A student from my workshop in Rolling Fork has graciously e-mailed me a series of pictures he took of the progress of that demo. I will post them tonight. I often see this done with commentary like " and now I put in the wave" I will spare you that. I think you can see the process. I will answer questions though, or evade them and answer them in the later series I intend to do. This is a live demo in front of a class. I think I worked about three hours. I had no photos or reference of any kind and this is an imagined scene and not a real place I have memorized. It was invented using knowledge of wave anatomy and something about how light reveals form. I have also painted hundreds of these invented seascapes.
This is not the seascape chapter I promised, but I thought it was such a good series of pictures I would post them. I have to do some prep work for that or I would start it now. The man behind the curtain is paddling furiously.
And there you have it , my dear.
That is what I'm talking about. Beautiful.
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ReplyDeleteSuch a beautiful painting in such a short time...amazing! I'm surprised that the brown underpainting didn't smear up into the color that you were applying on top of it? Was it oil paint?
ReplyDeleteThe value planes read very well, especially the horizontal plane!
ReplyDeleteReflections in front of the rock are exquisite! Such a wonderful little painting. Love seeing the process
ReplyDeleteTo quote one of my favorite literary characters, Junie B.Jones,
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Incredible, Mr. Kearns, and even more so for having been done in a demo setting. As Junie would say, you were "speedy fast".
This really is impressive. You've got major skills Mr. Kearns. I need to see this live someday. I hope to catch one of your workshops.
ReplyDeleteI missed that you had no reference and this was from your imagination!! There aren't a lot of artists who are able to pull off one this beautiful with the scene in front of them!! You really do ROCK! :)
ReplyDeleteImagination wave #2 demo is even snazzier than wave #1 demo... That warm cloud light is delightful over that cool wave action Stapleton.
ReplyDeletePoetry inspired by the words of Kearns:
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by Marian Dioguardi
The sea is a broken mirror
tossed into the clouds of the day.
Rocks into sand;
it will all wash away.
Memory remembers.
I'm amazed! Can't wait to see you paint in real life at the "Lupine World" workshop.
ReplyDeleteI strongly suspect that this is magic and not an actual painting demo at all LOL
ReplyDeleteYou are amazing!!
Fabulous!
ReplyDeleteLOOK!! Up in the sky!! It's a bird..It's a plane.. It's, It's ..
ReplyDeleteStapelton Kerns with a brush!!
You lead the field Stape.
I have never been so impressed with an Artist as I am with you!
Thanks for all you do.
You MADE THIS UP!?! I worship at your gigantic, Cabela-clad feet!
ReplyDeleteI can really see the mastery of your paint handling in this demo. I am assuming this was alla prima, and no mud or smeary edges where you don't want them. For example, your colors in the sky don't look over-mixed even though you were painting wet into wet. I keep struggling to keep things separate.
ReplyDeleteThis demo brings up a question about layering colors and color intensity. Some painters seem to lay in an intense color first, and then scumble over that with grays closer to local color to form variation. Others seem to start out with a grave color (painting the value more than anything), and inject colorful passages on top of that. In this painting you seem to do both. The sky seems like you start with an intense color, and then gray that with blues, while the rocks start with a darker and graver color, and then you add variations of more intense color on top of that. Any thoughts on the separate processes and when you use them?
Awesome...
ReplyDeleteFabulous! When you catch up on your paddling, maybe some "sky" lessons. This one is beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI think one has to paint a LOT of waves, skies, rocks and sea foam before one can wing it like this in a three hour demo. Totally shocked and awed am I.
ReplyDeleteGregory:
ReplyDeleteThank you. I wondered what you were talking about!
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Mary:
ReplyDeleteI almost always wear gloves I don't like paint on my hands. I am VERY messy.I don't however wear them on hot summer days. If I wear them in the sun my arms tan and my hands stay white. I end up looking like Mickey Mouse!
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Linda:
ReplyDeleteIt is sienna and I don't mind if a little bit gets up into the painting. It looks OK when it does. But I washed it in with my solvent and it flash dries.
I enjoyed meeting you and the talent twins in Cincinnati.
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Simone:
ReplyDeleteI had to lay down to paint those!
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ReplyDeleteThe painting is a 16 by 20.
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Deb;
ReplyDeleteI don't know Junie Jones. Was she in a band with Rod Argent?
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Todd:
ReplyDeleteWhy don't you come to LupenWorld?
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Yvonne:
ReplyDeleteThank you. I couldn't pull it off with nature in front of me either. It is an imaginary scene that operates according to its own internal logic .
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Mary:
ReplyDeleteThank you. It seems everybody likes this one. It sold the next day.
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Jan:
ReplyDeleteThank you. I feel better as I struck out when we painted together.
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Woodward Simons;
ReplyDeleteIt should be a lot of fun up at the inn with no outside world distractions. The outside world actually freezes into stasis while we are there.
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Cindy:
ReplyDeleteYour avatar gives the impression that you yourself may be fabulous also.
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Marian:
ReplyDeleteThe sea is a writhing problem,
It simply won't hold still.
But if you do it from a photo
Its always run of the mill.
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Bill:
ReplyDeleteGee thanks.I hope I can live up to that.
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Barbara:
ReplyDeleteI didn't need em down in Mississippi.
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Jeremy:
ReplyDeleteI work either way, whichever gets me to my result.
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Chad:
ReplyDeleteThank you.In person though, I am loathsome.
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Chad:
ReplyDeleteThank you.In person though, I am loathsome.
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Peggy;
ReplyDeleteI intend to do a series on skies eventually.
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Carol:
ReplyDeleteI have painted a lot of seascapes and done many as demos.
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By the way, Todd here has a solo show starting this weekend at the Rockport Art Assoc... If anybody's in the area, it will be a good one.
ReplyDeleteTodd:
ReplyDeleteGood luck with that! What are the dates?
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Excellent! Thank you for posting this.
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