tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post4012751307191856398..comments2024-03-27T11:43:33.889-04:00Comments on Stapleton Kearns: Transferring a drawing, rain, and some photosStapleton Kearnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-27304130338776094932009-09-30T21:52:15.365-04:002009-09-30T21:52:15.365-04:00Sory to beat a dead horse, Stape. But your mention...Sory to beat a dead horse, Stape. But your mention of using photos for reference got me started on this. I spent the day looking for a photo image from two years ago and finally found it after looking at thousands of images. In the process I noticed that thisphenomenon seemed more promenant when looking towards the sun. I think it is because the sun's glare washes over everything and we are also looking at the shadow side of every big and microscopic thing that is so influenced by the bluest sky behidn and above us. Maybewillekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05626541339963605016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-20408802047135919822009-09-30T21:48:19.877-04:002009-09-30T21:48:19.877-04:00Just back from Mt. Desert Island in Maine and boy ...Just back from Mt. Desert Island in Maine and boy did we ever see some fall color! The last time I was up there was June of last year and everything was so much more beautiful this time- late September has the sun lower in the sky and much longer cast shadows. Everything just has more volume and poetry to it. I am lucky to be able to get up to New England as often as I do.Philip Kochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05191070779177407750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-69234243393691896442009-09-30T19:55:01.669-04:002009-09-30T19:55:01.669-04:00Barbara;
Thanks.I suppose I have been out spoken,...Barbara;<br /><br />Thanks.I suppose I have been out spoken,however 90% of what I say would have been common opinion among artists in the 1920's or so. They are ordinary enough ideas in the world of traditional painters in New England. Where I have differed is that I am willing to write them down in a publicly accessible form.<br />.....................StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-38174295691912656192009-09-30T19:49:34.998-04:002009-09-30T19:49:34.998-04:00Jeremy:
I have never done the burnt umber method, ...Jeremy:<br />I have never done the burnt umber method, although I have seen it done. You keep trying to sneak that burnt umber back in here don't you.<br />................StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-59195497183275329312009-09-30T19:47:48.236-04:002009-09-30T19:47:48.236-04:00Marian:
Don't count on it. My life hasn't ...Marian:<br />Don't count on it. My life hasn't been easy and I have had transfer paper all along.<br />.............StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-60776958167291454472009-09-30T19:46:48.685-04:002009-09-30T19:46:48.685-04:00Willek:
I wouldn't know the answer to that unl...Willek:<br />I wouldn't know the answer to that unless I was standing there. I know I am more interested in value than color,<br />.........StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-16676231417899352692009-09-30T19:45:50.943-04:002009-09-30T19:45:50.943-04:00Gregory;
I like old timey things like transfer pap...Gregory;<br />I like old timey things like transfer paper.<br />........StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-51036323123480411182009-09-30T17:30:52.761-04:002009-09-30T17:30:52.761-04:00Thank you Stapleton for sharing. You truly are bl...Thank you Stapleton for sharing. You truly are blessed. Not only as an artist--but as a person who is not afraid to say what he thinks. I envy your color changes in New England. Here in Oklahoma we have only just begun to show a few colors. I can barely wait!<br />I was turned on to your blog by FASO. I love your art history posts. barbara, "Land of Boz"barbara b. land of bozhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17603983800380945501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-13931016223848113792009-09-30T12:10:17.771-04:002009-09-30T12:10:17.771-04:00Bummer about the rain, but it looks like you got t...Bummer about the rain, but it looks like you got the consolation prize of some great photos.<br /><br />By the way, have you ever done a burnt umber transfer? You paint over the back of the paper and then trace that over the new canvas. I can't figure out if I like that or the pencil and transfer paper method more. Thoughts?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17579185594957855023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-5648888694392612812009-09-30T07:36:47.237-04:002009-09-30T07:36:47.237-04:00Thanks again. I have been thinking life would be e...Thanks again. I have been thinking life would be easier with transfer paper..I've mostly been just drawing again from scratch..sometimes it's better, sometimes it's tedious. I do want to get on to the business of painting.Transfer paper here I come!<br /><br />I kept my skyline from E. B. atmospherically blue/violet...a straight shot across the harbor. Will chose something more intricate with a neighborhood home in the foreground. His sky line was distinct but way in the background haze.mariandioguardi.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16963944767715466681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-1410312696875533082009-09-30T07:08:06.702-04:002009-09-30T07:08:06.702-04:00The other day we painted a view of Boston from a h...The other day we painted a view of Boston from a height in East Boston, loooking south. It was a super clear, bright sunny day with one or two cottonballs on an intense blue sky. We commented on the blue and took a lot of pictures. Painted all afternoon and left for home. The results were not great. After viewing the pictures, I realized I had missed all that blue. The blue bathed all the close things too. I have been painting outside a long time and have not noticed this. The camera got it, though, and after I changed the thing and corrected my drawing, it looks a lot better. The problem is how to make the day look bright with all that blue and how to make things recede with all that blue in the foreground. It was a situation with washed out greens and aquas creeping in from the distance kind of breaking our rules of aerial perspective. Do you go with the blue in a situation like this or do you reinterpret the scene to get the aerial perspective you need?willekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05626541339963605016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-85733361702038837552009-09-30T04:03:13.044-04:002009-09-30T04:03:13.044-04:00That's a good transfer method. I think I still...That's a good transfer method. I think I still have an old piece of transfer paper around here somewhere. I transfered a drawing to a panel, then I repenciled it, then I inked it and did an imprimatura layere and I haven't touched it since. I did however become very well aquainted with my subject through that little experience, simply because I drew it so many times.I should go back to it.Gregory Beckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840770708114257366noreply@blogger.com