Why plein air
If you can paint en plein air, you can paint anything else you can draw. Teddi-Jann Covell, me, and Truth Hawk model appropriate gear for winter painting. Photo courtesy Jennifer Johnson. In some of our coastal harbors, plein air painting approaches performance art. We spend more time answering questions than we do painting. For new …
Monday Morning Art School: stop flailing
An efficient plan for fast outdoor painting in oils. Camden harbor, by Carol L. Douglas Sometimes people ask me how we manage to get so many paintings done during an event. We avoid what my friend Brad Marshall called “flailing around.” That means those times when you seem to lose your way. We’ve all done …
Rejected in favor of dreck
If you can buy something similar at TJ Maxx/Home Goods, it’s not really art. Spring Mountain Lake, Carol L. Douglas Earlier this year, a young artist asked me about a gallery she was approaching. I gave her what advice I could and wished her well. This week she sent me a note telling me they’d …
One messed-up dude
But Egon Schiele certainly could paint a lovely boat. Segelschiffe im wellenbewegtem Wasser (Der Hafen von Triest), 1907, Egon Schiele, private collection I have a hard time loving the work of Egon Schiele. Erotic paintings, emaciated figures, and anguished self-portraits leave me cold. I far prefer the Expressionism of Käthe Kollwitz and Gabriele MĂĽnter. They weren’t happy, …
We’re all emerging artists
It’s not really a question of labels, but of who can work his way through the shifting sands of market change. More work than they bargained for, by Carol L. Douglas Recently I had the opportunity for a nice chin-wag with a friend. I don’t remember what the subject was, but she told me, “I’m …