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Showing posts with label Color. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Color. Show all posts
Monday, August 25, 2014
Artist Isabelle Gautier E-portfolio
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Please visit my website www.IsabelleGautierOnline.com for more painting to see.
Please visit my website www.IsabelleGautierOnline.com for more painting to see.
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Jimmy Longacre_subjective realist landscape paintings_EVENING SYMPHONY
This isn't plein air. Just plain fun. I'm getting ready for a one man show at the Art Center of Corpus Christi, that opens June 5th. This is one of the paintings for the show.
I invent the composition for this type of painting from a number of my photographs for detail. The color is developed from a pre-selected harmony where I choose only several tubes of paint, one of which is the dominant color, one is its complement, and one or two more are used as discord notes that spice things up. Here, I used Cadmium Yellow Medium as the dominant, Ultramarine Blue as the complement, with Cerulean and Magenta as the discords. The game is that every color in the painting must be achieved from these four, plus black and white. Great exercise for learning color, and loads of fun.
EVENING SYMPHONY
©Jimmy Longacre 2014
16X20 oil on canvas panel
Jimmy Longacre
subjective realist landscape paintings
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Monday, March 24, 2014
Jimmy Longacre_subjective realist landscape paintings_SHADY RAVINE
Standing before this scene, I knew I was faced with trying to make sense out of what was a complex tangle of trunks, limbs, branches, twigs and leaves. I was attracted by the strong diagonal and the rhythm of the trees. My first step was to design this in a very small, two value 'notan' sketch. That done, I arranged it into three values and emphasized the large tree trunk. The actual coloration was very much all over green. I imposed a color plan contrasting yellow green and magenta, with accent colors of cobalt blue and Alizarin. In all stages, it helps for me to remind myself: Dominance, Contrast, Repetition, Gradation. A coherent value design arranged with a view to these for design principles will usually yield something fun to play with.
SHADY RAVINE
©Jimmy Longacre 2014
9x12 oil on canvas panel
Jimmy Longacre
subjective realist landscape paintings
GALLERY LINKS
Jimmy Longacre_subjective realist landscape paintings_SHADY RAVINE
Standing before this scene, I knew I was faced with trying to make sense out of what was a complex tangle of trunks, limbs, branches, twigs and leaves. I was attracted by the strong diagonal and the rhythm of the trees. My first step was to design this in a very small, two value 'notan' sketch. That done, I arranged it into three values and emphasized the large tree trunk. The actual coloration was very much all over green. I imposed a color plan contrasting yellow green and magenta, with accent colors of cobalt blue and Alizarin. In all stages, it helps for me to remind myself: Dominance, Contrast, Repetition, Gradation. A coherent value design arranged with a view to these for design principles will usually yield something fun to play with.
SHADY RAVINE
©Jimmy Longacre 2014
9x12 oil on canvas panel
Jimmy Longacre
subjective realist landscape paintings
GALLERY LINKS
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Jimmy Longacre_subjective realist landscape paintings_WORKSHOP_Putting Spontaneity and Improvisation Into Your Painting
I want to mention my upcoming, ONE-DAY PAINTING WORKSHOP in Corpus Christi on Saturday May 31st. We're going to focus on SPONTANEITY AND IMPROVISATION_Putting More Fun In Your Painting!
For more information, visit http://www.artcentercc.org/Nothing enhances spontaneity and improvisation like careful planning! Contradictory as that may sound, having a clear idea of where you want a painting to go, and how you will get there is the key to you having more fun, and learning to paint better. This workshop will cover essential information and skills necessary for your success in plein air and studio painting. It is not intended to teach a painting “method”, but to provide the information you need to “play” and grow as a painter in a directed and meaningful manner.
• You will learn the working principle and huge benefits of using NOTAN sketches to prepare your painting plan. You will learn how NOTAN can pave the way to a more confident understanding key design and composition principles.
• After presenting the basic subject matter, which includes the concept and logic of Notan and its relationship to composition, and color, I will demonstrate and answer questions.
• There will, then, be time for you to paint and receive one-on-one instruction.
I work in oils, but the information is fundamental to all painting media and approaches. Painting skill is mainly increased by painting. We tend to do more of what is fun for us, and that is the objective of this workshop. You having more fun!
The introductory workshop is intended for beginning to intermediate level painters, and is designed for working indoors, from photo reference, so that we can more effectively focus on the concepts and skills. Those interested in making progress in plein air painting skills will find the information we cover to be invaluable.
For more information, visit my blog http://jimmylongacre.blogspot.com/
or http://www.artcentercc.org/
DESERT RIVER
©Jimmy Longacre 2014
6x8 oil on canvas panel
Jimmy Longacre
subjective realist landscape paintings
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Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Jimmy Longacre_subjective realist landscape paintings_ROSEBUD COVE
If painting were easy, everyone would paint well. But painting frequently leads to a crisis of despair. How we get past those crises, determines our growth. A painter's job involves distilling an essence of the subject as we hope to portray it. It requires a conscious editing, and arrangement of all that is before us. One thing must dominate, while everything else must play a supporting roll. You can't do everything that appears beautiful, …the roots, the rocks, the reflections, the foliage, etc. Having identified the one thing, we're then in a position to design a painting according to purpose, and this is totally different than the laborious effort to transcribe what you see. The fun comes from your own invention as you respond to how you can radically simplify everything in order to bring harmony to emphasizing the one thing that has moved you to paint.
ROSEBUD COVE
©Jimmy Longacre 2014
11x14 oil on canvas panel
Jimmy Longacre
subjective impressionist landscape paintings
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Saturday, July 20, 2013
Day 33 and 34, Project 125 Painting the Desert Colors | BECKY JOY
© 3013 Becky Joy Day 33, Sunset Palo Verde oil 6 inches x 6 inches
Well, I am having a hard time getting to all the posting as I said. Consistent posting was also a goal of mine in this project. I figured it would be a long enough project to get some habits going here. Maybe. This is another painting playing with color. I'm also trying to simplify the brush strokes, which is much easier to do with small paintings than large.
© 2013 Becky Joy Day 34, Reflections oil 6 inches x 6 inches
This is actually from an old painting that I did about 3 years ago. I no longer have the painting, but I do have a photograph. The colors aren't a lot different, but I have loosened up a lot. I would say that my strokes are much more confident. It is hard to get those loose strong brushstrokes without putting some miles behind the brush and feel confident in what you're doing. I remember hearing "paint with confidence". Easy said, when there is so little that you know.
It has been very hot here in Phoenix now, Of course, it's summer. Surprise! We had a good monsoon storm last night, wine, rain, lightening, the works. It's exciting with the weather change like that. I didn't even have to water the lawn today. Yay!
I just got my flyer for the Tuscany workshop. If you sign up before Sept 1, 2013, you will save a substantial amount on the trip. If you are interested in more details, email me at beckyjoy@beckyjoy.com. My workshops are either full or very close to being filled, so make sure to sign up if you are thinking about signing up. workshops
Talk to you all tomorrow.
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Suspicious 7x5 Acrylic Urban Landscape by Colorado John K. Harrell
$125.00 + $10.00 S/H
I continue to explore this impressionist tangent of abstracted shape and line.
John K. Harrell Fine Art
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