Norma Bruhn is a prolific artist with a career spanning over 40 years. She has extensive mixed media expertise in welding, batik, watercolor and oil painting. Her passion is impressionist oil painting in both plein air and still format. Her plein air subjects ranges from farmland to hillside to seascape; her still subjects include flowers, fruit, animals and ordinary objects which she makes extraordinary with her range of lights and darks. She has trained for over ten years with internationally acclaimed artist Guido Frick.
She invites you to look at her artwork and if you would like her to paint something just for you in just the right size, free to contact her.
A painting is not complete without Cerulean Blue, Ultramarine Blue, Peach and Dioxine Purple. Norma finds that these colors add life and punch to her oil paintings. The artist invites you to look closely at her artwork and find these colors in each painting.
On the following pages you will see original plein air oil paintings from beautiful places like Carmel, Carmel Valley, Point Lobos, Big Sur, Monterey, Seaside, Cannery Row, Moss Landing and Salinas Valley. Also available, are paintings the artist made from trips to beautiful Utah, Sedona and Southern California.
"I hope my artwork takes you to a place and time that is peaceful and hopeful."
Norma still paints in her 80s. She loves to teach people how to paint. Her famous quote: "It's just paint! You can always paint over it, if you don't like it."
It simply means painting outside, The colors and shadows are best defined by natural light. She secretly touches up her paintings when she is home. It sure can get cold on location!
Here you see Norma is outside painting one of her still life oil paintings. While the set up of the items are contrived for interest, the natural light is critical for beautiful highlights and shadows.
This photo shows how her car is filled to the top with all the necessary things to paint that next masterpiece.
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