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How To Paint Ocean Waves - written materials and videos by cricketdiane, Cricket House Studios
“Paint first.
Do music -
Create.
Leave the mundane to do later.”
Cricket Diane Quote – from the note I made for myself that rests on the bathroom mirror.
February 8, 2008- cricketdiane on wordpress blog
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February 8, 2008
Land Of Our Fathers – Landscape Aceo By Cricketdiane 2008
Cricket Diane Quote of the Day -
“To create everyday is a gift and treasure of life. It is to truly live!”
- quote from Cricket Diane C. Phillips, 2008***
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February 8, 2008
How To Paint Ocean Waves by Cricket Diane C Phillips, 2008
How To Paint Ocean Waves 3 -
By Cricket Diane C. Phillips
Do you remember standing still at the ocean trying to capture every sound and every nuance of light and color dancing on the waves?
Can you feel the spray that lightly touched your face when you walked in the shallow surf where the waves were bouncing with foam nearby?
Have you thought about the feelings of what you were seeing when the ocean waves pulled into the sand near you and tugged their way back out again?
Are you reminded of the vastness of the ocean as you had looked at the horizon with its light haze and depth of surface color in the sea?
When you remember what it was like at the ocean – can you recall its colors, its feeling, the color of the sky and the ways it changed moment by moment?
These are the things you need to know in order to paint ocean waves and capture the feeling of the scenes you remember. The ideas of time and change are all in you – they are in your memories and you can recall them. Every moment at the sea, there is change – there is motion – there is a feeling, an essence and an idea that is captured in your memories. It isn’t only what you felt at the time, or your thoughts, or what was happening in your life at that time. There is something of the sea and the ocean’s spirit and power that is there too.
Sometimes, when I create – there is nothing but a request to my mind for a memory, a feeling or an essence of a time at the ocean. There is a sunset that comes to my mind with a looming storm beyond the horizon whose clouds are catching the last rays of the sun in brilliant colors against a lavender sky. There is a time when I was afraid to stand on the shore because the power of the waves crashing into the sand were so much greater than me and the winds drove the salty spray of the waves into my skin stinging as it came. But the colors – ooh the colors of that moment drove me to distraction to understand their shades and hues and subtleties. The sand felt different, the sea felt distant, though I stood right beside her, and the sky was filled with unusual textures and colors that I would love to describe in paint.
There are intricacies to painting which are like nothing else because from the mind of the artist directly to the mind of the viewer there is no boundary – no wall – no caption or remark to make. It is a direct route of communication without limitation in an immediate, encompassing sense. The best way to describe this is for you to choose a moment to capture in paint, let go of all your preconceived notions of how to go about it, let go and paint it. Make it so. Let the paint describe all of what you saw, all of what you experienced and all of what you felt in that moment. Push all the judgments about how it should be done or how it should look – out of your mind and let the paint be an extension of what you know. Then let someone see it and see what they see. There is nothing you can say that will add to their experience with it. The moment they have seen it, something has passed between your mind and theirs directly. Infinitely, genuinely and honestly – they have been given some part of that experience as you remembered it. If you want words for what they have seen – ask them, but often words fail to accurately describe experiences like this and many people fall back on whether they like it or not and try to get you to talk more about it.
Do you remember the sky, the day you stood at the ocean on a summer day? Can you feel the warmth of the sand under your feet and the clean smell of the gentle breeze that brought the sounds of people drifting on it?
Did you ever walk on the beach at night or wade in the water as the sun was sinking below the horizon? Do you remember the sparkly little foam that you kicked halfway across to the moon as you walked in the cool water with the wet sand tugging under your feet at each step? Can you recall what the sky looked like as the moon and stars lit the sea like thousands of tiny diamonds bobbing up and down with each little crest of a wave?
There are thousands of moments in each day and as we stand in the realm of the ocean’s power – her force is evident in seemingly infinite changes within each of those moments to everything surrounding her. The sky isn’t the same from one moment to the next – the colors fade toward the horizon one moment and some other time – the hue is deeper there. The foam on the sand ebbs and flows with the surf, but the reflections in it are never the same. Wet sand, dry sand are definitely different colors – yet, warm sand is many shades and cold sand seems grey whether it is or not.
- Set up a horizon on the surface to paint.
- Remember a moment to capture.
- Define the sky with colors, swirls, textures, clouds and reflected light.
- Play in the paint to achieve effects that describe details to include.
- Stop touching it – the moment any part of it looks right.
- Don’t fix it. Just do another one and each one will get better.
- Enhance waves, shadows, contours and specific elements carefully – because it will change what you already have right.
And, last of all – remember – it is perfect because you did it this way today, this time and in capturing this one moment this way. Let it go and do another one.
Happy Painting!
written by cricketdiane, 2008
- Category :
- Art, Artist, Creating, Creativity, Ocean, Ocean Pictures, Thoughts, Uncategorized
- Tags: ACEO, Art, Art Cards, Artist, Atlanta GA, Cricket Diane C Phillips, Cricket House Studios, new modern, Ocean paintings, Ocean Pictures, Original paintings
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February 9, 2008
Ocean Sunrise by Cricket Diane C. Phillips, February 9, 2008
Soft light glows on the horizon slowly bringing the colors of the sea to life. First, the sky is the lightest shade of blue with touches of pinks, reds and oranges in muted pastels on any little touches of cloud in the sky.
Next, the blue slowly becomes a deeper hue in such a subtle way that gently everything changes. The ocean at the horizon becomes a sharper line of deep color and the mistiness along it disappears. The shades of color in the waves change also with each passing minute of the sunrise.
Beneath each cresting wave is a depth of color and darkness that flows into the surrounding water capturing little of the color in the sky. The angle of the sun begins its true ascent into the reaches of the sky. Depending on the relationship of weather, temperature, winds and position of view, the colors become more or less saturated into the distance.
On a cloudy day, there is more evenness of tone. On a bright sunlit day with few clouds and cold temperatures, there is more orange in the blues and more depth to the colors.
- cricketdiane
February 9, 2008 at 5:43 pmCategory :
Art, Artist, Creating, Creativity, Ocean, Ocean Pictures, Thoughts, Uncategorized
Tags: Abstract Art, Art, Artist, Cricket Diane C Phillips, CricketHouseStudios, Ocean, Ocean Art, Ocean paintings, Ocean Pictures, Sea, Sunrise
February 10, 2008
New Ocean Painting From The Studio Today
Cricket Diane’s Quote of the Day -
“The more you write down your ideas -
the more they will come to you.
Write them when they happen
and the flow of ideas will be great.”
- quote from Cricket Diane C. Phillips, February 9, 2008
from wordpress blog - cricketdiane, 2008
Art, Artist, Creating, Creativity, Ocean, Ocean Pictures, Thoughts, Uncategorized
Tags: Abstract Art, Art, Artist, Cricket Diane C Phillips, CricketHouseStudios, Ocean, Ocean Art, Ocean paintings, Ocean Pictures, Sea, Sunrise
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February 11, 2008
Ocean Wave Painting by Cricket Diane
CricketDiane Quote of the Day –“With prosperity comes the realization of our dreams and great things yet to be dreamed.” – quote from Cricket Diane C Phillips 2008
- cricketdiane, 2008
from wordpress, cricketdiane blog
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February 13, 2008
Sea Waves At Play by Cricket Diane C Phillips
“The most magic thing I own is a pencil. A welcome to the infinite possibilities is ever present in it.” – quote by Cricket Diane C Phillips, 2007
- cricketdiane, 2007, 2008 (posted on wordpress cricketdiane blog 2008)
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February 15, 2008
Ocean Wave Painting – Surging Wave – by Cricket Diane C Phillips
Cricket Diane Quote of the Day -
“A twist of perspective will nearly always make things look better than they are, if only for the difference.”
- quote from Cricket Diane C Phillips, 2007, 2008
(from cricketdiane weblog at wordpress, 2008)
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February 15, 2008
Sparkly Sea by Cricket Diane C Phillips – Cricket House Studios – 2008
Cricket Diane Quote of the Day -
“Happiness is yours if you will just let – it happen.”
- quote from Cricket Diane C Phillips, 2008
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February 15, 2008
I paint to communicate – by Cricket Diane C Phillips, 2008
I paint to communicate because I know this -
Art is a dialogue between the artist and each person that will ever see that artwork. It is immediate and without limitation or boundary. There is no hindrance in the interpretation of words, meanings of ideas or expectation of rewards. It is appropriate to time, place, nationality and culture because art is a clear, direct communication. It is not silence. It is not static. Art is the communication of change and of presence here and now between the viewer and the artist.
Art is more than emotion. It moves something primal in each of us. It is the comfort of knowing we are not alone and that another has stood where we stand in our mind’s landscape and in our lives. Art is not because I told you something today through my art. It is because we chose to have this moment of dialogue today in the course of our lives with all their complexities. That is why it is important. And, that is what makes it special.
Art is a choice between two unlike minds to gather for a moment and consummate a dialogue and to compare notes on the experience of living. There may never be words for it.
Written by Cricket Diane C Phillips, 2008
February 14, 2008
February 17, 2008 at 12:41 am e
On Creating -
There is a dance that happens when I create. In this moment of dance spiritually all things are changed. It is a dance of fire and light and water and power that surges through me and what I am creating – back and forth – dancing together with all of creation in the heart of the universe.There is nothing else except the song of creation being woven into this beautiful intense dance as it is happening. The dances of this song send ripples out through every living thing and into every spark of an atom in the world and beyond. It flows between time and space surpassing now.
The creativity of that moment in creation influences every moment in my life and every life touched by it that follows. It enlivens, it inspires, it awakens, it enthuses and infuses power into everything the song gently nudges with life.
How much more worthwhile could something be?
For me, it doesn’t matter what form the creating takes – the dance happens when I paint, make music, write, invent, sing, sew, cook or create anything. It is possible to create without giving in to that essence but what it creates isn’t nearly as good. Like comparing a light bulb to the sun.
- Cricket Diane
CricketHouseStudios, 2008
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February 15, 2008
Ocean Waves On A Cloudy Sea – by cricketdiane
Cricket Diane Quote of the Day -
“After all is said and done, will it matter in twenty years? what do I want to do today that matters?”
- quote from Cricket Diane C Phillips, 2008, 2007
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My Note -
(written 2011, April 13)
When I was growing up, we lived close enough in Florida to go to the seashore. The waves were small and it was possible to walk out very far into the surf without getting much above the knees.
As I was older, we moved to California where most of my junior high and high school years were spent along with some of grammar school - the waves and ocean there were very different. The beach and sand were different. The weather was able to whip waves up into tall, wild peaks with foam spray blowing off away from the shore even though the wind was carrying into the beach. There were large cliffs on the side of the highway away from the shore and surf which carried a back draft current into the surf making plays of light and direction possible which wouldn't have been there otherwise. Years later, I discovered that underneath the waters of the California shores all the way up the coast, are deep drop offs and then a dramatic shallow shelf before the beach where the ocean waves are coursing. This is part of the reason that waves drive up to such heights making them a surfer's heaven. They are also what makes them more dangerous.
When the opportunities to go to the beach would come in our family, it would normally be when the winds had kicked up, the beach desolate, storms approaching, rains falling, sunsets, moonlight or all of the above. There were times when I went to the beach with our church and spent the day in the sunshine playing volleyball and sandlot football, body surfing and swimming. But when our family went to the beach, it would be the most extraordinary colors and strange conditions when most people would be staying at home.
The beach, the waves, the colors and the forms in the ocean are completely different on a sunny day when most people see it or when the winds have brought a storm resting just off shore, long before it even rains. The waves are larger and more frenzied. The waves often seem to be coming from every direction or crashing into one another in short bursts sending out currents and wavelets in unexpected directions. Sand gets drawn up into the surf to both dirty it and make interesting and unusual textures of foam, sand and froth in the waves, and in the little rivulets that are left after the waves are receding beneath the next oncoming waves.
Many of the paintings that I've done of the ocean have these elements. When they were being sold online, I noticed that there were people around the world who really like them and especially people whose oceans and beaches look much like I've painted them. Off the shores of Great Britain and Vancouver, off the Oregon coast, California, Washington state, Alaska, Ireland, some areas of France, and some places around the Black Sea and the North Sea have that look. Well, too - most people don't go out to see the ocean when in storms, rain, wind and the surf is up - I mean - really, stirred up.
It is what is in my mind, though. The days and nights spent watching the ocean from the beach for many hours trying to understand and remember each nuance, every picture, every change of light, shape and form. And, hoping someday to be able to convey it as I had seen it in those moments, like the pictures on this page have done.
- cricketdiane, 04-13-11
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February 17, 2008
Paint Ocean Waves – cricket diane c phillips – CricketHouseStudios – 2008
How To Paint Ocean Waves 1 – Cricket Diane C Phillips -2007
How To Paint Ocean Waves
By Cricket Diane C Phillips, 2008, 2007
When I start to paint, the memories of times when I’ve stood at the ocean come to mind. There are swirls of color and ever-changing patterns of light captured in the water that fascinate me when I am watching the waves. Ocean waves undulate in infinite contrasts, highlights and shadows. To me, there is a feeling captured in each moment of time standing at the ocean.
In a painting, I want to convey those captured moments of feeling with all its motion, color and light. The first thing I do is to remind myself of something I’ve seen in the water that I would like to create. Strangely, this isn’t always found in a photograph of the ocean or even of water. These rarely capture the intertwining motions of light and color found in the ocean waves.
- cricketdiane
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March 2, 2008
Ocean Paintings Conveying Different Emotional Qualities by Cricket D
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four paintings by cricketdiane show the variety of emotions that can be
conveyed with seemingly the same range of colors. The first is called,
“Night Reflections” and has a glistening sea surface as it catches the
lights from the shore and the moon.
In this painting, the sea is tumbling with power and glistening swirls
of light as it bounces against other waves. There is a joyous quality
that lends itself to its title: “Joyous Song of the Sea” another
original art card, Baby Cricket by cricketdiane. The emotion of this
painting is busy and bubbling with visual interest.
With a slight variation of color and contrast, this painting – art card
by Cricket Diane is called, “Misty Sea”. This image of the sea was
given a greater depth by its use of softness near the horizon and depth
of contrast in the foreground. It has a different emotional quality than
either of the previous pieces and yet, it isn’t dreary.
The
title of this original painting by Cricket D is “Swirling Sea Waves”
created on 2-26-08. It is obvious in this painting that a simple range
of colors have been used and yet there is a depth and a bouncy, swirling
dance of waves around rocks or caused by bouncing off one another.
- by cricketdiane, 2008
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