Orange Paddle

The shocking contrast of my paddle against the saturated and harmonious hues of what it's dipping into, often make me stop and watch. To see the orange blade slip through verdant liquid, mercurial flashes of cerulean on the surface underlaid with glimpses of indigo depths, fascinate me. I wonder how it looks to the fish below, and what they think of it all.
- Nancy Boudreau

This is an acrylic painting on gessoed mat board, approximately 5" x 7"
signed and dated with the above comments on the back.

Gray Stalker

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Small fish beware! The gray stalker is wading among the weeds looking for you. I once came upon a Great Blue Heron on the Housatonic River, which was doing it's best to swallow a foot-long fish. The determined bird tried over and over with no luck. Eventually my presence was too much for the bird, and it flew upriver a bit, still fixed on that fish and eyeing me as if I might take it away.
- Nancy Boudreau

This is an acrylic painting on gessoed mat board, approximately 5" x 7"
signed and dated with the above comments on the back.

Spatterdock

Stolen Painting

While kayaking this weekend on Ball Pond in New Fairfield, I came across these intriguing knot-shaped yellow water lilies. Spatterdock, beautifully sculptural, rising above the flat plane of the water's surface on thick stems.
- Nancy Boudreau

This is an acrylic painting on gessoed mat board, approximately 5" x 7"
signed and dated with the above comments on the back.

Dinner Party for Szusza

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This past August, my friend Nick threw a wonderful dinner party, a birthday celebration for our friend Susan. Out on the back deck, surrounded by lush summer gardens, many friends gathered to dine and raise a glass.
- Nancy Boudreau

This is an acrylic painting on gessoed mat board, approximately 5" x 7"
signed and dated with the above comments on the back.

12th Study for Contemplation

12th Study for Contemplation is done on an 11" x 15" piece of gessoed canvas. Pastels were used to lay color on the white surface then blended with black acrylic using various shape brushes to build form. White and other acrylics were then used to detail and add depth.
- Nancy Boudreau

Sunday Morning on the Web

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Sunday morning, gray and damp, a window filled with a dewy web, spun by a lemon drop, a sunny little spider.
- Nancy Boudreau

This is an acrylic painting on gessoed mat board, approximately 4 3/4" x 4 3/4"
signed and dated with the above comments on the back.

Getting Lyrical

10th study for "Contemplation." Titanium white tinted with pastels, then overlaid with washes of color, the camel hair brush leaving the last wispy strokes for accent and emphasis. This is a happier and warmer painting than the last few, full of peace, comfort and music.
- Nancy Boudreau

This is an acrylic painting on gessoed mat board, approximately 5" x 7"
signed and dated with the above comments on the back.

Everything is Green

9th Study for "Contemplation". . . I'd also call this "Making Me Some Sense." Using simple forms to try to contain, organize and make sense of a confusion of formless color. This painting was created using several thick layers of clear acrylic gel colored with pastels. The end result is a heavily textured surface shimmering with color. You might look at this and say "that circle isn't green" but look closer, and indeed the circle does have aspects of green.
- Nancy Boudreau

acrylic painting on gessoed mat board, approximately 5" x 7"
signed, dated and comments on the back

Solar Energy

8th study for "Contemplation". . .
- Nancy Boudreau

acrylic painting on gessoed mat board, approximately 5" x 7"
signed, dated and comments on the back

Flame

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7th study for the coming painting of "Contemplation." Using acrylic and watercolor pencils, letting the colors blend and meld until shape began to form. Selecting and refining while trying to avoid literal rendering. The end result reminds me of flame and sky, the way heat distorts color and form. Flame can represent anything from loss to rebirth, hope, life, love and undying faith. Man's "discovery" of fire. . .
- Nancy Boudreau

acrylic painting on gessoed mat board, approximately 5" x 7"
signed, dated and comments on the back

New Day

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The darker lines on this painting are strokes of gold paint, the sheen of which is lost in the translation to digital photo and internet. This is composite play of opposing colors arranged in the familiar arrangement of horizon, sky and earth.
- Nancy Boudreau

acrylic painting on gessoed mat board, approximately 5" x 7"
signed, dated and comments on the back
for sale directly from the artist
finished art will be shipped in a cream-colored 8" x 10" mat

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Bidding starts Friday September 5th at 8pm EST
Bidding ends Friday September 12th at 8pm EST

Impatience

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The impatience that comes with happy anticipation.
- Nancy Boudreau

acrylic painting on gessoed mat board, approximately 5" x 7"
signed, dated and comments on the back