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“It is a common observation that the atmosphere lends a slightly misty, bluish cast to more distant objects and this effect was imitated by painters from the fifteenth century on by setting down landscapes in a series of receding bands of colour — warmer and darker in the near distance and successively bluer, cooler and paler in the middle and far distance … a convention known as aerial perspective .” Quote source: “A Closer Look: Colour” by David Bomford and Ashok Roy, National Gallery London publications, p13 Like all formulas or recipes in painting, applying “more blue the further away it is” is something to be done delicately. Overdo it and it looks fake or clichéd
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Receding Bands of Color
You may not be able to get to the Van Gogh Letters Exhibition now on at the Royal Academy in London, but it doesn’t take much to enter the RA’s competition to win a set of the new edition of his letters . Even better, the competition’s terms and conditions don’t limit entries to any geographic region.
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Win a Copy of the Complete Letters of Van Gogh
Did Andy Warhol (of the famed tomato soup can paintings ) learn to draw soup cans when he was a child from a book published by Heinz? Art writer Jim Linderman found a booklet published by Heinz in Warhol’s home town the year before Warhol was born. It contains tracing paper to trace various images of Heinz products
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Did Warhol Get His Ideas from a Heinz Coloring Book?
Mark Webster Barbara Haviland Karla Nolan AJ LaGasse Anna Tikhomirova Andrew Orr Janice Warriner David Edwards Becky Joy Justin Clayton Cheryl Pass Cheryl Ratcliff To purchase any painting, simply visit the artist’s blog for details!
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New Daily Paintings – Jan 13, 2010 – from Painting a Day Artists!
AJ LaGasse Anna Tikhomirova Andrew Orr Janice Warriner David Edwards Becky Joy Mark Webster Barbara Haviland Karla Nolan Justin Clayton Cheryl Pass Cheryl Ratcliff To purchase any painting, simply visit the artist’s blog for details!
Andrew Orr Cheryl Pass Anna Tikhomirova David Edwards Barbara Haviland Justin Clayton Cheryl Ratcliff Mark Webster AJ LaGasse Janice Warriner Becky Joy Karla Nolan To purchase any painting, simply visit the artist’s blog for details!
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One of a Kind Paintings for Sale! – Jan 7, 2010
AJ LaGasse Anna Tikhomirova Andrew Orr Janice Warriner David Edwards Becky Joy Mark Webster Barbara Haviland Karla Nolan Justin Clayton Cheryl Pass Cheryl Ratcliff To purchase any painting, simply visit the artist’s blog for details!
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New Daily Paintings – Jan 6, 2010 – from Painting a Day Artists!
Mention Picasso and I bet you think of disjointed figures and faces painted with an array of colors. Yet one of his most famous paintings, Guernica , is a huge black-and-white painting, and regarded by some as his best.
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Famous Paintings: "Guernica" by Picasso
What’s the best way to paint rain without it looking like some slasher has been at your painting with a knife? Various suggestions have been made on the Painting Forum . Starrpoint suggests: “Making each stroke a bit long and in the direction of the rainfall, bringing in reflections all over the place.” Christy suggests making colors more saturated
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Tips on How to Paint Rain
AJ LaGasse Anna Tikhomirova Andrew Orr Janice Warriner David Edwards Becky Joy Mark Webster Barbara Haviland Karla Nolan Justin Clayton Cheryl Pass Cheryl Ratcliff To purchase any painting, simply visit the artist’s blog for details!
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Daily Paintings for Sale – Dec 31, 2009
If you’ve been thinking about entering next year’s BP Portrait Award, it’s time to stop thinking about it and starting doing something about it. Entries can be made online here but be sure to first read the entry rules so you don’t waste the steep 30 pound entry fee. Paintings must “be predominantly painted in oil, tempera or acrylic and must be on a stretcher or board, preferably framed and unglazed.” You must have painted the person from life and it must be at least 10×8″ (20×25cm) unframed
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Call for Entries: BP Portrait Award 2010
In celebration of the 50th birthday of the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum’s Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building today (21st October 2009), admission will be free from 10:00 to 17:45. If you get a chance to make use of this opportunity, watch out for special birthday events too, including free cookies at 15h00 to give you some energy for viewing more great paintings. Tip: If the lower levels of the museum are very crowded, get the elevator to the top and walk down rather than up the spiral
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Happy 50th Birthday Guggenheim NY!
“Exclusion is as powerful as inclusion… The less imitation the more suggestion and hence more poetry.” As paintings move away from “specific detail, almost counterintuitively they gain not only the poetic appeal of suggestion over description but also a kind of specificity of place that persists despite (or exactly because of) the elimination of detail.” — Like Breath on Glass , p80. Or in fewer words: “Less makes for more poetic paintings.” See Also: • In the Style of Whistler Painting Project • Who was Whistler Anyway?
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Exclusion is as Power as Inclusion
– Fireweed, a tall, vigorous plant with magenta pink flowers, gets its name from its ability to re-grow quickly in burnt-over areas. Fireweed is used around the world as a medicinal herb for its anti-inflammatory and anti bacterial properties, and as a tea. Young fireweed leaves and shoots are edible, and fireweed honey is a particular treat for folks with a sweet tooth. – . Fireweed Oil on canvas, 5″ x 7″, signed and dated This painting is available for sale. Inquiries email mavis.penney@gmail.com www.mavispenneystudios.com Visit “Off the Highway” our “100 Days 100 Paintings” blog to see more landscapes from Labrador, Canada and Nebraska, U.S
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Fireweed
While I started my curatorial career creating mostly thematic group shows, I have always been most interested in solo or one-person exhibitions. I strongly believe that it takes more than one or two examples of an artists work to really understand the work and get a grasp of what the artist is doing or trying to say. A well curated or developed solo show can provide the viewer with a detailed or comprehensive look at a specific body of work, or of a survey of a longer period of artistic production
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Miquel Barcelo @ the Spanish Pavillion – 53rd La Biennale di Venezia
Brilliant summer sunlight shining through layers and layers of leaves, each leaf reflecting different shades of greens and yellows onto whatever is next to it. Greens and greens and greens! . Dappled Light Oil on canvas, 5″ x 7″, signed and dated This painting is available for sale – $100. USD – shipping extra Inquiries email mavis.penney@gmail.com www.mavispenneystudios.com Visit “Off the Highway” our “100 Days 100 Paintings” blog to see more landscapes from Labrador, Canada and Nebraska, U.S. A.
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Dappled Light
Less than three weeks ago, a forest fire whipped through this timber stand just outside a municipal park near Happy Valley-Goose Bay. Firefighting airplanes, helicopters, firetrucks and ground crews kept the fire from jumping the highway and destroying the RV park on the other side of the road. There were people camped in tents in the area, too, so it was very fortunate that no one was hurt, and the remnants of the fire were put out after several days. And now, not even twenty days afterwards , the roots of these trees are sending out new shoots and greenery in the midst of what looks like destruction. There’s a moral here: Even if you suffer total disaster, if you have firmly grounded roots, you can regrow and grow stronger from the ashes of what surrounds you.
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New Life from the Ashes
For me, lupins are the quintessential summer wildflower. Lupin leaves come in early in the summer, spreading outward from where the plants bloomed the year before, and long spikes shoot up to announce where the luminescent purple-pink blossoms will appear. Cultivated lupins come in spectacular arrays of color, but I find wild lupins beautiful, versatile, tenacious, in fact, everything that I want summer to be. . Twin Lupins Oil on canvas, 5″ x 7″, signed and dated This painting is available for sale – $100.
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Twin Lupins
During the just-concluded National Art Exhibition, Guangdong Eleventh selected entries in the selection of activities, with realism as the main characters sing featuring oil paintings , oil paintings of a group of young artists then come to the fore, created a dramatic landscape. Some people think that: This is the realism of Guangdong as a canvas, following the “Cultural Revolution” after the rise again. However, as we all know, oil painting with realism, as in the West has experienced more than 300 years after the glory, and finally the late 19th century early 20th century, stepped down from the altar of mainstream art gallery museum, “rest”, as a marginal art form, and in line with the era of the beat The Art of the new ideas, forms of wave after wave came forward emerged.
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china young artist ,how to grow ?
There are group of painters in china , had taken their dream canvas of the country, duty-bound to embark on a “gold-plated” tour. After a baptism, now they are with different “Western” to return to the motherland, or “celebration” or “defeat.” They are the “returnees” in the ranks of special groups, returned to their “journey” is even more curious. They are abroad how the cause of the road, why has it returned to China?
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china painting painters ponder