Printable PDFs! New way of buying fine art!

Great news! I now have a number of printable PDFs for sale from Donnadowney.com! I am most excited about this potential because it frees everyone to buy my art without need for shipping and handling and time waiting. You can buy any of my PDFs and receive them immediately available for you to print them and frame them or have them printed and framed.

Please check out my current inventory every PDF is priced based on size. 8"x10" PDFs are $5 and larger sizes like 11"x14" are $7. All files are 300 dpi.

"Starry Eyed" - A painting about a husband and wife choosing to get away so that their dreams for the future can run wild.

"Artistry I" - A painting that was produced through a collaborative effort between myself and artist Donna Downey, owner of Donna Downey Studios in Huntersville NC. For me, this girl in the painting represents the excited anticipation for the future as she allows the warmth of the sunrise to wash over her face.

"Artistry II" - The 2nd collaborative painting with Donna Downey. This woman is confident and strong no matter what she faces.

"Artistry III" - The 3rd collaborative painting with Donna Downey. This young girl is filled with curiosity and creative imagination. In daydreams her world around her flows with bright beautiful color.

"Expecting Glory" - This painting is about how a person can walk through life and experience hardship and beauty and after a day is over hope rises from within expecting a glorious new day to come. The left half of the painting is a night scene and represents the past. The right half of the painting is a sunrise and represents what is to come. The tiny figure in the bottom center represents every person on an individual level. The circles rising from the figure represents hopes and dreams for the future. The longer we focus on a dream the bigger it can become and when we allow the cares of this life to distract us from our dreams, they begin to fragment and fall apart. The original painting is 7'x6' acrylic on 2 wooden panels.

"Sunset Steam" - This painting glows with the warmth of the tropics. Stephen painted it to bring a bright and bold happy feeling to viewer.

"Washed by the Light" - Day after day passed gray and flat. We didn't know the thing we lacked. Then came the day that you arrived, The Greatest Doctor had prescribed. It was an unforgettable day, and the light that shone, washed the gray away." - Stephen Lursen

"Winter Warmth" - This painting is intended to add a sparkle of festive fun to your walls throughout the winter season. Its for all the coffee and hot chocolate lovers out there who know how to savor each and every moment or for those who want a reminder to stop and enjoy each day even in the midst of a hectic lifestyle.

"Abstract Landscape V" - This painting combines the beauty within the color and texture of paint, with the mystery of an abstract landscape scene.

"Abstract Seascape I" - This painting also combines the beauty within the color and texture of paint, with the open airy quality of standing on a rocky shore looking out across the water.

Sunset Steam - Original Acrylic painting for sale

"Sunset Steam"
4' x 3'
Acrylic on Canvas
by: Stephen Lursen
January 2016

For Sale: $750
For inquiries write me at stephenlursen@gmail.com
or order online at
https://howtopaint.myshopify.com/products/sunset-steam-original-painting-by-stephen-lursen

Starry Eyed Online Workshop

Starry Eyed Workshop is Stephen Lursen's debut, large scale painting, video workshop. Watch, learn, and work along with him as he paints a 4' x 3' mixed media painting. He breaks each step down with wonderful explanations that clearly demonstrate every step of the process. With a total of 129 minutes (over 2 hours!) of instruction, this experience is the closest you can come to taking a full, in person workshop, with Stephen right here at Donna Downey Studios. 

Concerned about working large for the first time? Don't be! You can do it! Furthermore, this painting is completely scaleable. You can use the lessons learned in this video and create a wide range of paintings, from very small to much larger than Stephen's 4'x3' canvas. No prior painting skills are necessary!

The included collaged element (the figures PDF) are downloadable in 6 sizes to empower you to pick the right size for your canvas.

Feel free to preview the supplies list to make sure you have the necessary supplies and purchase whatever may be needed.

part 1 (10:20) - Beginning an abstract painting

part 2 (13:29) - Fun with splattering paint

part 3 (13:00) - Glazing color over color

part 4 (9:31) - A nod to the past; Vincent van Gogh

part 5 (9:59) - All that glitters and gleams

part 6 (12:11) - Simple landscaping and collage

part 7 (6:37) - Building a fire and letting it glow

part 8 (13:52) - Simple figure painting

part 9 (13:50) - Making it snuggly... painting colorful textiles

part 10 (16:43) - Making smoke signals

part 11 (9:25) - Vignettes and fireflies

Purchase this online workshop to download or stream at: https://howtopaint.myshopify.com/products/starry-eyed-online-workshop

Thank you!

Stephen

Supply List:

Starry Eyed Workshop Supply List

With Stephen Lursen

Paint Supplies – Golden Brand fluid acrylics

·   Titanium White

·   Hansa Yellow Light

·   Quinacridone Magenta

·   Quinacridone Nickel Azo Gold

·   Permanent Violet Dark

·   Anthraquinone Blue

·   Paynes Gray

·   Sap Green

·   Green Gold

·   Burnt Umber Light

·   Yellow Ochre

·   Florescent Yellow (I used a craft brand but would have preferred Golden)

·   Florescent Orange (I used a craft brand but would have preferred Golden)

·   Florescent Pink (I used a craft brand but would have preferred Golden)

Medium – Golden Brand

·   Regular Gel (Matte) – Fluid would have worked well also

Brushes

·   2” bulk priming/gesso paint brush (most 2” brushes will do really)

·   1” Simply Simmons brand flat brush

·   One small to medium sized round brush with a point

·   #2 Liner brush – Simply Simmons brand is what I use

Collage Supplies

·   Creative Concepts brand composition gold flakes (Any gold leaf will work)

·   Martha Stewart Craft glitter (I like extra fine glitter.  Color: “Smoky Quartz”)

·   IndigoBlu.com’s Mega-Flake in Autumn Blaze (small metallic flakes in fall colors)

Basic project needs

·   Water Basin + water

·   Paper towel or baby wipes

·   Painting Palette

·   Access to a printer for the included downloadable PDF

·   Scissors

·   4’x3’ Canvas (Or whatever size you are comfortable with)

·   Finishing sandpaper to smooth the surface of a new canvas

·   Easel

Hummingbird Painting III - SOLD!

I was recently commissioned to paint a new Hummingbird painting by a customer in Virginia. After talking with her to find out what she wanted I got to work in my studio. The rest is history!
Thank you Lauren!

Sincerely,
Stephen

Hummingbird Painting III
Stephen Lursen
Acrylic, sequins, and glitter on canvas
12" x12"
2015

After it arrived at her home, she opened the box and immediately hung it on her wall. 

Here are the images she sent me that same day!

Color Splash Painting

Color Splash Original Painting for Sale $600

This is the 36"x 36" painting that my wife Cara and I worked on together immediately following the Galaxy Splash Abstract painting. This is also an acrylic painting, but has no gold leaf. Sometimes... rarely,  I edit back the labor in a painting and this is probably the simplest painting I have ever worked on of this size. Part of the motivation of editing back was because I was working on this painting with Cara who has simpler and more colorful taste than I do. I do enjoy collaborating on paintings with others because you always create artwork that neither would have done on their own. As you can see, we rotated the canvas and dripped the paint in opposing directions to free us up to be able to determine which orientation we wanted most. If your drips are only in one direction, that implies gravity and causes most viewers to assume that the drips fall down and if you rotate the canvas in any other direction it may seam wrong. To combat that thinking, we dripped in different directions. We used glass bead medium, white flake medium, and multiple fluid mediums to increase splatter ability of paints. We finger painted the majority of the left side to create energy without showing obvious brush strokes.

Detail images below:

Galaxy Splash Abstract Painting - SOLD!!!

About a year ago, my wife and I wanted to work on a painting together for our home. We had done that twice before and we no longer had either of the paintings because they sold. In the past, my personal style was much more neutral in color palette, and my wife Cara loves bright bold color. As any husband knows, 'If Momma aint happy, aint nobody happy!'. So we started with a 36" x 36" gallery depth canvas and started throwing color down. We did actually work on the canvas while it was laying flat so that we truly could sling paint down and it would stay where it was thrown. I've learned a lot about painting from working for and with Donna Downey. Her use of color, painting with her hands, and strategically laying down warm and cool colors separately to maintain the integrity of the colors. We only tilted the canvas up in specific stages when we wanted drips and runs in the paint to occur. I couldn't resist adding in some gold leaf. It's my thing!

SOLD!!! - I am proud to say that this painting was purchased by Artist Junelle Jacobsen!!! I was extremely humbled, proud, honored, and excited when I found out that she loved my painting so much she purchased it. Thank you so much Junelle!

Detail shots are below. One technique I learned from my Major Professor Tom Stanley in Grad School is sgraffito sgraf·fi·to/zɡräˈfētō,skrä-/

noun a form of decoration made by scratching through a surface to reveal a lower layer of a contrasting color, typically done in plaster or stucco on walls, or in slip on ceramics before firing.