Stapleton Kearns

Blog about landscape painting, art and "how to" advice for painters.

Sunday, January 15, 2017

Color vibration

Well, here I am again, I haven't written a post in a long time. But I am announcing this years dreaded Snowcamp and I will append tha...

Monday, February 22, 2016

James Gurney, a review of his new video

James Gurney sent me a copy of his new video and I enjoyed it. This is not really a basic how-to video, his books cover that. If you ...

Sunday, January 31, 2016

Arthur Wesley Dow, and a disjointed ramble through late Victorian design fads.

The above illustration is from a book "Composition; Line, Notan, and Color by Arthur Wesley Dow (1857-1922) who lived in Ipswi...

Friday, December 11, 2015

Dearest Blog readers. I am doing a book for Pequod books. As part of that project, I have been labeling old posts and working on the ba...

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About Me

Stapleton Kearns: I am a professional landscape painter.I make my living painting pictures. In my blog I show my paintings, offer some of the techniques, ideas and methods I have learned over the years, and talk about how to make a living as an artist. I present some essays on painting, art, and hopefully amuse you some at the same time. I will also tell you about many of the fine painters I have known over the years and some who died long ago. I talk about my training in the studios of R.H.Ives Gammell and about the many artists who have mentored me along the way. I also try to explain what I THINK makes a good painting, and how to go about making one. If you have just found this blog, I suggest you go back to the earliest posts and read forward. It is now an enormous archive of about a thousand posts. The posts start out with the most basic information and progress towards the more philosophical side of painting. I hope you will find it useful! .............Stape

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