Sunny Boatyard

Copyrighted © 2008 by Linda Warner Constantino. 8" by 10".

I actually have been painting over the past few weeks but I just got around to posting. I decided to drop everything between Christmas and New Year's and focus on spending time with family. So much to be thankful for this year.

I have had some nice times painting with friends and enjoying being outside over this holiday break from teaching. Some days I just putted around my studio. I go through periods when I need to incubate – read books, look at art, sketch. I love oils but watercolors always tug at me too. So I did some sketches which I will post on my watercolor blog.

The day I painted in the boatyard the temperature went up to 75 degrees! The boats out of water have such interesting shapes to paint. I mostly wanted to capture the feeling of the sun.

Cloud Study

Copyrighted © 2008 by Linda Warner Constantino - 6" by 6".

I did this little cloud study yesterday from a photo. I find clouds so compelling and challenging, especially here in the South. These were summer thunderheads.

Famous landscape painter John Constable said that the "sky is the chief organ of sentiment in any picture." I could spend a long time just trying to paint clouds. I used to live on the tundra in a small town in western Alaska where there were literally no trees to speak of and the land so flat. The sky took up so much of my view - quite dynamic. I think it made an impression.

Some Good News by the way. Shop SCAD will be carrying some of my small paintings.Not sure if the will be online though.

Palmetto Bluff in Bluffton, SC

Copyrighted © 2008 by Linda Warner Constantino. Oil on linen board - 5"h by 7"w. Click on image to see larger view.Email me me if interested in purchasing.

I got up early today and headed out to a gorgeous spot along the May River in Bluffton. The ground is high by the water - thus the bluff. I did not get going early enough because it got warm very quickly, though once I found my motivation to paint, I was able to ignore the heat for at least a little while.The marsh grasses were really this green!

September Clouds II on Hilton Head - Sold

September Clouds II on Hilton Head - Sold

© 2007 by Linda Warner Constantino. Oil on linen board. 5"h by 7"w.

I am forever challenged by painting clouds and they have been especially majestic for the past few weeks. They remind me of mountain ranges sometimes.I underpainted this one with cadmium orange.