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<i>Painting the view of Warm Springs, VA</i></div>
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Among the more amusing and enjoyable aspects of painting outdoors are the conversations that happen when someone stops to observe what I am doing, ask questions, and offer information about themselves. Those chats give me insight into general perceptions about art, common responses to my paintings, and views into the lives of people who travel a completely different paths through life.<br />
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Perhaps one of the most enjoyable conversations took place while I was participating in the First Annual Bath County Plein Air Festival in October, 2013. I parked in a clearing along a state highway to paint the view of a cow farm, river, and distant mountains. After setting up my easel, the owner of the farm came to take care of a new calf and to chat with me. His only comment about my painting was that I recorded only one of the three peaks in the distant mountains. He watched as I corrected that grave omission.<br />
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<i>Bath County Cattle Farm</i></div>
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The farmer was very proud of the fact that an artist found his land to be beautiful. After all, this was where he was raised, where his children grew up, and where he had worked every day of his life since he was a young boy. He wanted me to understand the challenges of maintaining a beautiful farm like his, from managing the land to raising the cattle. After the hour of chatting, I learned the names of every mountains, stream, and farm within my view; I was given two methods for curing diarrhea in cattle; and I learned about the market reports, livestock auctions, and Hee Haw programs broadcast over RFD-TV cable network. He didn't say much about my painting, but I think he learned something about my world from watching the picture take shape.<br />
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There were other aspects of this plein air event I didn't enjoy -- the competition to paint salable and award-winning paintings, the long days of painting and socializing, the anxiety during the opening night sale and awards presentation. For example, it bothered me when I was told the only collectors who would be interested in my painting of the local Presbyterian church would be members of that congregation. Nevertheless, I really appreciated the chance to talk with the other participating artists and the folks who stopped to ask questions and offer a glimpse into their lives. If I am invited back next year, those are the things I will look forward to.<br />
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<i>Warm Springs Prebyterian Church</i></div>
Steve Dohertyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04349015266726804940noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4374664315986011680.post-7588374500485277542013-09-13T03:34:00.001-07:002013-09-13T03:36:01.602-07:00Painting Larger Canvases OutdoorsAmong the challenges I set for myself this summer is to paint larger plein air landscapes -- 16" x 20" and 20" x 20". I wanted to find out if I would be satisfied with pieces that were more loosely brushed and suggestive, to hopefully satisfy collector looking to fill more wall space, and to have a few paintings that would be focal points of an exhibition. As a result doing 6-8 larger paintings, I have established a way of covering more canvas real estate in 3-4 hours on location, balanced detail with gestured brush strokes, and overcome the intimidation of a large white surface.<br />
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The 20" x 20" painting of the waterfall in Shenandoah National Park was a greater challenge than I anticipated, mostly because I stupidly took the wrong trail and wound up hauling about 40 pounds of gear for several miles down to the falls. Nevertheless my stupidity could be excused by the sequence of photographs showing its development and by the success of completing the painting. To make me feel better, a woman who lives and works inside the park said I painted her favorite location. At least I stumbled into a picturesque setting.<br />
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The painting of the path through the trees was painted near the first parking area going north into Shenandoah National Park. The scene called for a clear separation between the cool greens on the left and in the background and the warm trees leading diagonally into the space. I would have worked on this a bit longer, but as often happens at that elevation a storm moved in quickly, thunder demanded my attention, and heavy rains forced me to pack up and head for cover.<br />
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Working on a 16" x 20" painting of Blenheim Vineyard</div>
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A 16" x 20" painting created in Shenandoah National Park</div>
Steve Dohertyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04349015266726804940noreply@blogger.com5Waynesboro, VA, USA38.0684692 -78.8894682000000137.9684577 -79.050829700000008 38.1684807 -78.728106700000012tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4374664315986011680.post-87445829475086289362013-06-22T05:23:00.000-07:002013-06-22T05:23:00.728-07:00Rural Landscape in VirginiaHere's some photos showing the progressive development of a farm scene I painted in the Shenandoah Valley. As always, I painted from the background to the foreground, and from the top of the 16" x 20" canvas to the bottom.<br />
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Steve Dohertyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04349015266726804940noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4374664315986011680.post-56898613033128504952013-05-09T17:40:00.002-07:002013-05-09T17:42:48.644-07:00Favorite Plein Air Sites. A Friend Share HisMark Collins of Charlottesville, VA (www.markcollinswatercolors.com) introduced me to one of his favorite outdoor painting sites today, private property at the top of a mountain above Crozet, VA. The temperature was about 15-degrees cooler than in the valley and the flowering trees were about two weeks behind those in lower elevations. There were spectacular views in all directions, but we set up down hill from top of the mountain so there would be less wind, and we both focused on the Blue Ridge Mountains that were dramatically lit by the light breaking through the clouds.<br />
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Mark is primarily a watercolorist, but he enjoys plein air painting in oil and often paints on the mountain, especially when a friend travels and asks him to take care of her place. He enjoys being alone with nothing much to do except paint the many views on the mountain, some intimate and some expansive. I'm looking forward to joining him again as the location is inspiring and give me a better sense of how vast and magnificent the landscape is in the Shenandoah Valley.<br />
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Mark Collins (left) and me painting on a mountain above Crozet, Virginia</div>
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My 16" x 20" oil painting of the Blue Ridge Mountains</div>
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<br />Steve Dohertyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04349015266726804940noreply@blogger.com1Crozet, VA, USA38.0695815 -78.70057500000001538.01958 -78.781256000000013 38.119583 -78.619894000000016tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4374664315986011680.post-77466375854192705192013-05-06T04:08:00.001-07:002013-05-06T04:08:19.522-07:00When Plein Air Is a Start, Not a FinishAs I've been challenging myself to work larger on location -- up to 16" x 20" -- I get home with the paintings and immediately notice somethings that are obviously wrong or incomplete. The issues are usually about the range of values and their ability to convey the sense of space, or they relate to areas that aren't sufficiently developed. I find that I get so involved in covering the canvas it 2-3 hours, that I lose the ability to see the pictures objectivily. As I work on resolving those pictures in my studio, I remind myself there is nothing sacred about completing paintings on location. Plein air is a process of gaining inspiration and information from nature, but it isn't the only path to expressing what is observed.<br />
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Here's a sequential set of photographs of a painting I did recently on a hill overlooking Fishersville, VA. I'm still trying to decide how I want to resolve the lack of spatial separation and the awkward change of scale in the middle of the canvas, as well as the lack of harmony in the depiction of the houses.<br />
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Steve Dohertyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04349015266726804940noreply@blogger.com3Fishersville, VA, USA38.0990233 -78.96919230000003237.999057799999996 -79.13055380000003 38.1989888 -78.807830800000033tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4374664315986011680.post-79185576756757514742013-03-31T04:29:00.000-07:002013-04-24T05:57:35.304-07:00Risking ChangeWe all talk about risking a change in painting materials & techniques, but to actually make those kinds of significant changes can be daunting. I've decided to take those risks now that I have a new home, studio, and landscape; I can devote more time to my own painting; and I have ideas to work on that were suggested by artists I have interviewed or watched demonstrate.<br />
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Among the changes I want to make are the composition of values in my plein air landscape paintings and the palette of colors I use to create those images. Specifically, I want to lighten the value of the shapes in the distance, and I want my color choices to be less dependent on exactly what I observe in nature.<br />
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Here are a few of the paintings I've created since establishing these objectives. When working on the first painting (<i><b>Blue Ridge View</b></i>, 2013, oil, 16" x 20"), I made an effort to lighten all the values in the distant spaces and darken the foreground shapes in order to project a deeper sense of space. I also pushed the colors in the background towards light purples and blues while pumping up the grays, browns, and purples in the foreground.<br />
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When working on the second painting (<b><i>Road to Charlottesville</i></b>, 2013, oil, 12" x 12"), I reversed the value composition by making the background shapes dark and those on the right-hand side much lighter than they actually appeared. I also moved the colors toward warmer tones using the new Gamblin Warm White oil paint, as well as warm pigments like yellow ochre, cadmium red, and ultramarine blue.<br />
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Finally, the view through the trees (<b><i>View From Wayne Baptist Church</i></b>, 2013, 11" x 14"), is also one in which I lightened the background, darkened the foreground, used thicker mixtures of oil color, and pushed the color mixtures towards warm purples, yellows, greens, and browns. By the way, I painted a 9" x 12" snow scene in March from the same parking lot.<br />
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<br />Steve Dohertyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04349015266726804940noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4374664315986011680.post-1479039932114011112013-01-21T04:48:00.002-08:002013-01-21T04:48:39.239-08:00Painting New Landscapes in Virginia<div style="text-align: center;">
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I moved from New York to Virginia in December, 2012 after months of not doing any plein air painting. The planning and physical labor of moving out of a house we occupied for 34 years was just too overwhelming to allow time for painting. But that hiatus gave me an opportunity to think about where I wanted to go with my landscape painting and how I might approach a completely new range of scenes. As I switched from painting the Hudson River to the Blue Ridge Mountains, I thought about the advice I passed on from artists featured in <i>PleinAir</i> magazine to the publication's subscribers. <br />
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Many of those featured artists recommended painting what one <b>wants</b> to see rather than the details of what one <b>actually</b> sees. That is, they suggested using the landscape as inspiration for paintings that captured the emotional aspects of nature as well as her specific markings. For example, artists like Michael Godfrey and Bryan Mark Taylor talked about the spiritual side of painting; and painters like Gil Dellinger talked about exaggerating what one sees in order to convey what one feels.<br />
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I also considered how changing the way I worked with a palette of colors might a significant impact on my paintings, and in particular how a color like ultramarine blue might add more warmth and vibrancy to a picture that a cool blue like cerulean or Prussian blue. In addition, accents of purple made by combining ultramarine blue with alizarin crimson or perylene red could enliven a shadow; and grays made from titanium white, ultramarine blue, and touches of red iron oxide might add clarity and harmony to a painting.<br />
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What I wanted to explore was an approach to landscape painting based on somewhat unexpected color combinations that might actually do a better job of expressing what I found to be beautiful about a location. Instead of painting a field of grasses with the tan color I observed, for example, I might be better off starting with a cadmium orange or yellow ochre rather than with titanium white and burnt sienna. And when I thought I saw a light green in the trees, I might achieve more harmony by painting that portion of the landscape with a gray tinted with permanent green light.<br />
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I'm including photographs of me with some of my first attempts at painting the Virginia landscape with this new set of objectives. I should also add that in the photographs of me beside the fence I am wearing my most prized possession, the apron my granddaughter, Amanda Deyo, made for me as a Christmas present.<br />
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Morning Paintings </div>
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I was just in Door County, Wisconsin where I judged the annual plein air festival hosted by the Peninsula School of Art, and I traveled with the 5" x 7" Guerilla Box I bought from Judson's Art Outfitters. It's perfect for travel when there isn't going to be enough time available to justify hauling a big tripod, pochade box, brushes, paints, etc. Like most people who do quick studies, I found that I didn't feel obligated to spend a lot of time planning the paintings or laboring over them. They were just fast, immediate responses to the changing scene. I did two within the space of about 90 minutes.Steve Dohertyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04349015266726804940noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4374664315986011680.post-35917902752688289702012-07-21T07:18:00.001-07:002012-07-21T07:18:23.718-07:00Summer Hudson River PaintingsIt's been a while since I've posted anything, so I thought I would recap what I have been doing this summer. I like painting in series as it helps me quickly decide where to go each time I go out to with my supplies, and I can pick up on the ideas that concerned me during the past couple of sessions. In the spring the theme was woodland streams, and once the warm weather arrived I turned my attention to cloud formations above the Hudson River. Here are a few of the 9" x 12" oil plein air paintings I've done over past couple of months.<br />
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</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York recently reopened the American Wing of 26 renovated and enlarged galleries. On display are some of my favorite paintings by Frederic E. Church, Worthington Whittredge, John Singer Sargent, and Thomas Cole. For the first time, those masterpieces are hung next to related plein air studies, sculptures, and period furniture.</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">For almost a decade, iconic paintings like “Madame X” by <b>John Singer Sargent</b>, “The Heart of the Andes” by <b>Frederic E. Church</b>, and “The Oxbow” by <b>Thomas Cole</b> have been in storage or tucked away in corridors while <b>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</b> in New York prepared a new 30,000 square foot group of 26 connected galleries in which to display the masterworks. Now the paintings are presented in galleries devoted to subjects, themes, and periods such as the Hudson River School, the West, American Impressionism, and the Cosmopolitan Sprit. In addition, the museum decided to hang plein air sketches, compositional studies, and sculptural portraits of the artists in close proximity to the studio paintings. </span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The centerpiece of the new installation is one of the best-known works in all of American art, <b>Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze</b>’s 1851 painting “Washington Crossing the Delaware”. The renovated galleries afford a dramatic vista toward this monumental canvas. This double-sized gallery showcases Leutze’s iconic work alongside two other masterpieces—Church’s “Heart of the Andes” and <b>Albert Bierstadt</b>’s “Rocky Mountains”— just as they were displayed at the famous 1864 Metropolitan Sanitary Fair. These three paintings have been beautifully restored as part of the renovation project.</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">A special area of the Museum’s website dedicated to the new galleries—including</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">descriptions of each of the rooms, a floor plan, details about the related programming</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and publications, highlighted works of art, and more—can be found at</span></span></div><div style="color: #0126a7; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/americanwing">www.metmuseum.org/americanwing</a></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #000000;">.</span></span></div><div style="color: #0126a7; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #000000;"><br />
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I focused on an intimate scene and emphasizes the balance of warm and cool, dark and light shapes in an effort to capture the mood of a late summer landscape in this 9" x 12" oil painting.Steve Dohertyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04349015266726804940noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4374664315986011680.post-57707785077249956642011-08-14T14:57:00.000-07:002011-08-14T14:57:48.142-07:00Plein Air Landscape Painting: Risking Failure to Make Progress<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">After feeling good about the waterfall paintings I did in the early spring, I needed to take chances with a different range of subjects, painting techniques, and levels of finish. Yesterday I picked up on some of the ideas expressed by artists I've interviewed recently, including Joseph McGurl and Jason Taco, and I was pleased with the results. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Joe talked about building up fairly thick applications of oil color modified with fast-drying alkyd medium. His point was that the physical texture of the paint can impact the levels of transparency and opacity, thereby adding a greater sense of space in a landscape and, at the same time, making it easier to suggest detail. During a recent trip to Italy, for example, Joe used Winsor & Newton underpainting white during the early stages of the painting process and then added Liquin impasto alkyd medium when he was ready to paint foreground shapes with thick oil color. He applied the thick paint with a palette knife and manipulated the texture to suggest grasses, stones, plastered walls, etc. (Joe's paintings from Tuscany are on view at Tree's Place Gallery in Orleans, Massachusetts) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Jason Taco talked about using a limited palette of colors to achieve harmony and subtlety in his landscapes. He restricted his palette to 4-6 colors + titanium white instead of trying to managing a wide range of tube colors that might not intermix particularly well. His point was that if all the color mixtures are created from the same base, they are more likely to work well together. (Jason will be profiled in the winter, 2012 issue of <i>PleinAir</i> Magazine)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Whether one follows these recommendations exactly, the key points are worth considering. Joe's recommendation goes to the issue of using thin and thick paint to suggest space, texture, and form in nature; and Jason's point is that harmony and subtlety can be achieved by wisely controlling the mixtures of colors. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I don't often get a chance to be a participant in a plein air event because I am too busy taking photographs of artists and collectors, but I was able to join a local event in Ossining, New York that took place at the Shattemuc Yacht Club along the Hudson River. The weather was perfect and the 30+ artists were great to meet, and I sold my painting of the boats and river. Not a bad way to enjoy a summer day!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Both paintings were done on 11" x 14" canvas-covered panels I toned with yellow ochre, and I added Liquin alkyd medium to my oil colors so the initial layers of paint would set up quickly enough for me to add details. I set up at 7am and waited to find out whether the overcast sky would clear up, but by 8am I made up my mind to take advantage of the subtle cloud shapes and occasional bursts of sunlight. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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I got interested in the idea of painting streams of water running through wooded scenes because there seemed to be an intimacy and privacy about those beautiful locations. I also wanted to explore some new ways of painting on location, so in some of the paintings so I deepened the mixtures of oil color so they would be dark, moody, and subtle; and I allowed the warm tone of the red iron oxide underpainting to accentuate the sunlit areas.<br />
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As I painted, I imagined the trees becoming figures bending over to see their reflections in the water like Narcissus, and the rocks as bathers dipping their toes in the water. That helped me emphasize the feelings associated with being in a quiet, remote place where the forces of nature are at work.Steve Dohertyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04349015266726804940noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4374664315986011680.post-5939218150061301362011-05-29T13:51:00.000-07:002011-05-29T13:51:52.040-07:00Painting Landscapes: Village Scene<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hmwyCZuVpV8/TeKrbJdnP3I/AAAAAAAAAbA/cEq2cRCo05w/s1600/IMG_1534.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hmwyCZuVpV8/TeKrbJdnP3I/AAAAAAAAAbA/cEq2cRCo05w/s320/IMG_1534.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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My friend Steve Griffin took me to some of his favorite painting spots in Easton, Oxford, and St. Michael, Maryland last week. Several of the sites were along the Maryland shore with views of sail boats in the water, but I was more comfortable painting a street leading down to the water in Oxford. Of course I had to include an "Oxford Fence" in front of the white house on the left-hand side of the 11" x 14" panel. The fence is made of rails that have a clover-shaped top with a small hole in the middle of the clover. Non-profit groups ask local artists to paint rails that can be sold to raise funds.<br />
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I may exhibit this painting in Plein Air Easton because as the awards judge I am entitled to display two paintings. Obviously my paintings won't be eligible for awards. That will make it easier for me to accept rejection in the face of all the extraordinary paintings on display.Steve Dohertyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04349015266726804940noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4374664315986011680.post-61158306416571213712011-05-01T10:20:00.000-07:002011-05-01T10:20:20.589-07:00Landscape Painting: Waterfalls #3<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hq9JCZnclAg/Tb2UIBboQgI/AAAAAAAAAak/nqFKoJYOdpk/s1600/IMG_1173.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hq9JCZnclAg/Tb2UIBboQgI/AAAAAAAAAak/nqFKoJYOdpk/s320/IMG_1173.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><br />
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I decided to focus on a more intimate waterfall scene along Perkins Drive in Bear Mountain State Park, one that offered an opportunity to explore compositional scheme of a central axis juxtaposed with strong diagonal shapes. Because I worked on a 10" x 8" panel, I could apply more layers of oil color, muting the tones and adding textural effects that enriched the surface of the painting. I used a stiff alkyd white paint towards the end of the process to add clean, light value shapes where the water was flowing around and over the rocks.Steve Dohertyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04349015266726804940noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4374664315986011680.post-77812495267456709182011-04-26T14:22:00.000-07:002011-04-26T14:22:03.648-07:00Landscape Painting: Waterfalls #2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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I painted this 12" x 12" plein air oil on two successive days because rain forced me to stop after the first 90 minute effort. I like the square format because it sets up a completely different compositional challenge than the standard rectangle. You'll note that I used a dry brush to blur the edges of the cascading water and to create mist in certain sections.Steve Dohertyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04349015266726804940noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4374664315986011680.post-16620041648022061842011-04-19T08:59:00.000-07:002011-04-19T10:49:44.200-07:00Landscape Painting: Waterfalls<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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I recently made a road trip to Maryland, Virginia, and Georgia to photograph plein air events and was able to paint some of the waterfalls in the hills of Georgia north of Atlanta and in Virginia just south of Charlottesville. I put together a short audio slide show about the paintings.Steve Dohertyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04349015266726804940noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4374664315986011680.post-87459531752796368122011-04-01T05:57:00.000-07:002011-04-01T05:57:11.765-07:00Immortalized in Times Square<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JF9JsrqMlHQ/TZXJkDiURVI/AAAAAAAAAaA/7DxoWCMO-7o/s1600/IMG_0780.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JF9JsrqMlHQ/TZXJkDiURVI/AAAAAAAAAaA/7DxoWCMO-7o/s320/IMG_0780.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Persephone being banished to Haites (the New York Transit subway system) in Jack Beal's glass tile mosaic near the 1,2,3 subway platforms in Times Square</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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My friend, Jack Beal (www.jackbeal.net), included images of me, my wife, Sara, and our children, Clare and Michael, in the second of two mosaic murals he created for the Times Square subway station in New York City. Both murals (unveiled in 2001 and 2005) offer Jack's interpretation of the myth of Persephone being banished to Haites (signaling the start of winter) and then emerging from the underworld (or the subway system, in this case) to initiate Spring. The Doherty family is part of the banishment scene, and I'm filming the event from a camera crane.<br />
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I revisited the murals recently and took a photograph of me standing next to my image. No one took notice of me or my camera tripod because lots of subway riders stop to have their picture taken next to murals, and performance groups often use the sparking glass tile images as backdrops to their joyous music and break dancing.Steve Dohertyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04349015266726804940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4374664315986011680.post-72325334444905727652011-03-02T04:16:00.000-08:002011-03-02T04:16:54.828-08:00A Studio That Respects Nature<div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"></span></span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-lZ2eKGdksGo/TW40iKWUBfI/AAAAAAAAAZ0/eg7J991Hw8Q/s1600/Siegelsmall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-lZ2eKGdksGo/TW40iKWUBfI/AAAAAAAAAZ0/eg7J991Hw8Q/s320/Siegelsmall.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-97vDrr9pGmM/TW40sxQ7SvI/AAAAAAAAAZ8/LRk2FZKO0FY/s1600/Studio_Shed_Artist_GailSiegel_Nov2010+031.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-97vDrr9pGmM/TW40sxQ7SvI/AAAAAAAAAZ8/LRk2FZKO0FY/s320/Studio_Shed_Artist_GailSiegel_Nov2010+031.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><b>I was looking for an energy-efficient studio to feature in </b><i><b>PleinAir™</b></i><b> magazine and came across Gail Siegel's solar powered, prefab studio in Lafayette, Colorado. Gail is a jeweler, not a painter, but I think her studio could easily be adapted for use by other visual artists. </b></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Colorado jeweler Gail Siegel is one of a growing number of artists building prefab, solar powered studios that are relatively inexpensive to build and heat, make efficient use of space, and increase property values. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“When I made the decision to take early retirement from my full-time university job, I spent 18 months doing extensive research about the best way to secure a work space,” says Colorado artist Gail Siegel. “I considered every option from selling my small timber frame miner’s cottage and buying a larger home with space for a studio, to renting a unoccupied downtown space, to constructing a garage with room for a workspace. None of those were really desirable options. I needed more space than was available in my cottage, and because I work with acetylene torches and metal I didn’t like the idea of having a studio in my home; the downtown spaces, while reasonable compared to other areas of the country, would still cost me $6,000 - $8,500 a year to rent; and the cheapest garages I could find would cost $50,000 - $60,000 to build, not including the cost of finishing the interior.”</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Siegel happened to talk to a Jeff Scott, a neighbor who is president of SolSource, a company founded in 2004 that designs solar electric and thermal hot water heating systems for commercial, government, school, and residential structures. Scott encouraged Siegel to consider a prefab building with a roof that would accommodate solar energy panels. “He pointed out that I would qualify for an energy rebate, the solar panels might generate enough power to heat the studio and my home, the cost would be more reasonable than what I had been considering, and I would be reducing my impact on the environment,” she explains. “He told me about StudioShed, Inc., a company in Boulder, Colorado started in 2009 by Michael Koenig and Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski that is doing innovative things with buildings that can be used as spare bedrooms, storage spaces, offices, or studios.”</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Siegel extended her research to include prefab buildings and solar heating, and she began discussions with StudioShed about building an art studio in her backyard. “Michael Koenig, one of the partners in the company, has two Studio Shed buildings in his back yard so I was able to see what I might be getting,” Siegel explains. “He walked me through the entire construction process and helped me decide how my studio could be built. Eventually, I bought a 14’ x 10’ structure with a 9’ pitched roof and had eight, 235-watt modules and microinverters installed on the 11’ x 16’ roof to create a 1.9 kilowatt energy system. After all the preliminary paperwork was completed, it took StudioShed about four weeks to fabricate, deliver, and set up the structure.” </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">After making all the major decisions, Siegel had to secure permits from the city of Lafayette, Colorado to lay down an insulated concrete slab with a central drain, build the StudioShed structure, install the solar heating system, run electricity to the StudioShed, and upgrade the sewer system. “I didn’t anticipate having to dig up the back yard to replace the sewer line, but since I plan to install running water it was necessary,” Siegel explains. “I regretted having to cut down two trees to make sure there would be enough sunlight to heat the studio and house, but I was able to use some of the lumber to build an outdoor bench as well as using a large stump for forming metals. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“ I had the building designed with a 3’ x 3’ window facing south to heat the form-insulated cement floor, and north-facing horizontal and vertical windows for indirect lighting,” Siegel goes on to explain. “Eventually I will build in cabinets, but I already had a 2’ x 5’ jewelry bench and a 2’ x 4’ soldering station so I was able to start working in the studio as soon as it was finished. Eventually I might start painting in the studio and offering workshops because the Studio Shed opens into my garden and a flagstone walkway where people could set up to paint or make jewelry.”</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">The current retail prices of an 10’ x 14’ Studio Shed ranges from $6,600 to $9,100 depending on whether the trim is Collins TruWood (as in the case of Siegel’s studio) or a combination of wood and metal. Smaller and larger sizes are available, from 6’ x 8’ up to 12’ x 20’. Options such as aluminum windows, French and sliding glass doors, garage doors, and clerestory windows are extra; and the cost does not include the cement slab on which the structure would be built. However, the prices does include installation by certified workers, and a discounted flat-packed kit is available for customers who want to build a SudioShed by themselves. For more information, visit the company’s website at <a href="http://www.studio-shed.com/"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">www.studio-shed.com</span></a>. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">“I haven’t had my property reappraised since I finished the studio, but I suspect I’ve added about $55,000 to the value because of the energy savings and the fact that the StudioShed could be used by the next owner as a spare bedroom, an office, or a studio,” Siegel explains. “That’s a value I never would have been able to realize if I rented a space downtown, build a standard garage, or convert a bedroom into a studio. Here in Colorado where energy costs are so high in the winter and people are becoming more environmentally conscious, this kind of structure is a real asset ... and a great workspace. If nothing else, my animals have loved it from the day the insulated concrete floor was finished.”</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Gail Siegel took early retirement from the University of Colorado where she worked in the university art gallery and as director of community relations while maintaining her life-long interest in art. She now works part time for the Naja Tool and Supply Company in Denver which is Colorado’s largest supplier of tools and supplies for jewelry and metal artists. All of the studio furniture and 90% of her tools come from the Naja. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">For more information on StudioShed, LLC., visit <a href="http://www.studio-shed.com/"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">www.studio-shed.com</span></a>; for information on SolSource, visit the company’s website at <a href="http://www.solsourceinc.com/"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">www.solsourceinc.com</span></a> and for information on the Naja Tool and Supply visit <a href="http://www.najatools.com/"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">www.najatools.com</span></a>. To see some of Siegel’s work visit <a href="http://www.silverfoxstudio.biz/"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;">www.silverfoxstudio.biz</span></a>. </span></div><div><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><br />
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The exhibition will begin it's tour to Tucson, Arizona; Shreveport, Louisiana; Chicago, Illinois; Bradenton, Florida; Cincinnati, Ohio; and Port Arthur, Texas after it closes in Naples on April 10, 2011.<br />
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<b>BEST OF SHOW AWARD</b> and $25,000 CASH to:<br />
Ms. Berry Fritz of McAllen, Texas for<br />
<i>Delft Blue with Oleanders</i>, oil, 12 x 12.<br />
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<b>FOUNDER'S PURCHASE AWARD</b> and $5,000 to:<br />
Sue Clanton of Discovery Bay, California for<br />
<i>Huli Wigman of Papua New Guinea, </i>transparent watercolor, 22 x 15.<br />
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<b>BEST BOTANICAL AWARD</b> and $5,000 to:<br />
Milly Acharya of Ithaca, New York for<br />
<i>Convallaria Majalis (Lily-of-the-valley)</i>, watercolor, 15-1/2 x 11.<br />
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<b>BEST SMALL WORK AWARD</b> and $5,000 to:<br />
Susan Elwart Hall of Atherton, California for<br />
<i>Firecracker Mums</i>, oil, 10 x 8.<br />
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<b>AWARD OF EXCELLENCE </b>and $5,000 to:<br />
Jane Jones, Arvada, Colorado for<br />
<i>Parrot Party</i>, oil, 20 x 20.<br />
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<b>AWARD OF EXCELLENCE</b> and $5,000 to:<br />
Anna Killian of Pensacola, Florida for<br />
<i>The Fragility of Home</i>, oil, 11-1/2 x 7-1/4.<br />
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<b>AWARD OF EXCELLENCE</b> and $5,000 to:<br />
Nilton Mendonca of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for<br />
<i>Spring</i>, oil, 20 x 24-1/2.<br />
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To review the other AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE and JURORS' AWARDS, visit the website:<br />
www.blossomartcompetition.com or the foundation's website: www.susankblackfoundation.org.Steve Dohertyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04349015266726804940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4374664315986011680.post-91155503986418140412011-01-19T15:27:00.000-08:002011-01-19T15:27:51.112-08:00Balancing Skill & Passion<div style="color: #333233; font: 13.0px Verdana; line-height: 19.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 9.0px 0.0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_V3oHXV5rWfk/TTdyfZn7GmI/AAAAAAAAAZQ/ndihU6-EVCQ/s1600/Screen+shot+2011-01-19+at+6.22.27+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_V3oHXV5rWfk/TTdyfZn7GmI/AAAAAAAAAZQ/ndihU6-EVCQ/s320/Screen+shot+2011-01-19+at+6.22.27+PM.png" width="203" /></a></div>The movie <i>Black Swan</i> is ostensibly about the physical and mental strains imposed on a young ballerina (brilliantly acted by Natalie Portman who just won a Golden Globe award) chosen for the lead in a production of <i>Swan Lake</i>. The story is also about the struggle of an artist trying to raise her skillfully executed performance to the level of great art. Throughout the movie, the ballet company’s artistic director (played by Vincent Cassel) pushes the ballerina to reach beyond her disciplined, rigid, shallow performance and take the emotional risks necessary for expressing the complete character of the black swan. </div><div style="color: #333233; font: 13.0px Verdana; line-height: 19.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 9.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">As I watched the amazingly powerful movie, I kept thinking that every artist -- painter, musician, writer, singer, dancer -- spends years trying to first learn the craft of his or her art form and then, ultimately, to go beyond skill into the realm of artistic expression. </span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 13.0px Verdana; line-height: 19.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 9.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">To some extent, anyone who works hard and long as an artist will eventually reach the point at which he or she devotes less attention to skill and more to expression, if only because practice make them better at exercising their skills. But the question <i>Black Swan</i> asks is whether the pursuit of greatness ultimately requires complete vulnerability and passion. </span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 13.0px Verdana; line-height: 19.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 9.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Some artists can reach that exalted level early in their careers and, seemingly, without much effort; but the message that comes through in <i>Black Swan</i> is that an artist may have to risk everything to achieve perfection. </span><br />
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</b></span></div><div style="font: 18.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><b>2011 Scheduled Outings & Events</b></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Date: February, 2011</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Location: Butts County Council for the Fine Arts, Jackson, Georgia</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Event: Exhibition of work by the Fall Line Painters of Central Georgia. </span></div><div style="color: #0126a7; font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Contact: <a href="http://www.gaarts.org/"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">www.gaarts.org</span></a> or Preston King (<a href="mailto:dustydigits@yahoo.com"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">dustydigits@yahoo.com</span></a>). </div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Photos</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Date: February 5, 2011 - March 20, 2011</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Location: The Autry National Center, Los Angeles, California</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Event: Masters of the American West Fine Art Exhibition and Sale</span></div><div style="color: #0126a7; font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Contact: <a href="http://www.theautry.org/"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">www.theautry.org</span></a></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Date: February 13, 2011 - April 24, 2011</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Location: Museum of the Southwest, Midland, Texas</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Event: American Legacy: Our National Parks, traveling exhibition of paintings by members of the Plein Air Painters of America organized by The Haggin Museum, Stockton, California. Catalog available. Exhibition travels to the Michele & Donald D’Amur Museum of Fine Arts in Springfield, Missouri from May 22 - November 6, 2011.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Contact: Plein Air Painters of America, <a href="http://www.p-a-p-a.com/"><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; text-decoration: underline;">www.p-a-p-a.com</span></a>. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Date: February 18-19, 2011</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Location: Red Wing, Minnesota</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Event: 2nd Annual Winter Plein Air Event</span></div><div style="color: #0126a7; font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Contact: <a href="http://www.redwingartassociation.org/plein_air.htm"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">www.redwingartassociation.org/plein_air.htm</span></a></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Date: February 19-26, 2011</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Location: Kapalua Bay, Maui, Hawaii</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Event: Maui Plein Air Painting Invitational</span></div><div style="color: #0126a7; font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Contact: <a href="http://www.mauipleinairpainting.com/"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">www.mauipleinairpainting.com</span></a></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Date: February 19-27, 2011</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Location: Riverside Art Museum and Riverside Arts Project Gallery, Riverside, California.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Event: Sixth Annual Paint-Out Week sponsored by Plein Air Painters of Riverside</span></div><div style="color: #0126a7; font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Contact: <a href="http://www.pleinairartists/"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">www.pleinairartistsofriverside.blogspot.com</span></a></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Date: March, 2011</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Location: San Diego, California</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Event: Workshop sponsored by the International Plein Air Painters (celebrating its 10th anniversary); J.R. Baldini and Linda Richichi teaching.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Contact: International Plein Air Painters website: <a href="http://www.i-p-a-p.com/"><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; text-decoration: underline;">www.i-p-a-p.com</span></a></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Date: Now until October, 2011</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Location: Locations throughout the state of Indiana</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Event: <i>Painting Indiana III</i> Project sponsored by the Indiana Plein Air Painters in partnership with Indiana Landmarks. This will be the 10th anniversary of the <i>Painting Indiana</i> project and 80 - 100 historic landmark paintings will be included in a book published by Indiana University Press. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Contact: Bill Wissel, Coordinator, IPAPA Painting III, <a href="mailto:cc976@aol.com"><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; text-decoration: underline;">cc976@aol.com</span></a>, or visit <a href="http://www.inpainters.org/"><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; text-decoration: underline;">www.inpainters.org</span></a> or <a href="http://www.paintingIndiana.com/"><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; text-decoration: underline;">www.PaintingIndiana.com</span></a>. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Date: April 9-10, 2011</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Location: Blue Ridge, Georgia</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Event: Spring Plein Air Festival sponsored by the Blue Ridge Mountains Arts Association</span></div><div style="color: #0126a7; font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Contact: <a href="http://blueridgearts.net/spring-plein-air-festival.cfm"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">http://blueridgearts.net/spring-plein-air-festival.cfm</span></a></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Date: April 11-15, 2011</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Location: New Harmony, Indiana</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Event: Workshops with C.W. Mundy, Bye Britney, and Todd Williams sponsored by the Indiana Plein Air Painters</span></div><div style="color: #0126a7; font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Contact: <a href="http://www.inpainter.org/"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">www.inpainter.org</span></a></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Date: April 25-30, 2011</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Location: Gadsden Museum of Art, Gadsden, Alabama</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Event: The Southeastern Plein Air Invitational exhibition</span></div><div style="color: #0126a7; font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Contact: <a href="http://www.gadsdenmuseum.com/"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">www.gadsdenmuseum.com</span></a></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Date: May 13-22, 2011</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Location: Various locations between Mexico Beach and Alligator Point, Florida</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Event: 6th Annual Plein Air Invitational sponsored by Florida’s Forgotten Coast Cultural Coalition. </span></div><div style="color: #0126a7; font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Contact: Joe Taylor (<a href="mailto:palme2blue@yahoo.com"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">palme2blue@yahoo.com</span></a>), Lori Putnam (<a href="mailto:lori@loriputnam.com"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">lori@loriputnam.com</span></a>), or <a href="http://www.pleinairfl.com/"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">www.pleinairfl.com</span></a>. </div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Date: May 12-15, 2011</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Location: Carmel, California</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Event: 18th Annual Carmel Art Festival</span></div><div style="color: #0126a7; font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Contact: <a href="http://www.carmelartfestival.org/"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">www.carmelartfestival.org</span></a></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Date: May 16-22, 2011</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Event: Wayne Art Center Plein Air Festival</span></div><div style="color: #0126a7; font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Contact: <a href="http://www.waynepleinair.com/"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">www.waynepleinair.com</span></a></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Date: May 23-27, 2011</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Location: Sonoma, California</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Event: Sonoma Plein Air 2011</span></div><div style="color: #0126a7; font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Contact: <a href="http://www.sonomapleinair.com/"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">www.sonomapleinair.com</span></a></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Date: June, 2011</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Location: Wasilla, Alaska</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Event: Workshop sponsored by Painted Ladies </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Contact: Painted Ladies page on Face Book, or Karen Whitworth at <a href="http://www.WhitworthGallery.org/"><span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; text-decoration: underline;">www.WhitworthGallery.org</span></a>.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Date: June 10-12, 2011</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Location: Bitterroot River Inn, Hamilton, Montana</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Event: 7th Annual Montana Professional Artists Association Hamilton Show</span></div><div style="color: #0126a7; font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Contact: <a href="http://www.montanaprofessionalartistsasscoc.com/"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">www.montanaprofessionalartistsassoc.com</span></a></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Date: June 11, 2011</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Location: Irwin Garden, Columbus, Indiana</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Event: Columbus Paint Out, Indiana Plein Air Painters</span></div><div style="color: #0126a7; font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Contact: <a href="http://www.inpainters.org/"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">www.inpainters.org</span></a></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Date: June 24, 2011-July 9, 2011</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Location: Saks Galleries, Denver, Colorado</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Event: Plein Air Artists Colorado 15th National Juried Fine Art Exhibition and Sale</span></div><div style="color: #0126a7; font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Contact: <a href="http://www.pleinairartistscolorado.com/"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">www.pleinairartistscolorado.com</span></a></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div>Steve Dohertyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04349015266726804940noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4374664315986011680.post-40494240949584399442010-12-15T15:54:00.000-08:002010-12-15T15:54:51.848-08:00Artist Mentors OnlineMy good friend Kevin Macpherson has a great website of advice and personal critiques. 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</div>Steve Dohertyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04349015266726804940noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4374664315986011680.post-54904874752930391962010-11-14T17:33:00.000-08:002010-11-14T17:33:45.508-08:00Jerry Pinkney Opening at Rockwell Museum<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_V3oHXV5rWfk/TOCL0zZVjFI/AAAAAAAAAYY/O3jCFhSmtS4/s1600/IMG_0433.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="287" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_V3oHXV5rWfk/TOCL0zZVjFI/AAAAAAAAAYY/O3jCFhSmtS4/s320/IMG_0433.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Artist Jerry Pinkney Lecturing at The Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts during the opening weekend of a major exhibition of his watercolor paintings.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Right: Artist Jerry Pinkney and Author Gloria Pinkney autographing books at The Norman Rockwell Museum on November 14, 2010.<br />
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Our good friend and neighbor Jerry Pinkney is celebrating 50 years of being an artist and award-winning illustrator. About 150 of his original watercolor paintings are on display at The Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts until next May, 2011 when the show will travel to other museums. Jerry won the Caldecott Medal in 2010 for his illustrated book <i>The Lion and the Mouse</i>.Steve Dohertyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04349015266726804940noreply@blogger.com2