Only You Hold The Key

Only You Hold The Key

Like a few of my paintings lately this one was in a vision of mine that I had when thinking of ways to tell a loved one that they are special to you. I started painting some of my things last year with a shadow underneath them as if they were floating or levitating still in mid air. At first I only thought of the key and it having distinct heart shapes in it. Then as I was sketching it out to paint decided that it need some color thus adding the red thread which is yet another symbol of love. 

ATTENTION

This month I will be doing a drawing for 4 blank art cards. How to be entered into this drawing. Simply Like my Facebook page. Then add a comment on my page that you saw this on my blog and I will announce the winner at the end of February! Good Luck everyone!

Special Delivery Valentines Card

Special Delivery

This was an image that came to me as I lay awake one night thinking about Valentines I came up with this. Doesn't everyone want to imagine their valentines card delivered in this fashion? 

Old Bitterroot Apple Tree

In the Studio

"Old Bitterroot Apple Tree"

This is a tree that my family and I pass by on a road up to our hikes at Blogett Canyon in the summertime. I love this classic landmark in the Bitterroot Valley. I hope that through this painting even when this tree no longer stays standing that it will be a memory embedded in our minds forever.

Feather of Courage and Hope

"Feather of Courage and Hope"

This was a feather that I made up thinking of my father and step father both recently diagnosed with cancer. One of them decided to do Chemo Therapy the other did not. The colors to me are symbolic of courage and hope. The dots are symbolic of white and red blood cells, needed to recover from this terrible disease. Through painting and prayer I have courage and hope that they will pull through this. 

The Sheep

This is my sheep painting! Finished it today. Second in a series of farm animals. I have labeled at the bottom of each painting the English and Latin words for the animal that I paint. I spent a lot of time looking online and through my local Bitterroot Library to find those words. Each painting is sketched then loaded with color washes and then layered for a detailed effect and finally using an archival black pen I add the lines to make it look like stain glass. An idea that I thought of earlier this Winter.

Haven't quite figured out how to take really great photos of my sketches yet. Working on it though. 

Here are the initial washes of The Sheep painting. 

This is the final of The Sheep. These designs originated with the intent to make them into note cards. I am however making it available for purchase as well. I hope you enjoy! By the way I have some very exciting news, now that I have my new camera that also takes videos,  I am looking into making some videos of me actually doing my watercolors as well. Something to look forward to!!! ENJOY!!!

Abigail Turner

Summer Focus

Here is a painting that I did when daydreaming about my summer vacation near the ocean! I thought of all the bright colors and textures in the ocean life and the waves and the flow of the water on the surfaces. This was a really fun one to do for me. I didn't limit myself to my scope of imagination.

Enjoy,
Abby

Summer Focus measures: 5" X 5"

It is on an acid free, cold pressed professional watercolor paper!

Camping Out Collection

I started a new collection! It's all about camping out! I love summer! More than any thing I love spending time with my family and the people that I cherish the most. What better way to spend your summer than by camping! This collection consists of some of my personal favorite themes. For instance; the warmth of the fire, the smores', the fire flies and going on small expeditions with your dad or mom. These painting are among the first of many in this collection. I hope you enjoy and imagine what your summer has in store for you!

Abby

Both paintings measure 7" X 7" 

In process of making these available for purchase as digital prints and or 5" X 5" cards with an eco-friendly brown bag envelope!

 Happy daydreams til summer!

Need I say more?

The Journey Home Series

I started a series, which is not something that I generally do. I like to paint things that come to me as I wish. But I was without a car for two weeks and decided that me and my two boys would walk home from school and work when it got over at the end of each day. It was a magnificent experience and made me feel lucky that it happened. I was so use to driving my car this winter. I wasn't sure just how well the boys would adjust to walking home. Well I was pleasantly surprised when I realized that they loved it! It gave them and I a chance to get reconnected at the end of each day. It was an adventure for us all. We felt free and alive. Not confound to the routine of driving the car and letting that rule our needs. Normally we would have went straight home and started their home work and made dinner. Then put them to bed. Which to me always feels so rushed. Thank you for the wonderful blessing of being without a car for two weeks!

Here are the first two paintings in this series of The Journey Home. The things that the boys and I collected on the way. Enjoy!
Abby

 The Journey Home No.1

  The Journey Home No.2

  The Journey Home No.3

 The Journey Home No.4

                                                    

Reminiscent of Fall Watercolor Original

I have always loved and admired old botanical watercolor paintings. I do not know personally many people that still do that type of painting any more. I am trying to do some experimentation on these types of painting for myself. I know they may never look like those original Audubon Society paintings either but they are my little attempts to them in my own version. I hope that you enjoy looking and would love your feedback!

Pebble paintings

I took a walk on the morning of my husband and mine's 10th Wedding Anniversary and found these three pebbles and couldn't wait to take them home and paint them. The first is What I call a heart within a heart. The second is  a pebble with two crosses and a third is a heart shaped pebble. Enjoy! Abby