Uncle Bud's Art Colony

Monday, November 14, 2016

The French were taken with the early 1800's Japanese painters and their spirit of open wind paintings.

No one more so than Monet, his house was covered with these prints and paintings. This lead others, the impressionist, including Van Gogh to begin to pattern some of his paintings after the composition of these classical masters of oriental paintings.

This little painting I have here is in that spirit of the open wind of early spring the sky colors have lots of movement. the branch of the tree lead your eye around the painting. I have tried to keep balance in this painting with limbs moving up, down and around for a feeling of wind.

If you have a chance to visit a studio of an artist I would encourage you to do so. The influence of his or her creativity will spark something in you. If you can't do that go to a street art fair, Buy a painting it will make your heart feel good and it will bless the painter!

I remember selling a painting one of my first, I was so happy that someone some where wanted to see what my world looked like! See you at the art fair! Bless someone!

Japanese Influence via Monet and Van Gogh!

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This one of my first acrylic paintings. I used a dark green and brown for a third of the painting, and then used a cream color of left over house paint on the top half of the painting.

Pulling out some of the green and yellows for the leaves and vines in the back ground creates more interest. The blues and yellow are in harmony with the top half of the painting and the darker browns and reds pick up the lower half of the painting.

The white daisy's and baby's breath pop the other colors, with a rigger brush I pulled up some vines and weeds.

The last thing you do in a painting is the first thing people see and the accents on the yellow flowers and the white daisy are the last things done.

For a first try I think it was okay. I now see so many things I would change and do differently.

The point is just start!!!

Dark to Light Flowers

9:27 AM

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This artist is famous for many paintings he did about boxing and city workers. And people in snow.

George is a Cincinnati and Cleveland artist according to my information. He studied at the Cincinnati School of Art and I believe a teacher. Later he went to New York to paint and experience the big city.

This painting was on view at Columbus Art Museum. They have a hand full of these paintings. This example of a snowy day is so interesting because of the deep shadows and the far distant horizion.

The People are on their way even though the snow is deep. In fact the paint of white snow is thick as well. There seems to be so much texture and movement in this painting. I like the tracks of the folks walking in the deep snow.

This is not quite a monochromatic painting but almost. Again I will encourage you to go to your local museum!

George Bellows Ohio Painter

9:47 AM

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I started this blog in the summer and we have moved as a group thru late summer into fall and now in a few weeks it will be Winter.

If you are a painter you notice the changes. Colors become muted and more browns, tans, and earth tone greens as the trees withdraw their sap and freezing weather comes along. Now if your in another hemisphere than our northern one then you have a different pattern.
But still you too should be observing the changes as you move into your Spring and summer.

The color wheel we did a while back is really split in half with cool and warm sides as well as accents and opposite sides. A painter can take a few colors and indicate heavy shadows on one hand. Then on the other hand you could show brilliant highlights.

I didn't talk about white and black too much, because as those colors are added to paint it changes value and tints. Monet decided to leave black out of his pallet, and many of the other Impressionist followed his lead, but some did not. I notice Van Gogh used dark blue for his outlines of houses and people.

Well the point is Notice what the seasons are doing around you and use color accordingly. Enjoy this next season!

Fall and Winter Color!

9:34 AM

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I wanted to paint this with just a few colors. Browns and Blues with Yellow as an accent.

These Birch trees are a neat design, and in my mind, I remember them from our trips to Canada and Michigan when I was a kid. We would go north to fish and hunt and explore the great outdoors.

Some of you have seen my river and beaver dam painting and the lighthouse on Pt. Betsie plus all the birch trees I've painted.

I tried to show the far horizon with the woods on the hills in this one. I used the masking fluid to protect the trees and leaves. Then I can paint the brighter colors. And the details are added later.

I hope this encourages you to try painting with watercolors or even acrylics just to get a feel for the colors and relaxing time it is. Let all take a minute and sketch out something and paint it just to see what happens!

Few Colors - Big impact!

10:34 AM

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This is a picture some of you have seen before if you have followed me at all. The Mighty Elephant stands for strength but unless we protect them in the wild they are doomed.

In the United States we have picked the Donkey and the Elephant as our mascots for our political party's and I have no Idea why. Stubbornness and strength?

This painting was a trial for me to learn back-lighting and bringing out the silver lining in a paint of a subject.

I love the clouds in this painting. The landscape is a bowl in which we live and move. Now it is up to us to keep it on track! Protect our wildlife.

I used a lot of thin strokes with a liner brush to build the weeds and stuff in the fore ground.

Lets all commit to protect the Elephant!

Elephants Strong Today!

10:12 AM

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Today there are lots choices. I have painted several types of trees and brush. Weeping willows, old oak tree, pines, and those great maples.

You can paint trees and shrubs and collect them for add on in your work later. These ideas can be gathered in your sketch book and compiled later.

I have that little travel watercolor box and I can whip up a little painting in 2 - 4 minutes.

Today we have so many choices to how we paint, draw, and color.

Oh Yes And Vote for.

People can grab a notebook and draw, Or use paper, or canvas anything and everything in between. So lots of choices today and maybe tomorrow things will be different.

Keep on painting!