Sunrise 30" x 30"

This painting will be for sale at Mingle at the Mansion on November 15.  Tickets are still for sale.

This is a palette knife painting of a sunrise on the lake.

It has lots of layers of color and texture.

 

"Summer in the Low-Country"

"Summer in the Low-Country"

30" x 40"

Oil on gallery wrapped canvas

Palette Knife

 A wonderful weekend in Pawleys Island provided me with material for new paintings.  I love to do marshes with a palette knife.  It feels like summer when I look at this painting.  

Shadows in the Water

30" x 30"

Oil and Palette knife

Gallery Wrapped Canvas

http://cpighin.faso.com/

This view was seen from an air boat in South Carolina.

 

Spring Hydrangeas

8" x 10"

Palette knife 

panel

For Sale

$195

Who doesn't get excited about Spring.  Painting spring flowers and foliage in the studio or plein air is such a treat.  

 

Abstract Tall Ship

Abstract Tall Ship

20" x 14"

Oil and palette knife

I did several studies of tall ships in an abstract way.  My client wanted a dreamlike vision on her wall.  She lives on the historic James River.  I will paint a larger one for her.

SOLD

 

Black and White Paintings

This is what I have been up to lately.  I'm taking a online course studying black and white and value paintings.  Here are some of my studies.  Let me know if you like these abstracts.  What a great learning experience this is.

#blackandwhitepaintings

 

Moving Closer

"Moving Closer"

30" x 30"

Mixed Media

Gallery wrapped canvas

SOLD

 

Small paintings for sale for the Holidays

"Freedom Park Bridge"

Oil on canvas panel

8" x 10"

Holiday Sale Price

$70

"Rebirth"

8" x 8"

Oil on canvas panel

Holiday price $65

"Spring Nest"

8" x 8" 

Oil on canvas

Holiday Price:  $65

"Row Boat"

10" x 8"

Oil on canvas panel

Holiday price: $70

 

These paintings are for sale at Novant Hospital in Matthews. No visits allow but you can buy them here on my blog.

Spanish Rooster

framed

10" x 8"

Rebirth

oil on canvas panel 

framed

$125

Mary's Garden

Mary's Garden

10" x 8"

This garden had so many beautiful things to paint it was hard to pick just one spot.

For Sale Guild of Charlotte Artists Summer Show

"Rebirth"

8" x 8"

oil on canvas panel

$150

"Purple Majesty"

18" x 36"

Oil on gallery wrapped canvas

$750

Another TWA Face Mask sold.

https://fineartamerica.com/shop/face+masks/carol+pighin

Another one of my face masks sold yesterday.  The photo of TWA Europe was taken from a vintage TWA poster.  I created a mask on Fine Art America.  I hope you will buy one also.  They are very comfortable to wear.

Fun TWA Face Masks

This face mask is from my original painting of the TWA Hotel at JFK 

I took a photograph of a vintage TWA poster that showed placed where TWA flew in Europe.  I love the red, white, and blue on this.

This if from a photo I took at the TWA Hotel in October, 2019.  The flight attendants wore these paper dresses in the late 60's on coast to coast flights.  There were four different themes, Roman Toga (on the left), French gold dress (in the middle), and the Manhattan Penthouse jumpsuit (on the right).

Click on the link below to purchase.

https://fineartamerica.com/shop/face+masks/carol+pighin

"Camino Rooster"

More fun in voting for one of my paintings again.  This is for Bold Brush competition.

https://faso.com/boldbrush/painting/212187 Click on the link and vote for my "Camino Rooster".

"We are family"

This painting was requested from my niece to show off the beautiful masks that she is making.  This was complicated because the only photo I had of us was from Thanksgiving.  We were a large group and I had to cut and paste to get the four of us together. 

Here is her link on Etsy.  https://www.etsy.com/shop/lindsayjeanmarie

I had one of my original paintings turned into a face mask also.  This mask is of the TWA Hotel and propeller airplane that the Hotel made into a bar.  https://fineartamerica.com/featured/1-all-about-the-lines-carol-pighin.html?product=face-mask

Expression

Another fun exercise.  This was on a 10" x 8" white panel.  The medium was the sludge at the bottom of my gamsol container.  The is the paint residue at the bottom of the turpentine (Gamsol) can.  I used a cosmetic sponge to make shapes in the canvas.  I like the way it turned out. 

What kind of things are artists doing during stay at home order?

From seeing Facebook and Instagram posts, my artists friends are painting beautiful paintings  everyday.  I'm following Larry Moore's "What if University" and doing studies.  Lots and lots of studies about color combinations, texture, shapes, line, and lots of ideas for new paintings.  Below are most of my studies from the last month.

Making beauty marks with one color.

                                               Color and Texture

  Azaleas at the Biltmore

Studies from an ancient blue door in Spain

Studies from ancient building following the Camino in Spain.

"Joyful"

"Joyful"

24" x 24"

oil on gallery wrapped canvas

This painting grew out of small studies of three pink roses.  During this time at home artists are still working and being happy about studio time. I am learning and experimenting which is giving me joy.  Spring is my favorite time of year and flowers have been glorious this season.

Please Vote for this painting.

Stay at home art contest. Please VOTE for this painting.  https://woobox.com/yu7xrf/gallery/oryT0YscByU
Clink on the link above to vote.
  

I am one of the few paintings in this contest.  Most of the entries are photographs.

Daniel Stowe Garden is pleased to announce the Stay-at-Home Spring Art Contest. Check out details at the link below or on the Art Contest tab on our Facebook page and enter for your chance to win tickets to the Chinese Lantern Festival or a one-year gift membership.

https://woobox.com/yu7xrf

Park Memories

"Park Memories"

30" x 40" 

Oil on gallery wrapped canvas

$850

I reworked this painting to give it more color and interest.  I also renamed this painting from "Winter Trees" to "Park Memories".  This park is one of my plein air group"s  favorite places to paint.  January and February we all painted this lake because there is always many views to paint.  I actually flipped this photograph of Col. Beatty Park in Matthews.  I thought it would be fun to look at it from another angle.  The last time we painted together was March 10 at Hunter Farm.  Now painting outdoors with other painters is just a fond memory.  We didn't know that would be our last time together for awhile.  This painting is more meaningful than ever.  This particular painting was painted from a photograph but I had already painted many plein air studies of it.  I hope you enjoy this breath of fresh air.

The start of something good!

Continuing with my on line studies.  This assignment was to used one color and many different tools to get an abstract effect.

I used golden acrylic paint, sepia.  It was runny so the drips were easy to achieve.  I used a two inch brush, plastic grid to make the pattern, and a price tag to make dark marks.  Let's see what else will happen to this.