tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28386324899343062812024-02-20T08:23:48.474-06:00Deborah ParisA Painting LifeDeborah Parishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02242296435365350267noreply@blogger.comBlogger451125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2838632489934306281.post-1470254496966618892020-07-11T14:17:00.000-05:002020-07-11T14:17:08.135-05:00A Painting Life has Moved!<div style="text-align: center;">
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Hi All. Just a note to let you know that <i>A Painting Life</i> has moved! The blog will now be housed on <a href="http://www.deborahparis.com/">my website here.</a> I hope you will follow me there and sign up for new art updates too. I have some exciting news coming up soon about the publication of my book <i>Painting the Woods: Nature, Memory and Metaphor.</i></div>
Deborah Parishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02242296435365350267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2838632489934306281.post-72288114409630077932019-07-05T17:21:00.000-05:002019-07-05T17:21:46.098-05:00Summer NightsOver the last couple of weeks I have painted two nocturnes from memory, evocations of summer nights both past and present. While both of these paintings purport to depict East Texas, they also reside in childhood memories of warm summer nights and cool moonlight. As Thoreau said "the night is oracular."<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">Nocturnes are intensely romantic images. In the 18th century they were often called 'moonlights'. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">The term nocturne was first used to describe a series of musical composition by Frederick Chopin in the 1820s. Within the next few decades literary circles in Paris embraced the nocturne, especially the Symbolist poets Rimbaud, Verlaine and Gautier. By the 1860s the motif of the nocturne as a lyrical form of expression that conjured altered states of perception was widely embraced across all the arts. Perhaps one of its best known proponents was </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">James Abbott McNeil Whistler (1834-1903), an expatriate American artist living in London. Whistler, more than any other nineteenth century artist, reinvigorated the depiction of moonlit nights into a modern idiom. He appropriated the musical term “nocturne’ to describe his spare, murky depictions of nighttime along the Thames and in Venice. Whistler employed memory as a major component of his artistic practice, often observing a nighttime motif repeatedly before retreating to his studio to paint it.</span></div>
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Deborah Parishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02242296435365350267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2838632489934306281.post-39807219234085184382018-12-23T09:18:00.002-06:002018-12-23T09:18:10.426-06:00Merry Christmas!<br />
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from the studio!</div>
Deborah Parishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02242296435365350267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2838632489934306281.post-62291408666710354062018-12-13T08:34:00.000-06:002018-12-13T08:34:24.908-06:00Podcasts<br />
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You have probably noticed that artist podcasts have become increasingly popular over the last few years. I enjoy listening to them in the studio. It gives you can opportunity to hear artists talk first hand about their work, how they make it, and life as an artist.<br />
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I have been a guest on a couple of podcasts.<a href="https://www.dannygrantfineart.com/podcast/2017/10/9/ep-24-deborah-paris"> My interview with Danny Grant on the Studio Podcast </a>was a really enjoyable experience. Danny was a thoughtful interviewer and we had a great conversation on several topics. In particular, I got to talk about my philosophy of teaching online and also about the importance of my daily walks and memory to my work. <a href="https://www.dannygrantfineart.com/podcast/2017/10/9/ep-24-deborah-paris">So have a listen</a> and i hope you enjoy!<br />
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I was also interviewed on the Savvy Painter podcast. With over a million downloads worldwide, this podcast has a big reach! <a href="https://savvypainter.com/podcast/discover-passion-life-deborah-paris/">Check it out here.</a><br />
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Happy Holidays Everyone!Deborah Parishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02242296435365350267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2838632489934306281.post-23749886027682128282018-11-14T08:06:00.000-06:002019-04-13T17:13:32.795-05:00Visual Thinking<br />
Recently a friend of mine who is a writer said to me "writing is thinking." What she meant is that as we write we often discover the internal structure of what was previously a collection of random ideas and as a result locate the real intention of our work <i>through the act of doing it.</i><br />
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The same can be said for drawing- particularly certain types of drawing. Specifically I am thinking about thumbnails. <strong>Thumbnails are visual thinking.</strong> For me, thumbs are the place to work out visual ideas, to search for and find the structure of a painting. As such, I invest enough time in them to explore the idea, but not so much time that I try to turn each one into a perfect little drawing, and thus limit the time I have to look around for other ways to express the idea.<br />
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Thumbs are thinking visually. That’s all. They are like first drafts of my painting- those first steps toward finding the right structure for my visual idea.<br />
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Here are some thumbs from a small sketchbook I often carry with me on walks. It is 5 x7 (important only for understanding the small scale of these thumbs). They certainly are not great drawings and some are not especially good designs. A few of them have since become paintings. One of them became a monoprint. In most of them I have seriously limited the shapes and values – trying to get down to something essential. A few are more developed. Some are abandoned – a trail I didn’t follow because I lost interest or got a better idea while I was working.<br />
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Working out my visual ideas this way has become automatic and my sketchbooks become a rich repository of ideas that I can use (together with memory and imagination) for years to come.<br />
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Deborah Parishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02242296435365350267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2838632489934306281.post-85675194366672466362018-10-29T08:53:00.000-05:002018-10-29T08:53:16.159-05:00The Power of Selection Through MemoryAs many of you know, I primarily work from memory and imagination. Many years ago, I started to explore this way of working, and now it has become second nature to me. It is also part of the method I teach my students. I wrote more about that <a href="https://deborahparis-apaintinglife.blogspot.com/2015/12/training-visual-memory.html">here </a>and <a href="https://deborahparis-apaintinglife.blogspot.com/2010/12/memory-incarnate.html">here</a>.<br />
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One of the strongest reasons to train your visual memory is the power it has to distill and intensify your experience of the landscape, and as a result of that, to assist you in creating a very personal response to it in your art. As Carlson says, this helps us to locate the source of our originality. <b>It is our personal response to the landscape we seek to express, rather than a copy of the scene in front of us. Because memory acts as a filter to select certain information while rejecting other information, it is a highly personal tool for art making.</b><br />
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I spent last week in Fredericksburg, Texas with <a href="http://www.malloryagerton.com/">Mallory Agerton</a>, a friend and former student. Mallory completed the Atelier Program in 2015. In fact, she was part of the first group of students that I used as 'guinea pigs' for my memory training exercises. Today, as a professional artist, she works from the drawings she makes in the field and memory (no photography).<br />
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We also spent a week together last year at about the same time of the year. On successive evenings we went out just before sunset to observe the landscape. We were both taken with a little creek we found and spent about 20 minutes each night for three evenings looking at it. We both did drawings of it from memory later.<br />
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Here is Mallory's drawing.<br />
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Obviously they are very different. After we made our drawings we talked about what we saw and what we were interested in about the scene. For me, the large tree and its gesture against the sky, the intimate space around the creek and the sliver of water made a big impression. I also wanted to get my drawing dark enough to suggest the failing light. Mallory noticed a smaller tree in front of the big one and the filigree of its branches against the sky. She also wanted to simplify the whole scene into very simple shapes. She depicted it as more open.<br />
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When I got back home I painted this little study from memory. The idea that I captured in the drawing was further distilled and sifted again through memory (including remembering the color).<br />
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Of course, there isn't any right or wrong here. Both Mallory and I responded to what was most interesting and our memories were strongest of the things that interested us most. Those things to a very large extent reflect our personal aesthetics. Memory, if properly trained and used, will help you identify the things you really want to paint--not things that are merely interesting, but the things you find truly compelling.</div>
Deborah Parishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02242296435365350267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2838632489934306281.post-11456631114711135262018-10-25T12:42:00.000-05:002018-10-25T12:55:45.092-05:00Moonrise<br />
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Hello All! Yes, it's been a long time. It's not that I haven't been writing (I have) but just elsewhere. But, I have wanted to get back here for a long while, and here I am. Hope some of you are still out there.<br />
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Moonrises have been on my mind this week. I am teaching an online class on Nocturnes right now, and since this week is the full moon, it is not only the best time to observe the moonlit landscape but also to observe moonrise and moonset. That's because when the moon is full, it rises at about the same time as sunset, and sets at about the same time as sunrise. The sun in the opposite sky from the moon makes for lots of evocative light and color and also for interesting compositional opportunities.<br />
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Moonrise, Flood Tide</div>
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The moon and moonlight are full of mystery and mood. At full moonrise, before it is dark, we can feel the day slipping away, giving way to the night. Unfortunately for me, the skies in northeast Texas are too cloudy to enjoy the show. But, if its clear where you are, be sure to watch for moonrise at sunset tonight and moonset at dawn tomorrow!<br />
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Deborah Parishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02242296435365350267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2838632489934306281.post-58682741990700643592015-12-10T10:25:00.000-06:002015-12-10T10:26:15.790-06:00Training Visual Memory<div class="page" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" title="Page 3">
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Morning Walk, Fence Line</div>
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One of the key ingredients of the Drawing/Painting Program of The Landscape Atelier is the training of visual memory. Many years ago, I embarked on a journey to find a way to use memory in my own work. Over time, I developed some techniques and strategies which helped me retain visual information. As a result, I became comfortable working from both memory and imagination.<br />
When I started The Landscape Atelier in 2014 I knew I wanted to make memory training part of the curriculum. Last month I gave a paper at the TRAC 2015 conference entitled <em>The Training and Use of Visual Memory for Representational Landscape Painters </em>which describes why memory training is important, the literature and history of memory training, the method we use in the Atelier, and the results we obtained over the first year using these methods.</div>
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Deborah Parishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02242296435365350267noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2838632489934306281.post-14403654546684678202015-10-01T12:21:00.000-05:002015-10-01T12:21:32.015-05:00Let's Try Again- New Paintings & DrawingsSeveral readers wrote to let me know they were having trouble viewing the images in my last post. So I am reposting them. Thanks to those of you who let me know!<br />
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This first image is a painting which is headed to the Small Works, Great Wonders show at the National Western Heritage Museum in OK City.<br />
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Woods Lake Interior</div>
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I am hard at work on some larger paintings, but here are several drawings and a few small paintings. </div>
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Woods</div>
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Backyard, Evening</div>
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Deborah Parishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02242296435365350267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2838632489934306281.post-61502933099326552112015-09-02T19:18:00.000-05:002015-09-02T19:19:02.709-05:00Gilcrease Museum- Collectors' Reserve<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I am pleased to say that these three pieces are headed to the Collectors' Reserve Show & Sale at the Gilcrease Museum this fall. The Gilcrease has a fabulous collection of American art including some beautiful examples of Hudson River School paintings and<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22px;">holds what is considered among the world’s largest and most comprehensive collections of fine art, artifacts, and archives dealing with the American West. Located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the museum grounds include 23 acres</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22px;"> of thematic gardens showcasing the gardening styles of different time periods in the American West. </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It is an honor to be included in this exhibition.</span><br />
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Aspen Brook Study</div>
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<br />Deborah Parishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02242296435365350267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2838632489934306281.post-10561937963762752392015-07-04T11:59:00.000-05:002015-07-04T11:59:08.256-05:00Happy 4th and New Work!To all of you in the USA, Happy 4th of July!<br />
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This painting was begun before I went to Colorado in June and was based on field work I did last year in June. I had gotten it to a point and was really stuck, so the trip came at a good time enabling me to revisit the motif and refresh both memory and inspiration.<br />
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Last June I worked most of the time in a lovely aspen grove near my cabin. I did numerous drawings of individual aspen trees as well as ponderosa pines (which I posted<a href="http://deborahparis-apaintinglife.blogspot.com/2014/06/colorado.html"> here</a> and <a href="http://deborahparis-apaintinglife.blogspot.com/2014/06/field-sketching-adventures.html">here</a>) and some motif drawings as well. But I did not really follow up on any of them until a few months ago. The idea came from a desire to revisit the subject but also the fact that I had been looking at the work of Emil Carlsen quite a bit. I was intrigued with his backgrounds and how he was able to create something that was at once atmospheric but also had some very definite decorative qualities and a flatter picture plane.<br />
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So, my idea here was to not follow my usual method of creating a background with multiple layers of scumbles applied with rags but to use more of a dry brush approach with more texture and opacity, but to try to make it read simultaneously as "air" but also decorative and somewhat flat. At the same time I wanted to continue with the challenge of face lit subjects and to also play with the idea of volume and flatness in those forms.<br />
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Oddly, the "experimental" part of the painting seemed to go fairly well and I was happy with that part after a couple of passes. Here are a few details.</div>
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But, the part that should have been easy- the foreground grasses- just would not come together. I had originally envisioned some dappled sunlight in this area but every configuration I tried ended up detracting from the "main event", so eventually, when I returned from my trip I eliminated it. As a result I repainted the foreground about 6 times. Luckily, although I lost the transparency as a result, the layers and shifts in temperature (which this image doesn't capture very well) made up for it. The more simple "light shade" of the foreground seemed a better fit for the image.</div>
Deborah Parishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02242296435365350267noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2838632489934306281.post-12439079122807064322015-05-07T16:18:00.003-05:002015-05-07T16:19:58.198-05:00New Work- Chroma is In the MidtonesThis painting was started a year ago- either at the workshop or just after. The underpainting sat in my studio unfinished. Last summer I used it as a demo piece for the "scumble with rag" video I made (the back trees). Then it sat around again. With the coming of spring I felt inspired to work on it again. I was particularly interested in working with some of the concepts we have been studying in the Color II class and which I discussed in <a href="http://thelandscapeatelier.com/2015/02/01/chroma-trumps-value/">this post on the Field Notes blog</a> - obviously vibration but also the idea that the mid tones can hold more chromatic color.<br />
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I lightened the value range from what I might typically do and tried to keep the color rich in the mid tones, while keeping the lights a little darker and the darks a bit lighter, narrowing the range. I am interested in exploring this further and am working on two other pieces now which include these ideas.<br />
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Winter came back with a vengeance this week, giving us our first snowfall. My favorite haunts were covered in four inches of snow. Here they are, back in November, shrouded in fog and rich with the color harmonies of late autumn.</div>
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Here' s an etching which I completed recently which depicts a rainy day at a nearby pond. This image was inspired not only by the rainy weather we have had this fall but by 19th century Japanese wood block prints which depict the landscape in the rain. I wanted to see if I could capture the look of rainfall and also to evoke the mood it produces.<div>
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The plate was step etched, meaning that different parts of the plate were bitten for different amounts of time. The lighter areas like the trees in the distance and the sky were bitten for the shortest amount of time, then stopped out (covered with asphaltum) to keep them from continuing to etch. I then continued to etch the areas I wanted to be darker. The lighter areas were only etched for a few minutes. The total etching time was about 35 minutes.<br /><div>
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All images can be clicked for a larger view. Here are a couple of details. The first one shows the line work in the trees, bushes and grass.</div>
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This one shows the rainfall and the pond water.<br />
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The last few weeks we have had some lovely foggy mornings which are very typical for this time of year here. The exquisite, delicate color harmonies mixed with the mystery of forms enveloped by mist always intrigues me. So, this year I resolved to do a few paintings of fog motifs. In pursuit of that I did these three color studies last week. All are vine charcoal and pastel on toned paper.</div>
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This fall I have finally had the opportunity to get back to printmaking after a long hiatus. I love the process, a wonderful combination of artistry and craft. Up until now, I had concentrated on drypoint which is a type of intaglio process which involves working directly on the plate. Recently I have done some etching which involves covering the plate with a ground and then working the image into the ground. When the plate is placed in acid, the lines incised into the ground allow the acid to bite the plate. It's a little bit of magic every time you print!<br />
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I am offering a few of my efforts for sale through my studio. They are priced perfectly for a holiday gift! <a href="http://deborahparis-fineart.blogspot.com/">Click here</a> to see what's on offer and to purchase.Deborah Parishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02242296435365350267noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2838632489934306281.post-62209586735412584402014-10-23T13:22:00.000-05:002014-10-23T13:22:55.632-05:00Autumn Harmony<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's my favorite time of year- finally! When I was saving this image of a newly completed painting to my computer, I had to laugh at the number of painting titles that start with the word "Autumn". There's Autumn… Light, Moment, Interlude, Sunrise, Evening, Morning, Sunset, Dusk, Road, Crossing, Woods, Reflections …well, you get the idea. Yes, I love to paint autumn. This year, I am actually painting it "in season" instead of months behind, so I hope to show a few more with titles that start "Autumn" soon.</div>
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PS. There is a new post up on the Field Notes blog about <a href="http://thelandscapeatelier.com/field-notes/">Speed of the Line & Stoppers</a>. Want to know more? Check it out!</div>
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PPS Our popular online class <a href="http://deborahparisonlineclasses.blogspot.com/p/online-class-schedule-registration.html">Composing the Landscape</a> starts October 31.</div>
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As some of you know, we recently started a blog <a href="http://thelandscapeatelier.com/field-notes/"> Field Notes</a> over on the website for <a href="http://thelandscapeatelier.com/">The Landscape Atelier</a>. The plan is to post some great articles on drawing and painting the landscape, some art history and natural history stuff, video demos, as well as exhibition and book reviews from time to time. There are already several posts up that I think you would find informative. So,<a href="http://thelandscapeatelier.com/">click on over </a>and have a look!<br />
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OK, not really. It is rare for me to be painting ahead of a season. usually I am several steps behind, still painting spring when summer is in full bloom or painting fall when it's Valentine's Day. In this case, I managed to get out ahead of the season. I was happy to conjure up the cold quiet of a winter's day inside my studio while heat and humidity still prevail outside.</div>
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This painting will be exhibited at the Collectors' Reserve Show & Sale at the Gilcrease Museum, TUlsa, OK, November 6, 2014.</div>
Deborah Parishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02242296435365350267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2838632489934306281.post-57194135459748028682014-09-03T19:02:00.001-05:002014-09-03T19:02:26.511-05:00Fall?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Is it fall? Not quite yet, but it is September and fall cannot be far behind. Fall and winter are my favorite seasons. Those spare, stripped down landscapes and subtle color harmonies thrill me as no saturated summer greens ever can. Here is one new painting for the Collectors' Reserve Show & Sale at the Gilcrease Museum opening in late October.</div>
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<br />Deborah Parishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02242296435365350267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2838632489934306281.post-50859308711279751752014-08-15T20:47:00.000-05:002014-08-15T20:47:01.291-05:00Workshop demo completed<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
This little painting started as a demo in my recent workshop in Telluride. It will soon be headed to its new home in MA! Click for larger view.</div>
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Here is the reference material I used. The drawing is one of several studies I did of the small blue spruce that seemed to be everywhere. The pen and ink drawing (dip pen, sepia ink and wash) was done on location. The stream was actually about 10 feet to the right…but I moved it.</div>
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I started the painting during the workshop to demonstrate the technique I use in my underpaintings. It was completed later after I got home from my reference drawings and memory.</div>
Deborah Parishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02242296435365350267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2838632489934306281.post-57842048366125746022014-08-12T14:09:00.000-05:002014-08-12T14:14:48.109-05:00Summer Savings on Fall Online Classes!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Deborah Parishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02242296435365350267noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2838632489934306281.post-53853215710273344542014-07-28T09:47:00.000-05:002014-07-28T09:47:27.913-05:00Close to Home<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have just returned from two different sketching trips to Colorado and also teaching a workshop there near Telluride. I love Colorado and I have a whole sketchbook full of ideas that I am looking forward to painting over the nest few months. But close to home is, as always, the real source of my inspiration. Right across from our property are acres of land owned by a neighbor who generously allows me to tromp around in all seasons. This painting was started this spring during the workshop at <a href="http://thelandscapeatelier.com/">The Landscape Atelier</a> and completed in early summer. </div>
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