{"id":194,"date":"2009-12-31T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johnokeefe.net\/blog\/?p=194"},"modified":"2023-02-04T20:03:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T20:03:56","slug":"2009-danielle-okeefe-year-of-watercolor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnokeefe.net\/blog\/2009\/12\/31\/2009-danielle-okeefe-year-of-watercolor\/","title":{"rendered":"Danielle O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s Year of Watercolor (2009)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Danielle O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s Year of Watercolor represented a giant leap forward in her artistic skills, compared with artworks she had produced in her younger years. Motivated by her positive experience with the 2008 Art Exhibit and Fundraising Event for National EB Awareness Week, Danielle started creating more art in 2009. This was the year she learned how to work with watercolor paints. As you look at her 2009 watercolor paintings you can literally see her progress with the medium from month to month. Her favorite subject was portraits and she used photographs of close family members and some of her good friends as her baseline reference material. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Danielle O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s 2009 Watercolors and other Artworks<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnokeefe.net\/images\/jok\/blog\/journal\/danielle-okeefe\/danielle-okeefe-2009-joshua-portrait.jpg\" alt=\"Little Boy Joshy, Watercolor on Paper, Danielle O'Keefe, June,\u00a02009\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong><em>&#8220;Little Boy Joshy&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><br>Watercolor on Paper,<br>Danielle O&#8217;Keefe,<br>June,&nbsp;2009&nbsp;(13 years old)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnokeefe.net\/images\/jok\/blog\/journal\/danielle-okeefe\/danielle-okeefe-2009-nora-portrait.jpg\" alt=\"Nora, Watercolor on Paper, Danielle O'Keefe, July,\u00a02009\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong><em>&#8220;Nora&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><br>Watercolor on Paper,<br>Danielle O&#8217;Keefe,<br>July,&nbsp;2009&nbsp;(13 years old)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnokeefe.net\/images\/jok\/blog\/journal\/danielle-okeefe\/danielle-okeefe-2009-dina-portrait.jpg\" alt=\"The Eyes of Dina, Watercolor on Paper, Danielle O'Keefe, August,\u00a02009\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong><em>&#8220;The Eyes of Dina&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><br>Watercolor on Paper,<br>Danielle O&#8217;Keefe,<br>August,&nbsp;2009&nbsp;(13 years old)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnokeefe.net\/images\/jok\/blog\/journal\/danielle-okeefe\/danielle-okeefe-2009-still-life-1.jpg\" alt=\"Pinwheel Flowers, Watercolor on Paper, Danielle O'Keefe, August,\u00a02009\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong><em>&#8220;Pinwheel Flowers&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><br>Watercolor on Paper,<br>Danielle O&#8217;Keefe,<br>August,&nbsp;2009&nbsp;(13 years old)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnokeefe.net\/images\/jok\/blog\/journal\/danielle-okeefe\/danielle-okeefe-2009-finger-paint-1.jpg\" alt=\"Guess Who!, Finger Paint on Canvas, Danielle O'Keefe, August,\u00a02009\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong><em>&#8220;Guess Who!&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><br>Finger Paint on Canvas<br>Danielle O&#8217;Keefe,<br>August,&nbsp;2009&nbsp;(13 years old)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnokeefe.net\/images\/jok\/blog\/journal\/danielle-okeefe\/danielle-okeefe-2009-misc-portrait-2.jpg\" alt=\"Lady Blue, Watercolor on Paper, Danielle O'Keefe, September,\u00a02009\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong><em>&#8220;Lady Blue&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><br>Watercolor on Paper,<br>Danielle O&#8217;Keefe,<br>September,&nbsp;2009&nbsp;(13 years old)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnokeefe.net\/images\/jok\/blog\/journal\/danielle-okeefe\/danielle-okeefe-2009-misc-portrait-1.jpg\" alt=\"Green Eyes, Watercolor on Paper, Danielle O'Keefe, September,\u00a02009\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong><em>&#8220;Green Eyes&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><br>Watercolor on Paper,<br>Danielle O&#8217;Keefe,<br>September,&nbsp;2009&nbsp;(13 years old)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Danielle&#8217;s watercolor titled <em>&#8220;Pinwheel Flowers<\/em>&#8221; was one of her first true original compositions. Thus, still life compositions and abstract compositions were among her themes. After having worked in watercolors for most of the year, with some experimental use of graphite outlining in her watercolor paintings, an interest was expressed in developing skills with graphite and ink by themselves, along with a desire to create additional works using other mixed media. By the end of the year Danielle had a significant number of artworks that she produced and her family called this period of her artistic development, &#8220;Danielle O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s Year of Watercolor&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danielle O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s Year of Watercolor represented a giant leap forward in her artistic skills, compared with artworks she had produced in her younger years. Motivated by her positive experience with the 2008 Art Exhibit and Fundraising Event for National EB &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnokeefe.net\/blog\/2009\/12\/31\/2009-danielle-okeefe-year-of-watercolor\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[34,58,59],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Danielle O&#039;Keefe&#039;s Year of Watercolor (2009)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Danielle O&#039;Keefe&#039;s Year of Watercolor represented a huge leap in her skills compared with artwork from earlier years.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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My first love is the guitar, and I ran a small recording studio out of my home for a time while also playing guitar in a few bands. The computer soon became another outlet for creating art. With my computer skills and 3D modeling experience, I began to develop a sophisticated DC-9-41 add-on cockpit package for Microsoft Flight Simulator. The project focused on the Scandinavian Airline Service (SAS) DC-9 airplane OY-KGR. There was extensive programming and many computer-generated renderings and image files assembled in real-time when the game was running, giving the person playing the experience of sitting in a real DC-9 cockpit. A RENEWED LOVE OF ART In 2007 my wife, Jennifer, rekindled my zeal for drawing and painting. Her encouragement and support motivated me to create O'Keefe Arts and take up oil painting as a professional artist. Jennifer also enjoys creating art, and we are working together to promote the business and my paintings because of our shared love of art. 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However, my most beloved art teacher was my Aunt Ann Fucich, who instilled in me a love of art when I was a small child. John O'Keefe posing with a drawing outside of the Museum of Natural History in Manhattan, New York, when he was seven years old Outside the Museum of Natural History (NYC) at 7 Years Old. (My Aunt Ann Fucich took pictures) My love for art led me to seek a career in mechanical drafting. As new technologies emerged, I advanced to more sophisticated 3D CAD modeling systems, new product development, and, eventually, project management. Throughout the years, I completed many university courses and job-specific training to advance my mechanical design\/engineering career. Even though my work was very technical, an artistic element was involved in designing new products and the associated documentation processes. My love for creating art did not stop at drawing and painting. As a teenager, I started pursuing musical skills. My first love is the guitar, and I ran a small recording studio out of my home for a time while also playing guitar in a few bands. The computer soon became another outlet for creating art. With my computer skills and 3D modeling experience, I began to develop a sophisticated DC-9-41 add-on cockpit package for Microsoft Flight Simulator. The project focused on the Scandinavian Airline Service (SAS) DC-9 airplane OY-KGR. There was extensive programming and many computer-generated renderings and image files assembled in real-time when the game was running, giving the person playing the experience of sitting in a real DC-9 cockpit. A RENEWED LOVE OF ART In 2007 my wife, Jennifer, rekindled my zeal for drawing and painting. Her encouragement and support motivated me to create O'Keefe Arts and take up oil painting as a professional artist. Jennifer also enjoys creating art, and we are working together to promote the business and my paintings because of our shared love of art. I sell original works, accept commission work to create custom landscape paintings, and offer a variety of high-quality pigment prints, i.e., Giclee, reproductions of my artwork. (Websites: www.okeefe-arts.com and www.johnokeefe.net) John and Jennifer O'Keefe outside of the Museum of Natural History in Manhattan, New York, when he was thirty-seven years old Outside the Museum of Natural History (NYC) at 37 Years Old. My paintings have been well received in the art community, allowing my works to be displayed in prestigious exhibitions and art shows. In my home state of Connecticut, the Lyme Art Gallery, Mystic Arts Center, Cate Charles Gallery, and the Mill House Gallery have exhibited my artwork. My paintings have won awards, and I have been a featured artist in a group exhibition at the Lyme Art Association's \"17th Annual Associate Artists Exhibit\". In April of 2009, I was elected onto the board of directors of the Cheshire Art League in Cheshire, Connecticut, and I created and managed the league's website until the fall of 2011. Organizations that I belong to are Oil Painters of America, Lyme Art Association, The Salmagundi Club of New York City, Mystic Arts Association, Cheshire Art League (until 2011), and Landscape Artists International. In 2012, Jennifer and I created Painting Frames Plus, where people can purchase high-quality reproduction painting frames. 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