Paintings of France, Italy and Beyond

A few weeks ago, Dan at Empty Easel was kind enough to feature my plein air painting demo on his art site. I’m thankful to him again, because today he’s given me a very nice a write up about the latest landscape paintings I’ve created for my current show  about the luminous landscape.

If you have an interest in the arts, do check out his site. He regularly features the works of artists he’s reviewed from around the internet, plus he has wonderful tips for art and painting as well as Internet art marketing. If you’re an artist, consider submitting your work or an article yourself for a possible feature.

…And if you’re in the Richmond area, my show “Luminosity” is still on view until December 1st, so come by my studio/gallery this Friday during the art walk if you can,  or just contact me to visit the gallery at another time.

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According to Wikipedia,

“Squidoo is a network of user-generated lenses –single pages that highlights one person’s point of view, recommendations, or expertise.”

According to me, it’s pretty addictive! I’ve really been enjoying surfing it, and I’ve also created a couple of lenses of my own. My most recent lens is: Hanging Artwork and Caring for Your Art Collection. While I’ve blogged some of this information before, I’ve included new content on my lens that I hope will be of interest to art lovers and art collectors. I’ve also just updated my other lens on landscape painting with new content, so check them out! And if you enjoy my lenses, please consider leaving a star rating for them at the top of the screen.

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Due to several days of rain, I had a struggle last week getting a good photo of the painting I shared previously  as a “work in progress” (here and here) . Sunshine has returned! Here is the completed painting of an early morning fog landscape in the Blue Ridge mountains (Nelson County):

“Blue Ridge Morning Fog”
Oil on Canvas, 20×24″
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It’s been a wet couple of days here in Richmond, so I’m glad I went out eariler in the week to paint some of the autumn colors in my Northside neighborhood. This little fall street scene vignette was done on location not too far from where I live:

“Falling Leaves on Wilmington Avenue”
Oil on Canvas, 6×8″
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For this plein air painting, I set my easel up just in front of a lovely row of blazing orange-red maple trees in front of Ginter Park Baptist Church. The view looks down Wilmington Avenue to the cross-section where it meets Brook Road.

Just at the end of  Wilmingon on Brook sits the suggestion of a neighboring home. All that was visible through the canopy of trees was a bit of hedge, and then beyond that a front door flanked by two columns.

I think these elements give the eye a place to rest. But the main attraction for me was, of course, the color of those leaves and the patterns of morning light and shadow that fell across the road.

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I decided to let the fog painting rest for a day or two to do a little plein air painting, and think about what I wanted to do next with the studio piece. When I came back to it, the surface had “set up” a bit, which made it easier for me to make adjustments to the color temperature. I decided I didn’t want to wait to make changes to the overall warmth of the painting, so I jumped right in:

As I’m going along I am restating shapes, doing a kind of push and pull with the foreground and background. I’ve reintroduced the telephone poles, which right now I rather like. More work to do but it is starting to take shape.

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