Same farm, different view. The rabbits were having fun and the fog was stunning.
Friday, May 31, 2013
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Cumberland 2
I'll post another one tomorrow.
Labels:
a painting a day,
Cumberland MD,
Loriann Signori
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Thursday, May 23, 2013
at the river
I continue to adjust my new palette. Trips to the river help me look more closely. I take notes of missing sticks and return to the studio and find possible colors that suit. I do like the new arrangement. It helps me think better.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
reorganization of pastel box
I realized (finally) that dividing warm and cool / light and dark has been the way I approach a painting. So I finally decided to reorganize my palette. The columns of the far right and left are the grays, which I used to group together. As I use it I may reorganize the sticks, add or subtract. I ramped up the lights and darks when I noticed that my palette was heavy in the middle and too light on the ends.
What spurred this on? I noticed so many sticks in my box were used little and it didn't really suit the way I think- warm /cool.
My big question is pinks and magentas. Sometimes they seems just fine in cools sometimes in warms. As I say the sorting will continue.... maybe I just have too many pinks.
Have you had the urge to reorganize your palette or box? Why?
This is the trial run painting from the reorganization.
Monday, May 20, 2013
poetry
moonlight |
newbury haystacks in moonlight |
mid-summer moonrise |
a misty morning My favorite quote by him that I keep in my studio is, "The less imitation, the more suggestion and hence more poetry." Poetry steps forward. |
Friday, May 17, 2013
brewing ideas
As I think about the Mountain Maryland Plein Air event in a week and a half I Like to begin to wrap my head around the location. For a distant location I arrive a few days early and "study." For a place like Cumberland, I take visits (2 1/2 hours away) and paint, browse old photos and just think. This particular view has always resonated to my senses ad while I can't use this small painting, it gives me ideas.
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
plein air clouds, three different days
Fun with clouds. All three were done in the field and brought back to the studio. There I simplified each just a tiny bit while seeing each as an abstraction rather than clouds.
Here is a link to one of my past posts with tips on painting clouds.
Labels:
a painting a day,
cloud study,
Loriann Signori
Monday, May 13, 2013
underpainting methods, once again
watercolor underpainting with pastel on top |
That reminds me of a wonderful quote by one of my young students. We were out on the field plein air painting. He asked me, "Is it OK if I just sit and feel and smell the air, look and paint?" Now there is a young painter who gets it!
pastel underpainting on hand toned pastel paper |
Saturday, May 11, 2013
student work
Aviva, age 9 |
Hope, age 13 |
Jennie, age 12 |
I wish I could remember the exact quote from Aviva today. After looking at many different artist's still life paintings (with flowers) we were talking about the differences. It went something like, "Why do people want to paint it realistic with so many details? They could just take a photograph. It has no soul."
Happy Mother's Day everyone!
Labels:
a painting a day,
flowers,
Loriann Signori,
student work
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
beach and clouds
oil, 12 x12 |
PS I have a whole new selection of my skies on display at the Waverly Street Gallery this month. The reception for the show is Friday evening. Come if you can!
Monday, May 6, 2013
sunrise from the parking garage
6x6 pastel study |
I leave you now with a new quote. Just before the master painter Claude-Baptiste-Camille Corot died he said,
"I go on hoping that there will be painting in heaven."
Now there is a man I understand!
Thursday, May 2, 2013
color choices
pastel study, 9x14 |
Labels:
a painting a day,
color choice,
Lake Needwood,
Loriann Signori
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
beach clouds
oil on wood, 6x12 |
"That landscape painter who does not make his skies a very material part of his composition, neglects to avail himself of one of his greatest aids."
The sky is the source of light in Nature. It governs everything."
John Constable
And inspiration from Constable about J.M.W. Turner...
...Turner has outdone himself; he seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent and so airy.
oh to do that!
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