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9"x 12" oil
Found this delightful farm scene after
church this morning, and had to set up
and accomodate the moment!
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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:
Larry this is one of my favorites of yours. I like the variations in the composition. I like the fact you stripping things down a bit more to simpler bigger shapes, pulling the camera back and not obsessing with details. A sign of solid maturity as a painter in my opinion. Well done.
There are a lot of good painters out there that example saying more with less...and you are one of them. Thanks for your comments here, much appreciated.
Stripping a painting down comes when much of your need to prove yourself capable of unquestionable realism is stripped down as well.
When the artist gets that out of his/her system, then comes the challenge and joy of becoming a painter.
I've been working on it a good many years...and things got in the way of such stripping like reputation. I'm having fun now...that is for sure! Thanks again...
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