 Tomorrow I catch an early flight to Albany for a 3 day workshop at Hudson River Valley Art. I've heard great things about this place and am very much looking forward to it. Hopefully I'll have internet, and if so I'll post updates. Toodles. : ) | |||
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Wednesday, 28 July 2010
Carol Marine's Painting a Day - "You Are My Sunshine"
Tuesday, 27 July 2010
Carol Marine's Painting a Day - "Not a Pair"
 I've been working hard lately on getting the subtle shifts in the backgrounds more accurate. I use a spotlight, so it's usually very bright in one area and gets darker away from that. It's easy to just see it all as one "color" and not pay attention to the values. But I think it's more dramatic this way. If you haven't already, I'd like to turn your attention for a moment to my buddy, Qiang Huang, who has been doing some really spectacular work lately. Not that he doesn't always, but he's made a leap lately and I'm blown away. | |||
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Monday, 26 July 2010
Carol Marine's Painting a Day - "Sidetracked"
 The Wally Workman Gallery in Austin will be celebrating its 30th anniversary next month(reception August 7th) with new works from 40 artists (me included). If you're in the area next Saturday, please join me! If you aren't able, please see below for one of my included pieces:  | |||
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Sunday, 25 July 2010
Carol Marine's Painting a Day - "Side Dish"
 Please forgive my lack of posting the last couple of days. I was taking a little break. I have to remind myself sometimes to get out of the studio. To replenish my creativity but also to just ... relax. And spend time getting other stuff done. It feels good. | |||
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Thursday, 22 July 2010
Carol Marine's Painting a Day - "Obnoxious Stack"
 See how the stack on the right is leaning a bit close to the left stack? Where's the personal space? Huh? -- I really enjoy doing these stacks. | |||
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Wednesday, 21 July 2010
Carol Marine's Painting a Day - "Multicolored Toyota"
 I snapped a shot of this cool car in Santa Fe. It's kind of funny how we ended up there. We have a GPS and on the way up to Colorado recently, Nuvi (our GPS) deemed it unesessary to go through Santa Fe. On the way back however, for some reason we were suddenly there (on a long haul day when we meant to drive 11 hours). So, as it was around 5 in the afternoon, we stopped for the night, had Vermicelli at Saigon Cafe (awesome!), saw some galleries the next morning, and made it home a day late. All well worth it. | |||
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Tuesday, 20 July 2010
Carol Marine's Painting a Day - "Originally Blue"
 This is another truck from last week's camping/painting adventure. So, a couple of my buddies came out and we drove around Burnet, TX looking for cool things to paint. We were outside of town and going about 50 mph when we passed this awesome truck (and another like it) - and yelled, at the same time - "that's it!" So we turned around and went and asked if it was alright if we painted them (along with a whole field of them behind the building you see). The folks were real nice and said we could paint there anytime and asked if I would mention that this truck and another very much like it are for sale. I got their card so if you're interested let me know. | |||
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Monday, 19 July 2010
Carol Marine's Painting a Day - "Face the Dawn"
 This is one of the paintings from my camping trip last week. I'll tell you more about it soon. First I want to add a couple of things to the painting from photos discussion (see yesterday's post and comments for more). Yes, I think it is best to paint from your own photos. And yes, a long time ago I stopped printing them out and instead paint from a monitor set up next to my easel. Because the light shines through everything is just more vibrant and alive (as close to as you can get w/ a photo). And, yes I agree, painting from life IS "funner!" And, as Karin Jurick said, "it doesn't matter if you're standing in a field or looking at a photo - whatever gets you to paint!" | |||
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Sunday, 18 July 2010
Carol Marine's Painting a Day - "Casual Stack"
 After my recent paintings of cars done in my studio, someone asked me to comment on the subject of painting from photos. I'll probably open a whole can of worms here, but my opinion is: it's a compromise either way. You lose a lot of information when you take a photo - mostly in the lightest lights and darkest darks, and color too. That's a big con, unless you are familiar with the subject and know how and where to add what you're missing. That said, when you're working from life, you've got a big time constraint, especially outside. In one to two hours, the sun will be in a completely different spot, and your subject will have changed considerably from what it started out looking like. Even with a still life, flowers move or wilt, apples brown, radishes shrink, etc. That's a big con. I can tell you tons of artists who do brilliant work from life, and tons who do equally brilliant work from photos. | |||
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Saturday, 17 July 2010
Carol Marine's Painting a Day - "Rear Ends"
 This is another one I didn't have time to paint on location (backstreet in Rico, CO), so I snapped a photo. I was really taken by the succession of cars, from behind. Yesterday's car turns out to be, well, probably an old Volvo. Possibly a Studebaker? Thank you to those who wrote!! And thank you all, in general, SO much for all the wonderful comments you leave every day! I can't tell you how much they mean to me. I wish I had time to respond to every one. THANK YOU!! | |||
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