Welcome to my new Website

Announcing the launch of my new Website, http://karenballpaintings.com to showcase the paintings I have created. The most recent painting is the Mountains. This is a large canvas with lots of loose brush strokes. I under painted with a wash of light greys and blues and then painted over in thick oils, using a combination of brushes and palette knives. I wanted to create a painting that looked like a mountain range without applying too much detail. I really wanted to use the viewer’s imagination to complete the picture. Before the Mountains I painted the Plough lines. I got the idea...

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