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About Jala
- Jala Pfaff
- Boulder, CO, United States
- I'm a painter (and writer and Spanish instructor) living in beautiful Boulder, Colorado. I studied classical art in an ARC (Art Renewal Center) school, Colorado Academy of Art, full-time for two years, in order to benefit from the rigorous atelier-style training. I am currently dedicated to exploring abstract and semi-abstract art, working in oil and also in soft pastel. I firmly believe that all human beings are creative, whether or not they have yet found an outlet for the innate creative urge, and that the creative arts are the highest form of human expression. Email me at: jala[at]jalapfaff.com ...Please also visit my website: jalapfaff.com ...ALL CONTENT IS COPYRIGHT
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9 comments:
This is so serene, and beautiful. Who would think a yellow sky and purple land would look so 'real'? Gorgeous.
Jala, I love the space between the yellow and purple-beautiful! Loriann
Hi Kelley, thanks! Similarly to Casey Klahn, I enjoy playing with "unlikely" colors for landscapes...especially easy to do when they're so abstracted.
Hi Loriann, thanks! Yeah, it's kind of fun how much interesting "stuff" always goes on in the horizon area of my abstract landscapes. I don't plan it, but the way I work when I do them always seems to be the same: put down the two main colors I'm going to use ("land" plus "sky"), and then I'm like, hmm, what would make this more interesting? and I add a bit of a line in a diff.color, then I look at it again, and do another little tiny detail line, etc. I try (try!) to stop just when it's interesting enough.
It may be abstract but it is close enough to a real scene that if you didn't label it we would think beautiful sunrise. Nice piece either way.
Beautiful, simple and serene, lovely. Just enough of a horizon to anchor it all.
Are more of these in the works?
Thanks, Bill and Karen! I've actually done quite a lot before with this idea of "how little do you need in order to read as landscape", though often in more of a vertical format, just because that felt right at the time. See the Pastels section on my regular website: http://www.jalapfaff.com
hmmmmmm, the space between. No surprise that's were the action is. Loriann
perfect color harmony.
Thanks, Mary!
Loriann - it almost sounds like some kind of life metaphor, doesn't it?
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