Leah Gardner

painter https://linktr.ee/LeahGardnerArt

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Hi, I’m Leah. I am a Chicago-based oil painter and I sell prints and original paintings on my website. Enjoy :)

Leah Gardner Art

Original paintings and fine art prints by Leah Gardner

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I love Blue hour on I-65! I drive that highway constantly for work and love paintings of mundane road trips, there is beauty in everything if you seek it. Do you mind if I ask - what general part of I-65 was it based on?

Right between Wolcott and Remington, Indiana (had to check the geotag on the reference photo lol)! Thank you :)

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blue hour on I-65

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Definitely will be painting more grapes. I was intimidated for years but ended up really enjoying it!

P.S. I just listed prints of the aperitif painting

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Is there going to be a print of Apéritif? Am I just too tired and not seeing it on your site? Would love to get one:)

Yes!! It’ll be available soon!

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apéritifs

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Hi, I just found your work and I LOVE it! Something I’m always curious about that has kept me from delving too far into oil painting as a hobby: how do you manage the solvents and pigments safely when it’s in your house? How do you deal with/dispose of rags and stuff? Like is there a convenient way to set this up when you have 1 table for everything in your apartment or do you kind of need a separate room/studio space?

I do almost all my painting on one desk because I tend to work pretty small, so that part is totally doable as long as you aren’t keeping a whole inventory of supplies that you need a closet for (which I do since it’s my job, but not super necessary if you’re more of a hobbyist I wouldn’t think). As far as disposing of stuff I can’t speak on that because I don’t have the metal trashcan that you’re supposed to use, and probably don’t do a great job of throwing stuff out in the safest way. I will say that I use the same jar of solvent for like a year straight because all the sediment settles at the bottom, so I’m really not disposing of solvent like… basically ever, I just swap it into a new silicoil jar when the pile of sediment exceeds the height of the metal coil thing 😂

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What reds and oranges do you use the most? Your paintings are so bright!

Permanent rose, cadmium red light, and cadmium yellow bright! Sometimes hansa yellow deep as well

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silver origami crane ✨ I had about 100 of these hanging from my bedroom ceiling when I was a kid. Second painting postpartum—Fern turned 10 weeks old on Sunday!

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Work in progress. I can squeeze in a couple hours of painting on the weekends right now if I get lucky. Itching to get back to this one tomorrow maybe!

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painted this 4 years ago today, 2 years into my painting practice

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first painting as a mom of a 7 week old! 🍪🥛

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best consumed by a crackling fire ☃️

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Hi!! I hope this is okay to ask here - is the black friday sale still on today? And does one need to add any specific code or anything to get the 2nd print half price discount? Hope you're having a good weekend!

The sale actually got extended until the end of the day tomorrow bc I had some technical difficulties with Shopify today! No need for a code or anything, the discounts are automatic :)

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Chicago this weekend ☃️🥶

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my Black Friday deals:

20% off originals

Prints are buy one, get one half off

7 discontinued prints are back for the weekend

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