tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post4404264253564816864..comments2024-03-27T11:43:33.889-04:00Comments on Stapleton Kearns: Its dissection time again!Stapleton Kearnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-60224214566722990852009-07-27T22:56:50.447-04:002009-07-27T22:56:50.447-04:00Stape, when I was reading your critique I was thin...Stape, when I was reading your critique I was thinking how values get closer together as they recede into the distance. <br />This is going to sound like bs but I pictured a flashlight shining on a series of white poles lined up. I could see that not only did the light have a fall off effect but the intensity of contrast also had a fall off effect.<br />I don't know if it's a sound theory but it makes sense.<br />Did I coin a phrase?Gregory Beckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840770708114257366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-43844778103502798302009-07-27T22:34:09.573-04:002009-07-27T22:34:09.573-04:00Up all night? wow, thanks for hanging in there for...Up all night? wow, thanks for hanging in there for all our benefit.<br />I've never been dissected, but once I had to have a scope run through my sinus cavities into my lungs with NO ANESTHESIA. I think that maybe came close.<br /><br />password ho!<br /><br />"tarrhypo" under utilization of tarr.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01799016923038189074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-75153317605974868072009-07-27T21:48:32.654-04:002009-07-27T21:48:32.654-04:00Marian
Thanks. That tree is a turnaround. Rather ...Marian<br /> Thanks. That tree is a turnaround. Rather than allowing the eye to go out of the painting there, it guides it up and to the mountian.<br />.................StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-57344667446761667682009-07-27T21:46:47.989-04:002009-07-27T21:46:47.989-04:00Deb
Thanks.It is hart to find the dissection pictu...Deb<br />Thanks.It is hart to find the dissection pictures but is easier than being dissected.<br />.............Stape<br />What, no passwordStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-90986997532909126132009-07-27T21:43:28.823-04:002009-07-27T21:43:28.823-04:00Jeremy
Thanks. I was up all night on that thing.
...Jeremy<br /><br />Thanks. I was up all night on that thing.<br />................StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-41313577588033170352009-07-27T21:42:02.205-04:002009-07-27T21:42:02.205-04:00Simone
Thanks.That Loomis book is available online...Simone<br />Thanks.That Loomis book is available online. I hear it is going to be reprinted.<br />................StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-79758562757140390192009-07-27T21:37:54.790-04:002009-07-27T21:37:54.790-04:00Willek
Do you know Anthony Cirinos paintings of pi...Willek<br />Do you know Anthony Cirinos paintings of pigeon cove.If anywhere needs a figure In guess it wojuld be there.<br />I dont ut many figures in my landscapes. They command so much attention that they often become the subject of the painting.But harbor scenes cry out for a figure.<br />.......................StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-75778634155490162772009-07-27T21:33:37.260-04:002009-07-27T21:33:37.260-04:00Gregory
I was suggesting that atmospheric perspec...Gregory<br /><br />I was suggesting that atmospheric perspective isn't always the best solution or even necessarily the appearance of nature.Where did you get the phrase contrast fall off. I known what you ,but I have never heard it put that way.<br />..................StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-10547943547499030492009-07-27T20:41:22.155-04:002009-07-27T20:41:22.155-04:00This was an excellent critique. I wish I could eye...This was an excellent critique. I wish I could eye my own work that way. The simplification of the foliage brought more strength to the painting as a whole and to the figure specifically. I also like what unifying the dark green shadows did for the reds.And the placing the shadows on the ledge above against the new blue sky all seem simple enough but takes years of an expert eye to see. It's a little thing but I wonder whether or not the dead tree off to the left adds anything. I think I'd like to see that taken out.mariandioguardi.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16963944767715466681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-59984783535987081372009-07-27T20:09:26.144-04:002009-07-27T20:09:26.144-04:00Wow, Stape. You make this look so easy. I thought...Wow, Stape. You make this look so easy. I thought it looked okay before, but what you did, particularly in simplifying the dark trees, and moving that bush in front of the figure made all the difference in the world.<br /><br />thanks for sharing such valuable tips. <br />Oh, and love the dissection picture. Where the heck do you GET those, anyway?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01799016923038189074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-39269650592819672062009-07-27T12:52:17.278-04:002009-07-27T12:52:17.278-04:00It is amazing to me how making a bunch of small tw...It is amazing to me how making a bunch of small tweaks on what looks to be a good painting can really make it sing. I guess it's that extra 10%.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17579185594957855023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-25959284868257539442009-07-27T08:34:46.946-04:002009-07-27T08:34:46.946-04:00Stapleton, I love these crits. I wish I had thoug...Stapleton, I love these crits. I wish I had thought of it myself. I also think sharing your knowledge this way is extremely generous. Thank you.<br /><br />Sacrificing the details in that shrubbery in favor of more clearly stated lights and shadows does make the painting read better. A valuable lesson to be sure. It reminds me of something I read in Andrew Loomis' Creative Illustration.Robert J. Simonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06799208093956328662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-47185588139880068702009-07-27T07:05:36.153-04:002009-07-27T07:05:36.153-04:00All really good comments, Stape. The Photoshopping...All really good comments, Stape. The Photoshopping is a great way to illustrate your points. I have been thinking a lot about using the figure in my landscapes and seascapes and about how to go about it. Hudson river guys made them really small so as not to detract from the intent of their picture and to emphasize the grandeur. I really like Jeff Weaver's use of the working men in his Gloucester-scapes. they make a social commentary. I painted a trout stream in Townsend a month or so ago and could not find a way to place a fisherman in it without making the whole thing cornball. In your own painting of the Ducktrap in the other day's post, you used two figures on that happened by. They helped the composition and I could imagine the observer placing themselves in their spot. In this picture the figure seems to be an alter ego of the painter. That is, the view in the picture and the view of the painted figure are similar, suggesting the person in the painting is the painter. It seems that every time a human is placed into a landscape the interpretation/intent of the picture becomes changed. Yet, I am doing a picture now of Pigeon Cove and with no figures the effect is of loneliness and desolation. Moreover, what that figure is doing and where it is looking also has an effect in the picture. You do not appear to use figures very often.<br /><br />Ovasm= a xxxxing of the XXXX when XXXXX and XXX in XXXXX.<br /> WillEKwillekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05626541339963605016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-5041819407243833132009-07-27T04:41:42.839-04:002009-07-27T04:41:42.839-04:00Considering the importance of atmospheric perspect...Considering the importance of atmospheric perspective as well as color perspective and how light effects those, it sounds like your suggesting that it is equally important to harmonize the effect of contrast fall off.Gregory Beckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840770708114257366noreply@blogger.com