tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post1418722432767396340..comments2024-03-27T11:43:33.889-04:00Comments on Stapleton Kearns: Each brushstroke.....Stapleton Kearnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-3539432186802083412009-05-14T13:20:00.000-04:002009-05-14T13:20:00.000-04:00Richard.
What follows is what I THINK. The gospels...Richard.<br />What follows is what I THINK. The gospels remain wholly silent on this subject.<br /><br />I think their is an enormous difference between outdoor landscape paintings and the studio disciplines. Trying to paint the landscape out of doors by the same method is not very effective. The landscape tends to be made of myriad jots of color that assemble like confetti miraculously thrown to form an image on the ballroom floor. Painting it smoothly like a studio still life, installs an artificial sort of look to it, out of keeping with what goes on out there.<br />When I see studio painters doing landscapes or the legions of photo copying dweebs (of which I am sure you are not one) they all seem to screw up because of this failure to grasp the essential difference in what is going on outside as opposed to in the studio. The impressionist painters and before them Constable discovered and exploited this.It is the ability to deal with the incomprehensible, flickering complexity of nature outdoors that makes the tight studio painter a fish out of water when trying to paint the landscape,which is by its nature pixilated.The previous has been a statement of opinion,albeit an experienced one, and not of fact.<br />........StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-43407947392602929022009-05-14T13:08:00.000-04:002009-05-14T13:08:00.000-04:00Todd;
Thanks. I like to itemize things with bullet...Todd;<br />Thanks. I like to itemize things with bullets. I am glad to hear you think it makes things clearer. <br />...StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-50361248182298850852009-05-14T13:07:00.000-04:002009-05-14T13:07:00.000-04:00Willek;
I am sorry I don't know. I keep clipping f...Willek;<br />I am sorry I don't know. I keep clipping files and it came out of some magazine possibly 20 years ago.<br />You can see a really great one in the Worcester Art Museum though.Much better than this one, one of the very best in fact.<br />..StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-67449567388910136062009-05-14T13:04:00.000-04:002009-05-14T13:04:00.000-04:00Jeremy;
What fun that woulld be. I would love to d...Jeremy;<br />What fun that woulld be. I would love to do that myself. You go in at Bishop. <br />.......StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-53317802140923162152009-05-14T13:03:00.000-04:002009-05-14T13:03:00.000-04:00Jonathan;
Thanks.I intend to break out that part o...Jonathan;<br />Thanks.I intend to break out that part of the post into its separate components soon.<br />.......StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-86025707182329864732009-05-14T13:02:00.000-04:002009-05-14T13:02:00.000-04:00James:
Thank you. I am writing today on key.
....S...James:<br />Thank you. I am writing today on key.<br />....StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-8772087666044730162009-05-14T11:16:00.000-04:002009-05-14T11:16:00.000-04:00As I paint more I am enjoying the ability to get w...As I paint more I am enjoying the ability to get what I want with each brushstroke. I had a tendency to lick the painting with the brush until the stroke was gone. I think a lot of this just comes with time, if you know that it is your goal.<br />I tend to like a well placed brushstroke in a still life too, but I also like the painting to have a look as if it were "breathed" on to the canvas. I have a thing about liking people to look and wonder, "how did he do that." <br />What is your feeling on the difference, if any, of using this mindset on landscape versus a still life or portrait? I suppose the thoughts are the same, but the subject maybe insists on a smoother application. <br />ThanksRichard J. Luschek IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17391295820585129843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-7669335508717341422009-05-14T00:44:00.000-04:002009-05-14T00:44:00.000-04:00Willek:
Thanks, I must establish key by instinct....Willek:<br /><br />Thanks, I must establish key by instinct. I will have to think for a second here.....<br />I am a low key painter. That gives my work a little bit of an unusual look. we are accustomed to outdoor painters being high key. I deliberately set my key down so there is still a lot of colored pigment rather than white in the notes I put in the light. I guess I will talk about key in tonights post.<br />.............StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-18861190854773470602009-05-13T23:15:00.000-04:002009-05-13T23:15:00.000-04:00Great post today...I like it laid out like this..p...Great post today...I like it laid out like this..pow-pow-pow..simple, easy to understand bullets. This is the kind of thing I like to print and keep around the studio. Thanks.Todd Bonitahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01106002893113309433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-55625660603921436752009-05-13T14:28:00.000-04:002009-05-13T14:28:00.000-04:00Boy, That metcals is a showstopper. Where is it, d...Boy, That metcals is a showstopper. Where is it, do you know? WillEKwillekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05626541339963605016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-83147958104782326342009-05-13T13:38:00.000-04:002009-05-13T13:38:00.000-04:00Wow, that is invaluable information. I think a lo...Wow, that is invaluable information. I think a lot about color and value, but you helped me realize I am not paying nearly enough attention to the direction and type of stroke I apply.<br /><br />Also, I think I need to study the California impressionists so that I too, can travel to sites that have been painted before and learn from the artist and location.<br /><br />By the way, my dad is a carpenter by trade, so I won't be needing your table saw. Sorry to rob you of the $4,600.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17579185594957855023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-27562498969969446792009-05-13T13:27:00.000-04:002009-05-13T13:27:00.000-04:00Great post Stape! Very essential in learning stro...Great post Stape! Very essential in learning strokes! They are so important! Thanks again!Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18412392973898601135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-37774811839295066142009-05-13T13:02:00.000-04:002009-05-13T13:02:00.000-04:00STAPE,
I understood the same consideration. Th...STAPE,<br /><br /> I understood the same consideration. That the first thing you do on site is to key your painting and then the herding of sheep follows using all of the painting rules you just expressed in this blog.<br /> Great blog STAPE, this is the type of teaching I need to learn. Your blogs and subjects are making a difference with me and after 4 months I am noticing a difference.<br /> Thanks,<br /><br />JAMESJAMES A. COOKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16882993314906545542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-79842649596663367472009-05-13T06:58:00.000-04:002009-05-13T06:58:00.000-04:00Terrific post, Stape. It is the very practical stu...Terrific post, Stape. It is the very practical stuff we have to know. It makes me wonder how you go about establishing key. Isn't that one of the first considerations? Does the scene yell it at you or do you impose it each picture? WillEKwillekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05626541339963605016noreply@blogger.com