Oil Painting of Amethyst Geode by Rusty Harden

Amethyst Geode

Oil on Canvas

16' x 20"

Rusty Harden

Mineral owned by Matt Black

I don't usually paint minerals on canvas.  Because of the size, I thought I would give it a try.  (Hard board is still by favorite ground.)  Actually, I started this painting at the mineral show in Cincinnati but didn't get back to it until  this week.  I'm very pleased with it.  The  geode is close to 16" at the base and 17" high.  The painting of the geode is very close to those that size.  Well, its my mineral painting season.  I'll be coming up for air and food from time to time....

Thank you Matt Black for allowing me to work from your minerals.

Class Female Figure Original Painting by Rusty Harden

"Classic Female Figure"

9" x 13"

Acrylic on Hot Press Paper

Rusty Harden

$95.00

She comes with a custom mat that fits a 12" x 16" frame.

(S/H & insurance included  in price)

"Breaking Through" Original Painting by Rusty Harden

 “Breaking Through”

Mixed Media
16" x 20"

Canvas

 “Whether it be to failure or success, the first need of being is endurance-to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event”-Bliss Carman

I created this piece for the theme "My So Called Life" for The Artist Challenge



"Cheshire Sun" Sun Art Aired on CBS Sunday Morning for the Second Time

"Cheshire Sun"

Mixed Media

9" x 12"

Rusty Harden

Original SOLD

Aired on CBS Sunday Morning for the second time on July 17, 2011.

To Purchase 8" x 10" Print  $25.00

To Purchase Note Cards set of 4 $10.00

 The Artist Challenge  hosts the Sun Art theme every year and submits the artwork  for the CBS Sunday Morning Sun Art Library.



Trillium New Original Painting

Woodland Trillium

8" x 7"

Watercolor

$50.00 (inlcudes custom mat)

Dramatic lighting made this trillium the leading lady, stepping forward to grab all of the attention  and seperating her from the supporting actors and back drop.                                                      

Trillium Original Watercolor Painting Rusty Harden

Woodland wildflowers are beautiful but fleating. 

If you aren't there at just the right time, they are gone

until next year.  I think that I am drawn to them for

that reason.  Its reminds me to enjoy the moment,

and to look for beauty  because it may be gone in

 the next moment.

As trillium mature (another way of saying get old) they turn pink. 

The first week I observed these trillium they were all white.

A week later, while many more had bloomed, the older ones

were in their glory of pinkness. 

"Trillium"

Wildflowers

10" x 7"

Watercolor

Daffodils Original Watercolor Painting by Rusty Harden

"Beauty in Imperfection"

12" x 9"

Watercolor

April usually brings daffodils, an early sign of spring. I have attempted to paint them many times and have always failed. It is the translucent nature of the petals that is so hard to maintain while capturing the light and dark contrast.

I loved the one with the torn trumpet and the way it reveals what is on the inside of the flower. Its like people, sometimes you can’t know what is in them until they are wounded.

"Cheshire Sun" Sun Art Aired on CBS Sunday Morning April 10, 2011

"Cheshire Sun"

Aired today on Sunday Morning on a segment about Actress Isabella Rossellini and her love for animals.

This painting is on exhibit at Studio 14 in Tipp City, Ohio

For inquires to  purchase this painting or prints 

contact Rusty

Thank you to Vikki North and The Artist Challenge for hosting the Sun Art theme every year and submitting our work for the CBS Sunday Morning Sun Art Library.

"Nightingale" Watercolor painting by Rusty Harden

Nightingale

8 x 10"

watercolor

"Nightingale"

Original  $95.00

Poets have long considered the nightingale as symbol of a poet.

Shelly wrote in his “A Defense of Poetry":

"A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician, who feel that they are moved and softened, yet know not whence or why.”

"Tender is the night" is a lyric in John Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale".

Painted for The Artist Challenge



"Auroras" by Painting by Rusty Harden

"Auroras"

8" x 10"

$95.00

Watermedia

Rusty Harden

During the exhibit "Out of the Depths" March 4 - April 24

at Studio 14 in Tipp City, I will also be displaying

 my series of paintings created in what I call my transpoured technique.

The transpoured technique is the process that goes beyond just pouring the selected colors onto the paper. I carefully plan composition and strong design elements and manipulate the color to either be repelled or drawn to enhance color intensity. Some paintings are enhanced by working with transparent colors creating subjects and mood.



"Celestial Impact" by Rusty Harden

"Celestial Impact"

8" x  10"

$95.00

Watermedia

Rusty Harden

During the exhibit "Out of the Depths" March 4 - April 24 at Studio 14 in Tipp City, I will also be displaying my series of paintings created in what I call my transpoured technique. 

The transpoured technique is the process goes beyond just pouring the selected colors onto the paper. I carefully plan composition and strong design elements and manipulate the color to either be repelled or drawn to enhance color intensity. Some paintings are enhanced by working with transparent colors creating subjects and mood.

New Exhibit Rusty Harden, Sandra Picciano-Brand, David Brand & Evelyn Staub

Out of the Depths Exhibit

Open March 3rd - April 24th 2011

Artists Reception: March 4th from 6 - 8 PM. All are invited.

Featured Artists: Evelyn Staub with her fine art enamels, Rusty Harden's mineral paintings, Sandra Picciano-Brand's jewelry and David Brand with his bronze vessels and jewelry. A beautiful show!

Gallery hours: Mon - Sat 10-5

Sun 12-5

Located in the loft of the Benkin Antique Building, 14 E. Main St. Tipp City Ohio 45371

937.890.3614

www.studio14gallery.com

"Conflagration" Works on Paper Exhibit Rosewood Gallery

"Conflagration"

18" x  18 3/4"

Acrylic Inks

On exhibit at the 21st Annual Works On Paper

Rosewood Arts Centre

2655 Olson Drive

Dayton, Ohio 45420

http://www.ketteringoh.org/

937-296-0294



"Convergence" Watercolor by Rusty Harden

When we dignify another person we elevate our own value to society.

"Convergence"

Fallen Series

Watercolor

Rusty Harden

I call this painting "Convergence"  because of the way the stalks have fallen over crossing and coming together.  The lovely precious lily reminds me of my friend, Dorothy.   I painted this in the spring of 2010

a few months after Dorothy and I were in a serious accident.  She was badly injured and as is often the

case, she will never be the same.  I find that she is as beautiful "fallen" as ever.  The crossing stalks represent the intersection where the accident occurred. 

The "Fallen Series" is about meeting people where they are. 

The pink flower, known by some as Magic Lillies or Naked Ladies, grow in my flower beds.  In the spring the greenery grows but the single stalk with the lillies wait until mid summer to make their appearance.



CBS Sunday Morning Sun Art "Crimson Journey" The Artist Challenge

"Crimson Journey"

14" x 14"

Water Based Media

Hotpress Paper

$425.00

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