Karen Akers Art

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A watercolour painting of stone built Provençal buildings in the evening. The walls illuminated by the yellow glow of street lights.

#Evening in Seillans, Provence. A watercolour study from my holiday sketchbook. #BlueSkyArtShow

A watercolour painting of an autumn tree with long grasses in the foreground and loosely painted hills and drystone walls in the background.

Autumn in north west England, watercolour. #BlueSkyArtShow #Autumn #WatercolourArt

A painting of 2 orange halves against a quickly painted blue background

A painting of half a fig with a red centre and bright green skin against a brownish red background

Sketchbook studies in gouache #inside #BlueSkyArtShow #gouache #painting #sketchbook

A painting of bare winter trees standing either side of a winding path

This is a work in progress but I thought it fitted with the #BlueSkyArtShow theme #vertical so here you go.
My work seems to have been somewhat preoccupied with trees lately.
#watercolour #Mixedmedia #Painting #art

A charcoal collage of drawings of rocks and plant life.

An artist adds details to a large charcoal collage

An artist adds a collage pice to a large charcoal drawing collage

2 artists add work to a large charcoal collage

So proud of this
collaborative charcoal collage. Made this morning at Abbot Hall Art Gallery in Kendal and inspired by the Simon Starling Boat Works exhibition.
This is our floating island. #CollaborativeArt #Collage #Charcoal #ArtYear

A painting of washing drying on a line under a thick canopy of green and yellow leaves

Lazy summer days under a canopy of green #Relax #BlueSkyArtShow gouache sketchbook study. #gouache #painting

A watercolour sketch of leafy plane trees either side of a narrow lane. The trees follow two lines of perspective, disappearing towards the centre of the painting.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Angles Rows of plane trees #WatercolourSketch #SketchbookStudy #PenAndWash #ArtYear

A watercolour sketch of grassy fields in autumnal tones of green and brown, leading towards distant blue toned hills. All beneath a sky with patches of blue between white and grey clouds.

#Home The landscape of Cumbria and The Lake District. This is the view from the field near our house, a view I never grow tired of. #BlueSkyArtShow #ArtYear

Three trees in full leaf in my a row, dappled summer light shines behind the trunks

Dappled light through leafy trees, watercolour. #BlueSkyArtShow #Summer #ArtYear

6 pages from a sketchbook showing colour sketches in pen and paint of insects, plants, flowers, fruit and birds

August, captured in pen and paint. So much early fruit this year! #NatureJournal #ArtDiary #ArtYear

A bientôt Provence.
My family are not early risers so each morning, armed with a cup of coffee, a pain au raisin, the view or photos taken the day before, I spend an indulgent hour recording memories.

A table outdoors in dappled sunlight. On it sits an open sketchbook showing a pen and watercolour sketch of a narrow street of shops with many pink umbrellas strung above between the buildings to provide shade. Also on the table is a paint palette, brush, a black book cover, 2 pens, a yogurt pot used as a water pot and a half drink mug of coffee

Le Ciel et Rose - Grasse. I’m working from photographs taken the previous day - ain’t no way I’m drawing en plein air in this heat! Il fait très chaud! 🥵 #holidaysketchbook #penandwash #provence #ArtYear

On a table lays a sketchbook, a palette of watercolour paints, a paintbrush and a pot of water. In the sketchbook is a painting of an evening landscape. Under pink and great clouds sits some green foliage in the foreground, in front of a line of cypress trees. The landscape stretches on to some distant hills.

My little Provençal sketchbook #ArtYear #HolidaySketching

Marks and scribbles made in red pencil - a response to sounds heard.

Scribbles, marks, smudges and lines drawn in pencil and charcoal- a response to sounds heard.

An abstract colour landscape - an oblong frame contains the centre of the image.

A more colourful version of the previous abstract landscape- again a frame contains the centre of the image.

Some studies made on Saturday at Abbot Hall Gallery.
Sound drawings made outside in the grounds and then two pieces influenced by Thistles by Frederick Cuming and the sounds of the gallery. #ArtYear #SketchBook

Six landscape format sketchbook pages containing studies of a variety of plants, insects and birds. Drawn and painted in colour.

July in six pages from my #NatureSketchbook #ArtYear #NatureDiary

A path through shrubs and orange flowers leads to a seaside bay in the dawn light.

I spent a long time on this. It’s a 60th birthday present for a special friend. Her favourite place, Trevone Bay in Cornwall. #ArtYear #Scape #AcrylicPainting

A watercolour,mixed media painting. Part of a metal bridge and a stone wall sits in the foreground along with loose greenery. A church is on the left and building emerge from behind a row of trees. The sky is grey, gloomy and cloudy. A lone swift flies on the left side

Kendal on a very cloudy day.
It’s a mish mash of watercolour on gessoed collage, pen and a hefty blend of experimentation, mistakes, changes of direction, “oh no’s!” And “what’s?!”
I’m pleased with the outcome and definitely wouldn’t have got here if I hadn’t enjoyed the process. #ArtYear

A colour sketch of a view through a six panel window towards trees and grass.

A charcoal sketch of apples The name Percy Kelly written bellow

A loose, scribbled sketch of plant stems in a vase

A colour study in tones of blue and Green. A cream coloured shape that looks like a pathway disappearing into the distance cuts through the middle

Channeling my inner Percy Kelly. Sketchbook studies from today’s Sketch and Stroll session at Abbot Hall Gallery. Colours tones and mood greatly affected by the drizzly grey weather. #ArtYear #sketchbook

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Five pages from. Sketchbook containing colour studies of foxgloves, elderflower, cornflowers, small lawn mushrooms, grasses, a brown moth, a bullfinch, greenfinch and swifts

June pages from my nature sketchbook #ArtYear #Sketchbook

An abstract painting evoking the bright greens, lavenders and oranges of summer fields in Provence under a bright cerulean blue sky.

All the colours you #GetOutside at this time of summer in Provence… lavenders, greens, oranges & that cerulean blue sky!
#BlueSkyArtShow

‘Tapis Provençal 1’
Mixed media abstract landscape painting

Painting of a group of three people (positioned in the lower right) watching a night sky full of stars (Big Dipper and Cassiopeia clearly visible but not in accurate position), the Northern Lights and the Leonids Meteor Shower of November 2001. Below the sky is dark fields of the northern prairie with a few oil well flares burning.

June 28 is #GetOutside for #BlueSkyArtShow

November 2001 we got up at 2 a.m. in -30C to watch the Leonid Meteor Shower from our backyard - I immortalized it in acrylic.

#Art #Artist #ArtYear #ArtShow #SmArtist #BskyArt #Painting #Leonids #Aurora
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A landscape painting showing a field of grass in tones of green and pink, leading to a horizontal row of trees in full leaf. Beyond the trees hills are visible beneath a cloudy sky.

A Cumbrian field of Yorkshire fog (holcus lanatus).
#mixedmedia watercolour on collage and gesso coated board. #BlueSkyArtShow #GetOutside #ArtYear

Original watercolour of coast Sea waves lapping the rocks

Coast #Northumberland Tynemouth Original watercolour to #GetOutside #BlueSkyArtShow @blueskyartshow.bsky.social paulmorganclarke.etsy.com #Art #Nature #eastcoastkin

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A pen and wash watercolour study of a street in Provence. The narrow street disappears around a corner. The house walls are a pale yellow sandstone

The streets of Menerbes in Provence #Narrow to shield the inhabitants from the Mistral.
Pen and wash sketchbook study #BlueSkyArtShow

A sketchbook page featuring seven pink flower heads against and abstract green collages and pained background

Geraniums.
All the media flung at this #MixedMedia sketchbook mess about.
#ArtYear #Flowers

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