Uncle Bud's Art Colony

Wednesday, March 7, 2018

In the 1880's swimming for fun was a new thing. The Queen of Spain needed salt water to help her legs. Then everyone saw it was okay to get wet.

And where there are people there are artist. Renoir and Monet captured the "Bathers at the Frog Pond." This is a typical painting of bathers in the early years of swimming. Modest and well covered. Now, well why wear anything?

Look how the sky reflects the blues in the water. The color harmony is amazing. All the colors work together even the whites.

So when it warms up lets go the the beach and get our brushes wet not our suits.

People and more people

7:55 AM

Kathy

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I enjoy these paintings and would like to do more like this style. I relish finding the balance in these as well.

Part of this type of painting is having time to enjoy it and build to it. I used to rush through each painting but lately I've slowed down in painting. That way I can enjoy the process.

I also find I have rituals and patterns that I follow in my painting cycles. Do you do that? I guess we are all creatures of habit. Some things need to be done regardless of your habits.
All background canvases and color need to be done and dry.

More like this is fun and done. Lets get our brushes wet and go for it.

More like this.

7:57 AM

Kathy

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For me it was a field trip to the Columbus Art Museum. We saw Vincent Van Gogh's charcoal drawings and a couple of his paintings. I was totally taken with the drawings.

Monet was cartoonist drawing pictures of his neighbors when his aunt sent him to Paris and Art School. Renoir was painting scenes on plates. Then someone asked him to paint a mural on the wall of their restaurant.

For others it seems they had no choice but to follow their family or others still to break away from the family business. Many like Van Gogh who had tried several other professions and failed. But I will say this in his manic way he mastered drawing and painting in two years.

Okay now you? Who or what or even why did you get into this crazy wonderful thing?

Lets get our brushes wet and paint on!

Who or what got you into Art?

8:07 AM

Kathy

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With the sun think about the flowers. If I just go for it I can paint what I feel. The flower paintings just happen.

Sun and spring begins to make the gardener get nervous about the flower beds. The early blooms get ready to go. Next thing you know the warm air and rain make more room for you to get planting.

I experimented with these flowers are they roses or mystery flower? I just went for it. I really like the leaf and the daisy pattern.

Well think sun and warm, Get your brushes wet and go for it.

With the Sun Think Flowers

9:44 AM

Kathy

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This little tumor deal has made it hard in the past to paint like I want. I wasn't able to stand up like I wanted to and it took a lot to do stuff.

Well this past week or so I was able to paint and stain some canvas. I have been drawing more and enjoying it more. Also I saw Andy's painting and was a little jealous.

I turn on the 60's and 70's on my XM radio and Boom! Paint away Gramps. I know it is very therapeutic to listen to the music as well as paint.

For me I get lost in it like some do in the computer or social media or TV or.....

So children get the brushes out and the canvas and the paint. Lets dip in and get the brushes wet.

Back At it again?

10:40 AM

Kathy

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When you paint a monochrome painting any touch of color just explodes the picture. In this painting the red birds and the berries of red pop this painting.

Impressionist and may other painters add complementary color and then also add opposites. This creates interest in the painting. During the 60's we would do Op-Art or the color clashing paintings. You would see red and blue side by side in the same intensity causing your eye to jump back and forth not being able to focus on either one.

This was so fun to paint. It brings in the composition a bit of the winter. That is so neat to paint as well as adding the birds.

Well gang lets get those brushes wet and paint away!

Add More color

8:01 AM

Kathy

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Okay I admit it I like trees and stuff but to expand my sketch book is a good Idea. I always pick a tree or the like, bushes and such. The more you expand your drawing talents the better you get.

Yesterday I drew an old castle and a city landscape. I think it helps what you see to draw as well as what you know. In an article in "Artist Magazine" a guy draws on his vacation. The plain houses and city's they go through. Later this builds on his "what to paint" file.

I know we should draw or paint what we see and what we know but to expand a little bit is the goal in life. A mind that entertains a new idea is like a rubber band stretched to a new shape.

Now lets get our brushes wet and pencils sharp!