Showing posts with label Dark As Night. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dark As Night. Show all posts

Saturday, June 30, 2018

Last Day To See "Mood" at Assiniboia Gallery!

Ancient Forest
40 x 60"
acrylic and oil on canvas
© Nicki Ault, 2018
sold at Assiniboia Gallery

The end of the month came fast! "Mood" is wrapping up today and I am absolutely thrilled with the entire situation! Thank you to everyone who attended the reception earlier this month or went to see the show during its three week run. Today is the last day, so if you are in Regina, please stop in otherwise you can view the exhibition here. Thank you to Jeremy and his amazing superstar team at the gallery. Thank you to all of the amazing people who purchased my work... ten paintings found their homes and I may have a couple of commissions on the horizon!

This post highlights some of the work that is still available... you just may be in the mood to celebrate Canada Day with an awesome piece of original art featuring a Canadian landscape!
Flax Up Front
20 x 20"
oil on cradled panel
© Nicki Ault, 2018
sold at Assiniboia Gallery

 
 Dark As Night
20 x 20"
oil on cradled panel
© Nicki Ault, 2018
sold at Assiniboia Gallery

 
  A Complicated Land on a Still Day
20 x 20"
oil on cradled panel
© Nicki Ault, 2018
available at Assiniboia Gallery

It is still hard for me to believe how the last ten months have unfolded. There have been some downs with the ups, but that is life and I choose to focus on the positive. I will continue to work hard, build on my skills and support others who are trying to feel their way through their own artistic journey. And I will continue to be sincerely grateful to those who help me and lift me up along my way. If you have been watching this blog at any point in the nine years since I started it, you know the road I have been traveling; the constant push to learn, grow and find my voice through paint. And, recently, you have been witnessing some of my dreams coming true.

 each 10 x 10"
oil on cradled panel
© Nicki Ault, 2018
available at Assiniboia Gallery

The cool thing is - this is a never-ending journey and there are more things in the works! One I will tell you about tomorrow and the others, well, you will just have to keep checking in!

Thank you!

 Caught in the Sunset
24 x 36"
oil on canvas
© Nicki Ault, 2018
available at Assiniboia Gallery

Monday, June 11, 2018

Dark As Night

Dark As Night
20 x 20"
oil on cradled panel
© Nicki Ault, 2018
sold at Assiniboia Gallery

This one was an experiment using black straight out of the tube, which I never do because apparently it is a well known and accepted faux pas to use straight-up black in paintings. Generally if I ever use anything in my work that resembles black it is likely a mixture of Ultramarine Blue, Alizarin Crimson or Magenta, and Burnt Umber. I read about a colour by Gamblin, however, called Chromatic Black which was supposed to be a neutral black. I was curious because usually blacks pull a certain way if you add white to them... like towards blue for example. I ordered a tube of Chromatic Black from Hues Art Supply and then set about playing. The result is "Dark As Night" and another painting which I will post soon. Interestingly enough a few weeks later Darrell Bell asked me to paint something for the Black and White show he was curating for his gallery (still on view). The black skies I had been experimenting with were a great jumping off point for this big one, "Graphite Sky" (below), I painted for his show.

Graphite Sky
36 x 36"
oil on canvas
 © Nicki Ault, 2018
All Rights Reserved
available at Darrell Bell Gallery

I really love the power and intensity of these paintings. I love how moody they are and I love how much emotion they convey with a very limited palette.

"Dark As Night" is part of my solo show "Mood" at Assiniboia Gallery, open now and running until June 30th.