Barbara Kacicek / Recent Paintings

White Peach Half / Summer's End

Oil on linen mounted on panel / 5 x 7" / Framed / $600

Billow

Oil on gessoed panel / 4 x 4" / Unframed / $200

Last Light / Blue Mountain

Oil on gessoed panel / 4 x 4" / Framed / $250

Black Raspberry with Maraschino

Oil on canvas / 6 x 8" / Framed / $700

'Daily Painter Review'

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Sunlit Skin

Oil on linen mounted on panel / 5 x 7"/ Unframed / $600

Two and a Half Plums

Oil on linen mounted on panel / 6 x 6" / Framed / $600

Lapis Lazuli Drapery

Oil (Genuine Lapis Lazuli) on linen on panel / 5 x 5" / Unframed / $400

Evening Snow

Oil on canvas / 12 x 12" / Framed / $1200

Earthshine

Oil on linen mounted on panel / 6 x 6" / Unframed / $600

Waning Gibbous Moon

Oil on linen mounted on panel / 6 x 6" / Unframed / $600

BIO

With a BFA in Drawing and Painting from Kutztown University, Pennsylvania artist Barbara Kacicek has exhibited in numerous museum and invitational exhibitions including 'Getting Real: 20th Century American Realism from the Philip Desind Collection' and most recently 'Contemporary Imaginings: the Howard A. and Judith Tullman Collection'. Her award-winning work is featured in North Light Books' 'How to Discover Your Personal Painting Style'.

Barbara’s chief influences are the Old and Modern Masters, the sky (clouds, stars, wind, phases of the moon), the quality and color of shifting light, walking, standing still, the creative pursuits of her husband and daughter, the poetry of singer-songwriters, day dreams, night dreams, the human figure, fruit, water, her hands.

From the Italian meaning 'the first time', alla prima painting, also known as premier coup or direct painting, is a method of completing a painting in a single sitting while the painting is still wet. The desired effects of the final painting are achieved in the first application of paint as opposed to the traditional technique of building up the image in layers of paint allowing drying time in between each layer with the final painting being achieved at the end. In the alla prima method, each stroke of paint is applied with the intention of letting it stand in the picture as part of the final statement. There is no retouching or over-painting after the first layer of paint has dried.

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