“Rainbow Falls” Contemporary Landscape Painting

Rainbow Falls
Original medium: Acrylic on Canvas ©2009
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Rainbow Falls is among the few abstract landscape paintings that took a considerable amount of patience and time to build up the layers and texture, taking about a month and a half to create.  This new painting process allows me to acquire just the right colors and tones while also expressing the energy and emotions I feel in the amount of texture.   Taking a step back, it’s almost as if  the  beautiful subject matter of “Autumn Falls” coerced with the texture of  ”Transfiguration” to create this piece.    I hope you like it.  The original is for sale at this time directly from Cianelli Studios.  You can also purchase prints right through my website.

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Work in Progress – Abstract Landscape Painting

I have begun working on what resembles another abstract waterfall painting.  As you can tell I love the way paint pours onto the canvas. The initial stages are the most fun.  I let the paint freely flow and allow my mind to quickly visualize and create the subject matter in real time.  This part of the abstract painting process is the easiest.  Rapid visualization is the most natural for me.  Allowing the colors and glazed layers to all come together in harmony, well that’s not always the easiest.  Much depends on patience, paint removal, and acquiring a state of mind where the richness of color, texture, and subject matter can clearly be expressed.

“Transfiguration” Abstract Painting

Transfiguration
Original medium: Acrylic on Canvas ©2009
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I began creating this painting a few months ago.  This piece underwent many changes as I experimented with different textural forms and varying color tones.  I poured a lot of paint into this one.  I decided to call this painting Transfiguration because it represents change on a few levels.  The changes took place in the actual painting process.  And change is represented in the abstract subject matter which can be viewed as a rising or setting sun on the horizon.  There is transfiguration in the way the sun, by casting light,  changes our perception of  our scenery.  Very similarly our very own hearts, when casting love, transfigure our bodies and minds and the way we appear before others.

The sky is the soul of all scenery.
It makes the earth lovely at sunrise
and splendid at sunset.
In the one it breathes over the earth
a crystal-like ether,
in the other a liquid gold.

- Thomas Cole

Transfiguration – Detail

Abstract Landscapes – Painting From The Inner Light

The Impressionists were a genre of artists from the 19th century whose intent was to capture the effects natural light had on the landscape. To achieve this, they set their easels up outdoors.  They called themselves “en plein air” artists which is a French expression that means “in the open air.”  Some believe that painting outdoors expresses nature in a fuller way and allows the artist to capture the needed vibrancy and spontaneity in their work.  Today the contemporary landscape artists are very much still “en plein air” artists, but there are a group of landscape artists that, while painting indoors, paint a light from a slightly different source.

These landscape artists tend to create work that is abstract or slightly abstract.  And to understand their source of light, you have to understand the abstract artist.  The abstract artist has a painting style that is all together very different.  The general consensus is that the abstract artist paints from within where there is more emotional and expressive energy.  So if indeed these artists are painting a light source it would make sense that they are painting not the natural light on the outer world, but an expression of the inner light from within.  

Artists and critics have yet to classify all the genres of abstract art.  So at this present time there does not appear to be a classification for abstract artists painting “the light from within.”  But what does it really mean to paint this way?  

First of all, not every abstract landscape artist attempts to paint an obvious light source within their work.  And, those that do are generally unaware as to why they are doing it other than the fact that it may look intriguing.  But considering what the light source represents from those abstract landscape artists that have spoken about it, it is something very soulful and connected with the individual.  One way to explain it would be to say the light represent their our own souls connection with its source.  

You see, without trying to re-create reality, some abstract landscape artists go within themselves to reveal on the canvas an essence of nature and also the source of nature, all while they are aware that the two are a part of themselves.  The end result is something they consider spiritual, uplifting, or possibly healing.  Of course, this is not to say that “en plein air” artists do not have these same emotions when painting, it’s just a different way to express the light source.

“Grass Meets Sky” – Abstract Landscape Painting

Grass Meets Sky
Original medium: Acrylic on Canvas ©2009
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“Autumn Falls” Abstract Landscape – Sold

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This semi-abstract painting, Autumn Falls, was sold to a law firm in Florida.  I’ll be working on another abstract painting of waterfalls for my next piece.   To purchase a print visit FineArtAmerica.com

“Bursting Sun” – Abstract Landscape Painting

Bursting Sun
Original medium: Acrylic on Canvas ©2009
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“Gold Sunset” – Contemporary Landscape Painting

Gold Sunset
Original medium: Acrylic on Canvas ©2009
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“Autumn Falls” – Abstract Landscape Painting

Autumn Falls
Original medium: Acrylic on Canvas ©2009
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“Falling Sea” – Contemporary Seascape Painting

Falling Sea
Original medium: Acrylic on Canvas ©2008
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This contemporary seascape was a fun way to utilize such a horizontal canvas.  The texture in Falling Sea is not as complex as my last painting, Spiral Wave, but as you can see in this picture there is some nice transparent glazed layers built up in the water.

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This a a great painting to hang over a couch or bed  because it’s so wide and narrow and it compliments any furniture of this shape.  The sides are painted the same dark blue:

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