tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post4207544772078114592..comments2024-03-27T11:43:33.889-04:00Comments on Stapleton Kearns: Dissecting a Hibbard 2Stapleton Kearnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-88750237358867806232009-03-29T09:16:00.000-04:002009-03-29T09:16:00.000-04:00James;I think you are right in a number of those o...James;<BR/><BR/>I think you are right in a number of those observations. I might use the word balance or offset rather than mirror. I hate mirrors.<BR/>Those little spots of red are important. They ARE little accents that lead yopur eye around that part of the painting and decorate it as 3ell...........StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-19752018471336006262009-03-28T20:53:00.000-04:002009-03-28T20:53:00.000-04:00Stap, You have answered my questions I had yeste...Stap,<BR/> You have answered my questions I had yesterday. That Hibbards design is imposed on nature. He sets his easel up and takes what subjects are in front of him and puts them together to make his design for this painting. Great note you had on linking the darks together to simplify design. May I point out other things I have notice in his design and please let me know if I am seeing this right. <BR/> I see a lot of opposites or mirrored objects in this painting. The red barn on the left faces the barn on the right, the big tree on the right is mirrored with its shadow on the red barn roof on the left. The mountain slopping down on the left is mirrored as it starts to slope up on the right. The shape of the roof to the left of the yellow house is the opposite shape to the little roof next to the barn on the right. The road as it winds to the right is mirrored by winding to the left .<BR/> Also if the big tree to the right wasn't positioned there the viewer would tend to wander out of the picture. The tree helps keep the viewer into the painting. Finally the use of red on the roof tops for the chimneys and the red hat leads my eyes and attention around the center part of this painting. Am I seeing to much into this. <BR/>JAMESJAMES A. COOKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16882993314906545542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-13583043903912944072009-03-28T10:28:00.000-04:002009-03-28T10:28:00.000-04:00Thanx Frank: I have always wanted to get up into t...Thanx Frank:<BR/> I have always wanted to get up into that Payne country. Will you post about the trip and show the result? I would like to see what got made. I have painted Tahoe several times. Have you ever been to Bishop?<BR/><BR/> Someday I will get there.Till then I have Vermont and the White mountains, I can be on location in Sharon VT. which is Hibbard country in a little over an hour, and I can paint in Cornish, New Hampshire, where Metcalf worked in about an hour.So I do have good locations close enough, but the scale is not so grand as Payneland ......StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-54074010876659183442009-03-28T10:07:00.000-04:002009-03-28T10:07:00.000-04:00Stape..Great Post..Very true about what you said a...Stape..Great Post..Very true about what you said about " how it is done " concerning painting familiar objects. I like what Delacroix said..its not so much new ideas that fascinate, its that there is still more to be said about familiar ideas ( something like that ).<BR/><BR/> Hey..painted my first plein air of snow yesterday. Started out painting those Sierra Buttes captured by Edgar Payne. I learned alot.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06853491825832197697noreply@blogger.com