Sunday, August 19, 2012

Alla Prima Painters

I have mentioned before the "all-at-once, in-one-sitting" (alla prima) artists who gather together in the "one painting a day" club house.

One of these, and in my view perhaps the most talented, is Abbey Ryan. She has the spirit of an Old Dutch Master residing in her twenty-something year old body.

Her site: http://ryanstudio.blogspot.com

A few of my own recent acquisitions from the Ryan studio are shown below. Most of them are painted on the scale of 4x6 inch postcards. A few have been a bit larger.

"Two Figs with Tenmoku Ink Bottle No. 2" 4x6"

"Yellow Pair Wrapped in Green Tissue Paper No. 2" 6x4"

"Still Life with Asian Pear & Blue Jay Feather" 4x5"

"Yellow Pair Wrapped in Green Tissue" 5x6"


This is the one that got away. She sold this much larger piece... and I really liked it... at a gallery opening, with a $2400 price tag hanging on it. I had right of first refusal on it, too, and I turned it down for that money. 

"Still Life with Three Pears with Leaves" 9x12"




Oriana Kacicek is another really talented person in this genre. I am not too keen on her still life paintings, but I cannot get over her seascapes.


She does a variety of sizes:

"Turquoise" 8x8"

"Surf" 12x12"

"Waves II" 4x4"

"Ocean and Sky" 6x6"


"Sky and Ocean" 8x8"


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