05/07/2008 12:16:02

Hi RObin, RE your question on the Tropcial Landscape -- it was a few years ago and I probably masked the roof.  Honestly I think it's too stark white but peer critiquers said leave it. What do you think? PS It's quin gold not yellow ochre which is too opaque for me. FOr yellows Iuse Winsor Lemon, New Gamboge, quinacrodone gold, and occasionallhy aureolin. How about you?

05/07/2008 12:08:27

Robin, that pine landscape was not a plein air, but based on sketches outside.  It has flaws but as an experiment I did the initial drawing in w/c pencil. As to size: I paint too small ! Most of mine are 8 x 10 up to 14 x 20. Do you use a full sheet?  

05/07/2008 05:11:02

I am up early canopy tent shopping, any advise?

 

05/06/2008 00:55:57

Hi Robin,

Thank you for sharing the image of the Picasso plate!  I've never seen it before.  Thanks also for looking at my work.  Since it's show season again I haven't been on this site as much, so it's fun to take an evening to see all this wonderful art, yours included.

Regards,  Tamara

05/05/2008 16:01:42

Hey ya..Sorry about "all the women"  There is no sexist conspiracy, I just think my friends here are interesting....Posted two of the four paintings from the VSC...Pretty happy about them..  Ended up staying up the last two nights painting and having fun with the artists...Got...to...get...some...sleep...more ...later...

 

 

05/04/2008 18:44:32

Hey Robin, Painting plein air these days has lifted my art spirit out of the black hole, but while in there I did some valuable self-searching...no great illuminations, but just a reinforcement that I'm so grateful to be an artist and in the company of you guys.  Tell how it's going 

05/02/2008 16:33:46

Oh that's how the gold star works!  Do you get a prize, too?  Like maybe a $1000 or so? HA!  Just wondering...  I love this site- I would be sad to see it go and I can hardly wait until they, (the powers that be) create more fun stuff to get involved with.  I just had a workshop with Robert Burridge- I am going to post my new stuff soon.  It has been cloudy here, so I am unable to photo artwork -don't like doing it inside..  Talk to you soon!    Hugs 2u

04/29/2008 23:08:30

R,

CP does have a few spots, including Stowe, where I would like to go.  I can't print the app, since I am at the VSC this week, painting my brains out.   I have my fingers crossed for you to get the part time position at the college.  Elementary school (where I spent 14 years).  Drains the very well you need to paint, so go at that with caution... Try a little subbing if you can and get a feel for the 'etheric' drain.  Perhaps women have a gene to cope with recharging after all that mom-ing and nursing.

The fellowship is going well.  Tame crowd this time, I will have little distractions.  Getting on line is a challenge since I got suckered into trading my ibook for my son's itouch.  (e.i. typing with one finger that is way to big for the little touch screen!) 

Saw one artist's work here so far, she brought everything she has painted in the last 5 years and had it so wildly shuffled she couldn't make heads nor tails of it. Since she asked for advise, I asked her to  pick 20 images and pin them up in a little exhibit for the others stopping by.  She was bambuzzled, so I asked her if she minded my sorting the work into phenomenological piles, which I did.  It was amazing to see the work fall into 4 neat catagories.  I enjoyed it and got a hint that I might really like teaching too, which would mean applying for an MFA.  So I am living with this, and the costs/benefits.

Meanwhile, she is whittling down the work now.  Also met another man from my town who teaches at Colby-Sawyer College.  He is a friend of a friend, and we had a nice chat over dinner.  He has work with a consultant in Hollywood and gets paintings in movies...a rental fee and tiny little royality checks.  He hasn't found a huge leap in sales due to it, but had to admit it was nice exposure.

 So I guess this is my little "blog to you", T-F-Robin.  If I can hook my camera up to the center's machine, i will post a shot of new work somewhere.

greg

PS, I waiting to get a post that doesn't even mention the Black-Hole!