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Textured Bluebonnet Painting by Dallas Artist Niki Gulley

May 3, 2023

 

“Harvesting Color” ©2023 Niki Gulley
24″ x 12″ Textured Acrylic on Canvas

Recently we drove all over the Texas Hill Country, taking in the beauty of this year’s gorgeous wildflower crop! I’ve always loved this old stone farmhouse in Marble Falls, so today we just had to stop so I?could paint it and the flower fantasy surrounding it. Besides a prolific year for bluebonnets, the white poppies were denser than I’d ever seen. Painting them large in the foreground, allows you to take in their individual beauty. Arranging the rows of wildflowers veritcally are designed to lift your spirits and guide you to your retreat in the distance. May you enjoy your escape to the beautiful hill country!


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For more details on my Texas wildflower series, e-mail Niki Gulley.
 
To see more of my contemporary landscape paintings, please visit nikigulley.com.
 

 

 

 

Pastel Home Portrait by Texas Artist Niki Gulley

January 30, 2023

 

SOLD • 11″ x 14″ pastel by Niki Gulley
 
Just Delivered! My final request for 2022 was to create a special home portrait. I no longer advertise that I make these, but I am still happy to paint something special for my collectors or their referrals by request. So for this particular pastel, someone new reached out to me with the craziest 6-degrees-of-separation story! They had purchased a home in the M streets of Dallas and the previous home owner (who turned out to be one of my early collectors) had gifted and left them the home portrait I had created for her in 2004.
 
Fast forward to this year, and these home owners were ready to move into another place, so they wanted to pass on the gift again to the new people purchasing their home and leave my home portrait from 2004 with the house. So, of course when they moved into their new place (and no one had left a home portrait here), they asked me to create something special for their Christmas gift. So fun! I was even able to include their doggie in the window this time. I hope they enjoy the new memories, and a big thank you to both home owners from 2004 and 2022.
 
 
To see more of my contemporary textured landscape paintings, please visit nikigulley.com.
 
For more information on my large floral paintings, please e-mail Niki Gulley.
 

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Just Sold! “Coming Together” Palette Knife Aspen Tree painting by Niki Gulley

May 9, 2014
“Coming Together” ©2014 Niki Gulley • SOLD
Textured oil painting on gallery wrap canvas • 40″ x 30″
In this painting I wanted you to feel that child-like wonder of staring up in into the treetops and the heavens above. Choosing calming greens against a lavender-blue peaceful sky and arranging the two main aspens so that they meet in the middle, suggests a feeling of togetherness. While organizing the outlying trees in a circular pattern and using thick, curving, bold orange brushstrokes, creates a joyful, playful mood.

For more information on my palette knife birch and aspen tree oil paintings, please e-mail Niki Gulley.

To see more of my palette knife contemporary landscape paintings, visit nikigulley.com.

Or if you are in the Dallas area this weekend, please stop by my booth at the Allen Arts Festival.

Allen Arts Festival
May 9 – 4pm – 8pm
May 10 – 10am – 8pm
May 11 – Noon – 7pm
Watters Creek • 970 Garden Park Dr., Allen, TX
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New Textured Aspen Tree Oil Painting by Niki Gulley

May 3, 2013
“Coming Together” ©2013 Niki Gulley
textured oil painting on gallery wrap canvas • 40″ x 30″
In this painting I wanted you to feel that child-like wonder of staring up in into the treetops and the heavens above. Choosing calming greens against a lavender-blue peaceful sky and arranging the two main aspens so that they meet in the middle, suggests a feeling of togetherness. While organizing the outlying trees in a circular pattern and using thick, curving, bold orange brushstrokes, creates a joyful, playful mood.
If you’re in the Dallas area this weekend and would like to see more of my contemporary landscape paintings and textured palette knife aspen / birch tree paintings, please stop by and see my work at Richardson’s Cottonwood Art Festival.
Cottonwood Art Festival
May 5 • 10am – 8pm
May 6 • 10am – 6pm
Richardson, TX • Cottonwood Park • on Beltline Rd. just east of Coit
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New Aspen Tree Painting by Niki Gulley – Just Sold

April 24, 2013
“Destination Unknown” ©2013 Niki Gulley
SOLD • 36″ x 48” textured oil painting on wrap around canvas
Just Sold to Prime Lending in North Dallas. On one of our plein air painting trips we led, we happened upon this gorgeous aspen grove. Enjoying the melodic tinkling of the aspen leaves rustling in the breeze, the trickling sounds of the babbling brook at our backs, and the beauty of fall ablaze with color, I felt invigorated as I began painting. The setting was so peaceful and rejuvenating that I wanted to communicate that joyful feeling of discovery in this piece. Filling the canvas with energetic staccato strokes and bold colors, in addition to gently arching the tree trunks towards the sky add to that uplifting feeling. And then just a sliver of the trail cutting through the forest, suggests the excitement of the journey that is to come.
For more information on my textured palette knife birch and aspen tree oil paintings, please e-mail Niki Gulley.
Or if you’re in the Dallas / Fort Worth area this weekend and would like to see more of my contemporary landscape paintings, please stop by my booth, #J-5, at Southlake’s Art in the Square. 
 Art in the Square
 Fri. Apr. 26 • 4pm – 9pm 
 Sat. Apr. 27 • 10am – 9pm 
 Sun. Apr. 28 • 11am – 5pm 
Southlake, TX • Southlake Town Square • 234 State St. 
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“Blue Wishes III” New bluebonnet oil painting by Niki Gulley

March 15, 2013
“Blue Wishes III” ©2013 Niki Gulley
7″ x 5″ textured oil painting
I painted these Texas bluebonnets and with extremely thick oil paint and palette knives to achieve depth and texture. The resulting image comes to life and is loaded with color and energy. In this wildflower series, I’ve framed the paintings in 5″ gold plein air frames and they look great hung alone or in a grouping!

 

To see more of Niki Gulley’s textured landscape paintings please check out NikiGulley.com,Or, stop by her booth at Art@the Domain, March 23rd or 24th in Austin, Tx.

See artatthedomain.com for details.

E-mail Niki Gulley for more information on her Texas bluebonnet and wildflower paintings.

 

Santa Fe ART TREK – one week away!

August 6, 2012
“Echo Park,” Santa Fe, NM ©2012 Niki Gulley
9″ x 12″ oil on board

 

Santa Fe is the muse of many famous artists and photographers, and that could be you, too! Join us for our Plein-Air Painting and Photography Workshop this August in Santa Fe, New Mexico.We will transport you to different picturesque locations, where you will be painting and (or) photographing scenes that inspired Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams. Santa Fe offers breathtaking vistas; sunny, dry weather, world class restaurants, galleries and shopping ensconced in a charming, 400 year old Spanish Colonial city that welcomes the new and exciting and never grows old. This is a not to be missed workshop in “The Land of Enchantment.”

Santa Fe Art Trek

Plein Air Painting and/or photography workshop taught by Scott Williams and Niki Gulley

Santa Fe, New Mexico

August 12 -18, 2012

See nikigulley.com/art-classes for more details

or e-mail Niki Gulley with any questions and to register.

Above: Students painting at Echo Park last year.

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To see more of Niki Gulley’s contemporary landscape paintings, visit NikiGulley.com.

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Sold at American Fine Art – Niki Gulley sunflower & poppy series

April 30, 2012
“Spring’s Surprises” series ©2012 Niki Gulley
SOLD • Four 12″ x 12″ textured oil paintings on wrap around canvas

Just sold at my opening at American Fine Art this weekend, I created this series of sunflowers and poppies with palette knife and extremely thick oil paint, so that the resulting images are full of color, texture, energy and movement.
To see more of my textured sunflower and poppy paintings, visit American Fine Art Gallery in Dallas, americanfineart.com/events_sep_nov.html.
Or, if you’re in the Dallas this weekend, please stop by my booth at Richardson’s Cottonwood Art Festival where I will be exhibiting.

Cottonwood Art Festival
May 5 • 10am – 8pm
May 6 • 10am – 6pm


Richardson, TX • 


Cottonwood Park • 

on Beltline Rd. just east of Coit

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White Rock Sunset

November 5, 2009

White Rock Sunset ©2009 Niki Gulley
5″ x 7″ oil painting

I had so much fun painting White Rock Lake and the Dallas skyline large the other day, that I had to create another miniature version from a similar vantage point using vivid sunset colors.

Email me for more information or visit the White Rock Art Festival at 9720 Waterview Rd. in Dallas this weekend to see more.