A stylized acrylic painting of lichen depicted on a macro scale, with colors of warm browns and oranges with contrasting pastel greens and blues.

Lichen

A painting of an ordinary alley at night, lit by a solitary garage light

Maddie's Light

A lush watercolor composed of exploding wide, wet blue horizontal strokes with deep red emerging  from the center on a field of muted yellow. 



Early Blues

A painting of three reddish/pink geraniums on a gray/green background.

Geraniums

There is a rooster in the foreground of an orchard on an early, clear morning, with distant farm buildings and fading hills in the background.

Early Riser

A painting of daisies viewed from below against a textured blue sky. 

Daisies

A painting of a plastic bear shaped honey container with a blue background. 

Oh Honey

This is an abstract painting composed of organic shapes, curvy lines, and cool and warm colors. You might imagine a birds-eye view of a spring landscape. A mint green shape resembling a cool stream flows in the lower section of the painting, while bright yellow shapes hug the irregular shoreline. The texture is smooth and orange lines accent fluctuating shades of yellow. This painting evokes temperature changes in the air and on land.

Mint Flow

A painting of a slender black cat with green eyes sitting in a bright white space looking pensively at the viewer.

Love Eternal

A watercolor painting of Johnny Stevens, lead singer of the band Highly Suspect, done in values of black and white.

Johnny

This is a self portrait. I'm carrying all my paint supplies on a beautiful summer day by the beach where I just finished painting!

Plein Air Painter

A painting of a sage plant with a vibrant blue background and an overlapping painted square that is striped in various shades of red and shows the outline of the same plant in blue.

20/20 Vision

Monique

The American flag and the Rainbow flag flying on a flagpole with the words in the sky:  One Nation Indivisible With Liberty and Justice for All

One Nation

Red, yellow blue, green and white abstract animals in a quarter circle ring.

The Circus

A watercolor painting of a cluster of 4 deep bright rose/maroon fully open roses viewed up closely with a light/dark green background.

Cluster of Roses

A closeup watercolor painting of a warm golden sunflower with a background of colorful swirls.

Sunflower 

A painting of a late summer rainy day in the prairie. Majestic clouds rolling peacfuly over the little farm and a subtle rain.

Let It Rain

Hazy lazy mountains in background, an island of trees and an anchored Asian boat in the right foreground.

Yangtze Backwater 

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

Lazy lions like lollipops

A watercolor painting of geometrical shapes, fitting together to resemble a mosaic. Each shape is a different color, and fragments of a poem are glued onto the shape to create a whole.

Blocks

Iconic Split Rock Lighthouse shining forth, with starlight for companionship. 

Split Rock by Starlight

A red and gold box with plaster bust and bird skull sitting on patterned fabric

Treasure Box

A painting of a woman meditating, sitting in lotus position, surrounded by atmospheric abstract space that fades from light blue (at the top) to dark blue (at the bottom), alluding to sky and water. Layered into the blue negative space are words and phrases about the state of our planet and society, combated with mantras and healing words.

Padmasana (Lotus)

Cape Dorset artist Kenojuak Ashevak was an amazing graphic artist who lived from 1927 to 2013. This study is an attempt to learn about and understand one of her works, "Floral Passage," by exploring her composition, proportion, use of color, and use of lines and dots.

Searching for Kenojuak Ashevak

White mask blindfolded by rich red velvet, blue silk flowing outward from the crown of the mask onto the ground.

Eyes Wide Shut

A painting of a harbor town on the edge of the ocean, with sailboats in the bay.

Northeast Harbor III

THE PAINTING OF SNOW PATCHES ON THE SIDE OF A MOUNTAIN GIVES A FEELING OF DEPTH ENHANCED BY THE DEEP BLUE COLOR.


Snow on a Mountain

Brown feathered raptor's head, orange eye, and blue background.

Alert

The outline of a cat is in the center, painted with very thick black brush strokes and spatters of black water color. The cat's head is cocked to one side and the eyes, mouth and claws are red. On the left side of the canvas, hand-painted lettering reads in all caps "cartoon cat"

Cartoon Cat

An abstract expressionist painting with primary color and chaotic scribbling.  The artist utilized brushes and their bare hands to create the painting.  

Lichen, 2020

Janie Allen