oil 7"x 5"
much fun doing this one...and if anyone is
interested in seeing the set up and steps to
this, visit or copy this url into your browser-
http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/showthread.php?t=330684
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About Me
- Larry Seiler
- Enculturation imbued with print media & tv means we live in a 2nd reality, one the lens sees. Lifeless shadows, static detail rank accurate to life. My renaissance from 20 years in studio came after taking my paints outdoors. Several things happened- I saw color as only an artist can see, (painting being the deeper way of seeing); I was overwhelmed with all to be worked out in short order; thirdly, that taunt of a feeling I knew nothing of painting! Such would send many back to the pretense of the familiar, but I’m not good hiding from myself that which I’m not able to succeed. By right…I should be able to paint outdoors, and was going to do this were it to kill me. Kill me it did! So complete was that death, I could no longer aspire to paint as artists I had admired. Their works now lifeless, labored, detailed, realistic, yes...but no sense of REAL'ness. I wish I had started nature’s schooling much younger, but lives are like books. Not one chapter stuck to one narrative. Life can be filled with many chapters. It can have interesting twists and new directions, and I say go for it! *See my book on landscape painting, and new DVDs available thru “Books & Videos” at larryseiler.com
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2 comments:
Hi Larry! Really enjoying looking through your blog. This is a stellar one, to be sure! I cringe at skin tones but will have to tackle them one day, I suppose.
Cheers,
David
(aka dgilane on WC)
thanks much..
I use only a limited palette really..three primaries, white, Naples Yellow and sometimes viridian...
Its more about seeing...forgetting notions of what a thing is, but striving to see as a child new to the world for the first time as though everything is a wonderment.
A painting is fundamentally one stroke of color put down next to another (assigned its proper value) until no more spots are needed. The viewer's eye puts it together to read as you intend. Make nothing more complicated out of it then that. Observe...paint what you see. Forget flesh tones or special paints. Trust your eyes...and grow to get them to see more.
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