Minimalist texture landscapes

Horizon 9

Blue Sky, Golden Meadow

Both of these textured abstract landscapes were almost finished for months and months. For some reason, I felt the urge yesterday to give them that final push to "finished". I've got another painting that was waiting to be finished that came to completion today but the pictures came out sub par. Hopefully tomorrow I should have some good shots of it. Hope everyone had a happy and safe holiday weekend!

Summer Haze

Texture acrylic painting on 16" x 20" canvas, 2009
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This reminds me of driving back roads to the beach in Rye NH ten years ago when I lived in the area. A hot, hazy from humidity summer day looking out over the marshland, smelling the ocean breeze ready for a cold dip in the sea...

(PS - I also started a group page on facebook for my art if you're interested in checking it out - not sure if this link will work, let me try... Art by Jessica Torrant

Landscape Studies - Two Approaches

April in Ellington - Acrylic on 10" x 10" canvas, 2009

Early Spring Treeline - Work In Progress - Acrylic on 8" x 10" canvas, 2009

What a leap between these two paintings, right!? April in Ellington (my hometown) is the first landscape study I began yesterday - I had the vision of a soft, true to life palette and after working more on it today, I think it's finished. It's a good reference for a larger painting that could take more abstract liberties. I am not going to list this painting for sale right now (please let me know directly if you're interesting in buying it at jtorrant@aol.com). I'm going to hold onto it for a potential show I'm thinking about of local landscapes in our town.

The second painting, Early Spring Treeline, is in a bolder style, more along the lines of where I'm looking to take my landscape work. It requires me breaking away from the subject at some point and just diving into the painting itself, letting it become something else, feeling free and liberal with color. This painting isn't finished, not quite yet, but it's pretty close.

It's supposed to be in the EIGHTIES tomorrow! Yee haw! I'll be out in my studio working on some biggie abstracts. Time to let the paint fly!