by Dawn Chandler | Aug 8, 2014 | abstracted landscape, mixed media landscape, Oregon Outback, peter gabriel, Playa, the outback series
and find what i need ~ by dawn chandler ~ mixed media ~ 10″ x 20″ ~ copyright dawn chandler 2014The most recent paintings in The Outback Series are among my most favorite, for they were created in a perfect storm of intense, passionate and focused...
by Dawn Chandler | Aug 4, 2014 | abstracted landscape, mixed media landscape, Oregon Outback, Playa, text in art, the outback series
i realize now the rewards ~ by dawn chandler ~ mixed media on canvas ~ 48″ x 48″ inches ~ copyright dawn chandler 2014 Without a doubt, the most exciting paintings for me to produce in this series are the large works — a diptych (two panels) measuring...
by Dawn Chandler | Aug 2, 2014 | abstracted landscape, mixed media landscape, Oregon Outback, Playa, text in art, the outback series
And now to go bigger.The horizontally configured rectangle was working for me. Despite some very abstract elements, the horizontal format helps to suggest landscape, if even only sub/consciously.I was digging these paintings, and was itching to go larger;...
by Dawn Chandler | Aug 1, 2014 | abstracted landscape, mark rothko, mixed media landscape, Oregon Outback, Playa, text in art, the outback series
The square proved limiting. Compositionally the square is hard to work with. I knew that. Which is partly why I was thinking I’d work with it — I’m kind of drawn to those kinds of challenges. But the truth is — though I made some neat images — the...
by Dawn Chandler | Jul 30, 2014 | abstracted landscape, mixed media landscape, Oregon Outback, Playa, text in art, the outback series
outback meditationsPlaying. That’s how this all began. First I painted the land literally. Every day. Each painting was a pair of two pieces of paper — a diptych — each measuring 4″ x 8″ and paired to make a 4″ x 16″ image. Why that...
