A bit more work today...on water, rocks...and so forth...
nearly finished I think...and my palette of color premixed
to work here...
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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:
I particularly enjoy the rocks and water in this. The way you have produced convincing shadow in the water is impressive.
Love your works!!! Your style is so distinctive - it's seems like a nice blend of realism and impressionism - just the right ammount of both! I'm a fan!
thanks Mike...much appreciated...
Thanks Tanya...I connect with your description of realism and impressionism. I painstakingly worked with acrylics for the first 17 years putting 200 to 300 hours into competitive pieces focusing on detail. Then the irony hit me, like an epiphany. I was spending 16 hours or more each day indoors painting about what I loved outdoors.
When that simple realization found its way into the core of my being, I started painting outdoors on location and it has been my main form of painting since. Painting outdoors forces you to adjust to accomodate the very small window of opportunity nature provides with its light. You become painterly though your aim is yet realism.
thanks again...
What you are saying about painting is oddly enough an issue with me but not as an artist - just as a human being, I'm trying to escape this 2D reality that I'm mostly living in at the moment and trying to feel the world in its full, but oh my - it's not easy at all...
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