A new painting ~~Osirian's Surge~~

I wanted to try my hand at painting water at night...this was an old seascape that I reworked, it is a 16 x20 acrylic

About Nora Debolt - BeanKittyStudio

About Nora Debolt - BeanKittyStudio

About Nora Debolt

Several very nice people have written to me asking about their prints by this wonderful artist. Her paintings have been an inspiration to me for several years. I have researched her for all of those years, have contacted many online reference lists of artists, also the Smithsonian, and the Library and Research Center of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, there are some 18,000 names listed there, but not Nora's. I have also visited 3 libraries and researched books listing hundreds of artists , also not there. What I CAN tell you about her is, that sometime in the late 1880's or early 1900, she went on holiday somewhere in the northeast around an area of beautiful lakes. There, she painted a series of approximately 10 paintings, many of which some of you may have prints, and some that are very rare. The company that runs those prints has not rerun them since around 1980's. From there, she disappears from history, A wonderful painter who expressed herself in beautiful colors and brush strokes. Perhaps, she went back to being a mother with children to care for, we will never know. In any case, I will continue to be inspired from those beautiful paintings that are left and carry on my own style, inspired by hers. 

NORA DEBOLT PRINTS 

http://beankittystudio.wetpaint.com/page/About+Nora+Debolt

From the sea..

Here are several paintings inspired by the sea..all in acrylic. You know, the sea has so many wonderful things..the water..it's colors and facets..a thousand hues of green and blue, the wildlife..so varied, so colorful! I have sat on the rocks overlooking the water and watched how the waves glow as they roll in and splash out..amazed at the colors that we can see just watching waves at night in the moonlight..and so I attempted to paint what i saw, and then, seeing the soft pastel colors of the water at dawn, glowing with glints of pastel color bounced back and forth from the sunlight..how could i resist?

I began painting when I was 5 years old. My teacher gave me the opportunity to paint on a huge piece of paper with tempura paints..the kind that came in huge containers. I remember thinking of the beautiful yellow and gold flowers I passed by on my walk to and from school and decided to paint those. Not only was I able to paint them, but I also was able to stay a little late after class to clean all the brushes. Soon after, my mother told me that my first painting was chosen to be shown at the Laguna Art Festival. That was 52 years ago...and here is that painting:

 I hadn't known that this photo existed until late this year. I've come a long way!

Mini Art

I am not a well known artist. I was married and raised kids for 23 years before I started painting again. I produced a series or study of bamboo, not on canvas or wood, but on drywall.
We are so poor we couldnt afford conventional surfaces, so my significant other cut up a BUNCH
of drywall into decent sizes and said.."Here..paint!" ..and that's what I did.

I produced 7 of them, of which I have posted here...I intend to do at least 4 more, but took a break to paint some mini art..these are currently on auction at ebay...there is a lot of mini art there, trading card size..2 1/2 x 3 1/2 tiny little canvases with the most wonderful art from some very imagninative and brilliant artists. I wanted to see if I could do that too..so I did 7, and put them up for auction. We'll see....

As for my bamboo paintings, I am told I have "brought out the essence of the bamboo", and that my paintings are full of "emotion" and "feel". I am proud of those statements.. I am encouraged to do more. So, here they are.