upper Michigan completed over this past
weekend...I thought it would be interesting
to play around with them. Gesturals...and
possible different moods...
5"x 7" oil
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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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4 comments:
Hello Larry -- I've been enjoying your plein air landscapes, they are so, well, airy. I actually prefer them to your in-studio landscapes (just my preference, no disrespect). I just feel the lightness of the air through the trees in the plein air paintings, so fresh, and impromptu. You make them look effortless, tho' I'm sure they are not. Beautiful color palettes, as well. Thanks for sharing them.
thanks much...
never wrong to hear of preferences in a world where diversity is encouraged and applauded. Vive la difference!
I like painting outdoors...capturing the personality of the aire, and it is so hard to replicate that indoors. Being able to do so instudio is a true skill. Someday perhaps.. :)
take care
Larry this one has such a great atmosphere. I really enjoy it.
thanks much...good to hear feedback on experiments especially. I have long been more a realist to a thing's appearance but perhaps to a fault of missing some of what the experience and encounter of a moment also "feels" like.
Trying to see and find if there is a balance to arrive at, or just different paintings with no best or better on this one point of distinction...
...call it a time of "wrestlings..." 8^)
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