Florida Paintings at the Cici and Hyatt Brown Art Museum

Florida Paintings at the Cici and Hyatt Brown Art Museum

More of my favorites from  Cici and Hyatt Brown Art Museum in Daytona.

Backus

Backus

Herzog

Florida Paintings in the Cici and Hyatt Brown Museum of Art

The best art museum for Florida themed landscape paintings in Florida is in Daytona at the Cici and Hyatt Brown museum in Daytona.

The innovative Cici and Hyatt Brown Museum of Art is home to the largest collection of Florida art in the world and features a rotating collection of 2,600 Florida-themed oil and watercolor paintings. The Museum's grand central gallery and mezzanine showcase the collection's signature pieces, while six smaller galleries feature beautiful changing exhibitions with Florida themes.

Some of my favorites....

Herman Herzog

Herman Herzog

Herman Herzog

Herman Herzog

Bob Ross in New Smyrna Beach

Bob Ross in New Smyrna Beach

After doing some grocery shopping at Publix in New Smyrna Beach we discovered the Bob Ross Art Workshop and Gallery, which occupied a storefront in the adjacent strip mall.We entered to find a room full of students, all learning about landscape painting on their way to becoming certified in the Ross technique

Bob Ross is known for the The Joy of Painting is an American half-hour instructional television show hosted by painter Bob Ross which ran from January 11, 1983 until May 17, 1994. In each episode, Ross taught techniques for landscape oil painting, completing a painting in each session. Ross used the wet-on-wet oil painting technique, in which the painter continues adding paint on top of still-wet paint rather than waiting a lengthy amount of time to allow each layer of paint to dry. From the beginning, the program kept the selection of tools and colors simple so that viewers would not have to make large investments in expensive equipment. Combining the wet painting method with the use of large one- and two-inch brushes, as well as painting knives, allowed Ross to paint trees, clouds, mountains, and water in a matter of seconds. Each painting would start with simple strokes that appeared as nothing more than smudges of color. As he added more and more strokes, the blotches would transform into intricate landscapes

.Video of Ernie, one of the instructors.

New Smyrna Beach Paint Out 2018

New Smyrna Beach2018

The first week of December 2018, found us in New Smyrna Beach. I was invited to participate in the annual New Smyrna Beach paint out so Janet and I actually drove all the way from Kerhonkson to this Florida beach town, loading up the Forester with frames and clothing and hoping for the best.

These are a few of the paintings I painted during this weeks efforts,

Endless Summer

Path to the Beach

Along the Boardwalk

Billy's Truck

  Live Oak Sentinel

Paddlers Rest

Everglades Sunset

Everglades Sunset

16" x 20"

I'm experimenting with working on gold leaf grounds on this one. The trick is to not cover the gold leaf up with opaque paint and to let the shimmer come through the paint layers.Glazing layers of sun thickened oil medium or thinned canadian balsam, increases the refraction index  and heightens the effect.

Florida Oil Paintings

Here's a selection of florida oil paintings that I painted in and around areas of southwest florida.

From a home base in Naples, I venture out with my paintbox and easel  to Everglades City, Corkscrew Swamp, Collier Seminole State Park,, Cayo Costa, Chokoloskee, Pine Island, and anywhere I can find some little bit of unspoiled Florida.

Florida Pines
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Florida Moonrise

Tamiami Trail

Thunderheads over the Everglades

Southwest Florida Palmettos

In the Everglades

The Abandoned Boat

Cayo Costa