses. I’ve been paying attention to grey a little bit more. Driving this week, I looked around and thought, now hang on a second, this entire landscape is… is… gray. It is January in Connecticut, after all. The moss in the woods at this time of year glows. I try to prove myself wrong about this every year, but every winter I see the moss in the lowest of light and have to admit that it is still glowing as it always does. All the low chroma around it adds to the effect. That’s how I’m trying to handle the red of these roses. If I keep the surroundings mild, I won’t have to be rude about all the red in the painting. If I were to put too much in there I think it could get offensive, but with gentle tones it can instead be wholesome and invigorating and heart warming. That is the goal, at least.  #rosemadder #ultramarine #gray #grey #roses #oldroses #balljar #art #artoninstagram #oilpainting #connecticutartist #connecticut #connecticutart #stilllife
Cottage Roses with Olive Branches, 9” x 12”. M Cottage Roses with Olive Branches, 9” x 12”. My aim with the backgrounds of these rose paintings is to make color vitamins- nutritious colors that are good for us on a daily basis. I try to make art that is good for the good in us. I’m pleased with this violet, as it varies quite a bit depending on the lighting. It is like a late day violet or an oncoming storm violet, and the flowers in the vase have it purely, such an incredible color. It is made of ultramarine and rose madder. I thought a lot about the olive leaves and put my head in my hands through the week, trying to make sense of the colors, until this morning when I was brushing my teeth I realized it was a question of greys. It’s such an interesting thing that a scale of greys is called a value scale. Values in art are shades of grey. Values in life are probably the same. In order to make harmony, the light and the dark have to be seen.  #oilpainting #art #painting #roses #olive #olivebranch #masonjar #flowers #yellowroses
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