Annie Salness Art: September 2014

9.21.2014

"Peach, Pink Rose", Carol Marine, and Alyson B. Stanfield

Peach Pink Rose

8"x 8"

oil on gessoboard
$175

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I have decided to try oil painting ever since my workshop with Carol Marine and actually, I like it!
Carol's method is to paint "alla prima" or "wet onto wet"; the painting is completed while the paint is still wet. This requires you to work fast! Carol says it allows you to blend from your "islands" (main subject) into your "oceans" (background). And, when things don't work out as planned (which almost NEVER happens! ;) ), you can wipe it away!

Carol's new book, Daily Painting, which I'm sure will be full of all of her tips and tricks, comes out November 4, 2014.

I ordered one!

Alyson B. Stanfield

Several weeks ago I met with local artist friends Brenda Boylan, Jo Reimer, and Celeste Bergin. Joining us from Colorado, was dear friend, Art Biz Coach, Alyson B. Stanfield, for a wonderful breakfast at The Benson Hotel.
" Alyson B. Stanfield is an art business consultant and author of I’d Rather Be in the Studio: The Artist’s No-Excuse Guide to Self-Promotion. She helps artists gain more recognition, organize their businesses, and sell more art at ArtBizCoach.com."
I have been following her since 2008, taken her online classes, I keep reading her book (over and over), and gain insight and understanding from her weekly blog posts. I highly recommend that you check out Art Biz Coach!

Listening to while I paint:
Audiobooks:

"The Hundred-Foot Journey", by Richard C. Morais, narrated by Neil Shah

Podcasts:

The Lede, hosted by Jerod Morris

Artists Helping Artists, hosted by Leslie Saeta

Social Media Examiner, hosted by Michael Stelzner

"Wait, Wait.... Don't Tell Me!", hosted by Peter Sagal

Splendid Table, hosted by Lynne Rossetto Kasper

Music:

My iPod

Really helpful!:

I am continually checking a dictionary, thesaurus, spell check, but one thing that has been particularly helpful is the grammar check! Please excuse any errors that I make and tell me! :)

9.05.2014

Eric Jacobsen's Workshop

I went to Eric Jacobsen's workshop at the Pumpkin Patch on Sauvie Island,

What a beautiful place to paint!

He gave a demonstration....

in which he emphasized that his directional "lines" in the painting

would lead you to the big oak tree...

where the center of interest is....where you want the eye to get drawn to.

Later on he said that the....

sky = 1st light source

ground = 2nd light source

hill = 3rd light source

upright (the tree) = 4th light source

On our second day he had us make 4 different versions of our composition.

I decided to do two vertical.....

and two horizontal.

Eric seemed to think that the top horizontal one was just right!

And this is what I painted.

"Sauvie Island 2"

10"x 8"

oil on gessoboard

$195

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This is Eric....

a fabulous teacher, and very nice guy!

(photograph credit to David Burbach)

Audiobooks:
"The Hundred-Foot Journey", by Richard C. Morais, narrated by Neil Shah (I haven't seen the film yet! Starring Helen Mirren. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEO1TWeM5JU )