Painting Album by John E. Keller. Photos by John E. Keller. 1 - 19 of 19 Total. 15939 Visits.
enlarge 69KB, 400x640 1 White Penstemon Watercolor The painting was based on a photograph that my mother, Opal Keller, took. The photograph was on the cover of the Penstemon Quarterly magazine, July 1989. It was also on the cover of my mother's funeral brochure. The Nature Conservancy purchased the Keller Ranch in order to preserve this endangered flower. This is one of a series of Golden Rectangle (6"x9.75") flora paintings
enlarge 91KB, 720x445 2 Penstemon & Sandpit The Nebraska sandpit is close to Crescent Lake and near the Crescent Lake National Wildlife Refuge the pink Penstemon is based on a photograph that my mother, Opal Keller, took.
enlarge 66KB, 405x640 3 Cone flower_IMG 8622 This painting is part of the series of flora paintings based the Golden Rectangle, in this case a 6"x9.75 inch painting on 300# hot press watercolor paper.
enlarge 54KB, 640x403 4 Pink Sorrel_IMG 8586 This painting is part of the series of flora paintings based the Golden Rectangle, in this case a 6"x9.75 inch painting on 300# hot press watercolor paper.
enlarge 68KB, 409x640 5 Sego Lily_IMG 8585 This painting is part of the series of flora paintings based the Golden Rectangle, in this case a 6"x9.75 inch painting on 300# hot press watercolor paper.
enlarge 65KB, 371x640 6 Purple Iris_IMG 8685 This purple iris painting is based on an evening photograph of the flower I took in our front yard. The flower is the offspring of an iris I dug up either in my mother's garden, or my Aunt Margaret's garden. It is part of the series of flora paintings based the Golden Rectangle, in this case a 6"x9.75 inch painting on 300# hot press watercolor paper.
enlarge 82KB, 640x420 7 Balloon Flower & Bumble Bee brightened This is one of a series of Golden Rectangle (6"x9.75") flora paintings, some from the extensive collection of my mother's (Opal Keller)photographs of Nebraska wildflowers, and some from my own photographs.
enlarge 81KB, 640x461 8 Study in Light/Classical-22"x30" Watercolor Capturing the fleeting shadows cast by the evening sun, this painting becomes a memento mori. Using hot press paper, I was able to capture the reflections of the table and subtlety of the lace. "Love the light & shadows!" View Comments...
enlarge 126KB, 640x454 9 Beside Old Pangburn Highway-22"x30" Watercolor Large boulders were moved aside to clear the roadway for what is now called the Old Pangburn Highway, dating from the early 1800's. Not much of it remains. Using opaque watercolor for the leaves, enabled me to render fall leaves with the crispness of reality, while retaining the spontaneous quality of wet-on-wet watercolor for the boulder and distant colors.
enlarge 55KB, 640x480 10 Firenze Street Lamp - 22"x30" Watercolor The original photograph was taken from a moving vehicle in Florence, Italy. I was drawn by the cast shadow of the lamp, but opted to retain the ambiguous elements around the perimeter. Without them, it just didn't work. Besides, the crispness of the rendering needed some ambiguity to make it interesting. The painting was accepted into the Mid-southern Watercolorists Annual Show.
enlarge 68KB, 640x483 11 Low Tide: Boothbay Maine Watercolor - 22" x 30 " The watercolor painting of these two small boats, floating over the reflection of a tall pier, were inspired by a photograph I took while we were celebrating our forty-fifth wedding anniversary exploring the coast of Maine. This painting was accepted into the 2016 Mid-Southern Watercolor Society Annual Show.
enlarge 71KB, 640x472 12 Dogwood- 30"x40" Oil The dogwood blossoms make a great subject for painting or photography. I typically use a more impressionistic approach with oils and a tighter, more realistic approach with watercolor. "Beautiful" View Comments...
enlarge 83KB, 640x489 13 Double Vision-22"x30" Watercolor I was intrigued by the composition afforded by this typical Italian window, with geraniums, in Pisa, Italy. The panting was accepted into the Mid-southern Watercolorists Annual Show.
enlarge 76KB, 640x483 14 Paint & Rust-22"x30" Watercolor Paint peeling off the side of a metal tank is an interesting study in contrast between tight, controlled watercolor and wet-on-wet spontaneity. In my more philosophic moments I like to call it "Continental Drift", a reference to the passage of time...and the visual similarity of the painting to oceans and continents.
enlarge 59KB, 640x425 15 The Missing Tomato-22"x30" Watercolor Can you find the missing tomato? The subject was a bin of tomatoes at a vegetable stand in Scandicci, Italy. Each tomato took less than two minutes to paint. However, the stems were very time consuming. The painting was accepted into the 2013 Mid-Southern Watercolorists Annual Show.
enlarge 39KB, 720x264 16 Eagle View Watercolor This "eagle's view" watercolor painting is from a hilltop that is locally knowns as "eagle view" due to the name of a popular catering service and event venue by that name, with a deck that overlooks this panorama.
enlarge 43KB, 720x296 17 Highway 65 Panorama-15"x29" Watercolor This painting of a scene along highway 65, north of Conway, Arkansas was accepted into the Mid-southern Watercolorists Annual Show in 2012.
enlarge 95KB, 640x473 18 Landscape in Langshan Mountains-22"x30" Watercolor During my "one month in China", teaching Watercolor at Hunan University of Humanities, Science, and Technology, I was taken to these exotic mountains for two days of hiking and photography. This Watercolor painting, on hot press Arches paper, was inspired by the outing. The painting was accepted into the 2014 Mid-southern Watercolorists Annual Show and the first Annual National Art Education juried show.
enlarge 56KB, 481x640 19 Lauterbrunnen Valley - 22"x30" Watercolor One of the more panoramically beautiful places I've visited would be Lauterbrunnen Valley, in the Alps above Wengen, Switzerland.
Enjoyed all the paintings from around the worlds but really enjoyed the local images - Larry harrison, Sun, 22 Jul 2018 11:49AM
John, sharing your paintings with my mother-in-law who also is an artist. She looked at your work and stated immediately how out of her class her work is but I know that an artist is an artist and would like you to know her work and know her self taught training. A lot I think is form TV art training but she does have an artistic ability and love of the medium. Suffice it to say she really liked your work. - Terry Keller, Sat, 1 Feb 2014 6:04PM
Thank you for including my giclee print in this year's Arkansas League of Artists show. I was both pleased and surprised that an accomplished watercolorist and objective artist would choose an abstract or nonobjective work for inclusion.Especially since my medium is digital, I have met with a good deal of resistance from mainstreamers. I have two fine art degrees (painting-graphic design), but have spent the last 35 years working in digital media. I remember seeing your work for the first time at the quaint little Searcy Art Gallery where I was picking up one of my prints from a previousinstallation. I really liked the depiction of light in your watercolors. A couple of your works reminded me of my professor at UALR by the name of Al Allen years ago who had a penchant for reductive architectural subject matter like your two windows painting and your wall light painting. Thanks again...look foreward to meeting you at the opening potted plant still life I saw there. - Ed Rhodes, Thu, 22 Aug 2013 8:18AM
