I’ve written a couple of times about a book that has fascinated me for some time, Margaret Livingstone‘s “Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing”. Written by a Harvard neurobiologist,
Month: February 2007
The other day, one of my favorite artist-bloggers Michael Chesley Johnson wrote about his “Viewing Mantle”, on his blog, “A Plein Air Painter’s Blog”. He writes, “In my opinion, an
Last day of the workshop. Boy, I’m exhausted. Here are my two studies today. When my notebook arrives (it’s with my art materials, coming home FexEx Ground), I’ll write a
We painted still life setups outside today. Beautiful day, a little too warm in fact. I got bored painting still life, so painted two other artists. One painting of a
We started the day reviewing a slide show that Gay had prepared, including works by her teacher Serge Bongard. I completed two in-class studios and one quick painting after class.
Gay painted the demo below, then we spent the day painting small studies (about 30 minutes each). Gay started with the basic drawing: Started with darks, and as usualy takes
I’m not going to write a lot of thoughts tonight about this day and workshop as I would like to absorb more lessons and “boil it down” effectively. For now,
“I am going on with my researches…I am continually making observations from nature, and I feel I am making some slight progress.” Paul Cezanne at age 67, a month before
Painted this Sunday at Alta Lake. Just chilled. Didn’t focus on composition, only getting accurate Sierra greens. As per other posts, I’ve struggled with this color (especially pine trees), so
Did this quick study yesterday while the guys went for a hike. Still working on those greens! This is a lousy photo, I’ll update with a new one when I