tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post2677603130226554836..comments2024-03-27T11:43:33.889-04:00Comments on Stapleton Kearns: Endless information on edges, pt. 3, continuedStapleton Kearnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-77881351594676749572011-01-07T12:36:12.713-05:002011-01-07T12:36:12.713-05:00Reading the comments I couldn't avoid noting t...Reading the comments I couldn't avoid noting that Rockwell appeared as discussion topic. And I agree with you: Rockwell is a master painter and an illustrator, but the latter just because his paintings were for those kind of purposes. He uses a lot of really advance techniques, and has a deep grasp of several (if not almost every) key priciples of painting. So, I believe he should be equiparated to other great contemporary artists. I actually despise the way a big portion art world dismisses illustration like it was a bastard child, worthless, just because you get commisioned to paint something for a specfic subject o purpose. Then all those commision paintings done by fine artists are illustrations isn't it?, and thus their absurd point is proved as biased. And I believe those are the same people that dismissed Bouguereau, Sargent and all of those great british victorian painters.<br /><br />Well, I guess I've talked too much. I really Like this blog, it's really helpful for my self-education process.Gia aka Miato!https://www.blogger.com/profile/07387609887240161802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-91442385958670280372009-04-26T18:45:00.000-04:002009-04-26T18:45:00.000-04:00Willek:
Pull out your Rembrandt book and you will...Willek:<br /><br />Pull out your Rembrandt book and you will see the same thing.Norman is still underrated. In a generation he will really come into his own in terms of reputation I thjink. Like Hogarth we will stop calling him an illustrator and just go on what the paintings actually look like.<br />...........,StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-46307213735123863172009-04-26T18:39:00.000-04:002009-04-26T18:39:00.000-04:00Richard:
I too am a library criminal. If they hav...Richard:<br /><br />I too am a library criminal. If they have four books on Seago they have got as many as they could have, There are more but they are illustrated by Seago or are of less interest I think. There is a lot out of print on Seago<br />.......StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-30393800097275222382009-04-25T07:58:00.000-04:002009-04-25T07:58:00.000-04:00Amazingly, my library has 4 books on this guy.
I ...Amazingly, my library has 4 books on this guy. <br />I will get them as soon as I pay my library fines down enough to be allowed to check them out.Richard J. Luschek IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17391295820585129843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-43922081004719126662009-04-25T00:14:00.000-04:002009-04-25T00:14:00.000-04:00Hi, Stape. There was, at the Painting Summer exhib...Hi, Stape. There was, at the Painting Summer exhibet at the Peabody Essex Museum a year or two ago, the Rockwell of the family going to and from vacation.<br />It was oil on canvas. The great job he did on the side of the auto caused me to take a closer look. I was amazed that it was just some cool color scumbled over the warm toned canvas (Maybe Linen)that was still very obvious underneath. I was awed by his choice of that usually considered rough technique to give the effect of smooth, cold rolled enameled, steel. Have you seen similar passages? I've got to get out to stockbridge, I guess. WillEKwillekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05626541339963605016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-86501269921379751882009-04-24T18:47:00.000-04:002009-04-24T18:47:00.000-04:00James;
Thank you there are some strange things ab...James;<br />Thank you there are some strange things about doing this,one is that I can't see peoples faces or their body language ao I don't have any idea if I am overemphasizing things or if I haven't fully explained them. I f I writ e something that leaves you scratching your head let me know. I will try to say it in a different way..... StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-79830104527053862382009-04-24T18:43:00.000-04:002009-04-24T18:43:00.000-04:00Jeremy;
Thank you.
I have a few more up my sleev...Jeremy;<br /><br />Thank you.<br /><br />I have a few more up my sleeve. But none are as cool as Seago.....StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-70913880706236245542009-04-24T18:40:00.000-04:002009-04-24T18:40:00.000-04:00Mike:
I would guess, and I am only guessing that ...Mike:<br /><br />I would guess, and I am only guessing that it would be onr of several things under that broom<br /><br />Either sani- flat which was a white paint that the old guys liked to use as a primer. now unavailable. I believe it was lead of course.<br /><br />White lead oil paint. or<br /><br />A mixture of white lead oil paint and real gesso which believe it or no,t can be mixed and used together. This is in fact how Seago textured his canvas. I will describe that to you soon.<br /><br />Art magazine writers often don't know what the hell they are talking about. They know the right noises to make but haven't used the information on a continual day to day basis. The "how to"<br /> art magazines make me furious, I can't let them in the house. I stomp around and mutter until my wife gets impatient with me.<br />......StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-5415142844086360642009-04-24T16:14:00.000-04:002009-04-24T16:14:00.000-04:00STAPE,
I have already ordered those books on se...STAPE,<br /> I have already ordered those books on seago. I have never studied so much as I have been with your blog. Edges are tough for me to know when I should put them down. I know they are important, I have been reading books on them but nobody has explained it the way you do. I am getting it stape, keep it comming , go deeper.<br /> Thank you for your commitment and passion to this blog. You help so many people. God Bless You.<br /><br />JAMESJAMES A. COOKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16882993314906545542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-40927944816326879802009-04-24T13:54:00.000-04:002009-04-24T13:54:00.000-04:00Amazing. I am glad you bring to light lesser know...Amazing. I am glad you bring to light lesser known partists. This guy is a treasure. His edges are wonderful - think I will pick up one of those books and study them in depth. I would have never thought that texturing a canvas would help with edges. I would have guessed it would only help with texture. <br /><br />I am looking forward to the rest of your edge postings. I would buy a book too if you wrote one. This blog is a wonderful preliminary.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17579185594957855023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-87947078456248073072009-04-24T11:59:00.000-04:002009-04-24T11:59:00.000-04:00Stape,
Edges are the bane of my existence. Please...Stape,<br /><br />Edges are the bane of my existence. Please keep talking about them. I once observed that everyone talks about edges but almost no one says what you need to know to actually do them. There must be an unwritten code among the priestly class of art magazine writers to keep this particular incantation a secret.<br /><br />I picked up one of the Rockwell books at the Rockwell Museum on my way home last year and there is a picture of Norman sweeping one of his canvases with a broom to texture it before he painted it. Apparently he put some sort of base material down and swept it and let it dry. Since I didn't read about this until I got home, I failed to look for it in the paintings hanging on the walls at the museum.Mike Thompsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15082719206861489635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-12100025861089254552009-04-24T09:17:00.000-04:002009-04-24T09:17:00.000-04:00Bob;
Thank you,
But wait! There's more!(Several ...Bob;<br /><br />Thank you, <br />But wait! There's more!(Several days more).I am trying to take and each subject I approach, and break it down completely. Someone wrote me that said I was going deep, I like that phrase. The hard part is that I end up presenting both the basics and the grad school info to a group of people who are themselves spread out across the ability scale.<br /><br /> Controlling edges is a very important part of painting.You can tell a whole lot about a painter at a glance by looking at their handling of edges.<br />,,,,,.StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-68479474326148606252009-04-24T08:41:00.000-04:002009-04-24T08:41:00.000-04:00This is the best exposition on edges I have seen a...This is the best exposition on edges I have seen anywhere. This topic is often mentioned in passing (usually little more than an admonition to watch edges), but this is the most explicit explanation of why one should care about controlling edges. Great post, as always.Bob Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16007673748065070945noreply@blogger.com