tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.comments2024-01-18T08:14:28.278-05:00Stapleton KearnsStapleton Kearnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comBlogger14469125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-59678209258748568282023-11-22T18:38:38.824-05:002023-11-22T18:38:38.824-05:00I’ve fumbling around with my top ten list again …
...I’ve fumbling around with my top ten list again …<br /><br />Ryder<br />Bellows<br />Sargent <br />Thayer<br />Whistler<br />Rothko<br />Twachtman<br />Hartley<br />Diebenkorn<br />Church<br /><br />Runner ups:<br />Bunker <br />Cassatt<br />Homer<br /><br />Probably a few different artist tomorrow.😂<br /><br />Just my 2 cents, David Kasmankasmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15401458678066492302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-6178896402772572932023-01-27T21:39:40.747-05:002023-01-27T21:39:40.747-05:00This comment has been hidden from the blog.mdmattinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18215455490958117703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-81936584882135991562023-01-06T14:06:37.024-05:002023-01-06T14:06:37.024-05:00This comment has been hidden from the blog.Stapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-38520160936631111862021-02-15T09:36:48.622-05:002021-02-15T09:36:48.622-05:00This comment has been hidden from the blog.Neil Whitinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11745145209473323562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-78578636219917553012020-01-28T14:40:12.324-05:002020-01-28T14:40:12.324-05:00This comment has been hidden from the blog.Stapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-23128229473835036652019-12-25T16:05:23.512-05:002019-12-25T16:05:23.512-05:00A question about drawing ... when used in the foll...A question about drawing ... when used in the following context, how long is a season?<br /><br /> “If you can draw well you can learn to paint in a season.”<br /><br />Are we talking summertime, a long dreary winter, or something even more enduring like maybe hockey season?<br /><br />Thank you!Sue Ginter -- LPGA Golf Professionalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17444876233671288935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-18526215287215886352019-12-24T01:55:32.942-05:002019-12-24T01:55:32.942-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Painting serviceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10456110408732136927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-26214578378570209492019-12-22T21:43:48.629-05:002019-12-22T21:43:48.629-05:00This comment has been hidden from the blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-60007669211291384962019-12-21T08:01:30.419-05:002019-12-21T08:01:30.419-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.ahmedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11141413394974446992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-81809843688745049632019-02-15T21:36:01.957-05:002019-02-15T21:36:01.957-05:00This comment has been hidden from the blog.mdmattinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18215455490958117703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-28358532991519682652018-12-31T16:24:48.257-05:002018-12-31T16:24:48.257-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Stapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-24503306749912811362018-03-01T10:22:09.343-05:002018-03-01T10:22:09.343-05:00Dearest Stapleton,
Your work is amazing. And your...Dearest Stapleton, <br />Your work is amazing. And your reputation proves that. Congratulations on a wonderful career. <br />I did do exactly as you recommend and got Lyme. <br />So I’m here today to request that you consider using permethrin on your boots. Most ticks come up from the ground or they are in tall grass. They are heat seeking and notice you moving. They walk around on you for a while before attaching and they annesthetise you do you won’t feel the bite. <br />If you want to make me really happy after spraying your boots you’d spray your pants too and for extra appreciation get a shirt that is treated. The clothes do not smell when dry and any tick that crawls on you will jump off. <br />Spring and fall are the most dangerous times because the “adult” ticks are out, some which carry multiple diseases and they are hungry. <br />In Vermont 50% of ticks test positive for diseases. (The tick report UMass). <br />Ticks are not repeld by deet, works great for mosquitoes but not ticks. I’m living proof of that. The tick that bit me went over my belt and got be in the lower back where I now have permanent nerve damage. <br />Be safe out there. Keep up the fine work. <br /><br />:)Deborah Lazarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12343105426604216350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-19471662984051445342017-12-20T17:25:25.873-05:002017-12-20T17:25:25.873-05:00This comment has been hidden from the blog.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12585770823756415164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-81787816799138276252017-10-05T08:18:28.855-04:002017-10-05T08:18:28.855-04:00Hi Stape, I'm glad I have come across your blo...Hi Stape, I'm glad I have come across your blog. I'm a Fine Arts students (actually, just a crash course one) and been reading your blog. I started with the 2012 ones. I just want to thank you for sharing your knowledge. You are a great teacher. Will continue reading your entries to the end.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07288292599219110118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-41024328827683743702017-04-02T09:13:51.338-04:002017-04-02T09:13:51.338-04:00Rabbit-skin glue is not archival and is prone to c...Rabbit-skin glue is not archival and is prone to cracking. Use more modern (and ultimately more humane) materials.tbahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12822157237350563109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-69357242791650862052017-03-11T04:59:50.612-05:002017-03-11T04:59:50.612-05:00Is the first painting of the ruins (stairs) done b...Is the first painting of the ruins (stairs) done by Frank Duveneck or you??cutegift2001https://www.blogger.com/profile/13843885340958504615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-64474777019179411972017-02-09T09:06:27.495-05:002017-02-09T09:06:27.495-05:00Thank you for the time you spend putting these pos...Thank you for the time you spend putting these posts up. I've been studying an approach that creates the vibration but without all the jumpy brokenness of value shifts. Working with temperature shifts of the same value creates a calmer effect, but it is very interesting to see a style that intentionally used shifts in value. I didn't realize that's how Metcalf was doing this. Thanks again!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09592110937643503469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-23823966335814384432017-01-22T14:20:27.946-05:002017-01-22T14:20:27.946-05:00Thanks for checking in with us. Your blogs are alw...Thanks for checking in with us. Your blogs are always like a visit from an old friend.<br />I'm always interested in discovering the impetus of such experiments, techniques, and style shifts in painting history. Was it deliberate insight or fear of being perceived as a producer of the expected? Maybe someone simply had extra paint and sat around doodling and came up with this?<br />Your post also got me thinking about something else that I’d love to hear you speak about: Today there is so much interest in "creative authenticity" that it's starting to sound like a cliché. In 2004 Ian Roberts wrote an excellent book by that title. I've gone to a tent meeting or two recently where authenticity is being preached by artists (Bit of irony: no credit went to Roberts!) Are some of today’s artists going out of their way to try to break out of the expected to tell an "honest" story? Or is that truly how “the next big thing” comes to be? To me, artistic authenticity is a bit like falling in love- it works if it is done in a relaxed and confident way without showing the viewer your intent or by being uptight and tedious. <br />Finally- I read a quote to novel writers this week that resonated: "It is not the words- it is the story." <br />Looking forward to your book and also your visit to Mississippi this fall!Dot Coursonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00480008607594406482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-34967534240264569542017-01-18T10:43:30.338-05:002017-01-18T10:43:30.338-05:00Great to read you again. I was beginning to worry...Great to read you again. I was beginning to worry that you had been picked off by cranky snowflakes and were being held by them deep in the Crimean oil fields until W&N started making cinnamon flavored Anti-Republican purple paint. Please don't stay away for another year.broker12https://www.blogger.com/profile/06847087732827334328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-31792941060448870412017-01-16T23:57:52.171-05:002017-01-16T23:57:52.171-05:00Thank you! Looking forward to the next post. I'...Thank you! Looking forward to the next post. I've always thought the California Impressionists managed to have both form and broken color.Theresa Grillo Lairdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11854169015176728236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-71630352048687966762017-01-16T22:00:55.083-05:002017-01-16T22:00:55.083-05:00It's good to see you writing again Stape.
I wi...It's good to see you writing again Stape.<br />I will say for the rest of my life that going to Snowcamp made me a better painter...I still to this day pull out Snowcamp-teachings when I am painting.<br /><br />Hey let's go back to the Met and hang out with Monet & friends with their broken color, when you have the time.<br />Stay well.stapeliadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09951276488090818096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-73511073783791151802017-01-16T10:25:30.819-05:002017-01-16T10:25:30.819-05:00So great reading your post Stape; I'm glad you...So great reading your post Stape; I'm glad you ended with the statement about this technique's advantages, and disadvantages- throughout my reading I kept thinking 'but what about Notan?'<br /><br />I've been trying to employ this broken color effect. For a landscape would you think it useful to change the brushstroke size to imply distance i.e. larger marks for the foreground, gradually smaller towards the far distance? I've been studying too much I fear, and making everything complicated. Cold water must be thrown in my face, thanks!Judy P.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09176284042670900772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-57665692283968814992017-01-16T09:23:12.528-05:002017-01-16T09:23:12.528-05:00Many thanks thanks Stapeton for this very intersti...Many thanks thanks Stapeton for this very intersting subject on the Impressionists,I am very much a fan and try to put some of this colored rice effect into my pictures.<br />I very much look forward to to what you have to say as to how the next generation of painters handled form and still retained that shimmering effect of light.<br /><br />Thanks again for all the knowledge you pass on to us and free of charge too!<br /><br />All the very best to you.<br /><br />LouisAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01765196553777576146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-31241420306895570582017-01-01T23:34:46.678-05:002017-01-01T23:34:46.678-05:00I took classes as a high school student from Annet...I took classes as a high school student from Annette Leseuer Hathaway at Atelier Lack, Uptown Minneapolis. I learned pen& ink watercolor illustration, charcoal & oil still life and figure drawing, weekends, evening week nights. The environment was inspiring and fulfilling-she was a patient & gifted teacher who gave freely of her knowledge and the rigor was stimulating. There was a massive allegorical painting done by Lack at the end of the hall entry that was an example of the ultimate to attain. One day we were invited to Richard Lack's home. I still vividly recall the impact of seeing his richly painted portraits densely hung on the most expansive interior wall. Jennifer Travis-McIlroyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12478037841290859570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-7021121007165484352016-11-18T10:56:15.730-05:002016-11-18T10:56:15.730-05:00Stape.I get that on a single object nothing in lig...Stape.I get that on a single object nothing in light is darker than anything in shadow. where i seem to have a problem is,when light hits a scene there are things that are being hit by the light that are still reading as dark ie a dark suite.Iknow that a lot say that even black stuff, being hit by light reads around a value 5 or 6 and white shadow reads darker,I seem to see dark stuff in light that stays dark.any advice. jpgrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06893497729929423025noreply@blogger.com