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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Detour for a Thirsty Raven | Raven Painting
This raven painting is my largest painting yet. The substrate is a birch board with three coats of white gesso. All of the colored pigments are Ozark and locally foraged, but I use purchased titanium white pigment to make a …
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Shiny Object Syndrome? | Switching Gears
Sometimes an opportunity arises and I leap at it. Afterwards I question whether or not my desire to pivot is warranted, or is it a case of ‘shiny object syndrome’. Have you ever heard of that phrase? It’s the habit …
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Little Cabin in the Woods | No. 2
While I’m waiting on my white pigment powder to arrive, so I can make an opaque white paint, I figured I’d experiment a little with the paints I have on hand. My white grounds came in a few days ago, …
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Dreary Day Art | & Why Not Horses?
It surprises me that I have never attempted to paint horses. All of my early life I doodled horses on any scrap of paper I could find. Eventually I got pretty good at drawing them. Dreary day art musings led …
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Empty Paint Tubes for Oil Paints
Eventually, once I’ve made more paints, I’ll write a page on my process with that. In the meantime, for those wishing to know where I get the empty tubes for oil paints, here’s a link. I get them from Amazon, …
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Kings River in Winter | Ozark pigments in oil
The new year of 2023 kicked off the first oil paintings in my Kings River Four Seasons series. The one I chose to start with first is the winter scene. I’ll rotate through them to work on one while layers …
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Kings River Paintings | Four Seasons
So many excellent paintings of the Buffalo National river and the surrounding natural areas exist, but I haven’t seen many King’s river paintings. While both rivers begin in our local area, Wild Ozark is in the Kings river watershed. And …
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Kings River | Scenes that Inspire Art
We live in the neighborhood of upper Kings River, in Madison county near the Newton county line (Arkansas). Kings River Falls are not too far away as the crow flies. The landscape here is rocky heart of the Boston Mountain …
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Update on the Gecko Paintings
I’m in the process of painting the third of three different geckos for a ‘Unique Pet’ portrait commission. I’m almost finished now with the painting phase of this project. After the last little gecko is finished, I’ll frame them and …
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Limited Palette | Working with Only the Local Pigments
When I first started painting with the Ozark pigments, I wasn’t sure yet whether I would be able to make good art with a handful of colors. It’s a very limited palette of earthy tones ranging from white to black, …
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Painted with the Ozark Pigments | Collecting pigments everywhere
It seems like I pick up rocks everywhere I go. Now I do it with an eye for color. So far, I’ve only painted with the Ozark pigments. But, I collect pigment rocks everywhere I go. So eventually, I want …
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Art Goals | Life Goals, and my Word of the Year – Wild Ozark 2023
The image associated with this post is a single screech owl, but two photos taken successively. In one shot the owls’s eyes were closed and in the other they were open. So I put them together because there’s a lot …
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Am I a Tonalist? I think so, when it comes to landscapes.
It’s always been hard for me to categorize my art, because the colors look different than a lot of contemporary art I see. So I began looking at historical works and styles and I think I’ve found something – a …
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SOLD – December Original Art Special | Monsieur Crawfish
Update: Monsieur Crawfish original is SOLD. He was the 2nd in my whimsical series titled Down at the Creek. And it is my choice for the December Original Art Special at my shop. It all started when I went down …
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New Acceptance! Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery
I’m pleased to announce that ‘On the Cusp’ has been chosen for inclusion and awarded ‘Special Merit’ in the 12th Annual “Nature” Art Exhibition, an online show with Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery. The exhibit opens on …
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Flash Sale | Painting of Whisper in Bone pigments
I am going to start choosing a random painting to offer at deep discount every once in a while. If I can remember to do so, I’ll make this a quarterly event. The first one up is Whisper, my painting …
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Suck it up, Buttercup
This whole year has been a busy one and I’m glad it’s time to wind it down. There’s still a lot of catching up to do, though, because for the past several weeks I feel like I’ve been running non-stop. …
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2022 NWA Boutique Show in Rogers, Arkansas
For the past few months I’ve been preparing for this weekend. I’m excited to be a vendor at the NWA Boutique Show in Rogers, Arkansas. I’ve never attended or vended this show before, so I’m not sure what to expect. …
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Beech Tree Leaves
It’s the time of year when most of the beautiful autumn colors are now brown and crunch on the ground. The oaks are burnt orange and beautiful, still. But the beech trees are at peak splendor with their golden beech …
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Is Art made through Magic, Intuition, or Knowledge?
I once heard it spoken in one of the great (virtual) hallways where educated artists gather, that an ‘intuitive artist’ doesn’t exist. That an artist only uses knowledge and conscious decisions to know what to do on their canvas – …
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Highlander and Longhorn Cow | Painting Process for ‘Best Friends’
Every year for their birthdays, the grandkids pick the subject they want me to paint. And every time we do this, their requests are getting more and more challenging. The latest one I’ve started is a scene that includes two …
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Exhibit at Gotahold Brewery
For the month of October, pretty much all of my original works will be on exhibit at Gotahold Brewery in Eureka Springs, AR. This is a great opportunity to grab a cold craft beer and see the Ozark pigments in …
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Making Time to Wander
One of the reasons I enjoy my Morning Mile so much is because of the walk back to the house. It’s my time to wander. It’s the wandering that feeds my soul and spirit, whereas the jog out does my …
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Ozark Pigments in Oils | First Paintings
For a long time I’ve wanted to try painting in oils, and I’ve wanted to see how the Ozark pigments in oils would look. My biggest hope was that the colors were more vivid and I would be able to …
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September Gallery Selections at TAGNWA (The Art Gallery at the NWA Mall)
These are my September gallery selections for The Art Gallery at the NWA Mall in Fayetteville, AR. For the month of October, I think I will swap some of them out for a selection of framed prints. All Ozark pigments, …