PIGMENT RELICS PAINTINGS

Cindy creates these playful paintings hoping to make viewers smile!

Modern office with brick wall, large window, wooden floors, desk with open book, chair, plants, and wall art

PERSONALITIES IN COLOR

Cindy began this series of paintings by simply wanting to try something completely different! Her focus is always on color, and she decided to have some fun experimenting with colorful dried paint that came from the bottoms of her mixing cups. Cindy had been saving these bits of color for years. Playing with the irregularly shaped ‘Pigment Relics’, and creating spontaneous arrangements, quickly became a regular part of Cindy’s artistic work.

Cindy now intentionally repurposes her dried paint. She places the Pigment Relics in carefully considered grids - giving each little unique bit of color a perfect harmonically balanced resting spot. Cindy feels that each Pigment Relic has it’s own personality. Viewers pick up on this, comment on, and compare, the different personalities of the Pigment Relics in these fresh, colorful paintings.

Pigment Relics Paintings are flush mounted or finished with a 3/4 x 1” black wooden frame.

Abstract painter Cindy Chenard showing her process for using dried paint to create colorful grid paintings.
a selection of harmonically orange and peach colored dried paint arranged into a grid of carefully arranged colors.
A black frame containing 70 small round and square paint blobs arranged in 8 rows, displaying a gradient of colors from gray, orange, yellow, red, blue, to green.

THE LONG, LONG WAIT X, Repurposed Paint on Wood Panel (framed), 24 x 48 x 3 inches, $3000/SOLD, cat.#m-262

A black palette with multiple wells filled with colorful dried paint in shades of yellow, blue, purple, orange, and gray.

PERSONALITIES IN COLOR III, Repurposed Paint on Wood Panel (framed), 36 x 18 x 3 inches, $900/SOLD, cat.#284

A grid of watercolor paints in various colors, arranged from yellow and orange to blue and green on a black background.

BEYOND COLOR I, Repurposed Paint on Wood Panel (framed), 30 x 40 x 3 inches, $3400/SOLD cat.#m-294 - “BEYOND COLOR IV” 30 x 40 x 3 - similar in design is AVAILABLE/ $3400, cat#313

A palette of watercolor paints with a variety of colors arranged in circles and squares.

BEYOND COLOR III, Repurposed Paint on Wood Panel (framed), 30 x 40 x 2 inches, $3000/SOLD, cat.#m-312

Abstract two panel artwork with colorful blue, orange and yellow dried paint shapes arranged in vertical grids against a black wood background and in a black frame.

COLOR FLOW - DIPTYCH #2, Repurposed Paint on Wood Panels (framed), 48 x 24 x 2 inches each, $4600, cat.#m-3223

Colorful blue, pink, purple and white dried paint shapes arranged in a diagonal grid on a white wood backround, with a white frame - original abstract artwork by Cindy Chenard.

BEYOND COLOR II, Repurposed Paint on Wood Panel (framed), 26 x 42 x 2 inches, $2800/SOLD, cat.#m-298

A collection of paint pots arranged in rows and columns on a black tray, mostly containing shades of blue and white, with a few yellow and gray pots.

PERSONALITIES IN COLOR I, Repurposed Paint on Wood Panel (framed), 24 x 48 x 3 inches, $3000/SOLD, cat.#m-286

A large black palette with multiple wells filled with various shades of blue, gray, black, white, and a single orange paint. The palette is set on a dark surface and shows some mixed and partially used paint.

PERSONALITIES IN COLOR II, Repurposed Paint on Wood Panel (framed), 24 x 48 x 3 inches, $3000/SOLD, cat.#m-287

Abstract two panel artwork with colorful purple, blue, orange, pink and yellow dried paint shapes arranged in vertical grids against a white wood background and in a white frame

BEYOND COLOR - DIPTYCH #1, Repurposed Paint on Wood Panels (framed), 36 x 18 x 2 inches each, $1800, cat.#m-3214

A grid of small round and square paint containers filled with various shades of gray, blue, green, yellow, orange, and white paint, arranged on a black background.

THE LONG, LONG WAIT XIV, Repurposed Paint on Wood Panel (framed), 30 x 40 x 3 inches, $3,000 cat.#m-271

To purchase an original Pigment Relics painting please CONTACT CINDY.

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