Karin Neuvirth

I’ve been doing more work with cooler colors lately, and this painting is the beginning of a series that really emphasizes cool peaceful shades of blue.  This series, which I call “Moonlit” gives the feeling of a moon beam lighting up a garden.  I love how this white iris appears violet in the Moonlight.
This painting is on [...]

In August, Rochester will once again be the home to a new fine arts festival.  The First Annual ARTigras is sheduled for August 22, 2009.  It will be a daylong celebration of the arts to be held in Mayo Park (behind the Civic Center).  Activities offered free of charge in this noon to 7 pm event include [...]

I recently have been working on some expressionistic landscape paintings.   Staying true to the nature of expressionistic work, color is the most predominant element in these new works, as it is with most of my work.  I’ve also discovered that painting my landscapes vertically  instead of horizontally seems to add more interest to the piece. 
As I was working [...]

I finally got a picture of my latest painting.  I Painted this one, titled ‘Coneflower’ with a much cooler color pallete then most of my paintings.  I think the purples and greens add a bit of serenity to the painting, but because the colors are still very intense, it still has a lot of energy.