I’ve been working on this painting for a while now. The sky is the farthest background, so that’s the area of focus. All the while it’s been pretty standard, putting paint here and there, by design or by whim. But …
Category: Art by Madison Woods
All of my paintings feature Ozark pigments I’ve collected by hand and processed into paints. I use titanium oxide pigment to make white for adjusting and blending oil paints made from the Ozark pigments.
When I travel, I also gather rocks from those locations. When I make paint with rocks from other locations, the scene will be one from the homeland of the pigment, and the pigment sources will be specified in my process page or product listing if they are not Ozark colors.
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The posts below are from my blog and have to do with my art-making.
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Snow Days at Wild Ozark
The past two days have been declared Snow Days at Wild Ozark. It’s been brutally cold, but today the temperatures have warmed up to 46*F so far and it is bright and sunny outside.
I haven’t been outside much because …
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Savor the Commute
When I used to work in Bentonville it meant a long drive to and from work every day. Most people probably don’t savor the commute, but I did.
On the way out, the thirty minutes of dirt road gave me …
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Finding the Balance Between my Creative Life and Business Goals
When it comes to multi-tasking my life, work, and creativity demands, finding balance is my goal for 2025. When I wrote out my goals for 2024, there was a lot more on my list and I didn’t even touch …
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My Growth as an Artist
My first painting was in summer of 2018 while I was visiting my husband who was working in Qatar at the time. I didn’t have many art supplies on hand – only the first set of paints I’d ever made …
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Old Shed with Red Sunset | Painting in Progress
This old shed is one of my most photographed subjects. I take pictures of it in various weather, lots of sunsets, and throughout the seasons. Now it’s time for an Old Shed with Red Sunset painting, using my Ozark pigment …
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Making a Tube of Earthy Yellow
I have a painting project stalled for lack of paints. Before I can get back to work on it, I need a few fresh colors. One of the pigments I use from my palette often is a dark, earthy yellow. …
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!! BLACK FRIDAY ART SPECIAL !!
One day only, Nov. 29, 2024 from 8am to 3pm, get 1/2 Price on all available ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR PAINTINGS (unframed). It’s my first annual Black Friday Art Special 🙂
Here’s the link to all of the watercolor paintings (discount won’t …
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Caulking the Chimney & Terraced Garden Path
This past weekend was one of cleaning and organizing my office/studio (still not finished), and tending to some homestead tasks that needed doing. One of those was caulking the chimney. The other involved a load of floodwater gravel to make …
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Natural Art Supplies | Osage and Rocks
After a flood is an excellent time to look for my natural art supplies.
On my way home from the office yesterday, I saw the roots of an Osage tree. Of course, I had to stop, and then I couldn’t …
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Hermit Musings – Rainy Weekend
Is it strange to be actually looking forward to a land-locked weekend? We have a rainy weekend ahead of us, and we certainly do need it after the drought that just broke a couple of days ago. We’d gotten 2-3″, …
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What Comes First? The subject, or the palette?
I think I work opposite of most artists when it comes to the way I do certain things. What comes first the subject, or the palette?
For most painters, I would imagine the subject is chosen and then whatever paints …
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Earth Tone Wall Art to Bring Nature Inside
Earth Tone wall art brings a sense of calm, peace, and connectedness to a room. How does it manage to do this?
Nature itself features earthy colors. So when you see them reflected in your surroundings, if you love being …
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A sampling of the art that I’ll have at the Bentonville Fine Art Festival
Mark your calendars for this event planned by Arkansas Art Shows. The fair will be held at the picturesque Orchards Park in Bentonville, Arkansas, across from the entrance of the renowned Crystal Bridges Museum. I’ll be there with my art …
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Little Things can Make a Big Impact
It’s so easy to get caught up on the big things – the huge projects, major hurdles, or life in general. Sometimes it can get overwhelming. I think that noticing those small accomplishments, moments, and experiences that make up the …
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2024 Ponca Color Fest
Join me this year on October 25 & 26 for the 2024 Ponca Color Fest! Last year the weather was misty rain and the event was cancelled. Cross your fingers for a weekend of cool, autumn weather and blazing colors …
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Making Pickles, Pickerel Frogs, and Washing Soot
Add to the list of things I’ve done this week planting lettuce, and starting a painting. But washing soot has to come before I can get a lot more done on the painting because I’m out of black paint. I …
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Paintings from Earth Pigments
My path to becoming a painter was sort of traveled in reverse. I found the pigment first, but wasn’t sure how to make use of them. After some experimenting and research, I made a set of watercolor paints. And then …
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Hognose Snake: a Master of Deception
While I was watering my garden the other day, one of the usually reclusive garden residents came out from beneath one of the boards propped up behind a bed. It was a hognose snake, also called puffers, or puff adders. …
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Char the Bones
Winter and fires in the woodstove are just around the corner. And that means it’ll soon be time to char the bones and antler I use for making a velvety black paint.
It’s a good thing I don’t have to …
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Fence Lizard | Starting a New Painting
I’m working on a painting of a fence lizard using my Ozark pigments in oils. This is the page that shows my progression from start to finish.
During the hot days of summer, there are lots of fence lizards skittering …
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Prints of Madison Woods Originals
Technically, it’s misleading to call reproductions ‘prints’, but that’s how most people refer to them. In actuality, what I offer (aside from originals) are giclée’s. And a giclée is a reproduction made using a commercial inkjet printer with archival inks …
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Narrow Sized Imaginary Mountain Scene
While working on my fence lizard painting, I had leftover paint on the palette when finished for the day. So I decided to use it to start a new painting on the same size board, a small narrow 8″ x …
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Often Heard, But Seldom Seen
I have a short list of critters that are often heard, but seldom seen. The spring peeper in the featured image for this post is on that list. I was thrilled to finally get to see one so I could …
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White Passionflower
There’s a patch of white passionflower (Passiflora incarnata) in my garden that consistently blooms pure white blossoms. The ‘pops’ also look a little different, with a rounder shape than the usual egg-shaped pods. The other passionflowers around our place all …