Thursday, February 27, 2014

artforadults: robert mcginnis [feedly]




artforadults: robert mcginnis
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Monday, February 24, 2014

Ten details from Pieter Bruegel the Elder's The Peasant Wedding (1567) [feedly]




Ten details from Pieter Bruegel the Elder's The Peasant Wedding (1567)
// Paying Debt to Nature with a Death as Obscure



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John Frederick Kensett [feedly]




John Frederick Kensett
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John Frederick Kensett
Like many, if not most, classifications of groups of artists, the "Hudson River School" was not a term invented by the artists themselves, but assigned by gallery owners and art historians to classify a number of artists with similar inclinations, most of whom worked in New York State in the mid-19th century.

Another assignment of a category by art historians on a sub-set of those painters is luminism, referring to painters who eventually began to dissolve the detailed representation of landscape into soft edged evocations of light and color.

Foremost among these was John Frederick Kensett, an American painter who studied in Europe, and whose initial admiration for the detailed naturalism of the 17th Dutch landscape masters, and the refined devotion to nature exemplified by Constable, gradually evolved into a Turneresque dissolution of detail-filled compositions into serene arrangements of land, sea and sky, in which light predominates.

Though dramatically different in painting style, the painters classed as luminists had in common with the later French Impressionists a desire to represent the effects of light and atmosphere. Over time, Kensett's compositions became simplified, stripped of the inessential, and reduced to a poetic still point of light and color.

I very much like both phases of Kensett's career: the wonderfully textural naturalism more commonly associated with the second generation Hudson River painters, and the lyrical whispers of his later canvasses.



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Major Build-Up When Pastel Painting [feedly]




Major Build-Up When Pastel Painting
// Artist Daily

Cirque Tents by Terri Ford, pastel painting.
Cirque Tents by Terri Ford, pastel painting.
"That dog won't hunt." It's what I thought to myself when I started to look into how to get layers of pastel to build up. It just didn't seem possible, or easily possible. But I did my research, and that dog will hunt! Here are a few tips on how to get the layered effects you want when pastel painting.

Major build-up. To get a vibrant glowing surface when painting pastel works, start by putting down a layer of color with the side of a soft stick of pastel. Then spray fixative over the area. Then apply another layer of color, and so on. You can lay down as many layers as you want, fixing in between each one. You can also allow the fixative to dry or experiment with your surface while it is wet.

Feather light. With pastels, it is easy to inadvertently blend or rub in areas, whether by resting your hand on the surface or as a result of too much blending and overlaying of color in a given passage. To brighten up an area again with visual interest, take a hard pastel or pencil and make vertical strokes over the area. It will allow the surface beneath to show through, but will no longer be a flat passage of color as it is built up with the addition of these feathered strokes.

Architectural Remnants by Charles Timken, pastel painting.
Architectural Remnants
by Charles Timken, pastel painting.
Show us your teeth. The paper that you work with in any pastel painting or drawing should have a good deal of texture if you want it to hold successive layers of pigment. And you'll want to use the side of soft pastels so that large swaths of area are covered in color that can be layered upon with additional colors.

If you really want to explore all the layering possibilities that pastel painting has to offer, landscape painting with pastels is the way to go. There's nothing more dynamic than nature, and using pastel to capture it can be an exciting challenge. Liz Haywood-Sullivan just the artist to lead us through the process. Her DVD, Landscape Painting in Pastel, is a wonderfully in-depth resource that gives us a solid foundation for understanding this beautiful medium and how to apply it to the landscape. Enjoy!

P.S. Do you have any strategies on layering pastels? Please share and leave a comment!

 



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Sunday, February 23, 2014

pixography: Hiroki Kakinuma [feedly]




pixography: Hiroki Kakinuma
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pixography:

Hiroki Kakinuma



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N. C. WYETH ~ Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne ~ 1927 Edition [feedly]




N. C. WYETH ~ Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne ~ 1927 Edition
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Saturday, February 22, 2014

My latest articles for Answers.com [feedly]




My latest articles for Answers.com
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Plein air painting, introduciton to gouache, sight-size method, Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night, history of landscape painting
I have continued to write articles on painting for Answers.com, though this will be the last month in which I will do so.

My latest articles are:

An Introduction to Plein Air Painting

An Introduction to Gouache: The surprising Versatility of Opaque Watercolor

Make Painting Easier by Using the Sight-size Method

Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night

Beautiful Highlights from the History of Landscape Painting

The latter two articles are in the slide-show format.

For more, see the general category: www.painting.answers.com.

There is and updated list of my articles on painting for Answers.com here on Lines and Colors at http://linesandcolors.com/answers



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Thursday, February 20, 2014

Eye Candy for Today: Church’s icebergs [feedly]




Eye Candy for Today: Church's icebergs
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The Icebergs, Frederic Edwin Church
The Icebergs, Frederic Edwin Church

On Wikimedia Commons, larger here. Original is in the Dallas Museum of Art. There is an article about the painting on the Wall Street Journal. You can get a sense of the scale of the painting in this photo from Steve Doherty's blog.

Just in case you haven't seen enough ice yet.



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Monday, February 17, 2014

Marcelo Bordese [feedly]




Marcelo Bordese
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