Other Subjects and Styles | David Schwindt

• Split Complementaries

  Acrylic, Canvas, 36 x 42 x 3/4. This is my largest in the series of stained canvases and my last so far. By this time I had an idea of how much paint it would take and used larger brushes and larger containers to pour t…

• Rio Abstraction

  Acrylic, Canvas, 24 x 30 x 1.25. I began this canvas with random stains on raw canvas. As with the others, I just played with the contrasts of primary colors and tried to create interesting textures. The difference betw…

• Circular Motion

  Acrylic, Canvas, 28 x 25 x 1.5. This image is experimental in nature and was my first attempt on a larger scale. The basic idea is to stain raw canvas with pure colors diluted with water . I started with yellow and red,…

• Color Burst

  Acrylic, Canvas panel, 24 x 20 x 1.65. This is another image in my experimental series of stained canvases. The basic idea is to stain raw canvas with pure colors diluted with water . I start with the three primaries pl…

• Sky Eruption

  Acrylic, Canvas, 22 x 16 x 1 3/8. I pushed the limits on this canvas, staining in layers until the canvas expanded rather than shrinking as expected. The only way I saved it was to paint out my beautiful stains with acr…

• Storm Subdued

  Acrylic, Canvas, 24 x 18 x 1 3/8. This image is experimental in nature. The basic idea is to stain raw canvas with pure colors diluted with water . I start with the three primaries plus phthalo green, and then pour them…

• Distant Turquoise

  Acrylic, Canvas panel, 10 x 8 x 7/8. This small image is a segment of my first experiments with staining raw canvas. The basic idea is to stain raw canvas with pure colors diluted with water . I start with the three pri…

• Flaming Sky

  Acrylic, Canvas panel, 10 x 8 x 7/8. This small image is a segment of my first experiments with staining raw canvas. I started with the three primaries plus phthalo green, and then poured them on the raw canvas, moved t…

• Quilted Wildflower Meadow

  Acrylic, Panel, 24 x 18. I love playing with color and making color charts. This painting is influenced by some of Paul Klee's work and the many color charts I have painted as well as the wildflowers we see in Texas. I…

• Cosmic Blanketflower

  Acrylic, Canvas, 24 x 18. I started this painting with splashes of color and gradually formed them into more solid shapes reminiscent of the color charts that I love to make. I drew inspiration from Paul Klee as well as…

• Pusch Ridge Designs

  Oil, Linen panel, 11 x 14. This is a reinterpretation of a plein air painting that I did in 2005. I think it was a decent painting, as literal as I could make it at the time, but when I looked at it recently I felt that…

• Kirwan's Lane - Galway

  Oil, Linen panel, 16 x 12. I couldn't resist the complementary colors in this Galway Medieval Street scene! Traces of sunlight rake across the wall, catching a few roses and creating contrast in the bright green storefr…

• Out of the Shadows - revised

  oil and cold wax, Panel, 20 x 16. This is an experimental painting using cold wax medium applied with a palette knife. The price is for the unframed painting, 7/8 inch deep on a cradled panel, however it would look quit…

• Out of the Shadows

  Oil, Panel, 20 x 16. This is an experimental painting using cold wax medium applied with a palette knife and print brayer. The painting is unframed, 7/8 inch deep on a cradled panel. The subject is based on a view overl…

• Textural Effects

  Oil, Canvas panel, 14 x 11. I chose this subject so I could play with textural effects of light by using cold wax medium and a palette knife. It's based on a photo of a hillside on the north rim of the Grand Canyon. I h…

• New Growth Aspen

  oil and cold wax, Linen panel, 9 x 12. This is painted in layers, adding cold wax medium to my oils and using a palette knife for most of the application. Some randomness is built in, using a brayer to roll light glazes…

• Chinatown Glare

  Oil, Linen panel, 9 x 12

• Georgetown Study in Greens

  Oil, Linen panel, 11 x 14

• Waco Silo District

  Oil, Panel, 8 x 10. Painted on location in Waco, Texas. this area has been made popular by a young couple with a national TV show. You will probably recognize it if you've seen the show or been to Waco.

• Morning Fog

  Oil, Linen panel, 8 x 10

• Brushy Creek Trestle

  Oil, Linen panel, 8 x 10

• Red Interior

  Oil, Linen panel, 10 x 8

• Randall Davey House

  Oil, Panel, 9 x 12. This Santa Fe artist's home is part of the Randall Davey Audubon Center and Sanctuary on upper Canyon Road. I happened upon a small group of artists painting on the lawn and decided to join them, eve…

• In the Harbor

  Oil, Panel, 9 x 12

• Dry Docked

  Oil, Panel, 9 x 12

• Sunset at Quimper

  Oil, 24 x 18. Quimper is in Brittany, in the northwest part of France. I painted a small watercolor study while standing on the hillside above town watching the sun set.

• Weeping Willow

  Oil, Linen panel, 11 x 14

• Nawadaha Falls

  Acrylic, Paper, 6 x 8. I painted a quick study in watercolor and wanted to paint it larger. This is an intermediate study to decide how I wanted to crop the falls. Nawadaha Falls is in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in…

• Lime Creek Snow

  Gouache, Paper, 5 x 7. I keep a few sketchbooks going at the same time, so I can work on two images at once without flipping the pages. This is a small book designed for multi-media, but I've been working mostly in wate…

• Deep Shadows

  Gouache, Paper, 8 x 10. I keep a few sketchbooks going at the same time, so I can work on two images at once without flipping the pages. This is a small book designed for multi-media, but I've been working mostly in wat…

• Mont St Michel

  Watercolor, Paper, 6 x 9

• Cliffs at Etretat

  Watercolor, Paper, 6 x 9

• Washhouses at Vannes

  Watercolor, Paper, 6 x 9

• Notre Dame Paris_

  Watercolor, Paper, 6 x 9

• Algodones Spring

  Watercolor, 10 x 14

• Linda Vista Colors

  Watercolor, 5 x 7

• Three Sisters 1, Monument Valley

  Acrylic, 11 x 14

• Three Sisters 2, Monument Valley

  Acrylic, 11 x 14

• Three Apples

  Acrylic, Panel, 8 x 10. There's no better way to see the light than to paint outside. I set this up outdoors when we lived in Tucson, just to explore the light and the medium of acrylic, for a change from painting the l…

• Mirrored Sunflowers

  Oil, Canvas, 16 x 20. It's rare that I paint anything close up like a still life, but it's really good discipline, and I don't worry about the changing light. This one was fun because the strongest light came from behin…

• Field of Blue

  Oil, Panel, 16 x 12. This painting was one of my first after experimenting with oil and cold wax medium. I wanted to keep the impression of a field of blue wildflowers without painting each individual flower. The sky an…

• Meadow in May

  Oil, Canvas, 40 x 30. I looked out over a field of coneflower, Indian blanket and gayfeather, and started snapping photos, some vertical, some horizontal. I walked into the field, around the field, and even set up my eq…

• Santa Rita Cactus

  Oil, 8 x 10. I start this kind of painting with a loosely constructed grid and begin making shapes that quickly become symbols for landscape elements I love. Sometimes I start with a specific image like this cactus flow…

• Cactus Moonset

  Oil, 11 x 14. I've painted several pairs of abstract images like this one. I could easily paint more of them, but feel compelled after a while to return to my established traditional style. These are like therapy for me…

• Turquoise Sky 2007

  Oil, Panel, 12 x 12. This is the sort of image that comes out of my head when I just start painting shapes and colors. It's based on my memories of growing up in the southwest where mesas dominate the landscape. Other a…

• Turquoise Moonrise 2008

  Oil, Panel, 11 x 14. I started this painting with the idea of turquoise, the color and the stone. The step designs always remind me of mesas where turquoise was a major trade item, and I just started building shapes and…