tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1802166359566683602024-03-05T01:58:17.146-08:00 Sandra Kavanaugh Fine ArtAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14981806876294216137noreply@blogger.comBlogger389125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-180216635956668360.post-10507781894548437632017-11-04T15:51:00.001-07:002017-11-04T15:51:41.446-07:00Listen to your paintingsI've always heard this, it's just that my paintings weren't talking, or maybe I just wasn't listening. Recently, when I hit troubling passages instead of wrestling it to the ground, I've heard the painting say "walk away"<br />
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Today I started a pastel based on the oil study I did in Amesbury on Thursday. I wanted it light, ethereal, moody and overcast. I kept the underpainting light and was happy with the alcohol wash. I did the trees first to lock them in following the advise on Liz Haywood Sullivan's video "Mixing Greens"<br />
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It didn't start to go wrong until the block-in when I started to place my dark and medium greens. I had to leave, family errands called including a trip to the dump. On the way home I heard the painting say " too soon with the greens, keep the block-in violet and purple in tone.<br />
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I brushed out the greens, as much as I could, and added dark and mid purples, violets and mauves for my block-in. I think it is going to be ok, I'll work more on it tomorrow.<br />
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underpainting using pinks and purples</div>
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block-in after brushing out the too deep greens and replacing them with violets and purples</div>
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I am trying to re-organize myself and my painting life. At the first of the year I will have a new system for cataloging my paintings but for now I want to start recording my processes to better understand what works and what doesn't.</div>
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Today's painting was of a pomagranite, started yesterday as a grisaille using brown madder. I used a 6x6 panel with a linen oil primed surface. I started the painting using liquin impasto as a medium. After several wipe-outs I took a break. When things do not go well with my painting I go up to the house and cook. I made Rippolitto for lunch and a huge batch of marinara sauce as well as prepping my vegetables for tomorrow's pizza. Well then it was time to face the painting which I finished using a 50% mix of OMS and linseed oil. I am not totally happy with it but tomorrow is a new day.<br />
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I also did a little pastel study based on an earlier version of Tancredi. 6x8 on Uart 400 mounted with 3M to foam core. I painted the surface with black gesso and then with clear gesso to give it more texture. While working I realized that the original was on a board painted with a sienna acrylic which would have been a better choice. All the more reason to continue my journal of technical info.</div>
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11/2/17 Plein air today in Amesbury</div>
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Practicing stopping before I over-work. I have been away from oils for a while and have gotten rusty. If I do one small one a day for the month of September it may come back to me. I liked starting this in yellows and violets.</div>
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I worked on this for a day, trying to convince myself that I could still paint. Wiping out at least three times. I was losing the battle. The next morning I couldn't wait to get to the studio and throw it in the trash but when I got there I found it wasn't as bad as I thought, or worth rescuing or at least not admitting defeat. I changed the base from wood-tone to light and moved the lower flower closer to the pitcher. I continued working until suddenly the painting told me it was finished. I won, its ok but I still won't buy it a frame.</div>
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This was based on yesterday's study. I am happy with some of it but still like the study better. I like these portrait style landscapes with masses of trees and light peeking out from behind.</div>
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I believe this was art spectrum white. I used graphite for the grisaille. The problems I had with this I am attributing to the surface. Maybe if I am trying to compare techniques I ought to stick with a known background.</div>
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Trying something new. I stretched cold-pressed watercolor paper, painted my underpainting, coated it with pumice gel and then pasteled on top. It was interesting to do and I may try it again larger.</div>
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For this painting I followed Liz Haywood Sullivan's lessons in her book "painting Brilliant Skies and Water" using my own reference photo. I am trying to find a method of painting that works for me.This is the first step, an underpainting washed down with alcohol.</div>
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The surface of this is Pastel Premier, white. It handled well and did not buckle with the alcohol wash but the tooth seemed rougher than I remembered possibly due to the missing Giraults that I rely on to blend.</div>
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I named this "Hope" because after a rainy week-end the sun was just starting to break through on my way home from the mountains.</div>
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This is 4 times the size of my usual work and I was surprised at how much I enjoyed working larger.</div>
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I experimented with this one using thicker paint. I thought it was a wipe-out but then I stepped back and realized I didn't hate it. I want to work on the background row of trees. I tried to break up the shape but it still needs more, maybe a tree or two in the middle ground. I tried to continue the water to the middle ground but wiped it. I may try again. I am getting better at the foreground grasses, a big brush instead of a tiny one - who knew!</div>
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I have been very pleased so far. She had me start with a grisaille which I find a very comfortable way to work. It feels like getting the drawing and composition right before adding color. I let that dry for a week. The part that comes next was new to me. I mixed 4 bottles of medium with different proportions of Gamsol to linseed oil. 3 to 1, 1 to 1, 1 to 3, and the last pure linseed oil. The first pass is a glazing one using transparent color and the 3 to 1 medium. It added a little color but mainly served as an oiling out for the next layer of more opaque color. I worked on this again in the third lesson with Julie offering suggestions for softening edges. I would have done this by blending the tops of the trees with the sky, she did it by adding a third color, mixed to show light hitting the edges.</div>
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This is the version I worked on in my own studio. Classwork is fun and interesting but I also want to be able to work on my own. I used one of my standard Blick cradled panels but otherwise I followed the same techniques I used in class. This time I played a little more with imaginative color. It was interesting to note that the panels were not what was giving me problems before but the lack of a system of mediums.</div>
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I have been re-doing some of the pastels I completed in Ed Chesnovitch's class. This version is on pastelmat, the original was on Uart. I am enjoying the smooth surface. I have been working slower making sure to do thumb nails and notans and it helps.</div>
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This is my favorite tree. It's the view from my sun room and former studio. I did the first version of it in a class with Ed Chesnovitch and decided to re-do all the paintings from that class to see how much I could apply what I learned and improve on the originals. I am happy with this one and especially happy working on pastelmat - my new favorite paper.</div>
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I struggled with the larger version of this scene, I still haven't resolved it. I thought I would take it easy and do a small version - it wasn't. I struggled with this one too and finally decided to blame my reference photo. It looks like the water in the upper body might spill out.</div>
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This still needs some tweaking but I am happy with it so far. I like it better than the alla prima version I did last week of the same scene.</div>
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I did this study on a 5x7 mounted piece of U-Art that had been used and washed off. My aim was to see if the pastels I loaded into my Heilman box would be enough for a landscape like this. The box and it's set up on my tripod worked beautifully. The colors were enough, I only added two. The Ludwigs seemed to work even better broken in half.</div>
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<li>I started with too deep a pink for the sky and it was difficult to tone down.</li>
<li>The line of trees in the background is the same width as the marsh grass in front of them, the tree line should be narrower. </li>
<li>The distant marsh grass is too vibrant and pulls the eye and doesn't receede.</li>
<li>The mid ground grass band is too uniform, it should be wider on the left and the right side should fade into the distance</li>
<li>The reflection on the lower left should dip down more</li>
<li>The floating reeds should not follow the exact direction of the grasses and should not be centerred. They also are too uniform</li>
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My new Heilman Sketch Box arrived today. It is beautifully designed and made. The box snaps onto the tripod my son-in-law found for me and the easel slides into two holes in the box. Very light weight and sturdy. It even has a snap on tray for the pastels in use.</div>
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I love landscapes but my oil landscapes are not good yet and it frustrates me but I know the reason and I have a plan.<br />
3 years ago when I got back into oil painting my still life's were not very good but after about 300 paintings they got better. I can say the same for my pastel landscapes. So the plan is paint more and see what happens. This is #1 of 100.<br />
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I did two pastel studies to decide which image to complete in oil and I chose this one. My plan was to complete one version alla prima and do the same scene again with a grisaille. This was complicated by the fact that I switched to oil primed canvas rather than my usual acrylic primed panel.<br />
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The only thing that kept me from wiping this completely was feeling that I could not count it as #1 if I did not salvage it. I like some of it, the suggestion of houses by the far trees, the touch of marsh water reflecting the sky but overall it has none of the sophistication of the pastel version. Well actually I pretty much dislike it.<br />
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On the way home from Plum Island we saw the sun setting behind the pink house. Of course we had to stop and photograph it even if it was only with our phones. I would love to see this landmark restored, there is even a "save the pink house" group.</div>
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This is soft pastels, Girault, Ludwigs and Senneliers. I have been working on pastelmat lately and really enjoying the smooth surface.</div>
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This is the graphite underpainting</div>
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Well I started the 30 in 30 to get painting more, I especially wanted to work on landscapes. For the first week or so I did small pastel studies but then the desire to do larger works took over. I painted and forgot to post and painted some more. In the end I did 29 finished pieces of all different sizes.</div>
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I sent five in to a local gallery show, have one to enter in an upcoming pastel show, painted plein aire in the winter and have a new plein aire friend. A very successful month and now I am headed to the studio to paint some more.</div>
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