tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35502319283801290332024-03-16T00:08:13.532-07:00Rusty Jones, Painter's BlogConversations With NatureRusty Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01043601706280681675noreply@blogger.comBlogger324125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3550231928380129033.post-27398074481194034292016-07-08T14:31:00.001-07:002016-08-11T14:13:01.387-07:00IT ALL STARTS WITH DESIGN<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Way back in graduate school we were taught the importance of designing our drawings in such a way to influence the viewer's eyesight so it traveled through the drawing and picked out the most important elements before moving on to the next drawing or piece of manuscript. At the time I was training to become a medical illustrator and our audience was surgeons who were studying how-to manuals for performing various surgical procedures. Our drawings were step-by-step instructions on how to do everything from an aortic valve replacement to brain surgery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The attention span of our audience was very short but we were taught the reader was much more likely to remember a series of drawings showing a surgical procedure than mountains of text. Little did I know how important that training would become as I pursued my current artistic endeavors. What I learned is simple...it all starts with design. Mother Nature is a really good designer but sometimes she needs a little help when it comes to painting her likeness on a canvas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">To demonstrate what I mean I photographed a recent painting from start to end. By following me through the steps I hope you will come to understand that there is more to copying a landscape to canvas. You must engage the viewer and you do that with design, color and controlling the viewer's gaze.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On a 24" x 30" canvas I begin my design by dividing the canvas into thirds ending up with nine equal squares. My objective is to arrange the elements of the landscape in such a way that the viewer's eye will be in constant motion and to do that I purposely place objects where the horizontal and vertical lines intersect. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">At "A" the base of the rock lands exactly on the crossing lines. The angled line runs from "A" towards "B". At "B" the vertically angled tree takes you up to the intersecting top third line. The shoreline runs from "B" to "C" where the base of the cliff lines up with the right side vertical line and also lines up with the right side of the main boulder back at "A". The next drawing shows how the eye moves around the painting.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Next I lay in a halftone drawing using a reddish wash </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">to give myself a better look at the design before I commit to paint. I decide I need a "visual block" to keep the viewer from sliding off the right side of the canvas so I add a large dark boulder at the bottom right. I will add a dark element to the lower left of the painting to give it some balance. I'm thinking a dark bush of some sort.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Detail of the foreground rocks. This was a blast to paint. Most of it is made up as I go, changing colors and shapes of the rocks to give it an organic feel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I decide it needed something else to draw the viewer away from the rock pile and up the hill to my center of interest. By adding a splash of color on the hill representing the poppies and other wild flowers that grow on the coast I believe the painting is now finished.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">For many years I drove by this building in my rush to get to Fredericksburg, but today is different. I find a shady spot and break out the paint.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I chose this side view because I only have an hour to spare and there's not much room on this busy highway to paint it from across the street, so I'm sticking with a simpler design with plans to paint it from the front when back in the studio.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">First step is to establish the darks and fill in the big shapes with flat color (see above). Next is to establish key relationships by using color, values and edges.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Done for now. There's an abundant amount of signage and I don't do lettering too well en plein air so this is one I'll put away until it drys then come back and add lettering to the signs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is a really cool building with a lot of history. In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson swore in Lawrence O'Brien as Postmaster General on the front porch. These days its a great place to stop in and buy produce, wine and groceries all from Texas growers.</span></div>
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"Golden Pond" 8" x 10" oil/linen<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I've been asked if I sell my studies and for years the answer has been "no". Most studies aren't worth selling anyway because I rarely try to finish a painting on location. I use them mostly to gather important information so if I decide to convert it to a studio version the major decisions about color, design and values have already been made. And quite honestly sometimes a painting is just better left in a small version. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After much mental wrangling back and forth and several conversations with my galleries I have decided to begin offering my plein air paintings for sale through my website. At first they will be offered as a "Painting of the Month" then they will go to another page on my website where they will take up residence until sold or until I decide to pull them from the market completely. These will be small, affordable paintings no larger than 11" x 14" and sold unframed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The painting at the top of this blog is the "Painting of the Month" for April. In a few days I will post a painting for May so be watching for it.</span></div>
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Rusty Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01043601706280681675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3550231928380129033.post-60945659010847392712016-03-18T12:21:00.000-07:002016-03-18T12:34:14.373-07:00UNSEEN DANGERS-STORY BEHIND "NEAR PANTHER CREEK"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">As we approach the plein air season I am reminded of this particular painting done on a crisp morning in Big Bend National Park. I had parked at the roadside pullout and hiked about a hundred yards from the road so I wouldn't be bothered by anyone. I just wanted a quiet morning spent alone with Mother Nature, a blank canvas and my paint.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As I worked through a series of Notan sketches trying to finalize my design I happen to notice a park ranger parked next to my car standing in the bed of her truck with a pair of binoculars scanning the scene I was about to paint. I didn't think anything of it really. Right before my first stroke of paint I glanced over my shoulder and she was gone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thirty minutes later I noticed the ranger was back and she was on top of her truck with her binoculars again. She noticed me looking at her and we exchanged friendly "hello" waves with one another.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For the next hour I was busy painting and not paying attention to much else except I had grown accustomed to hearing the ranger's truck coming up the road, parking next to my car and then down the road she would go. Except now it seemed her trips were becoming shorter and shorter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">With my completed painting stashed away in a RayMar box, I started to scrape dirty paint off my palette when a shadow across my palette startled me. Janet, the park ranger, was in a bit of a panic and before I knew it she was grabbing my stuff and pushing me up the hill towards the parking pullout. Turns out she had been keeping eyes on a mother cougar and her two cubs all morning as they made their way up the canyon directly towards me. She thought they were going to turn and head towards their den, but on this morning they continued up the canyon and I was directly in their path.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Safely out of the way I sat with my new best friend and watched as the cougars sniffed the area I had been standing in ten minutes earlier. I often wonder what would have happened that morning if Janet hadn't been looking out for me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Most of the technical stuff I know about painting I learned from workshops, art videos and Youtube. The rest has come from trial and error and putting a lot of paint down on lots of canvases. My art journey has been greatly helped by the fine folks who make art instruction videos. I watch then regularly and when a new one hits the market by a painter I really like, I snatch it up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So let's get to the point of this blog. An art instruction video does you no good if you watch it a couple of times and put it on a shelf. Its like buying paint and canvas but never doing a painting. This blog shares with you how I watch and use art instruction videos as they are meant to be watched.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">As I thumbed through the collection of DVDs I realized there are several videos I have watched multiple times and, truth be known, when I've struggled with a painting there are a few I reach to for divine inspiration. I thought it would be fun to share my collection and jot down my thoughts on what makes many of them worth having in your collection as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">First my collection, not in any particular order:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Three Landscapes</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">" Scott Christensen by Liliedahl Video</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Painting Large Landscapes" Scott Christensen by Liliedahl Video</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Solitary Profession" Scott Christensen by Tony Pro Productions</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Establishing a Key That Reads" Scott Christensen by Fisher Creative</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Composing" Scott Christensen by Fisher Creative</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Painting Into Direct Sunlight" John Lasater, IV by John Lasater, IV</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Social Media REVEALED" Lori McNee & Eric Rhoads, Streamline Video</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Capturing the Moment in Oils" David Curtis by APV Films</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Painting on Location" Frank Serrano by Reel Memories Video</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"The Woodland Interior Landscape" Roger Dale Brown by R. D. Brown</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Winter Over the San Juans" Matt Smith by Oak Creek Productions</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"The Sonoran Desert" Matt Smith by Oak Creek Productions</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"June" Richard Schmid by Stove Prairie Press</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"November" Richard Schmid by Stove Prairie Press</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Richard Schmid Paints the Landscape" by Stove Prairie Press</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Bold Brushstrokes & Confident Color" Lori Putnam by Liliedahl Video</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Vermont Sugar Shack" Mark Boedges" by Mark Boedges</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"The Oil Landscape" Bob Rohm by Artist Productions</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"European Street Scene" John Michael Carter by Liliedahl Video</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Lilies" Daniel Keys by Liliedahl Video</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Hydrangeas & Oranges" Daniel Keys by Liliedahl Video</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Gesture Portraits" Jeffrey Watts by Liliedahl Video</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Studio Painting Secrets" Brian Blood by Liliedahl Video</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Overview" Kathryn Stats by Liliedahl Video</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Reflections" Gabor Svagrik by TAA productions</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"The Power of Green" Gabor Svagrik by TAA Productions</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Painting the American Landscape" Matt Smith, Jean LaGassick and Ken</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Backhaus </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">by PBS Television</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Painting the American Landsacape" Charles Sovek, Ron Rencher & Frank LaLumia by PBS Television</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Seaside" Kathryn Stats by Liliedahl Video</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"From Plein Air to Studio" Keith Bond by Keith Bond</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"White Pine" Richard Schmid by Stone Prairie Press</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Painting the Effects of Light" Jason Sacran by Jason Sacran</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Light in the Landscape" David Curtis by APV Films</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Energy and Movement" Randall Sexton by Streamline Video</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>FIRST PURCHASE: </b>"Painting Large Landscapes" by Scott Christensen. I am primarily a plein air painter so painting larger than 9" x 12" is a real challenge. I have taken two workshops with Scott and he would do large landscapes from small field studies. Watching him complete a 30" x 40" painting in a couple of hours blew my mind. This video has been instrumental in helping me get out of my comfort zone and tackle large paintings with confidence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>MOST RECENT PURCHASE:</b> "The Woodland Interior Landscape" Roger Dale Brown by Roger Dale Brown.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Watching this one for the third time now. Roger's color sense is completely foreign to me but it is what draws me to his work. Watching him construct this complex subject into a well designed trip into the forest is worth the time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>PURCHASED IN LAST SIX MONTHS: </b>"Energy and Movement" by Randall Sexton, "The Woodland Interior Landscape" by Roger Dale Brown, "Studio Painting Secrets" by Brian Blood, "Painting Into Direct Sunlight" by John Lasater, IV, "Vermont Sugar Shack" by Mark Boedges, "Painting the Effects of Light" by Jason Sacran and "Social Media Revealed" by Lori McNee and Eric Rhoads</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>MOST WATCHED:</b> Probably a tie between "The Sonoran Desert" by Matt Smith, "Three Landscapes" by Scott Christensen and "Richard Schimd Paints the Landscape" by Richard Schmid. My approach to plein air work and palette is very similar to the way Matt Smith works so his videos really strike a cord with me. I can only imagine what its like to paint like Richard Schmid so I don't even try and Scott is a modern master I can watch paint every day. In my opinion these three videos should be in everybody's library.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>MOST IMPORTANT: </b>"Social Media Revealed" by Lori McNee and Eric Rhoads. Chock full of vital information for anyone utilizing social media either as a platform to connect and share your paintings to the more complex concepts of using social media as a marketing tool. Lori does an excellent job of breaking down the pros and cons of each media platform and Eric is always good about asking the questions we all want answers to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>MOST ENTERTAINING:</b> "Painting the American Landscape" with Matt Smith, Jean LaGassick, Frank LaLumia, Ken Backhaus, Charles Sovek and Ron Rencher. Broadcast by PBS these two videos feature several of my favorite artists painting in Alaska and the West. Hard to forget Matt, Jean and Ken getting run off their painting location by a bear. Good interviews with the artists, nice demos by each and excellent production quality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>MOST INSPIRATIONAL: </b>"A Light Touch" David Curtis and "Bold Brushstrokes and Confident Color" Lori Putnam. If you are not familiar with English painter David Curtis you are missing out. Equally gifted in oils or watercolor, David tackles the most complex subjects with ease. His ability to mix a color and put it down in exactly the right place using exactly the right color at exactly the right temperature is amazing to watch. Bold, direct and confident. Something I aspire to and achieve occasionally.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I found Lori's video inspirational because she paints in a way I can only imagine. Loose and controlled at the same time. She has total command from beginning to end. Her rise in popularity has been fun to watch and watching her paint is a true pleasure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>MOST INFORMATIVE: </b>"Studio Painting Secrets" by Brian Blood, "Social Media Revealed" by Lori McNee and Eric Rhoads and "Gesture Portraits" by Jeffrey Watts. Brian's video is top notch. He covers all the bases discussing design, color, application of paint, color mixing...you name it, he talked about it and demonstrates it in a painting of Point Lobos, one of my favorite painting locations. His painting style is a lot like his personality, direct and to the point.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Jeffrey Watts video, the first of two, is the perfect blend of demonstration and teaching. His discussion of different color palettes and paint surfaces is invaluable information for the beginner or seasoned painter. The demos are terrific. You can tell Jeffrey is a seasoned teacher.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>BEST VALUE: </b>Gabor Svagrik's video series of five landscape videos is a treasure of information at about $50 each. Unfortunately I don't think you can get these any more. Now he has a new series of downloadable videos that include the original set. These are a must for anyone wanting to learn to paint with a limited palette.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>WISH LIST:</b> Jill Carver, Bill Anton, Clyde Aspevig, Skip Whitcomb, John Burton, James Richards, Joshua Been, Joshua Clare, Anne Blair Brown and a still life video from Richard Schmid.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">- Purchases are made from my website. Review the sale below then go to my website to make your purchase. On the </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">home page click the "Holiday Art Sale" tab.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">- Prices on artwork sold UNFRAMED, but I include </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> a small wooden stand with each sale.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">- If you choose to frame the painting I recommend</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> the frames at <a href="http://www.kingofframe.com/">www.kingofframe.com</a>. Best prices</span><br />
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"Clear Lake Cove"</div>
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"Edge of Moran"</div>
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"Ghost Ranch Bluff"<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Next Friday night is one of my favorite of the year. It marks the opening reception and sale for the annual Collectors Covey Miniature Show. It is a fixed price sale with many of the participating artists in attendance. For many it is the one time a year they get to visit about the previous year's adventures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In addition to the fixed price sale there will be a live auction of John P. Cowan's "Wrong Side" a 27" x 40" original watercolor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">My experience over the past five years I've been in this show is if you want to see the show in its full glory you need to be there on Friday night because most of the show will sell opening night and the buyers go home with their newly purchased gems.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have three pieces in the show. All three are field studies completed on location. Okay, there was little studio time spent on them to make them gallery worthy, but for the most part what you get is what I saw and painted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">9" x 12" oil/linen</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Other artists in the show are a who's who in the world of wildlife and landscape art including sculptures. Some of the artists featured include John B. Cowan, William Alther, Ken Carlson, Julie Chapman, Len Chimel, Calvin Carter, Chase Almond, Bruce Peil, Matt Smith, John Dearman, Mark Haworth, Frank Serrano, Luke Frazier, Brian Grimm, Dan Meltz, George Northrup, Bernard Vetter, Tracy Avant, Andrea Almond, Greg Beecham, Kay Northrup, Julie Jeppsen, Chuck Rawle and Sherry Sander.</span><br />
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Rusty Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01043601706280681675noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3550231928380129033.post-59319472994032911612015-07-10T16:13:00.003-07:002015-07-10T16:21:59.929-07:00NOTAN SKETCH VS. IPHONE6<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Notan" is a Japanese term referring to exploring the harmony between light and dark. Artists use Notan sketches to explore the composition elements of a scene and the relationship of major shapes. A good Notan drawing simplifies a scene into three values...dark, light and halftone. It also acts as a memory and planning tool that helps the artist focus on essential elements of a scene, draw simple shapes and record important elements should the scene change as weather and sunlight alter a scene.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I was first introduced to the importance of the Notan sketch in a workshop I took with Skip Whitcomb. Skip starts every painting session with two or three quick sketches of the scene. The process takes him about thirty minutes. As part of the workshop Skip required students to do at least three sketches before starting a painting. Since that time I have come across many artists that rely on the Notan sketch process and for years it has been my practice as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The advantage of a Notan sketch over a camera is the camera records everything in the scene indiscriminately leaving nothing to the imagination. That being said I have come to prefer the camera over the sketch as the smart phone increasingly takes over every aspect of our life. Using the photo app in my iPhone has reduced the time to produce a Notan to a matter minutes rather than a block of time that cuts into painting time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I recently took the opportunity to produce a Notan sketch and a Notan photo to decide once and for all what my routine was going to be going forward. Below are my results.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">South of Monterrey on the way to Big Sur is this amazing scene, painted by many. On the day of my painting the fog was rolling in and out all day constantly changing the light. The scene was so captivating it was hard to decide what to leave in and what to take out. It was the perfect time for a Notan sketch so by the time I put brush to canvas most of the major decisions would have already been made.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Like many plein air painters my "go to" format is the horizontal on a 9" x 12" or 12" x 16" panel. I also like the long, narrow horizontal format I use frequently in Texas due to the lack of mountains or anything taller than a fence post. My first inclination was the long horizontal as seen in my Notan which took about ten minutes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Just for kicks my second sketch was a square format and my third sketch was my usual horizontal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The whole process took longer than expected because of the fog that would come in and obscure the distant cliffs that I wanted to include in my painting so all total it took almost forty minutes to get the sketches done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Simultaneously when the sun was just like I wanted, I took a single photo with my iPhone and as the fog destroyed my scene, I quickly opened the photo app</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">to look at the scene in different formats.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I first looked at the long, horizontal format, cropped it accordingly and saved the image for future reference.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then I cropped the same photo in the more typical horizontal for a 9" x 12" painting. Again I saved it for later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then I used the halftone filter to give me a Notan photo of my scene. The whole process took less than ten minutes which is an important consideration when the goal was to produce four paintings this day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>"On the Way to Big Sur"</i> 9" x 12" oi/linen</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When it came time to paint, the fog became unavoidable. In the end I gave in and included it in my painting, but the Notan exercise was well worth the effort.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Below is another example of sketch versus photo Notan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'm a sucker for old farm houses and this one is a favorite. I quickly produced two Notan sketches.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The standard format. Then I created Notan photos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There is something that makes me feel more "artistic" drawing Notan sketches before beginning a painting. But at the end of the day, for me at least, its all about evaluating the scene for composition and values and the iPhone provides me the quickest means to an end while also providing me a permanent record. In less than ten minutes I can produce several Notan photos with complete halftone evaluations of my scene and I think it gives me a clearer understanding before I begin to paint.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I was painting down in a riverbed because there was still snow on the ground and I rarely get to paint snow. It was 38 degrees up on the road where we parked and 18 degrees down near the river where I chose to paint. Don't think I have ever been that cold while trying to paint and within fifteen minutes my paints were frozen so I did not get to finish the painting and it was too cold to wipe it off. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The thing that captured my interest was the cold blues and purples in the shadow areas in contrast to the bright greens and yellows from the morning sun lighting up a distant hill. I took one photo before leaving the scene promising myself that one day I was going to paint that scene.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am regularly asked if I ever rework my plein air studies when I get back into the studio. The answer is yes I do. Most times my hunting and gathering trips into the field end with a good set of finished paintings that are ready for a frame and a trip to the gallery. But once in a while I just miss it and I do a piece that </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">About a month ago I took a week long painting trip to Estes Park in the Rocky Mountain National Park with the Outdoor Painters Society. Over a five day period I painted four paintings a day for a total of 20 paintings. Not a bad week's worth of painting, but along the way I realized my focus had turned to getting four paintings done a day instead of producing paintings of true quality. It hit me the day I did the painting of the cabin pictured at the start of this blog. I was painting alongside Randy Saffle and Frank Gabriel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We stood pretty much in the same spot so we all were painting the same scene. As I was doing this 12" x 16" I was actually pleased with what I was doing but the minute I saw Randy's result I realized just how far off the cliff I had jumped and how badly I really missed capturing the scene.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This kind of experience leads to plenty of inner soul searching and questioning of one's approach. Had I gotten so cocky that I thought I could go out and totally ignore the true beauty of what I was seeing? Do I need to have my eyes checked? When did I decide I could just wing it and not really seriously study my scene? Where had my sense of study and dedication to capturing the true essence of the scene gone?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When I got home and looked at my photos from the trip and, in particular this scene, I knew I had to correct the situation. I can't have a bad painting hanging around the studio. Its just bad Karma and it infects all the blank canvases yet to be painted, so I have a duty and obligation to keep the Karma positive in the studio.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The first step is to cover the entire painting with a layer of Liquin. This evens out the values and returns my darks back to their original value so when I put new paint on top I can match values where necessary.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The cabin is my center of interest and I realized I needed to adjust its shape and value. The entire rest of the painting will be done to support the cabin as the main object in the painting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Be bold or go home" is my approach on this one. I decide I want to drop the mountains really far back so I paint on a very light purplish gray and cover the entire mountain range in it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'm going to be completely redesigning the mountain range so I want to obscure anything I had before so it doesn't influence my new design. Even at this point I like the sense of distance and atmosphere this is creating.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Between the cabin and the distant mountain range is a smaller tree covered hill so I put this in to be able to judge the values I will use on the mountains.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I decide to create a little tension in the upper right corner of the painting. The cabin sits kind of low left of center. By putting in the sky it will help take the viewer's eye past the cabin, through the mountains and out the top. If I had taken the mountain all the way out of the painting there would be no reason to view the entire painting and the viewer's eye would get stuck on the cabin. This way my painting tells a complete story.</span><br />
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Rusty Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01043601706280681675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3550231928380129033.post-50048967977474687792014-05-09T08:25:00.000-07:002014-05-09T08:37:26.864-07:00ACA DEMO<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I want to thank the Associated Creative Artists for having me as guest demo artist last Tuesday night. I always enjoy visiting with the members of the group and I'm honored any time I'm asked to do a demonstration painting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For the demo I chose a photo from my recent trip to Carmel. The scene is in Pacific Grove right across the street from my hotel. I got up early each morning, grabbed a cup of coffee then sat on a bench and watched the sun come up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Before I started my demo I made the point that I was NOT going to stay married to the photo and instead would change the light based on my memory of my morning coffee sessions. In so doing I made the point that painting from photographs is okay as long as you are the person who took the photograph and actually experienced the scene. There are so many reasons to not paint from photographs, but when I look at photos I've taken I can usually remember everything thing else that went into taking the shot and most times those things come back to me as I paint.</span></div>
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Rusty Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01043601706280681675noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3550231928380129033.post-2311527554778915832014-04-26T15:14:00.002-07:002014-04-28T06:29:08.424-07:00PLEIN AIR CONVENTION REVISITED<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So I've been home a week and have had time to process everything that happened last week in Carmel when I attended my first plein air convention along with 700 other like minded folks. It takes a while to absorb everything because it goes by so fast, but if you can imagine what it feels like being six years old as you walk through the front gates of Disney World, then you have some idea of how I felt for five straight days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Getting to the convention was a trip in itself. Once I landed in Los Angeles my plane sat on the tarmac for an hour and I missed my connection to Monterrey. When I was told it would be six hours until the next flight I immediately headed to Hertz to rent a car figuring I'd much rather drive up the Pacific Coast Highway than sit in a terminal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Back to the convention. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Kevin MacPhearson gave one of the most entertaining keynote speeches I ever heard to open the convention. Then I had the chance to meet Kevin and Wanda which has been a long time goal of mine. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Each day started with the Marketing Boot Camp led by Eric Rhoads who is an impressive and convincing speaker. I took excessive notes to the point that my head hurt. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">After Boot Camp the rest of the day was spent mingling in the hall with all of the product suppliers and watching demos by many of the painters I admire most.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Did I say meeting all my Facebook friends was the best part. No that's not it. Watching all of these great demos was the best part. Sometimes there were several going on at once so you had to move from room to room to catch them all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Daniel Gerhartz demonstration was worth the price of admission. Painting from a live model his verbalization of what he was doing while he was doing it was priceless.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In addition to the main stage were two other rooms for demonstrations. Even though there was some overlap if you planned your day carefully you didn't miss any of them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Lifetime Achievement presentation for Richard Schmid by his daughter Molly was a touching tribute to one of our favorite painters. Molly gave us a rare glimpse of the man behind the brush and showed many samples of unpublished and some never before seen paintings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Did I say the demonstration paintings was the best part of the convention. I was wrong. Each day the convention closed down and everyone headed out to a specific location to paint. You could either paint or move from one presenter to another and watch them paint. How many opportunities do you have to watch the best plein air painters on the planet painting together in a single location? Never right? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Painting elsewhere on the beach were Kathleen Dunphy, Joseph McGurl, Lori Putnam, Brenda Boylan, Camille Przewodek, James McVicker, Timothy Tien, Aaron Schurer, John Burton, Gene Constanza, Larry Moore and I'm sure others I just didn't get to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You may be asking whether or not I got any painting done. And the answer is yes, but that will have to be in my next post.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">All I have to say is the convention was a life affirming, life altering event for me and I can't wait to go back next year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'll warn you up front that I rarely copy photos. I use them as jump off points for me to express myself creatively and to push my imagination and memory. In this case I have painted plenty of times in West Texas looking out over fields of cut hay. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Its not unusual in the heat of summer for a heavy rainstorm to form, pass through dumping loads of rain and an hour later be gone. We get summer squalls where the sky turns very dark and you'll see a heavy shower off in the distance. Then one will drop behind you, then out off to your right side and then another one way off in the distance. Its like the sky is springing leaks everywhere. I've painted in these conditions and not gotten a drop of rain on me. I've also had the opposite happen where the sky just dumps its entire load on your head.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So any way, I'll probably stick to an accurate rendering of the ground plane, but the sky will most likely come out of my head.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A quick sketch of the ground plane. In the photo the tree is fairly close to the middle which would be a disaster in a painting so I have moved it over to the right a bit. This changes the angle of the road and because the road is a little too straight in the photo I add a curve to it. I'm already thinking the tree is too tall but I'll wait a bit to make any final decisions about it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I paint the ground plane almost to completion. I've added some water sitting in the rut of the road on the right side just to see how that effect feels and I kind of like it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Even though there is no rain dropping from the clouds in my photos, I want to play with the idea of having rain like the summer squalls I described earlier. I place the rain over to the left to give the painting balance. Had I placed it behind the tree or over to the right the whole painting would feel off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is why painting outdoors and memory comes into play when doing a studio painting. I've been outside enough to have seen the reflected light coming from the ground hitting the underbelly of clouds. I don't see it in the photo, but I definitely know its there so I go ahead and paint it. This is when the bright sun, hits the yellowish field of hay and that light bounces back up into the clouds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have blocked in the front row of clouds and now I step back from the painting to decide if I want to keep the rain over on the left and I do, so I'm good to paint more clouds. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Trouble in paradise...so far everything has been going along well, then for about two hours I struggle with the clouds and when things aren't going as planned I've learned to swallow my pride and wipe off the offending portion of the painting that is not cooperating. Sometimes my hands have a mind of their own and they mix colors I don't want or they hold the brush the wrong way or apply paint in places or in a fashion my mind is not wanting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When that happens its time to take a break and force my mind and hands to have a conversation and come to some kind of agreement on how we are going to proceed. If they continue to fight with one another I just call it a day and find something else to do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Finally after much conversation and repainting the same area about a dozen times, the clouds finally begin to take shape and I'm pleased with the result.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The trick to painting clouds is to be patient with the process and to make them look as if they are occupying large amounts of space by using overlap and paying attention to the subtle shifts in color as one cloud sits in front of another or casts a shadow onto a lower flying cloud.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I shortened the tree. I think this gives the clouds more importance. I really like the idea of water sitting in deep ruts in the road so I darkened the entire road as if it is wet dirt and painted in the ruts with pools of standing water everywhere.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I recently drove from Texas to Scottsdale by way of Sedona. The first day I drove 16 hours straight to Flagstaff. That gave me about a day in Sedona and Jerome to do some sightseeing, photographing and even had time to knock out a couple of paintings. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I drove to the eastern side of Sedona to the Round Top Rock area. I realized the last time I was here I was traveling with someone who knew the area and now that I was on my own I had no clue where to go.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So I basically just drove along the main East to West road to find things to paint and luckily this worked out pretty well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">of people needing to use it while I painted. As people stood in line waiting their turn, they felt obligated to engage me in conversation. I talked to people from Canada, Hawaii, California and New York to name a few.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Its not too late to get a 2014 Calendar. Back by popular demand my new calendar features twelve paintings, some are in private collections and a few are available through the galleries. The cost is $25 and that includes shipping. So if for any reason you haven't purchased a 2014 calendar yet or you would just like to gaze upon a new painting each month, now would be a good time to purchase one of my calendars and remember you have friends who need calendars as well.</span><br />
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Rusty Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01043601706280681675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3550231928380129033.post-32166535094235772222014-01-07T20:50:00.002-08:002014-01-07T20:50:56.211-08:00WENMOHS RANCH WORHSOP-STARTING THE YEAR OFF RIGHT<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now's the time to kick start the new year by attending a workshop. The new things you'll learn will stay with you throughout the year and in many cases...a lifetime. I still take workshops because there are some many artists whose work I admire, I just enjoy spending three or four days watching them paint and picking their brains for ideas and finding new approaches to my work. A workshop pulls me out of any rut I might be in and watching other artists solve the same problems I face every day always elevates the quality of my work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I will be teaching a three day outdoor painting workshop on the beautiful Wenmohs Ranch in Central Texas next month...February 10-12th to be exact.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You will learn my approach to achieving success each time you step out of the comfortable studio and venture outdoors to paint. I will share my methods for finding locations, designing a painting and executing a successful outdoor study.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I hope you will join me and Dena Wenmohs in February and bringing a friend is even better. For more information or to reserve your spot contact Dena Wenmohs by calling 512-517-3453 or email her at <a href="mailto:dena@wenmohsranch.com">dena@wenmohsranch.com</a>.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">February 10-12, 2014Monday, Oct. 14</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">9:00 a.m.: Introduction to plein air painting. Thirty minute
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1:00 -2:00 p.m.: Four twenty minute studies with personal
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2:00-4:00 p.m.: Continuation of twenty minute studies or a 2
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <b>Location: Wenmoh's Ranch along the river<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Portable easel:</b> I
use the En Plein Air Pro outdoor easel from www.pleinairpro.com. I recommend
getting a piece of glass cut to fit over the palette. Do not use plexiglass. It
will scratch and leave grooves. Spray the back of the glass with a medium gray
spray paint, then set it into place and sealed it with plumbers caulking. If
you have any questions, please call me ahead of time. Don’t wait to start the
workshop without your easel being prepared for use. The En Plein Air Pro also comes
with a tripod, brush holder and its own custom designed resealable turp can
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umbrella that attaches to the easel is not required but strongly suggested. I
paint without an umbrealla 90% of the time, but when you need one…you need one.
I suggest Best Brella at <a href="http://www.bestbrella.com/">www.bestbrella.com</a>.
It fits on a variety of easels and is without question the best umbrella to
have in windy conditions. I also carry the ShadeBuddy umbrella when my car is
going to be close by. It is a much larger umbrella and many cases provides much
needed shade from the heat. <span style="display: none; mso-hide: all;">ves.</span><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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canvases): </b>4 to 8, 8” x 10” panels, 4-8, 9” x 12” panels. If you are
already an outdoor painter feel free to bring larger panels but nothing larger
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recommend the plastic panel carriers from <a href="http://www.raymarart.com/">www.raymarart.com</a>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Brushes: </b>Hog
bristle brushes or synthetics in sizes 4, 6 and 8. I use the Silver bristle and
synthetic brushes from <st1:place w:st="on">Princeton</st1:place>. I also use
the hair brushes from Rosemary brushes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Paint: </b>Please
purchase paint from known quality professional manufacturers like Windsor
Newton, Grumbacher, Holbein or Rembrandt. At a minimum purchase one color of
each primary (red, green, yellow and blue plus white)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>My Pallette: </b>Windsor yellow, yellow ochre pale, Cadmium yellow
deep, Cadmium Orange, Cadmium red light,
Alizarin Crimson, Thalo green (blue shade),
Ultramarine Blue, Cobalt blue (Pale), Cerulean Blue Hue, Burnt sienna,Titanium white, Mauve (blue shade, Windsor
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wipes, bug spray, water bottle, plastic garbage bags, paper towels (Viva), sun
tan lotion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Edgar Payne, “Composition of Outdoor Paint”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ted Goerschner, “The
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<span style="font-size: large;">Kevin Macpherson, “Landscape Painting Inside and Out”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Richard Schmid, “Alla Prima-Everything I know About
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bob Rohm: “The Painterly Approach”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Colley Whisson, “Creating Impressionist Landscapes in Oil<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Scott Christensen, “The Nature of Light”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">James Reynolds, “The Landscapes of James Reynolds”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jim Wilcox, “Canvassing the West”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">David Curtis, “Capturing the Moment in Oils”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rusty Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01043601706280681675noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3550231928380129033.post-56086163647204775352014-01-05T15:12:00.001-08:002014-01-05T15:12:32.113-08:00CALIFORNIA DREAMING: Portfolio of Recent Works<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This being the first weekend of the new year there is no better time to recommit to those important items such as writing a blog. I cannot believe it was September when I last entered a blog post, but it was and 2013 is already a distant memory. So now the new year begins and I need to get back in the saddle of posting regularly. I seem to remember a recent post in which I claimed I was going to post twice a week...silly me. All I can say is I am committed to making this blog an enjoyable and informative read. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">To kick off the new year I thought I would share several paintings I have created after inspirational trips to the California Coast. Two trips were to Monterrey Peninsula and the Carmel/Big Sur areas. Another trip was to San Francisco/Wine Country areas. Enjoy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"Rocky Point" 30" x 40" oil/canvas</span></div>
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Rusty Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01043601706280681675noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3550231928380129033.post-91832735668425221262013-09-16T19:19:00.000-07:002013-09-17T04:42:18.105-07:00A DAY IN THE STUDIO<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Each day I enter the studio, I do so with a plan. Today's plan is to continue my quest to paint on a larger scale, both in the studio and outdoors. On the easel is a 24" x 30" canvas. This would be the absolute top end for me to paint en plein air...or so I think. If I can't get it done start to finish in less than three hours, then there's no point continuing the experiment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I 've drawn a sketch from three different reference photos. The distant hill came from one, the gully came from another and the group of trees to the right from a third. The left hand trees I have made up to balance the painting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The focal point of the painting will be the large group of trees on the right side of the painting. After blocking in the shadow pattern I go ahead and paint in the light side. I paint these fairly complete because the entire rest of the painting will be done to support these trees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now for the two distant hills. Notice how large I've left the sky holes in the trees. This is done because I will fill them in later as I get further along in the painting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Looking at these photos I realize I should be painting with a larger brush. The middle hill and distant hill are near completion. Notice the grayish/purple wall of the gully underneath my hand. In my original design this was going to be my visual lead-in, the design element that would draw the viewer into my painting. But things change...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have put in the middle ground that is between the gully and the middle hill and I am putting in the trees on the left. As I mentioned earlier these are put in for balance. Any time you have a large object on one side of the painting you must throw something in on the opposite side to balance it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I put in the far wall of the gully that runs left to right along the lower one-third of the painting. At this point I took a bathroom break, went to the kitchen to get some tea and upon my return realized I had a major design flaw. The gully that was suppose to be my lead-in is taking up way too much space, attracting way too much attention and my photo reference is so poor that I'm going to have to make up the entire wall in my head. What was I thinking? Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As with all paintings this one has hit critical mass. The point where I have to decide to save it or trash it. After looking at it for a while I decide to extend the main group of trees downward. In a bold move I decide to get rid of the gully altogether and instead I'm going to make this a flat field with a dirt road going through it. The dirt road will act as my lead-in. You can see the line I drew indicating where I'm about to rub out a portion of the painting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And here I go...all or nothing. The next thirty minutes are critical. This painting will either rise from the ashes or burn a hole into my brain as I see a painting that had potential end up in the trash.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and a bright ray of light at the base of the trees. Moving very fast right now anxious to see a positive result.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'm so excited I can barely stand it! By putting in the road to act as my lead-in and by throwing the foreground into shadow the main group of trees look like proud sentinels.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Today it is 102 degrees in north Texas so going outside is not an option. I decide to set up my En Plein Air Pro easel (<a href="http://www.enpleinairpro.com/">www.enpleinairpro.com</a>) and pick a nice photo to paint from. I need to do another piece for the Collectors Covey Miniature Show so while working on getting loose with my paint I will create a piece for the show at the same time. Its win...win.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Just like being outdoors, except I have a bathroom close by. I don't like that big boulder at the bottom left so I am going to redesign this area to get a more pleasing design and it will help with the lead into the painting. The photo is of Alberta Falls in the Rocky Mountain National Park by the way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As with most paintings I start by painting in the darks and the shadow patterns. I tend to paint over the darks so even though this looks like a really yucky dark blackish color it is actually a purplish violet with some occasional ultramarine blue thrown in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Continuing with the darks. Notice as I get toward the area above the waterfall I have lightened the value and added more blue to the color because this area gets more light than the area at the base of the waterfall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Okay so now you can see the design change. I have removed the big boulder at the bottom left and increased the length of the waterfall. The upside down "V" shape at the bottom leads the viewer's eye from bottom right to the left taking the viewer directly to the base of the waterfall then up the waterfall and out of the painting at the top.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The completed painting. I'll let it sit in the corner for a week then give it one final going over before sending it to Collectors Covey.</span>Rusty Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01043601706280681675noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3550231928380129033.post-60617901962728963962013-09-04T18:57:00.000-07:002013-09-04T20:08:26.405-07:00WORKSHOP SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I will be teaching two workshops this fall. The first one will be in Port Aransas, Texas October 14th-16th and the second one will be in McKinney, Texas October 31-November 2.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Port Aransas is one of my all time favorite painting locations. The small fishing village by the sea offers </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I discovered if I went looking for a particular scene I never found it. On the other hand if I just drove down the road and let the scene find me, I found an abundant supply of paintable locations. I also learned that the most valuable tool a plein air painter can possess is the ability to do a u-turn on a two lane road.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">With this in mind what follows are a couple of my paintings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">First up is this hillside cedar with a few yellow wildflowers in the foreground. This is on the south side of Highway 290 from Johnson City to Fredericksburg. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The initial block in. Notice I blocked in the foreground in a warm burnt sienna and the distant ground in a cooler blueish color. This helps me separate the layers right at the start of the painting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Next I met up with good friend, Bob Rohm, to paint along Cow Creek outside Marble Falls</span>.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I jump right in and approach the large canvas as if I am painting on location. I have a kitchen timer ticking off the seconds behind me and it is set for two hours. My plan is to have most of the painting done in that two hour time frame. I start by putting in the shadow patterns. The photo looks like I'm painting in thick black paint but I'm not. The shadows are actually very thin washes of a purplish violet color. The shadow under the roof is painted cool near the top but it warms as it approaches the ground because there is light bouncing into this area from the ground.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I decide to paint from the back forward. I think if I paint the car first and its the wrong color, then the whole painting will be off. So by painting everything else first I will automatically adjust the redness of the car to fit the landscape. Its always good to have a plan. If it doesn't work out I can paint over it. Turns out my plan was a good one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I don't paint everything up to its final form. I'm really just blocking in the major areas of color and adjusting colors and values as I go. I add a little extra sag to the roof line of the building to give the building some age and also so the straight edge of the roof doesn't compete with the hard edges of the car. I start working on the car.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">DANGIT!!!! I get to this point and realize the grill between the headlights is off center. Don't know how I missed this in the drawing phase. So I wipe out the front area of the car and redraw it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I rapidly and randomly throw down the dark greenish brown color. This is the shadow areas under the grass. I also put in the sandy ground color in areas I want dirt to show through the grass.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I go over the shadow areas with the light yellowish green color with the "magic" brush. The bristles on this brush are so crazy I have no way to control it so it gives the painting a real spontaneous look and feel. Exactly what I was going for in the beginning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I decide at this point that I want the shadow on the porch to be darker which will separate it more from the car. Instead of repainting the shadow on the porch I choose to brighten and lighten the roof, cool the shadow from the tree overhanging the roof and warm up the upper left corner to give it the feel that light is hitting this area pretty hard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And there you have it. Done. I won't tell you the exact amount of time I spent painting this one, but it was more than the original two hour limit I set for myself, but much less than I had anticipated. </span>Rusty Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01043601706280681675noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3550231928380129033.post-32099252229092947972013-07-01T18:00:00.000-07:002013-07-01T20:22:04.536-07:00"EN PLEIN AIR" AT R S HANNA GALLERY<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Okay, first of all I have rethunk my promise to post twice a week. Ain't gonna happen. In my typical fashion I bit off more than I can chew so I have to back off a bit and post once a week. If for any reason things happen to warrant two posts in one week...I will do so.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now to today's post. Earlier this month along with Marc Hanson, Frank Gardner and Hodges Solieau I participated in the "En Plein Air" show at R S Hanna Gallery (<a href="http://www.rshannagallery.com/">www.rshannagallery.com</a>)in Fredericksburg.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The event was well attended and Shannon put on a stellar reception like she always does.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">All of the artists works were elegantly displayed in a front room. I was extremely pleased with the corner displaying my new work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The reception was on a Friday night, but I took a couple of days before the show to do several on location paintings and take a bunch of photo reference for paintings that will be done in the studio later. The highlight of my trip was getting to spend a day painting with my good friend Bob Rohm.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bob and I spent the morning painting Cow Creek a few miles east of Marble Falls. It didn't take long before the heat baked us and we retired to a local eatery for iced tea and burgers.</span></div>
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