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Meet Colleen Brown
Colleen Brown is an internationally recognized, professional artist who specializes in still life pastel and oil paintings. Born in Australia, Colleen now calls the USA home. I love birds, animals, florals and of course still life. I've been an artist most of my life and an avid admirer of the natural world. Thank you for dropping by! ~ Colleen
Category Archives: New Art
Glazed Pastels – No glass or frame required.
I love working with pastels but find the cost of preparing a lot of pieces for a show very expensive. Wanting to find an alternative I came up with my glazed pastel method. I mount the paper to a panel … Continue reading
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Divine Inspiration or The Muse?
I have been accepted to the Oklahoma City Community College Arts Festival which will be on September 3rd, 4th and 5th. Their address is 7777 S. May Ave, Oklahoma City. There is a $5.00 parking fee to enter. The thing … Continue reading
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Tagged Arts Festival, Community College, divine, inspiration, Muse, OCCC, Oklahoma City, original, pastel, The Guardian
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Lemon Tea – Pastel on panel
This new pastel piece is painted on linen panel and measures 6 x 8 inches. Email if interested.
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Tagged art, artist, artwork, Colleen Brown, painting, panel, pastel, still life
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Sapp Pot, Pear & Chopsticks – Original Pastel Painting
This new work today is 8 x 8 inches and is pastel on canvas. The red ceramic pot is a gorgeous piece created by Lincoln Nebraska Artist Willie Sapp. This piece is framed in a black and silver square frame. … Continue reading
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Tagged artist, artwork, black, ceramic pot, chopsticks, Colleen Brown, Lincoln, Nebraska, Oklahoma, original, pastel, pear, red, Willie Sapp, yellow
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New Blooms – pastel originals
These three small 5 x 5 inch pastel pieces are of my daughter’s favourite flower the Gerbera. These are framed in square gold frames and will be available at a very reasonable price for original artwork – $60.00 each. … Continue reading
New Pastel Piece
Finished this piece this morning already. 20 x 8 inches pastel on suede. As yet unnamed.. suggestions always welcome. Awesome! NOW titled “Where’s the Cream?” by my art buddy Theo Raymond! Thanks Theo! See his work at his blog Theo … Continue reading
The Kiss – Pastel Original
The Kiss - Original Pastel 12 x 9
Today’s artwork is (was – read below!) a 12 x 9 pastel piece. Yes, more pears but you already know about my love affair (obsession) with pears. This is the third time I’ve tried to make a good painting using this composition but I’ll just call the first two times practice pieces since they are hidden away in the dark depths of a drawer somewhere never to see daylight again for a very long time. All artists have those types of pieces where it just doesn’t look right to us… If they say they don’t then they aren’t very prolific or are just too perfect… LOL
This piece will be added to Etsy for sale and also to Fine Art America for prints. Hope you are all enjoying your weekend!
The Kiss - cropped to 9 x 9?
***Ok, when I uploaded this picture it looks square so I cropped the photo I took and have decided it’s a much stronger piece cropped to be 9 x 9 square, so what do you think? Would love some feedback from you all on if you like it 12 x 9 or 9 x 9… at least before I get out the scissors! 
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Peach ‘n Cherries – Original Oil Painting
Peach 'n Cherries - Original oil painting
Today’s painting is of some luscious red summer cherries (even at $8,99 a pound!!) and a sweet smelling peach. I’m glad this painting is finished because those cherries look like afternoon tea to me!
This painting is oil on panel and measures 7 x 5 inches.
You can bid on this painting at the Daily Paintworks!
Lemon & Lavender – Original Oil on Panel
I am of course scrambling to complete some more works for my July 1st show in Ohio. While working on a large 24 x 30 painting featuring lemons and lavender, I completed this smaller painting using the same set up … Continue reading
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Tagged 2011, 6 x 6 inches, art, artwork, brown, fruit, lavender, lemon, oil, original, painting, panel, still life
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Portrait – Calan
Well I’ve all but finished the pastel portrait of my Grandson Calan. It is 20 x 26 inches and was created using soft pastel. There are a few minor tweaks in the morning with fresh eyes but overall I’m pretty … Continue reading
