Watch Me Paint: World-Class Art, World-Class Instruction
My friend Paul Abspoel (here) asked me five questions to be answered on this blog. I apologize for the time itâs taken, but here are the questions and the answers: Please comment: âGod is an Artist, but his art is not very accessibleâ âAccessibleâ art has a message we easily grasp. Our response to Creation …
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Ingres,_Napoleon_on_his_Imperial_throne.jpg My husband and I saw the show âCitizens and Kingsâ at the Royal Academy of Art in London. Three months later, the painting which sticks in my memory is Ingresâ Napoleon I on his Imperial Throne (1806). Most paintings are better seen in life, and this is no exception. The marble ball on the …
A water gap is a place where a river cuts a notch sideways through a mountain range. Geologists tell us this indicates a river which is older than the mountains it flows through. Pennsylvania is rich in these water gaps, and one of the most well-known is the Delaware Water Gap on the Delaware River …
At Rochester, the shore of Lake Ontario is flat and covered with fine cobblestones. The shoreline is very even. It is hard to break up the strong horizontal and diagonal lines, except by putting in the dark overhanging trees. What the lake lacks in architecture it makes up for with incredible light and color. On …
Note: I first posted this in April but managed to lose all the illustrations. Embarrassing for someone who prides herself on her computer literacy. I recently realized I was overworking the thing, and ought to just follow the software instead of trying to bend it to my will. During Wednesday’s class I demonstrated a method …
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