Showing posts with label Thomas Cole quote. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thomas Cole quote. Show all posts

Friday, September 12, 2014

Four small morning studies and a Thomas Cole quote


7:00am

7:45am

8:20am

9:10am
Here are four of yesterday's small morning studies. It's interesting how the more studies I do the freer I become. The painting develops into its own. It's truer to the feel and less need for description.
I will take these back home and percolate.
I end with a quote from a letter written by Thomas Cole to Asher B Durand.
He explained that her rarely succeeded in painting scenes "immediately on returning from them" because he had to "wait for time to draw a veil over the common details."

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

another retro fave: the importance of sky color

10x10 pastel on watercolor
"The sky is the soul of all scenery. It makes the earth lovely at sunrise and splendid at sunset. In the one it breathes over the earth a crystal-like ether, in the other a liquid gold." Thomas Cole
Doesn't that just say it all? Here is an autumn sunrise. The glory of sunrise is thrilling!

Studio update:
most recent photo
Here are my 3 awesome guys at work: Daddio, Paul (my hubby) and Joel (brother-in-law)
Daddio



Paul and Joel