Category Archives: Weekly Art Lessons 61-70
Quick Decisions and Focused Intentions: Jericho Plein Air Festival (Online art lesson #66)
Last Saturday 75 artists gathered at the Emile Gruppe Gallery in Jericho, Vermont. By 8:00 they had talked, eaten, caffeinated, and scattered into the nearby fields and town. At 3:00 pm they returned to frame fresh finished paintings which were hung that evening for a show that opened the next day.*
Knowing that work must be created, signed, and hung within a few hours will change your game plan. … Read the rest
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On Weddings and Good Paintings (Online art lesson #67)
A close association or union – A WEDDING – is crucial in painting. How do you join disparate elements into a complete vision, a whole?
Landscape painters take sky and fields and make them one with rocks and buildings. Trees join with clouds in a united vision. Elements must be seen as parts of a whole – Separate but united in purpose.… Read the rest
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Insights Into Tisha Wood’s Painting Style (Online art lesson # 68)
I’ve always loved to watch Tisha Wood paint. Her moves (made with a knife) are unpredictable and full of surprises. Her right-brained method of working keeps me alert and delighted.
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Choosing a background color for a painting
Tisha begins her paintings by laying color onto the background with a knife held nearly flat. … Read the rest
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Yankees and Odd Socks (Online art lesson #69)
This post is dedicated to my Mom, Marion Kennedy, who passed at ninety five this summer. Being a good Yankee, she saved everything and taught us to think of uses for things (such as odd socks) that otherwise might get tossed. One of the reasons that lessons have been so infrequent is that we have been going through all of those saved things here in Vermont. … Read the rest
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Painting from Your Computer at Your Office Desk: 7 Tips to making it Easier and More Effective (Online art lesson #70)
Your office desk can double as a mini studio without upsetting the paperwork flow if you follow a few simple precautions.
1. Put your paperwork away first.
2. Work small. For a suggested mini kit watch this video.
3. Protect your computer from possible spills by keeping it elevated so that it is NOT on the same level as your liquid thinners !… Read the rest