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Carolyn Caldwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17156276108162295658noreply@blogger.comBlogger72125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2583640722354121104.post-29383205538342399422018-04-06T18:40:00.000-07:002018-04-06T18:51:17.887-07:00Can This Painting Be Saved?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Teaching a pastel class this week I was demonstrating some basic principles - things to consider in setting up a few still life objects, how to explore your subject with thumbnails, selecting a limited color palette. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I started a demo of my still life but time was getting on and I wanted the students to have time to paint so I stopped my demo painting prematurely. When I stepped back from it I was, let's say , underwhelmed with the result. Not an inspiring painting to say the least. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some of the students expressed curiosity about what I'd do with it, so to see if a painting with an unpromising start could turn in to something worthwhile, I took it into my studio to see if it could be turned into something that looked somewhat competent. I did like the subject and that in itself made it worthy of more effort.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdFjuXKwURUVXeAYUr2YatiHF4xxoie07NpRDBdBOYVR4MCSFpp0f0inFjCaNLGfl3ksp0YxhEQARhEoLh03p_VxeCRNPrx3id89teltd-n2xm6dlrH2wJ1EtOG3zOIllONPB0oyba_Dg/s1600/20180406_161943_HDR%257E2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1092" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdFjuXKwURUVXeAYUr2YatiHF4xxoie07NpRDBdBOYVR4MCSFpp0f0inFjCaNLGfl3ksp0YxhEQARhEoLh03p_VxeCRNPrx3id89teltd-n2xm6dlrH2wJ1EtOG3zOIllONPB0oyba_Dg/s320/20180406_161943_HDR%257E2.jpg" width="218" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, examining the reference photo I saw that the bowl was not drawn correctly and some of the stripes were not parallel and spaced wrong. ( see photo above).</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I erased the bowl edges and relocated the stripes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Then I turned the cherry tomato 90 degrees so it would be perpendicular to the stripes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I did not use a straight edge on the stripes, wanting a looser more informal feelin</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">g to this pastel. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I refined the edges of the eggs and reinforced the white stripes using a warm light orange color. Then I stared the white dots on the edge of the bowl. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> I continued to refine the eggs and bowl, and modified the cast shadows on the white stripes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Rather than use black for the stripes, I used a dark green so that the shadow on the black stripe cast by the tomato would be visible. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Next was adding some intense color on the tomato and the highlight, then touching up the white stripes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, much improved, I think, although I see that I could tighten up on the stripes a bit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Eggs with Red Bowl</i>, 12 x 12"</span></div>
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<br />Carolyn Caldwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17156276108162295658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2583640722354121104.post-2316222889418218672018-02-16T19:12:00.001-08:002018-04-04T19:53:23.448-07:00Skating Pond<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Skating Pond, oil and cold wax, 6 x 6"<br />
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<br />Carolyn Caldwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17156276108162295658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2583640722354121104.post-31459928857487785372018-01-19T19:49:00.003-08:002018-01-19T20:00:05.996-08:00Changing up the Color<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I had painted this scene as a large oil last year and it just wasn't working. I tried changing several things in the painting itself to no avail. So this week I stared at it for a while, looked at the notan pattern, the values, the color scheme, the drawing, etc, and decided to do some tiny studies in pastel exploring some possibilities that might solve the problems. The pastel above keeps pretty close to the original colors of the scene, but I emphasized the amount of blues to add to the atmospheric effect. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Contrast this pastel to the earlier blog post of Jan 17th. .(image below) For that study I really pushed the colors of sky and field for a version with more pizzazz. The red of the paper was allowed to show through and the effect pretty potent. They have very different moods. Which do you prefer?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />
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Carolyn Caldwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17156276108162295658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2583640722354121104.post-75867643608640611162017-12-04T21:16:00.000-08:002018-01-09T14:35:15.412-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSoy3rMdK0hGRJawp_jElxvHh8Prv9juCpHNxq0uYAtuQlJr_sRjB3zNWQ-KTgMBHmXv5YdLYcq7ls2-c8lTp-M-xyACICLPqj8bShyphenhyphen6uco5bEJIn-p255UeEZVaEJEzNe5JpQvXyOA8s/s1600/Bay+Islands+Blue+6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSoy3rMdK0hGRJawp_jElxvHh8Prv9juCpHNxq0uYAtuQlJr_sRjB3zNWQ-KTgMBHmXv5YdLYcq7ls2-c8lTp-M-xyACICLPqj8bShyphenhyphen6uco5bEJIn-p255UeEZVaEJEzNe5JpQvXyOA8s/s320/Bay+Islands+Blue+6.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bay Islands Blue #6, oil on board, 6 x 6" </span></div><br />
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Carolyn Caldwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17156276108162295658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2583640722354121104.post-69203807928498021032017-09-08T20:30:00.004-07:002018-02-04T06:44:02.297-08:00Deerborn in Summer Smoke<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This was a demo I did last night for my pastel class demonstrating atmospheric perspective. There's lots of that in Montana this summer with thick smoke from all the fires. </span><br />
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</i></b></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is the view from Mountain Village at Big Sky, Montana. I had gotten up before dawn to watch the sun rise over the mountains. It was a beautiful subtle sky with thin clouds that reflected the rosy hues. To capture the breadth of the view I decided to paint on three separate panels and frame them together. The frame is a beautiful black frame with a glossy finish. </span><br />
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This scene is along the Missouri River near Cascade, Montana.</div>
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There was a full moon rising in a very clear sky but there was a pink glow on everything from the setting sun.</div>
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Lone Mountain dominates the landscape at Big Sky. I got up early one morning to watch the sun illuminate the peak and work her way down her flanks. No snow, it was early fall. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is my first post in quite a long time. I've had to take a breather due to health issues, but am recovering and back in my studio now. It feels great to be painting again!</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This painting is of the Bridger Mountains down around Livingston, Montana when the trees are just leafing out and there is a fresh green in the landscape.</span><br />
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Huddle, oil on board, 11 x 14" , $600.<br />
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Russell Week, for those of you non western art followers, is a big week for western art in, of all places, Great Falls, Montana, where I went to high school. I never would have thought in the 60's that Great Falls would become an art town. But, thanks to Charles Marion Russell and his followers, the C.M. Russell Museum started an annual auction and it has grown into one of the biggest auctions of western art bringing in over $1 million in sales. The major hotels turn their rooms into galleries for the hundreds of artists that come to exhibit their paintings and sculpture. <br />
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I will be participating for the first time in the Out West Art Show in the Heritage Inn. The dates are March 17th - 19th. Room 175. <br />
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The image above is one of the new pieces that I will be exhibiting in the show. <br />
<br />Carolyn Caldwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17156276108162295658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2583640722354121104.post-55376557824131410612015-12-07T14:34:00.001-08:002015-12-07T14:34:31.705-08:00Welcome Winter<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I never thought I'd be welcoming winter since I consider myself a palm tree gal, but since I've moved to Montana I find I love the colors of this season.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Plus,</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> winter is fun here with both downhill and xcountry skiing close by. Not to mention the sauna at my health club. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, here is one of my first tiny snow paintings. I am still mesmerized by how blue the light is when the sun is almost gone.</span><br />
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Here are the finished images:<br />
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Willows at Simms, oil, 62 x 54"<br />
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Two Trees, oil, 62 x 54"<br />
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I received an email last week telling me that August was Artist Appreciation Month. They asked if I might write a blog post honoring an artist who influenced me. Oh, how to choose, there are soooo many. But I have to go back to the very beginning and honor the master who inspired me to tolerate my first thousand (2 thousand?) bad paintings while I was learning. He made me want to paint well so badly. Winslow Homer.<br />
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When I discovered his Key West watercolors I was living on St. John in the Virgin Islands and these sights were all around me.<br />
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His paintings made me thirsty to learn watercolor.</div>
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This was one of my first.</div>
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You can see how he influenced this one - one boat in shadow, the other catching the sun.</div>
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Without using gaudy color he caught the brilliant sun and light of the tropics.</div>
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Seeing his vision of what I was looking at honed my own.</div>
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Even now, nearly 40 years after discovering his tropical watercolors, I am still mesmerized.</div>
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Thank you to Marietta Gregg at <a href="https://www.patiencebrewster.com/ornaments.html">Patience Brewster</a> for prompting me to honor this giant.<br />
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The light was beautiful.</div>
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Emmalea was smiling.</div>
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The greening of the landscape this time of year is a discovery for me. The colors of winter in Montana were very different from Maine. All winter the muted colors of the landscape were livened up with those yellow orange trees that I still have not been able to identify. (A species of willow? Too wide to be cottonwoods. I'm asking around and will find out soon. ) The willows along creeks were pink red orange magenta depending on the light. Winter fields were ochre straw beige or white with snow. And all these contrasted with the black shapes of the angus cows, blue mountains, pink mountains with snow at sunset.<br />
But now spring. The black angus shapes now have smaller versions among them - calves! Fields are becoming yellow green. Those red willows are turning yellow-ochre green. The bare cottonwoods are now leafing out with yellow beigey green of the newly budding leaves. The light is different, too. I have to get up very early or be out there between 8 and 9 in the evening to get those long shadows I like. At these high altitudes - nearly a mile high - the mid day light blows out any shadows and color saturation disappears. There is usually a haze in the atmosphere but it's not air pollution. The air is clean here and it's too early for forest fires. I'm appreciating those days with scudding clouds that give shadow and contrast to the landforms below them.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I thoroughly enjoyed the month and now that it's over feel like I have all this time on my hands. It was a busy month. But, onward. I'll spend the next few weeks working on some large oils for the landscape show at Mary Tomas Gallery in Dallas. The show opens April 4th. Here are a couple just finished. </span><br />
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