Kristen Reitz-Green

Contemporary Oils

Friday, March 20, 2009

The last light on this day was so warm and yellow orange, I couldn't help but paint this. I'm working on looseness this week in my paintings.

"Looking Away" oil on board, 11x14"

Kristen Reitz-Green: Vashon Island, Washington; I am an artist living on an island in the pacific Northwest. For the past year I having been painting exclusively in oils, mostly on board but also some canvas. For a few years prior to this, I painted furniture with acrylics in a style reminiscent of art from Oaxaca, Mexico. For many , many years before that, I was a professional french horn player. Life circumstances made me choose to put my instrument down permanently and this blog is evidence of my creative spirit coming out in different form. I love the practice of daily painting and after all the years in classical music, daily practice feels essential to art as much as it did to music.

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