M. Shawn Cornell’s web site opens with the statement “If you see snow in the painting, it means that the artist was standing in snow. If you see rain in the painting, it means that the artist was getting very wet.” Inexplicably, it requires that you drill down into Paintings , and then choose a sub-section ( summer , spring , etc.) before seeing a color image. Cornell’s paintings, when you do get to them, are rewardingly fresh and lively, with accomplished but abbreviated notation of the subjects, nicely embodying the strengths of the plein air approach. Subjects include rocky bluffs, wooded hillsides, muddy fields, formal gardens and placid streams, mostly of places in Wisconsin, Colorado and …
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Here is a wonderful step by step plein air painting demo by the very talented artist, Cyndra Bradford. Cyndra will demonstrate how she creates a beautiful impressionist style painting of two horses in a farm setting. To master plein air painting takes lots of time and practice. It is definitely a very challenging form of painting as you must work...
Today’s question comes from Marie: Marie Writes: ” Is there a way to produce an oil painting that has FALLING SNOW in it. I saw some paintings in Key West where the artist had falling snow in almost all of his work, however upon questioning the dealer there no one could tell me how this affect is accomplished. Can you?” Do you have...
After a career as an illustrator with clients in the recording and movie industries, California artist Craig Nelson transitioned into gallery art full time. Nelson has a lively, painterly approach in his paintings of landscapes, towns and portraits. Some of his recurring subjects include workers in vinyards, the narrow streets and canals of Italian...
When I first noticed Atlanta based artist Karin Jurick, it was from her early participation in the “ painting a day ” discipline back in early 2006, a then still-young practice among perhaps a dozen or so serious painter/bloggers. I then wrote a dedicated article about her work , noting my admiration for her direct, painterly approach,...
Acrylic landscape painting demonstration of a mountain scene on the Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina with artist Roger Bansemer. In this wonderful video, artist Roger Bansemer demonstrates his techniques for painting outdoors, plein air style, using acrylic paint.
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When is a painting not a painting? Mixed media artist Alexa Meade presents that question in images that look like somewhat painterly expressionist/realist paintings but are in reality painted objects, including people. For her living paintings series Meade applies acrylic paint to the surfaces of objects and walls in way that mimics the appearance...
One of the things that appealed to me right away when I browsed through the (still in progress) portfolio site for concept artist and designer Billy George was the nicely otherworldly color schemes he worked with in his environment paintings for Spacetime’s Blackstar game project (image above, top). He used palettes of seemingly not-of-this-Earth...
I’ve profiled Boston based painter Jeffrey Hayes before (also here and here ). After being an early adopter of the painting a day regimen, Hayes realized that his inclinations required more time, even when painting on an intimate scale. Today he follows that direction, painting small, carefully composed and rendered still life paintings,...
Michigan born painter Sally Tharp graduated from the University of Rhode Island with a BFA, but considers herself a self-taught painter. Her web site features several series of painting themes, including outdoor sign letters and a series of still life objects on shelves and other still life subjects . Her primary focus, however, is a wonderful...
Laurel Daniel is a painter from Austin, Texas, whose fondness for the practice of plein air painting gives her larger studio works a similar freshness and immediacy. She studied at Wheaton College with additional coursework at San Francisco Academy of Art and Austin Museum Art School. In addition to painting full time she also teaches at the Austin...
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