Untitled

A painting based on a drawing done by my four-year old son. 

Daddy: Self-portrait

Dark blue textured wavy ground with gold leaf overlay

Indigo

pools of water on paper absorbing a faint gray color form the shape of a prancing rabbit with a curious expression

bunny dreams

An amorphous, abstract painting on black, composed of a rainbow of colors with bubbles and cellular shapes poking through the hues. On the edges of the colors, the paint spreads out in a wispy patterns, which spill off the unframed canvas.

Confluence

A zoomed-in view of a gargoyle resting his head in his hands, while overlooking Paris from his eternal stoop atop Notre Dame.  The gargoyle, despite his anguished, exasperated sigh of what he sees before him, is painted in shades of gold with glitter highlights and a background of intense neon pink.

Long Sigh

Painting of a boat coming in to dock with a man at the motor, a woman at the front of the boat and a dog looking out. Backdrop is moored boats and trees and  a mountain beyond.

Dog on Water

Painted Faces

Colorful Paris Street - Champs Elysees - Soft pinks and purples as if after a rain...

You & Me in Paris

A still life, including two pots, one is pouring.  The painting is a study in shapes and color.

pouring tea pot

A simple wood framed  cottage on the grounds of the Hameau de la Reine, a replica peasant village built for Marie Antoinette.

Cottage, Hameau de la Reine, Versailles

A painting of a blue and green concentric ellipse floating in a red field over a white and gold earth like fragment.

Becoming

A drawing of a crow in black ink on paper with a blue swirled acrylic background and a clear acrylic spray gloss finish.

Crow

An abstract painting with vivid pastel colors that resembles both large and tiny flowers from above. 

Flowers Bloom 

One of spring's gift to us all is the beautiful iris.  This iris is has a mix of vivid, deep purples and almost blinding yellow.  The size of the blossom looks almost top heavy on the delicate stem.

Simple Elegant Iris

A family with four different ages or generations represented, outside in lawn chairs by a 1950's-1960's car. Circa 1963

Four Generations

A close-up photograph of a lime green zinnia flower. The concentric layers of rounded petals gradate from bright green at the center to pale yellow at the edges. 

Lime Green Zinnia Flower

Edgewood Park & Natural Preserve, CA

A pink hairless cat with a third eye on a light blue background.

Nirvana Sphinx 

An abstract painting of a melting iceberg surrounded by water and land. You can begin to see its hidden mass below the surface.

Pine Island

Lazy lions licking lollipops while watching lively lizards doing leaps and flops.

Lazy lions like lollipops

A painting of one of the experience rooms in the MIA, Up All Night night in the 1700s. The blue light coming from the window glows across the golden embellished walls and wood floors. 

Up All Night in the 1700s Study 

A painting of abstract flowers on pale-green ground in pale and deep golds and rusts and black.

Faint Perfume

A watercolor painting of a person with a Orange and yellow sun head flying through the sky looking at three green, purplE and red planets in the distance. Accented with 5 blue upside down hearts on the left side of the sun head.

Person in the sky

Portrait of a young girl with orange swimsuit and yellow sun hat with feet in the sand looking over the lake water under green shade all by herself.

COVID Summer At Lake Harriet

A paint of a raven looking to the right in blues, greens, and blacks with yellow accents in an abstract style. 

Raven

The bug collector is a painting of a young woman wearing brightly colored patterned summer clothes, portrayed as a paper puppet with joint held together with brads. She has an oversized number 2 pencil for recording details and her head is engulfed in all the plants and bugs she finds. In the center of all the items (such as a pitch plant, sunflower, sea grape leaf, bees, mayflies) there’s a clear jelly jar with a white and red checkered lid with air holes punched through with a screwdriver. 

Bug Collector 

A portrait of a lively young boy painted by his mother this year. 

Portrait of a Young Boy

A 3D painting of the sprawling green landscape of Ireland with touches of yellow and blue to capture the beauty of the island. 

Irlanda #5

A painting of a face of an older woman of color expressing rage and disappointment, emerging from a dark espresso halo ending in a flash of white against a brilliant red background.

Untitled, 2020

Cara Ann Krippner