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Birth of Modernism by Gary Ruddell, oil/panel, 40 x 40 in. All images courtesy Gallery Henoch, New York City. The best painters understand that they work to create an illusion. The sleight of hand that comes along with realist painting can be especially compelling when it hides in plain sight—when...
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Living Room, Wide Angle and Kitchen 22 x 28, oil on paper. All works by Mitchell Long. No matter the venue, the accepted rule of thumb is that a painting should always be hung just above eye level. As a result, many artists create paintings with this point of view. Louisiana artist Mitchell Long seeks...
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15 Aug 2010
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Filed under: oil, American Artist, Drawing, plein air, oil painting techniques, focal point, perspective, perspective drawing, panoramaic painting, old masters, Van Gogh, photographic effects
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The Battle of San Romano by Paolo Uccello, c. 1435-55, tempera on wood. I'd have to answer with, "I'm not so sure." For me, studying Italian Renaissance and Baroque art meant spending a lot of time talking about how awesome linear perspective was. And I still think it is, to a certain...
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La Danse (I) by Henri Matisse, 1909, oil on canvas,102.4 x 153.9 in. I've always believed that art speaks most profoundly when it actually has something to say. Communicating with a viewer is a powerful opportunity, and The Peace Project engages artists to do that very thing—submit artworks...
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Shaw's Cove by Ray Roberts, 2003, oil, 12 x 16. When I was in college, I read a lot of Romantic poetry, and what still sticks in my mind is all the water imagery those writers used. For them, water was a stand-in for life, transcendence, and the creative impulse. With such inherent possibilities...
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Whiskey Creek (Spring) By Kate Ha rding, 2008, found leather garments, thread, grommets, and steel hooks, 54 x 35. One of the things I love about the artistic process is that we all share the need to put our creative energy into practice, we do it in so many different ways, and yet we usually have a...
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Breakthroughs in our artistic practices often come with a change—of venue, of process, or even from within our own creative mindsets. Workshops offer the opportunity to step outside the studio, and suddenly we can see and evaluate from a completely different vantage point. Margaret Krug is a notable...
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Spring Thunder by Mark Haworth, 2008, oil, 24 x 36. Sometimes it is difficult to put aside real-world stresses and tasks when it comes time to pursue our art. To-do lists, family matters, and social obligations crowd in, making it almost impossible to concentrate. One of the ways I clear my head is to...
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The process of underpainting has such a buttoned-up reputation. If it were cast in a movie, it would be the uptight, by-the-book stickler that no one wants to hangout with. That’s because the process of underpainting is often associated with a belabored, rigid series of steps that delays us from...
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On the Cover: Carmela Bertagna (detail) by John Singer Sargent, ca. 1880, oil, 23 1⁄2 x 19 1⁄2. Collection Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio. The History & Development of Acrylic FEATURES Naked All Night: An Experiment in Drawing Until You Drop by Michael Gormley For 21 years, Pratt...
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Distlefink Girl by Christina Hess , digital. I'm always surprised—and, okay, a little peeved—when my mention of an arts background is often met with a puzzled look followed by the somewhat skeptical question, "What do you do with that?" The truth is there's a lot to do with...
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Sunset Mooring, Nova Scotia , by William H. Hays, 2004, oil, 38 x 28. With summer in full swing, I've been spending as much time as possible outdoors, going to concerts and plays, walking from place to place when I do my errands, and just finding every excuse for an outdoor excursion. Plein air painting...
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Winter's Approach oil, 34 x 26, 2008. All works by Joseph Alleman. Artists are the sharpest of observers, attuned to a person's passing gesture or the play of light and shadow on a building façade—but not everything that catches our eye is a painting waiting to happen. For Utah watercolorist...
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The Allegory of Painting by Johannes Vermeer, 1665-67. Figurative realism and allegory go hand in hand. Allegories—complex narratives built on layers of symbolism—are what allow works by Caravaggio, Titian, Bernini, Dürer, and Vermeer to carry resonance and remain intriguing centuries...
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Looks Like Heaven by John Budicin, 2002, oil, 32 x 40. Collection The California Club, Los Angeles, California. Almost any artist will tell you that there's a certain appeal to working outdoors that can't be found anywhere else. With summer in full swing, many of us have left our studios for...
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27 Jun 2010
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Filed under: oil, American Artist, Watercolor, plein air, en plein air, landscape paintings, How To Paint, Hudson River School, Nancy Colella, focal point, Frank Serrano