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12 Jul 2014

Learn to sketch – Sketching from Square One to Trafalgar Square – Book Review

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Do you want to learn to sketch? Do you want to develop your artistic skills or better understand what it takes to draw realistic pictures? I recommend reading “Sketching From Square One to Trafalgar Square” by Richard E. Scott. Filled with photos, sketches, illustrations, and 10 clear, concise, step-by-step directions … Read More

Available Artwork

Autumn Leaves, Egg Tempera, 9x12 © Nelia Harper

Autumn Leaves II

In a last burst of colorful glory, autumn fills the senses with leaves, wet soil and the hint of snow on the air. Autumn Leaves II revisits a pile of leaves, tossed on the ground in a multitude of color.

egg tempera, 9×12

unframed

$450.00 Add to cart

In Your Embrace

This painting is based on a plein air painting made along the Poudre River in Fort Collins, CO. As I painted this piece, I thought about the strength of river, the tree and the power of love.

On display in the Denver Capitol Building June-September, 2018.

Oil on gallery wrap canvas 1 5/8″

36×48

Reynolds’ Hill Archival Print

A popular climbing area in Vedauwoo, Wyoming, Reynold’s Hill, a monolith of 1.4 billion year old granite, stands proud and strong. Surrounded by its court of lush aspen trees and meadows of willows, it reflects on its image in the still pool.

This Limited Edition Archival Giclée is printed on smooth 100% acid free cotton rag, natural white, heavyweight fine art paper. As an archival, museum quality paper, this print has a light fastness rating of 100+ years under normal indoor lighting conditions.

The print is shipped in a protective clear envelope with acid-free foam core, ready to present as a gift or frame.

Each print is numbered and signed by the artist.

Vedauwoo, Wyoming

Size: 9×12 with a half inch white border

Limited to 250 prints.

original painting, pastel, 12×9

$45.00 Add to cart

Twirling Syd, 16x22, pastel on UArt © Nelia Harper

Twirling Syd Archival Print

Each print is numbered and signed by the artist.

Size: 10 x 13 3/8 with a one inch white border

Each print is matted and packaged in a clear sleeve, fits a standard 12×16 inch frame.

Additional sizes available upon request.

$65.00 Add to cart

"Loveland Feed and Grain" - Pastel - 12x16 © Nelia Harper

Next Stop: Feed and Grain – Loveland, CO

It was hot! At 9 am, the ambient temperature was already reaching 90+ degrees. I searched for a spot in the shade, where I could focus and not fry my skin. Spying a level, shady spot next to the train tracks, I setup and began to outline the lines and angles of the old building. Not long into the painting, a train roared past, carrying shiny new windmill blades. Where once we were fed by the trains that carried grain, now the trains carry windmills to feed our hunger for energy. Although abandoned, the building will soon undergo a renovation and be transformed into a home for artists and galleries.

pastel, 12×16

plein air

unframed

$225.00 Add to cart

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"Peach Study" 5x5, Pastel, © Nelia Harper

Peach Study in Pastel

I’ve been looking forward to summer and doing a peach study in pastel for a larger painting. Each year, Morton’s Organic Orchards sets up their fruit stand at the nearby farmer’s market. They begin with cherries that are so deep and dark in color, flavor and sugar that I feel ‘drunk’ after just a few morsels.

Following on the heels of the cherries, the peaches arrive. Clingstone peaches appear first – small and sweet. Then, giant freestone peaches arrive by the truckload, covered in peach fuzz. They line up, ready to be turned into pies and jams and in my case, ice cream and smoothies.

These little orbs of sweetness are surprisingly solid. I wanted the viewer to feel as though they could be picked up and held, as well as eaten.

pastel, still life, 5×5

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