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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:
Hi Larry,
"to be finished.."
Are you sure?
Look over you shoulder.
Do you see the individual standing behind you with a large mallet?
LOL
I just love it the way it is now.
take care
oh yeah...aware he is CONSTANTLY there standing behind me. He lives a much stress free life now though. Imagine his life back when I used to put 200 hours into a single painting!!!
The essentials of this work, the color, light, drama, composition are working. Won't change that..just tidy up and refine a bit to suit my aesthetic sensibilities.
thanks...fun stuff 8^)
Well, I follow your art the last couple of years now (wetcanvas, your blog and so)and if I humbly may say so, I thinkthat gouache gave a tickle to your painting, including oils, and the paintings become more... brighter I think, and more impressionistic, in a loose manner but never sloppy.
BIG evolution from that 200 hours!
Now you just slap in the canvas a couple of times, give it a severe look, a smile and ... voilá! ;)
thanks xavier...but, as you may well already know, such experience does not come without a long many years paying dues. When you've worked that long for what success does come your way, there is no room for gloating or ego. More by way of default of working and having enjoyed living long enough...
appreciated, certainly
thanks Rafael... appreciated
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