Daydreaming
Canoeing with Shirley and Carol at Adirondack workshop. Life can’t all be fun and games. I set out this morning to write something deep and serious, but events overtook me. (It’s a temporarily rocky road I’m on.) Sue and Brad painting in my front garden during roses-and-peony season. What I really want is to think …
Twisted
Among the missing: Vincent van Gogh’s Vincent on his way to work / The painter on his way to Tarascon, Property of Kulturhistorisches Museum in Magdeburg, Germany (formerly the Kaiser-Friedrich Museum). Missing from the Stassfurt salt mines art repository near Magdeburg, Germany, on April 12, 1945. When I was doing art festivals, I never worked …
Painter of the Running Stream
At Quimperle, 1901, Fritz Thaulow. Where I could plan around expected surgery, an unexpected hospitalization left me unprepared, and I haven’t had anything for you the last few days. Sorry about that. I’d say you have to get up pretty early in the morning to find a painter I’m not familiar with. It figures, then, …
How to scale up a small sketch to a large painting
A large canvas transferred from a 9X12 sketch. When working on a very large canvas in a normal-size room, I start with a smaller sketch (either in oil or graphite) and scale it up. There just isn’t enough space to stand back far enough to draw directly on the canvas. I realize many artists are …
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Three painters, three problems
Carol T’s Adirondack Lake, not yet finished. I suggested she put the two of us in her canoe. I discourage my students from working from photos, but last Saturday three of them had compelling reasons to do so. Carol T. can draw and paint with almost perfect fidelity. She is so accurate that her drafting …