tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46140825209781334022024-03-18T21:05:48.622-07:00Andrew Sandberg's Fine ArtAndrew Sandberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17267087515161108378noreply@blogger.comBlogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4614082520978133402.post-19190054919482815802023-10-16T10:32:00.000-07:002023-10-16T10:32:47.895-07:00Giuseppe Arcimboldo and the Double Image<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526 – 1593) was an Italian Renaissance painter famous for his imaginative and unconventional portraits. Born in Milan, he served as a court painter for the Habsburg emperors in Vienna and Prague. Arcimboldo's unique style is characterized by his "composite portraits" which used a combination of objects, fruits, vegetables, and other elements, arranged to portray a human face. These whimsical and highly detailed works are often interpreted as allegorical representations of the seasons, elements, or human attributes.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-pdw-G7YuGr4vzohJiN6U_aHo0Bmu1hNGG3Zmp_siYOqE3uu9WQ7avAxhhRkYYoOAZS_i8bACMgkvdH79cee3lNbGPOMlD6Ve2n_lksVKOIK5e1UfrqJazAF6nBe_1SpPG2AcxUkqkoN1SizGdTUD4ME6BafEosq0E0qQav26zYC5Y2LXxkBpaRwTqkY/s1359/four%20seasons.tif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="1359" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-pdw-G7YuGr4vzohJiN6U_aHo0Bmu1hNGG3Zmp_siYOqE3uu9WQ7avAxhhRkYYoOAZS_i8bACMgkvdH79cee3lNbGPOMlD6Ve2n_lksVKOIK5e1UfrqJazAF6nBe_1SpPG2AcxUkqkoN1SizGdTUD4ME6BafEosq0E0qQav26zYC5Y2LXxkBpaRwTqkY/w640-h222/four%20seasons.tif" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><i>The Four Seasons</i> 1563-73</span></div><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Arcimboldo's most famous series of paintings is "The Four Seasons" where he cleverly arranged items like flowers, fruits and branches to capture his enigmatic visages. Today, Arcimboldo is popularly known primarily for his influence on the surrealists. But Arcimboldo's influences is more far-reaching than that. From the chalk cliffs of Germany to the American Southwest, Arcimboldo has helped shape the visual arts of the western world. </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b>CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICH</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">While Caspar David Friedrich and Giuseppe Arcimboldo belong to different artistic periods and schools, there are some shared themes and ideas that connect their work. Both artists had a deep appreciation for nature, employed rich symbolism related to nature, and developed highly individualistic styles that set them apart from their peers. While Friedrich's work was predominantly focused on landscapes, his approach to nature and symbolism can be seen as indirectly influenced by the idiosyncratic and allegorical elements found in Arcimboldo's art. But more explicitly, Friedrich was engaged in the same sort of pastiche image making, combining individual objects together to form a larger whole, a Double Image.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpeyUmc6vnCIyBRkecqb0EAuLhvyhPBQkQ929jBA958eLc7b00cdQk6OjEFjaMWrbznAE1Jbnc9uTtFKuAzB6nTOrDnIY2rX4nba__QxPvnn8pl_oV7PpAJ4onrM2E1DY0J0BNQSvpbR1hvmaLNoPxUs64BCQFAWJOOkix9FndUNJlqEcaRfkJ8yR6hDQ/s1493/n-6517-00-000041-hd.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1493" height="462" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpeyUmc6vnCIyBRkecqb0EAuLhvyhPBQkQ929jBA958eLc7b00cdQk6OjEFjaMWrbznAE1Jbnc9uTtFKuAzB6nTOrDnIY2rX4nba__QxPvnn8pl_oV7PpAJ4onrM2E1DY0J0BNQSvpbR1hvmaLNoPxUs64BCQFAWJOOkix9FndUNJlqEcaRfkJ8yR6hDQ/w640-h462/n-6517-00-000041-hd.jpg" width="640" /><br /></a>Friedrich's <i>Winter Landscape</i> shows his double image approach in the fir trees that echo the shapes of the distant cathedral, forming a "temple of nature."</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjip5olxgRA9gV-UtfrhFcx3cBiBDHuBVVM70QeIL73feXyb0amESOswONrAYiXdskofwhCAKbNhzYVLMBuTFesHPrrhvuiq8PkOkToB1Lpy1a9cnW5PlVcz26-eOePL_Yy4WaVrqwgp8p9td_4DotBb5cnskUoLaF_anZ-SstpyUdFBzg3VI3rk3Jq6Ws/s3809/DT4626.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3057" data-original-width="3809" height="321" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjip5olxgRA9gV-UtfrhFcx3cBiBDHuBVVM70QeIL73feXyb0amESOswONrAYiXdskofwhCAKbNhzYVLMBuTFesHPrrhvuiq8PkOkToB1Lpy1a9cnW5PlVcz26-eOePL_Yy4WaVrqwgp8p9td_4DotBb5cnskUoLaF_anZ-SstpyUdFBzg3VI3rk3Jq6Ws/w400-h321/DT4626.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Friedrich's <i>Two Men Contemplating the Moon</i> (1825-30) creates an atmosphere of conspiracy by transforming the roots and branches to look like outreaching arms encroaching on the men's privacy</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">While Friedrich's use of the double image is more subtle and less whimsical than Arcimboldo's, the same essential method is employed. The artists bury one image inside of another in order to express two meanings at once. This is similar to the double meaning in literature, where metaphor or simile perform the same function. </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b>EDGAR ALWIN PAYNE</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">A similar approach to Friedrich's is found in the American Southwest, in the art of Edgar Alwin Payne. In "The Rendezvous" Payne portrays a boating party stopped on the shore to picnic. But buried in this quotidien subject matter is a panoply of fantastic imagery. The giant rock above their heads forms the shape of the back, tail, and hind legs of a giant beast or dragon emerging from the water, suggesting a rugged danger in the environment. But the casual attitudes of the figures and the benevolent colors of the sky and water suggest a confidence that knows no fear. Look even deeper, and you'll see a light show projected on the rock to the upper right, like a film reel playing an endlessly transforming phantasmagoria of images of farm life, adventure, horse riders, all the elements of American frontier life that these foreign journeyman have to look forward to.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMidO8x_XK4vlo1bmMcCTHsYgmTWzy0kC6dF1i8wbS3dgs44VozqzDMSVzntj-wERTrf09BteP1l5m3pd5ySz4Kt7yaRQal3fcqOZ63wNIhYhf8J8J-l1aPnXI-bWrk__wVm8JkrabJzFHqde5tnl4O0pAbT8yyzD-iYuaSWHuwTfmOGQqdVfgT_7tDeE/s971/Edgar_Payne_The_Rendezvous,_Santa_Cruz_Island.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="971" height="506" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMidO8x_XK4vlo1bmMcCTHsYgmTWzy0kC6dF1i8wbS3dgs44VozqzDMSVzntj-wERTrf09BteP1l5m3pd5ySz4Kt7yaRQal3fcqOZ63wNIhYhf8J8J-l1aPnXI-bWrk__wVm8JkrabJzFHqde5tnl4O0pAbT8yyzD-iYuaSWHuwTfmOGQqdVfgT_7tDeE/w640-h506/Edgar_Payne_The_Rendezvous,_Santa_Cruz_Island.jpg" width="640" /></a><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">Edgar Alwin Payne, </span><i style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;">The Rendezvous</i><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"> ca. before 1947</span></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b>DALI</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Arcimboldo's unconventional approach to portraiture and his ability to blend disparate elements to create unexpected and dreamlike imagery resonated with the Surrealists. Artists like Salvador Dalí and René Magritte drew inspiration from Arcimboldo's playfulness and the idea of transforming everyday objects into something unusual and thought-provoking.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">His influence on Salvador Dalí, the renowned Surrealist artist, is singular and profound. Dalí was fascinated by Arcimboldo's imaginative and unconventional style of portraiture, which played a significant role in shaping his own artistic vision. Today we are all familiar with Dali's method of juxtaposing and transforming objects and elements to create new, unexpected images. </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy4YwlYu2ICx55h6QFu-ekt4S-eCGOQibdZYOuybOKWrEKa2TQVeD3TkvJBlM-Dbc3z2E1CsE8sfF63T7NKZVuvF6uAEXHAw_1ZBfl-c1PdDX13FVYTjY9BzQSW4XKiBgPLBsysgRyZVYWXT1qcjuQeAGZvaIZnIVolxFTU5349yTSG-c0aA7OcAnDfyk/s2488/2000.17_SlaveMarket_without%20frame_web.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1756" data-original-width="2488" height="453" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy4YwlYu2ICx55h6QFu-ekt4S-eCGOQibdZYOuybOKWrEKa2TQVeD3TkvJBlM-Dbc3z2E1CsE8sfF63T7NKZVuvF6uAEXHAw_1ZBfl-c1PdDX13FVYTjY9BzQSW4XKiBgPLBsysgRyZVYWXT1qcjuQeAGZvaIZnIVolxFTU5349yTSG-c0aA7OcAnDfyk/w640-h453/2000.17_SlaveMarket_without%20frame_web.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Salvador Dali, <i>Slave Market with Disappearing Bust of Voltaire </i>(1940)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9doHzCy-GxuZ1zgzbclQD0kAxcT4S-g5y8EBzNCpFl3q-_txh1dp3NbQzCy8QBxRz3mi12jZUayYmd3onceQrk9J4jpdfX1tL3ngWY6IzJ_vcqyiKOHp4P0piCcYbxkhPukEqgwbd9-RHGclVU34Y_rI9qx4bUDmdQPOfiV_XWOkQxS4zu0PCXvjCX4A/s738/2000.17_SlaveMarket_without%20frame_web.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="738" data-original-width="517" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9doHzCy-GxuZ1zgzbclQD0kAxcT4S-g5y8EBzNCpFl3q-_txh1dp3NbQzCy8QBxRz3mi12jZUayYmd3onceQrk9J4jpdfX1tL3ngWY6IzJ_vcqyiKOHp4P0piCcYbxkhPukEqgwbd9-RHGclVU34Y_rI9qx4bUDmdQPOfiV_XWOkQxS4zu0PCXvjCX4A/w448-h640/2000.17_SlaveMarket_without%20frame_web.jpg" width="448" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Detail of <i>Slave Market</i> showing the figures that compose the bust of Voltaire when seen from a distance</span></div><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Dalí was known for his ability to create bizarre and provocative juxtapositions in his paintings, and he drew inspiration from Arcimboldo's playfulness with visual transformation. Dalí's fascination with optical illusions and distorted realities can be linked to Arcimboldo's ability to create composite images that deceive the viewer's perception. Both artists challenged the way viewers perceive and interpret images, provoking a sense of wonder and intrigue. </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkc9GwsohdNFVRe4gDG0fysclPaden4dhKAS8-AZN2FhCZ6qnJGDv12iV35VkUUjq4oiMqepj9lnxV2ycHJjqf1SFtsHjvxgwzlySSOebYp8sNkM1rjCRk7vsgqDM8vlxGJjxgO9CeDtAqbGS0konPXAfZjMkq0sdoyuVG1c2Y3nLKpiXHG0cFrUXJ2LI/s850/Old-Couple-or-Musician-Salvador-Dali-1930.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="568" data-original-width="850" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkc9GwsohdNFVRe4gDG0fysclPaden4dhKAS8-AZN2FhCZ6qnJGDv12iV35VkUUjq4oiMqepj9lnxV2ycHJjqf1SFtsHjvxgwzlySSOebYp8sNkM1rjCRk7vsgqDM8vlxGJjxgO9CeDtAqbGS0konPXAfZjMkq0sdoyuVG1c2Y3nLKpiXHG0cFrUXJ2LI/w640-h428/Old-Couple-or-Musician-Salvador-Dali-1930.png" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Salvador Dali, <i>Old Couple or Musicians</i> 1930</span></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Arcimboldo's whimsical approach to image making is a unique pleasure and his detail and depth allow for endless hours of exploration. His influence is still felt in the world today and I'm glad for it. The artists he influenced are some of my favorites and I've even incorporated his methods into my own work by way of Caspar David Friedrich's influence. </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiZGYt2jhsd7FCN-yxVpqjduaXSJGhUo5MPqjJFUxE5NiVt3bIjlOuwCURhmOCXA11ua8RbksDGWgziT-N8BXntrkaZKvMK5a_HEl9YrWprrfXw3HS4Trao2tWXMHPEdx3ntfcij8P90KcREslRPQ4BKl6dp1f_kyfZIvALzkGpk_JbCw14kW_mNrNcoc/s1249/magician.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="821" data-original-width="1249" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiZGYt2jhsd7FCN-yxVpqjduaXSJGhUo5MPqjJFUxE5NiVt3bIjlOuwCURhmOCXA11ua8RbksDGWgziT-N8BXntrkaZKvMK5a_HEl9YrWprrfXw3HS4Trao2tWXMHPEdx3ntfcij8P90KcREslRPQ4BKl6dp1f_kyfZIvALzkGpk_JbCw14kW_mNrNcoc/w640-h420/magician.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Andrew Sandberg, <i>The Magician</i> 2023</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">The brightly illuminated leaves on the left and right of the figure form images of mythical animals, conjured by the imagination of the magician and pulled from her glowing bag of tricks</span></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><br /></p>Andrew Sandberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17267087515161108378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4614082520978133402.post-51087282143229774222023-10-13T09:09:00.003-07:002023-10-13T09:09:27.932-07:00Edgar Alwin Payne's Landscape, Canyon de Chelly<img alt="Image result for edgar payne" class="irc_mi" height="393" src="https://i.pinimg.com/736x/3e/62/fb/3e62fbcef95527edb270decec2afc085--southwest-art-landscape-paintings.jpg" style="margin-top: 0px;" width="487" /><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Edgar Alwin Payne, <i>Canyon de Chelly</i>, specific date unknown, ca. before 1947</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span> </span>Nature falls into the happy rhythm of human steps in this beautifully romanticized oil painted landscape by Edgar Alwin Payne. The cliffs provide the wanderers a pleasant shade, while the clouds shine benevolently in the sky. The shadows in the background are like children skipping along behind the wayfarers, eagerly curious. Like children peeking around corners to see what the grown-ups are doing. </div><div><br />
<span> </span>The way the light rakes across the rock face, it makes the cliffs appear to be follow the wayfarers around the curve of the valley. The way the rocks sink back into themselves counters this forward rhythm and creates the impression that they are reluctantly curious about the horsemen. The clouds overhead seem less connected to the wanderers but are playful with each other. Continuing the horizontal rhythm of the rock walls, the clouds have a peculiar shape that draws one in to wonder what Payne was trying to communicate. Though the clouds seem somewhat impenetrable, this mindset makes me look closer at the rocks, and I see that Payne has fit hidden pictures into the lines of these rocks: faces, animals, a subtle phantasmagoria of transitory images. <span>Here he communicates that nature is full of things to discover.</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLfErt4w3ANikSvPedtK9-KMgWVbfwFWW4MIAy0woE1_4Joztkfi92g15hRqZHeOvSzvNl7E0Ohls-Qsfu4vArfYcBKFBEfN86iCauIVt2ylg9j85Q8_b4UeOospnHnleO7ojn-EJm0frIWYSN6WQkkeClniXkz8g0HNweWlxgm9IFUUnDOgTMQkwkXmE/s184/3e62fbcef95527edb270decec2afc085--southwest-art-landscape-paintings.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="109" data-original-width="184" height="379" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLfErt4w3ANikSvPedtK9-KMgWVbfwFWW4MIAy0woE1_4Joztkfi92g15hRqZHeOvSzvNl7E0Ohls-Qsfu4vArfYcBKFBEfN86iCauIVt2ylg9j85Q8_b4UeOospnHnleO7ojn-EJm0frIWYSN6WQkkeClniXkz8g0HNweWlxgm9IFUUnDOgTMQkwkXmE/w640-h379/3e62fbcef95527edb270decec2afc085--southwest-art-landscape-paintings.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">detail of rock face showing hidden picture of a coyote's head and neck</span></div><br /><div><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div><span><span> </span>I love how un-European Payne's paintings are. They are flat-footed, earthy, like the American journeyman they depict. The unique combination of earthy, gritty subjects with a benevolent sunlit sense of life is something one simply doesn't find in European art, but only in the great age of pre-World War America, when men had a sense of the absolute unlimited scope of human potential. This was never depicted better than by the painters of the American southwest, and none of them were greater than Edgar Alwin Payne. Payne's closest artistic ancestor is the German painter, Caspar David Friedrich, but despite Friedrich's insistent commitment to this earth, his religiosity put him at odds with a truly this-worldly outlook, and his rocks and clouds were never as joyfully real as Payne's. </span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxiAao0ojle3Xw3Y8PmkXKQYZumy3hIEUmjuD6qIH2shdLOL9_vqiZxThJR-KIX1CO6DuGviUxaWRcYTyrRat9aRn6Z1w3MNiapzmCWIoTcWFUzcSzID9ecx2DrcEMwlLTTcMCuz4KI2ewF43xVigayPkmz2A8schZPP5cfQfebBVHpqHGeTVJP-s1W7E/s930/rock-canyon-in-the-harz-caspar-david-friedrich-1811-5c7e7dc2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="803" data-original-width="930" height="552" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxiAao0ojle3Xw3Y8PmkXKQYZumy3hIEUmjuD6qIH2shdLOL9_vqiZxThJR-KIX1CO6DuGviUxaWRcYTyrRat9aRn6Z1w3MNiapzmCWIoTcWFUzcSzID9ecx2DrcEMwlLTTcMCuz4KI2ewF43xVigayPkmz2A8schZPP5cfQfebBVHpqHGeTVJP-s1W7E/w640-h552/rock-canyon-in-the-harz-caspar-david-friedrich-1811-5c7e7dc2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Caspar David Friedrich, <i>Rock Canyon in the Harz </i>1811</span></div><div><span><br /></span>
<span><span> </span>Payne really introduces himself in this painting. He announces to us, Hello! I am here in the landscape. I have sunk my thought into it and you may too. I have discovered this way of feeling about existence, and you can hop onto this feeling too.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span> </span>I implore you to hop on. I have never found a painting that feels as good as an Edgar Payne, or that leaves me with such confident hope.</div>Andrew Sandberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17267087515161108378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4614082520978133402.post-7282365447535860182023-08-14T13:47:00.003-07:002023-08-14T13:47:56.330-07:00Testimony, finished painting and full playlist<p><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Testimony</i> 27x46," presents the moral courage of a justice seeker in an environment that both guards and menaces her. Painted in matte acrylic on canvas, I used both contemporary news reports and imaginative romanticism to create the image. The figure herself is based on the testimony of Christine Mackinday in the case against Jon Koppenhaver who was convicted of battery, kidnapping and sexual assault of Miss Mackinday. I was inspired by her testimony and recontextualized it for this image, placing her in an environment that suggests both heaven and hell. I've included photos below, my latest video about the painting and the full playlist the documents the whole painting process. </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhykQ2JeK1zCzoeQvFYV6ZwJAUBDgZmu8IEwSchpbjvt-4TBnMrbMgnd4pUI9Dfp9lbrQ9zQUYP8KwpeOD-bUybwlBOzWwjdndChxwlMFMVKnCXSCVyMg4qhkO470-v86P5v5Sy-pGBjz0qoepi2INPPiur_yqQQ-q2Wk-jDCu4AZ6WjwMpuULYeV_EWG4/s5747/testimony.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3354" data-original-width="5747" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhykQ2JeK1zCzoeQvFYV6ZwJAUBDgZmu8IEwSchpbjvt-4TBnMrbMgnd4pUI9Dfp9lbrQ9zQUYP8KwpeOD-bUybwlBOzWwjdndChxwlMFMVKnCXSCVyMg4qhkO470-v86P5v5Sy-pGBjz0qoepi2INPPiur_yqQQ-q2Wk-jDCu4AZ6WjwMpuULYeV_EWG4/w640-h374/testimony.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWei4SgByX3mgoFCb7eFM8EZZHwXVCFS32erW4itswbY5HBrMLWpXfrteEOawcUfQ01EcN6B0ZdXlEiLLABq-R62h4Gwn08MP_1MiaXQtLWwb0vKIUf2PpE1NixUhjE3IZqYH1CswHU5aQKVyeI2dCFrRa7z5iIKuM43QSVGRN7aBij2iHXFbWH8z0f_w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="5767" data-original-width="3694" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWei4SgByX3mgoFCb7eFM8EZZHwXVCFS32erW4itswbY5HBrMLWpXfrteEOawcUfQ01EcN6B0ZdXlEiLLABq-R62h4Gwn08MP_1MiaXQtLWwb0vKIUf2PpE1NixUhjE3IZqYH1CswHU5aQKVyeI2dCFrRa7z5iIKuM43QSVGRN7aBij2iHXFbWH8z0f_w=w257-h400" width="257" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yeX9bXG7Nok" width="320" youtube-src-id="yeX9bXG7Nok"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLCICwg6ZQmnt3Ssl5_iDlABScxvnlvob5" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>Andrew Sandberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17267087515161108378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4614082520978133402.post-35111716946692666662023-08-12T03:14:00.000-07:002023-08-12T03:14:34.234-07:00Painting a Landscape in Acrylic (Outdoor Mural)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGGtSurF5nqU53drDHmNHLdH8fQBWSTJCqXe2tPYQEeQtnlWK5KAZOtztna74WBCLkHIbkSEp8mBBmZet8yyf54y3jTQpllM0alAN_ol1SaIn2qnSVJUvgV91ZpUyVgGtwYDscXnqGZCEO_SRav3dqQWeIsTafFZI7T0iQg-ZvxRQo1p0FccOquUyybTk/s1408/20230630_123620.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1408" data-original-width="1408" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGGtSurF5nqU53drDHmNHLdH8fQBWSTJCqXe2tPYQEeQtnlWK5KAZOtztna74WBCLkHIbkSEp8mBBmZet8yyf54y3jTQpllM0alAN_ol1SaIn2qnSVJUvgV91ZpUyVgGtwYDscXnqGZCEO_SRav3dqQWeIsTafFZI7T0iQg-ZvxRQo1p0FccOquUyybTk/s320/20230630_123620.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsbuQHBLzuzBgTM3_cIeU69MTpPD4-y34Ib_ibeV6oS7UOWysPXSS5ZGEdFiPSFHeObnXZUZT3idtdr4gK1PWn-MW-lUmWpCv1e-Daze3AKOJgMYIYJVKrLxQNM53pW4T_xCtsIjSWpVOBpYQ4ytGlWHZjmXElsLa3Zx1DfcKUMZceHuy3ouj8W4A3Xlg/s973/20230629_133328.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="973" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsbuQHBLzuzBgTM3_cIeU69MTpPD4-y34Ib_ibeV6oS7UOWysPXSS5ZGEdFiPSFHeObnXZUZT3idtdr4gK1PWn-MW-lUmWpCv1e-Daze3AKOJgMYIYJVKrLxQNM53pW4T_xCtsIjSWpVOBpYQ4ytGlWHZjmXElsLa3Zx1DfcKUMZceHuy3ouj8W4A3Xlg/s320/20230629_133328.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>On Day 1, I worked in black and white, covering the garage in white gesso and sketching in my design with black paint. I started with a rough sketch and then refined it over the course of the day. I constantly walked up and down the driveway so that I could see the whole composition.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitmMhpvLNCVZLsh1GkFnWS1Xw2e4v95CQlBp7BpeGFeWcRKUirqeLUPODasWft_pFT5WH3g1YjAZuCOUZW_kUprLhj6q6sUtcFiCihUPS0rAtPgx4pcC7dtILgSwNYu-jC2ONjTy7HtCoWEF4wkPg5dVoKeWmRxpHSng7SMFPEp1-iX4Z8MYdblwlgyPI/s1138/20230627_123241.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1127" data-original-width="1138" height="317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitmMhpvLNCVZLsh1GkFnWS1Xw2e4v95CQlBp7BpeGFeWcRKUirqeLUPODasWft_pFT5WH3g1YjAZuCOUZW_kUprLhj6q6sUtcFiCihUPS0rAtPgx4pcC7dtILgSwNYu-jC2ONjTy7HtCoWEF4wkPg5dVoKeWmRxpHSng7SMFPEp1-iX4Z8MYdblwlgyPI/s320/20230627_123241.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>This is the original concept for the design which I made in watercolor on paper. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrWBPRqacpXLajc1nmu-OFZ4x3nv-j2IaCMUmhad5FehWLfnGqP0pOsnq5qruYBRj4bkvlpIPBr-ffatWK7B9rXfmk3TlvjmMEuYMW9Kt-5MUDWCJMpBAN7g22QIzZmkb5wt04PewzUGzxlQ-HQ0EG99uS89jN3kUAjHD1kCPW4gLOWI8W5l0pmPJ6690/s2097/nightscape%202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1457" data-original-width="2097" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrWBPRqacpXLajc1nmu-OFZ4x3nv-j2IaCMUmhad5FehWLfnGqP0pOsnq5qruYBRj4bkvlpIPBr-ffatWK7B9rXfmk3TlvjmMEuYMW9Kt-5MUDWCJMpBAN7g22QIzZmkb5wt04PewzUGzxlQ-HQ0EG99uS89jN3kUAjHD1kCPW4gLOWI8W5l0pmPJ6690/s320/nightscape%202.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Here it is photoshopped onto the garage door and extended into the distance with atmospheric perspective.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4nkYXRHw1z9fEFKv9wJ_UiCNIsbSOxrql4AGKJa0p7YVP4neL7YD_bEKIrLOd-xwnjCCyTsFlO675BV7FOLZvwr8dquD6sReqnNI0rOdKq6aSVZOAhCLJ_glN0f7E9PqHO0j5dq5QQDatgxwU9isSSkcaYNBcMjA3pR3qBlxr4sBcJFonjUvCwcNbJqQ/s1408/garage2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1408" data-original-width="1408" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4nkYXRHw1z9fEFKv9wJ_UiCNIsbSOxrql4AGKJa0p7YVP4neL7YD_bEKIrLOd-xwnjCCyTsFlO675BV7FOLZvwr8dquD6sReqnNI0rOdKq6aSVZOAhCLJ_glN0f7E9PqHO0j5dq5QQDatgxwU9isSSkcaYNBcMjA3pR3qBlxr4sBcJFonjUvCwcNbJqQ/s320/garage2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p>On Day 2, I painted these distant trees, defining their structure by painting in hollows using titanium white. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifUs190s1PnISp0XpJpGOFUPUJRgVAc3owiM97c1hVmMu2uSaaCygCMse9bhWFIFsa0PEBWJoTGO9jvN_uNxo2DAoLSsDI1EHCARg1wLpCUVciAlKpf7mIjaAcrhpn-u-IoxwWOTtALQ3mX5H85tYyKorwCHewIXsRnxvMqxfRI81EDFCVv0xVa3sPuJQ/s245/Untitled.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="245" data-original-width="240" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifUs190s1PnISp0XpJpGOFUPUJRgVAc3owiM97c1hVmMu2uSaaCygCMse9bhWFIFsa0PEBWJoTGO9jvN_uNxo2DAoLSsDI1EHCARg1wLpCUVciAlKpf7mIjaAcrhpn-u-IoxwWOTtALQ3mX5H85tYyKorwCHewIXsRnxvMqxfRI81EDFCVv0xVa3sPuJQ/s1600/Untitled.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p>I also refined the overall composition of the trees and their branches. Part of this refinement is erasing areas that I don't want, which I did by overpainting with white gesso. My goal for this day was to have a grayscale rendering of the entire composition so that tomorrow I could begin with color. Honestly, I would have been satisfied to leave it like this. I think it looks awesome in black and white and I'm now inspired to recreate this idea.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7r60jaEj11B-X1o0oGlh8u7h8UA6CMvn_tAxgerCRA0_0VNpdBZ5tGUWC1-KBgGutr9DxswclZHpU5F4kCKz0PllT8a0VG4n1BCZI7cdFjPxzpkk36dkwhkvF7grpJObcEUdoGFqILhb4ioH893rB1LApMq6O-sQ5C18BSnVztEwG6-EIZaGrWmuFWZI/s1408/20230627_174253.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1408" data-original-width="1408" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7r60jaEj11B-X1o0oGlh8u7h8UA6CMvn_tAxgerCRA0_0VNpdBZ5tGUWC1-KBgGutr9DxswclZHpU5F4kCKz0PllT8a0VG4n1BCZI7cdFjPxzpkk36dkwhkvF7grpJObcEUdoGFqILhb4ioH893rB1LApMq6O-sQ5C18BSnVztEwG6-EIZaGrWmuFWZI/w400-h400/20230627_174253.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>On Day 3, I completed the tree composition by painting in these leaves on the middle tree, and then began blocking in the water with ultramarine blue.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnL5G8SMaJfzTmjAi3JUNlPcyvMCfvyb5XTHQ-nebcN02674JpVIfcOC21hzD8N-RHdGWq-Vrjco-D7aczIafE4UjPsGOk4WJsJizwCuGxq43evRm7-C_c2mXotX5p2v9LL3AgKOn0uDMa5Wi3s87PxLTesda8DhP3uK3uC1OamfgCG7ypb2yTb7PoO-E/s1131/20230628_124418.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="979" data-original-width="1131" height="277" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnL5G8SMaJfzTmjAi3JUNlPcyvMCfvyb5XTHQ-nebcN02674JpVIfcOC21hzD8N-RHdGWq-Vrjco-D7aczIafE4UjPsGOk4WJsJizwCuGxq43evRm7-C_c2mXotX5p2v9LL3AgKOn0uDMa5Wi3s87PxLTesda8DhP3uK3uC1OamfgCG7ypb2yTb7PoO-E/s320/20230628_124418.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p>I then extended this same blue in a lighter tint up into the sky all the while overlapping the trees that I've already painted in order to increase the sense of atmospheric perspective. As I moved upward I introduced phthalo blue, a clearer, cleaner, greener blue. This gives the sense of the fog lifting as we move away from the ground. And moving into the top panel I mixed phthalo green with the blue and applied it with a lot of water and medium and then wiped it away, staining the white ground and creating a very distant transparent green.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKPYMJ6z-TEzGBM_GlfF7KcC0MyXgMtRLqidDbvqqO9xNmT7RE4VUlUyb8426YAsb1eRyre_20pk8usAkPgF1SVtpOU3kD-W62Bkr0HZiVArRfgEhugXARbQXu6n6m-S4Ov-dNK2USRvfBeV_N2yRfSziPZ6XrF-n4m0v4f_prf2GolJUycNmCb_1wJqQ/s1000/20230628_134318.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="820" data-original-width="1000" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKPYMJ6z-TEzGBM_GlfF7KcC0MyXgMtRLqidDbvqqO9xNmT7RE4VUlUyb8426YAsb1eRyre_20pk8usAkPgF1SVtpOU3kD-W62Bkr0HZiVArRfgEhugXARbQXu6n6m-S4Ov-dNK2USRvfBeV_N2yRfSziPZ6XrF-n4m0v4f_prf2GolJUycNmCb_1wJqQ/s320/20230628_134318.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p>Starting on Day 4, the background colors were in place but they were choppy and unintegrated, so I selectively added glazes and scumbles to smooth out the transitions from one color to another. A glaze is a transparent application of color, thinned with water or medium, and spread as thinly as possible. A scumble is glaze that is tinted with white. While a glaze modulates the hue of the underlying layer, a scumble also modulates the tone, subduing and graying the color. This was especially useful at the horizon line where the sea now subtly disappears into the sky, rather than having a harsh line of separation.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFd1_OZiag3Zuk9J1_Q7V8NJy7BdKLgEBI8aD5ed-XwQwhU2SqhAaM4K72NG3U4fC9C_Sw_xl8TKL4xzSmnZxIdIqHR7vWoeeJQt1LPIdEkAn9jhudFJhwqeviEeqZ0n-csQR4gkphEGyEysv7sQCNC6zP5K44DccciZYEZal0dC86e6j_518pD9ZNPC0/s973/20230629_133328.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="973" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFd1_OZiag3Zuk9J1_Q7V8NJy7BdKLgEBI8aD5ed-XwQwhU2SqhAaM4K72NG3U4fC9C_Sw_xl8TKL4xzSmnZxIdIqHR7vWoeeJQt1LPIdEkAn9jhudFJhwqeviEeqZ0n-csQR4gkphEGyEysv7sQCNC6zP5K44DccciZYEZal0dC86e6j_518pD9ZNPC0/s320/20230629_133328.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>I also added stars on Day 4. I did this with the wooden end of a paintbrush dipping it into white gesso and dotting in the Stars wherever I wanted them.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxnqNL7pmAH_yc02zMdcMmuk1hBI05dv4TYdkXiLhgTcIvoaS0ex0LBD_m1_KKhOMQFY4UCCHXae1It5crg9A' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p>On Day 5 I added an acrylic sealer on top. I used Krylon matte finish acrylic sealer (not a sponsor). This provides a waterproof seal that will protect the mural from rain and dirt.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmqYcCxVly5qablWB8r3hIdDV8Ck1Cva1o0tOY4bzmDZTaJvdKOge3RpPRl-1rWdRqhaZalA-C3v1wzJZ7LHCNPHLGrpuEkxi6N_I5RqjZfOXI2T_qQy4GwUXuNan9RjAwwNMOzwEnukkAcWrdt7-GI2QEPcTie9BIIOXyVSmWhhCXqQ46ESG75OxeSH0/s2288/71umMDNr4GL.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2288" data-original-width="2288" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmqYcCxVly5qablWB8r3hIdDV8Ck1Cva1o0tOY4bzmDZTaJvdKOge3RpPRl-1rWdRqhaZalA-C3v1wzJZ7LHCNPHLGrpuEkxi6N_I5RqjZfOXI2T_qQy4GwUXuNan9RjAwwNMOzwEnukkAcWrdt7-GI2QEPcTie9BIIOXyVSmWhhCXqQ46ESG75OxeSH0/w320-h320/71umMDNr4GL.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Krylon 1311</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p>Materials I used: </p><p>Matte Acrylic Paint (also called acrylic gouache): Titanium white (gesso), ivory black, ultramarine blue, Phthalo blue, phthalo green</p><p>Paint Brushes: I used cheap chip brushes ranging from one inch to 4 inches, as well as smaller medium soft nylon brushes.</p><p>A palette: I use a Masterson Sta-Wet palette when using acrylics</p><p>A spray bottle to keep my paints hydrated in the hot sun, and to facilitate thin glazing of the background colors. </p><p>Plastic sheeting for a drop cloth</p><p>Newspaper and masking tape to mask off and protect the door frame of the garage</p><p>Krylon acrylic sealer</p><p><br /></p><p>If you'd prefer to see my process in video form, I filmed the entire painting process and edited it into this short youtube video</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BvX1eGFEQeU" width="320" youtube-src-id="BvX1eGFEQeU"></iframe></div><br /><p></p>Andrew Sandberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17267087515161108378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4614082520978133402.post-72411787266113162542023-07-20T21:26:00.000-07:002023-07-20T22:37:13.949-07:00Making drawing videos for Youtube<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I've been producing short videos about drawing lately and I enjoy the format. It's a chance to show off my working process without having to write a script or try to create a lesson out of it. And I'm getting a lot of good practice drawing people, which I need for my next major painting. Right now it has about a dozen figures and will definitely have more. I'll post more about that soon. 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As such, it is difficult to tell how strictly Carolus adhered to his own principle. Especially in portrait art, an artist is inundated with the particulars of his sitter's personality, and does not necessarily have free reign to paint only that which he cherishes. Nevertheless, Carolus Duran proved canvas after canvas that he was devoted to producing clear, essentialized images.</span></p><p class="p5" style="color: #0000e9; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9yDNeTpKE67es5XBEsn_5jcAutAgyKi_1v2Q-zDcGpzKLbelRx26rvaD7f-a9K2qy7451k8qL7hAPavzFWSL72n2Ffy1WvHmzYO3NwjSoYE-8Gq2BGq-rOao7ZTDqXmrF2yG9HHcMaBb7Cu3JbRfNL_PaBnhrwl2MH2ko4hjUuVjVSklburhcGZ_0y3M/s554/d7hftxdivxxvm.cloudfront.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="554" data-original-width="445" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9yDNeTpKE67es5XBEsn_5jcAutAgyKi_1v2Q-zDcGpzKLbelRx26rvaD7f-a9K2qy7451k8qL7hAPavzFWSL72n2Ffy1WvHmzYO3NwjSoYE-8Gq2BGq-rOao7ZTDqXmrF2yG9HHcMaBb7Cu3JbRfNL_PaBnhrwl2MH2ko4hjUuVjVSklburhcGZ_0y3M/s320/d7hftxdivxxvm.cloudfront.webp" width="257" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px;">Duran, </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12px;">Spanish Woman</i></div><p class="p7" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p8" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">His student, John Singer Sargent was equally devoted to this idea, particularly in regard to the depiction of tones, which was Duran’s special insight and concern in teaching. Duran taught that: “Objects in nature relieve one against each other by the relative values of light and shade which accompany and are a part of each local color. An outline, a contour, is, as we all know, a pure convention... an accepted convention…”</span></p><p class="p9" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6ooXswfGZW-l_FpBjZhmMrMaSzYPj0LtDXaLXz2Q1lOA910DRiAxJcH_WYbX4hI3nIiEy4rqxhd9lI0GNNTi_ONc2KAzoIx5p6069eN0YT6VFDXPny2MAAJoElEGbXLeVTVGY8QhjR57rdwQe84opj4GZ4XFMb2BAE3MqStUN11LZHkSFj4blAroZFG0/s730/N01615_9.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="730" data-original-width="651" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6ooXswfGZW-l_FpBjZhmMrMaSzYPj0LtDXaLXz2Q1lOA910DRiAxJcH_WYbX4hI3nIiEy4rqxhd9lI0GNNTi_ONc2KAzoIx5p6069eN0YT6VFDXPny2MAAJoElEGbXLeVTVGY8QhjR57rdwQe84opj4GZ4XFMb2BAE3MqStUN11LZHkSFj4blAroZFG0/s320/N01615_9.jpg" width="285" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">John Singer Sargent, <i>Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose</i></span></div><p class="p9" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="p4" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="p8" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Both Sargent and Duran valued tonalism, and the accurate depiction of light became to them "indispensable." This aspect of their art can be seen most especially in the many color studies they each made for their masterpieces and the special attention paid in these studies to tonal contrasts. The accurate depiction of the ratios between light and shade was everything to them.</span></p><p class="p10" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFl-zZ9GUVQPwQlkM3ash5xqxx055llDGKO7g_T3WuVKrX9t86tW6HJ4uWxrH-zCwr-hQT4mp4Sn5v_GzAmjWTRlyYftrnFsetFY-i221hvzW7abb6YGV3jYGpQqGaDA6a8h6IWcidSgfx5tq9wGXcaI-6kR1XI4-quyPWCWfs-oFQUfpqmeXItbKe0m4/s918/10124.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="598" data-original-width="918" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFl-zZ9GUVQPwQlkM3ash5xqxx055llDGKO7g_T3WuVKrX9t86tW6HJ4uWxrH-zCwr-hQT4mp4Sn5v_GzAmjWTRlyYftrnFsetFY-i221hvzW7abb6YGV3jYGpQqGaDA6a8h6IWcidSgfx5tq9wGXcaI-6kR1XI4-quyPWCWfs-oFQUfpqmeXItbKe0m4/s320/10124.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p class="p3" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">Sargent, <i>Portrait of Carolus Duran </i>(and study for portrait)</p><p class="p12" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p12" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">Sargent, <i>Portrait of Madame X </i>(and study for portrait)</p><p class="p12" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p11" style="color: #0000e9; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJG5JG2djCHaG7yl6bPNHW-CXLX7Ggf7X8HHfnL0_pajYZYVASC9AAlDiCvpgFxdyipLaKe8EoJgi1x5fPQze18_-yM-z5tvpZ1gGSQ5zSgHQ2ffcTAcpj3AeXFfhAFVMCDZ4w2MRJc7YrR-8CAIRlge-jUnPof2fUyDeQjoA8BSy8uN97IR6TsdJG1CE/s882/study-for-madame-ernest-feydeau-by-carolus-duran-43479a-640.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="882" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJG5JG2djCHaG7yl6bPNHW-CXLX7Ggf7X8HHfnL0_pajYZYVASC9AAlDiCvpgFxdyipLaKe8EoJgi1x5fPQze18_-yM-z5tvpZ1gGSQ5zSgHQ2ffcTAcpj3AeXFfhAFVMCDZ4w2MRJc7YrR-8CAIRlge-jUnPof2fUyDeQjoA8BSy8uN97IR6TsdJG1CE/s320/study-for-madame-ernest-feydeau-by-carolus-duran-43479a-640.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p class="p3" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;">Duran, <i>Portrait of Madame Ernest Feydeau </i>(and study for portrait)</p>Andrew Sandberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17267087515161108378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4614082520978133402.post-35532740280908451402023-03-28T05:14:00.001-07:002023-03-28T05:14:39.984-07:00Drawing and Painting the Horse<p>I'm creating an instructional Youtube series on drawing and painting the horse. I recently took on a project that involved painting a dragon and I wanted to improve my understanding of animal anatomy. I think horses are a good gateway to this subject because they are extremely bony and muscular and their coats generally don't conceal their anatomy. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="363" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/m0TNdIuQlVw" width="479" youtube-src-id="m0TNdIuQlVw"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="356" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MOcMO4Ci9vI" width="479" youtube-src-id="MOcMO4Ci9vI"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>Andrew Sandberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17267087515161108378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4614082520978133402.post-53517144935587838492023-03-28T04:46:00.002-07:002023-03-28T04:46:15.253-07:00Vermeer's Girl with the Flute<p>I put together this video discussion of a topic that is super important to me. The authorship of this painting, <i>The Girl with a Flute</i> has recently come under serious question. I don't know whether or not it is a genuine Vermeer, but I offer some thoughts on the basis of stylistic analysis and thematic comparison to a similar painting, Vermeer's <i>Girl with the Red Hat</i>. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="355" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aKNMpo6sa_s" width="474" youtube-src-id="aKNMpo6sa_s"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>Andrew Sandberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17267087515161108378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4614082520978133402.post-30615756256900662372023-02-06T18:14:00.001-08:002023-02-08T19:20:25.979-08:00Acrylic Painting for SAFEWORD 2023I completed this acrylic painting in January for the SAFEWORD art show at Squirrel Haus Arts in Minneapolis. The theme of the show was sex positivity, and there were a lot of talented artists involved. The show was arranged by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/otherworldlyartsmpls/" target="_blank">Other Worldly Arts Collective</a>. <div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyXqtoaSSqSBkeds6504UZlW80YekKD5JmthG8nAHK0QFNQRk7u07NAgvP009ojUl9IMyjazUowBMQiLLIhAISp1SggBg38Hu454s85QsSiI6mpk_YxHGJM2B-ch4bwxFwEs83Z3NarWL9m5YkHALhDEfc5gcVoQYfhW6Fzf9I5axAHvQWmwxYF3g2/s4380/DSC_0012.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2867" data-original-width="4380" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyXqtoaSSqSBkeds6504UZlW80YekKD5JmthG8nAHK0QFNQRk7u07NAgvP009ojUl9IMyjazUowBMQiLLIhAISp1SggBg38Hu454s85QsSiI6mpk_YxHGJM2B-ch4bwxFwEs83Z3NarWL9m5YkHALhDEfc5gcVoQYfhW6Fzf9I5axAHvQWmwxYF3g2/w640-h418/DSC_0012.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj_1QLwclqZY8q7vP5EO_fPa-ssb6ICqtHAYsbps7xSwUW6jineu16qzIBMKHy_PuxfaOVsQI4cY0a_I596lplzZVaWk6gcm0uiGkynHYCRtSjZeJKnUl3gGPHyAU44iwYYdjI10t3t2u1pcg8o29Xh75G5ZMgAkzwr7F1bLvCbUSUsunYSDRgY0Es/s1251/wall%20plate.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1251" data-original-width="1163" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj_1QLwclqZY8q7vP5EO_fPa-ssb6ICqtHAYsbps7xSwUW6jineu16qzIBMKHy_PuxfaOVsQI4cY0a_I596lplzZVaWk6gcm0uiGkynHYCRtSjZeJKnUl3gGPHyAU44iwYYdjI10t3t2u1pcg8o29Xh75G5ZMgAkzwr7F1bLvCbUSUsunYSDRgY0Es/w371-h400/wall%20plate.jpg" width="371" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp9LJVTX9NRaf_Bf1zbKj2d8fLNoquR4m9LNA1BEXwq67KQ55KfuwN0TDMhAEYW7jDgRlMrycXRM-OwM5rQDscJp4vfZ9JbNjoCltI7TYuZpgLhKf6YjSLUHGmCFRjDkzA2B8xkWWxVYeDzu4tppK1TSzdmykYMuZVBNB85pwkJTMWAPDgQTXeECcl/s790/eye.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="709" data-original-width="790" height="574" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp9LJVTX9NRaf_Bf1zbKj2d8fLNoquR4m9LNA1BEXwq67KQ55KfuwN0TDMhAEYW7jDgRlMrycXRM-OwM5rQDscJp4vfZ9JbNjoCltI7TYuZpgLhKf6YjSLUHGmCFRjDkzA2B8xkWWxVYeDzu4tppK1TSzdmykYMuZVBNB85pwkJTMWAPDgQTXeECcl/w640-h574/eye.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Acrylic on canvas, 2023
SOLD</span></div></div>Andrew Sandberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17267087515161108378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4614082520978133402.post-10821130419163926262022-12-04T20:35:00.000-08:002023-07-20T22:37:53.424-07:00Landscapes 2022<p>I wanted to share these landscapes I painted this year. This one depicts the view from my car during a cross-country trip. I like the idea of a "modern landscape," with traditional subject matter but from a 21st Century perspective. I also like the idea of situating the viewer inside the car because it sort of makes them a part of the painting</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio7zIz15jhjxolb8wlqlYDXMHmdxxWmw0IEFxZcrMSstz06th7FiwVFI2h0B21HYjSazZJLmT5KQSwXG-uqUfZCRJU1A6PRArxM5i53_3mKH9xza3iv-DPrZpihOob_9KSAMq4mK4BCmm3Y01mOPaO7ngzEnZJkBftUxRkRhzt9doyRG8qG704lTbQ/s1528/20221204_182643.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1528" data-original-width="1091" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio7zIz15jhjxolb8wlqlYDXMHmdxxWmw0IEFxZcrMSstz06th7FiwVFI2h0B21HYjSazZJLmT5KQSwXG-uqUfZCRJU1A6PRArxM5i53_3mKH9xza3iv-DPrZpihOob_9KSAMq4mK4BCmm3Y01mOPaO7ngzEnZJkBftUxRkRhzt9doyRG8qG704lTbQ/s320/20221204_182643.jpg" width="228" /></a></div><p>These watercolors were all painted by setting down the background sky color first. Once it was dry I painted over it with the most opaque black I could mix. I like how the silhouettes make the skies really sing.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg09WKUdmil1rpatwZoiGhGNtXY00nd2KvFy3DtR2gpISMz1foDZrT2vhLIvq61uMipQxM_4xgjc2689Tni3Lm3Dya8hMdg7NENnO315wKJeKAHSH9wIT_glIas5t4DrRnbDcbGinsuSgMT6zTGt9pfSfv-bXdBgCJMZyPmWk7gVuS4XivgjheCbLHH" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1465" data-original-width="2146" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg09WKUdmil1rpatwZoiGhGNtXY00nd2KvFy3DtR2gpISMz1foDZrT2vhLIvq61uMipQxM_4xgjc2689Tni3Lm3Dya8hMdg7NENnO315wKJeKAHSH9wIT_glIas5t4DrRnbDcbGinsuSgMT6zTGt9pfSfv-bXdBgCJMZyPmWk7gVuS4XivgjheCbLHH" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqaHutTXroy69Y9hMH95aHC2vDXVQ6LePr0xj4sTcIvV59NF8LxKJ1-OMkFajRdZnqe2mNeGpOAF0I88y477TSwKP1IDd3ACJeIxFxHM0Ms0IKmkuntOKWxzKXtVfWfMww4Yk87nKx1dxkCW-edW1aKRW37tpyawRVWziDq_4N6scmORujHjwyuIIY" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1479" data-original-width="2137" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqaHutTXroy69Y9hMH95aHC2vDXVQ6LePr0xj4sTcIvV59NF8LxKJ1-OMkFajRdZnqe2mNeGpOAF0I88y477TSwKP1IDd3ACJeIxFxHM0Ms0IKmkuntOKWxzKXtVfWfMww4Yk87nKx1dxkCW-edW1aKRW37tpyawRVWziDq_4N6scmORujHjwyuIIY" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjovyWpDERUGPA3kQkDHkuCkwmh_UkeLE0kyf-xRz43eR-OgHLxTdth9xm_Wuef7q8_EWVTdqyvSv351gjeFYXcH6rS9ZJNNneELXVZAqZNr8wA_1S4F851ncVBfSoFrxkJ5ISLw2RZ1AsFvyHvfKjPfcF-pUwrciLgRq0qHln19KmAgjb87AVnCp8i" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1457" data-original-width="2097" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjovyWpDERUGPA3kQkDHkuCkwmh_UkeLE0kyf-xRz43eR-OgHLxTdth9xm_Wuef7q8_EWVTdqyvSv351gjeFYXcH6rS9ZJNNneELXVZAqZNr8wA_1S4F851ncVBfSoFrxkJ5ISLw2RZ1AsFvyHvfKjPfcF-pUwrciLgRq0qHln19KmAgjb87AVnCp8i" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgaS_1OTCVU99gVExq4HISgqL48o9BYb_xZYf_P9dwGiMdMvQ-oUyQNmeMH-M7pqaWFuYaGZWTF_adiYj9qXQ0OkWxytoxnWkRNLRvPTbwYCAA8q-V5_67UW3VQU9PrZz7vF1XoFuiJKkScxty7vEcoWI0kSIY6JA31gKKBfCHo3Cn0HEhk_EQPXKqk" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1479" data-original-width="2310" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgaS_1OTCVU99gVExq4HISgqL48o9BYb_xZYf_P9dwGiMdMvQ-oUyQNmeMH-M7pqaWFuYaGZWTF_adiYj9qXQ0OkWxytoxnWkRNLRvPTbwYCAA8q-V5_67UW3VQU9PrZz7vF1XoFuiJKkScxty7vEcoWI0kSIY6JA31gKKBfCHo3Cn0HEhk_EQPXKqk" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>This one is a little different. I used ink instead of watercolor, and a pen for the trees instead of a brush. Here the silhouette of the black trees suggests not a lack of light, but the blinding light of the sky. The indelible marks of the ink made for a more expressive piece and I approached it much more improvisationally than the paintings above.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5NT_TuX_U8Dm_72rZi5FPvgcMvUDPekcbtW2z-mYTTJD5Lt8vJ6ZfD_gFFSMqTta-2Fw4I7NlHEXSwNXE2zA5MF1CoH19g5YyhvpkupC8zHuyRQkN1Ky87YINQKv8I9aJcb1xgChqgZiRp-CH1V_XqplbldmEOFPnPeot-C5C3J0grX5YDFj2SS76/s2095/Untitled.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2095" data-original-width="1498" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5NT_TuX_U8Dm_72rZi5FPvgcMvUDPekcbtW2z-mYTTJD5Lt8vJ6ZfD_gFFSMqTta-2Fw4I7NlHEXSwNXE2zA5MF1CoH19g5YyhvpkupC8zHuyRQkN1Ky87YINQKv8I9aJcb1xgChqgZiRp-CH1V_XqplbldmEOFPnPeot-C5C3J0grX5YDFj2SS76/s320/Untitled.jpg" width="229" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>Andrew Sandberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17267087515161108378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4614082520978133402.post-31978390178906133192022-11-07T15:53:00.000-08:002022-11-08T21:41:08.098-08:00What It's Like to Attend a Figure Drawing Group<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQxzN4K-heQPs7jbViiZJpTlJFZmq7JNMBvee1hf477IkZmzru6SseOKoJzuUXGPTle2vnmBagEbSxTzk_D7SqByNkbKbQE7vuPraAv8-vimeKtlSrrN8woXAw5t3Pw6LMFMnBK7WJfY8sOMAptcOfDKitdVQss28c1FjgTl6x8FdUaKqCNUsELA_2/s1063/Untitled%202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="746" data-original-width="1063" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQxzN4K-heQPs7jbViiZJpTlJFZmq7JNMBvee1hf477IkZmzru6SseOKoJzuUXGPTle2vnmBagEbSxTzk_D7SqByNkbKbQE7vuPraAv8-vimeKtlSrrN8woXAw5t3Pw6LMFMnBK7WJfY8sOMAptcOfDKitdVQss28c1FjgTl6x8FdUaKqCNUsELA_2/s320/Untitled%202.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>I wanted to post about my recent figure drawing sessions and describe what figure drawing studios are like. I attend the weekly figure drawing co-op at a local art college near me. For 7 dollars you get 4 hours in the studio. You and usually about twelve other people surround a dais where the figure model poses. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht4Il2z1JGz7HAsyRiUKPCYAhECPH4rdl_VnqeTY2hCcGfPbXI6HX0kBvq9zyEDhrrygLS4nA91SKs6VvAXRnryFtxczjANRRBBqxW1v5XeiSJ-PtpA1bp_--FmBHulKVtpHR6fXKA7zRT8ZHWfr4hCS2XkPfNgPDw28aqsacYNidgZV7fFigc5MLL/s701/20221106_174119.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="701" data-original-width="459" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht4Il2z1JGz7HAsyRiUKPCYAhECPH4rdl_VnqeTY2hCcGfPbXI6HX0kBvq9zyEDhrrygLS4nA91SKs6VvAXRnryFtxczjANRRBBqxW1v5XeiSJ-PtpA1bp_--FmBHulKVtpHR6fXKA7zRT8ZHWfr4hCS2XkPfNgPDw28aqsacYNidgZV7fFigc5MLL/s320/20221106_174119.jpg" width="210" /></a></div><p>The poses start off quick. These ones were only 1 minute long. The model does big action poses, and you have to draw really fast. Today we did ten of these. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh37RBzWvfrbCneL01HmQFbDcDwYvUPfVCyG9kzz_qB8yvJgB9rYO6VcFm1AbNnPukJK4-eUOdApRJo6-0S8wUymUwbJGf-qY8ObvKzV4PTw5ZreKDHr84pfX4QVTyIHEsIE0-3PrDmL9gOXcHAF9qN5NCRT8Uzrpsydc6XVhpzn51_O8SIUGcTo0jq/s751/20221106_174047-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="751" data-original-width="518" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh37RBzWvfrbCneL01HmQFbDcDwYvUPfVCyG9kzz_qB8yvJgB9rYO6VcFm1AbNnPukJK4-eUOdApRJo6-0S8wUymUwbJGf-qY8ObvKzV4PTw5ZreKDHr84pfX4QVTyIHEsIE0-3PrDmL9gOXcHAF9qN5NCRT8Uzrpsydc6XVhpzn51_O8SIUGcTo0jq/s320/20221106_174047-1.jpg" width="221" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">This time is for quick gestural drawings. Gesture drawings are loose sketches that are meant to get down the most crucial information in the short time you have. These are helpful in warming up, getting used to the proportions of the model, and because the poses are dramatic and the limbs and legs are extended from the body it is easy to get used to the model's proportions. </p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Then the model slows down the pose to anywhere from 2 to 5 minutes. Today we went to 5 minute poses. The poses are less exciting, because the model can’t hold action poses for such a long time. you can get a little more accurate in these drawings and a little more detailed. Today I decided to use different colored markers for different stages of the drawing. I started in red to sketch in the figure and work out any awkward missteps. Then I went in with the blue with more confident lines and continued to correct my mis-measurements.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNmggW4JxiQulSCIJR4z4dvBbxGE_KNzjwGWR0TVCdZdrVRWoqcqKf_QraGotjkoFm0KbV8kRY4GbM_e3WPIQMsTxS7e2W0VJuW1otnekdmLD7v_p5bW1XyYEH2nyctcoz0-vhfOpabX1re-MsJFU-l0ktznE4ld1qaUpYx-KAXqx0TLG28KqyJnmg/s680/Untitled%205.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="555" data-original-width="680" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNmggW4JxiQulSCIJR4z4dvBbxGE_KNzjwGWR0TVCdZdrVRWoqcqKf_QraGotjkoFm0KbV8kRY4GbM_e3WPIQMsTxS7e2W0VJuW1otnekdmLD7v_p5bW1XyYEH2nyctcoz0-vhfOpabX1re-MsJFU-l0ktznE4ld1qaUpYx-KAXqx0TLG28KqyJnmg/s320/Untitled%205.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Then the model will usually get a 15 minute break and return with longer poses. Today we went to 15 minute poses. Here I take my time to work out the proportions of the figure, measuring with my eye (or my pencil) where everything should be. I look for large masses of shadow and lightly mass in the big shadows. I like to define the edge of the shadow with a darker line and then mass in with light hatch marks. Again, I’m starting with the red marker, not being precious about marks, but just exploring the shapes and trying to get some approximation. Then with the black pen I make definitive marks describing the contours of the outlines of the body and edges of the largest shadows. </p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyNaoc54PgK90B7dWjI4DxwxP-LXHUXpO2_zDS3pPLU_Zq9mhsuGxVIlmaijGV7-YU-gQxas84iDXNXaH5kMAPfdloZwoIkdOheMNLyxpQj10Zr3Hjti1m7wTdJjBrwRTg4QM-kxgdR0D_2XRZqNozq4qPaJlDx3rW04gBv3hoxOLPUKFM1ytJvtgg/s678/Untitled%208.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="678" data-original-width="662" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyNaoc54PgK90B7dWjI4DxwxP-LXHUXpO2_zDS3pPLU_Zq9mhsuGxVIlmaijGV7-YU-gQxas84iDXNXaH5kMAPfdloZwoIkdOheMNLyxpQj10Zr3Hjti1m7wTdJjBrwRTg4QM-kxgdR0D_2XRZqNozq4qPaJlDx3rW04gBv3hoxOLPUKFM1ytJvtgg/s320/Untitled%208.jpg" width="312" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwadoYjGHsg8sJxWFKMHDjRJmXl1SQ36PKJiMCKiXCNY-HM1RdNO5qwABmz6oftCEsQs1W8MR3oLF28WC9GDhAECR7l5LNODSe-Jrq6VLBz7AkPcUQshGaBgeQP7HGSg_wLIc_7kQxlUdQmZRfpYHLE2wZKjTzSznvBoxoZI9WoezCCOUlDRSo0sLW/s701/Untitled%207.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="701" data-original-width="343" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwadoYjGHsg8sJxWFKMHDjRJmXl1SQ36PKJiMCKiXCNY-HM1RdNO5qwABmz6oftCEsQs1W8MR3oLF28WC9GDhAECR7l5LNODSe-Jrq6VLBz7AkPcUQshGaBgeQP7HGSg_wLIc_7kQxlUdQmZRfpYHLE2wZKjTzSznvBoxoZI9WoezCCOUlDRSo0sLW/w196-h400/Untitled%207.jpg" width="196" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Sometimes the red lines are totally wrong, like the length of the standing figure’s thigh. Rather than being frustrating mistakes, these red lines are a record of where I went wrong, and where I corrected myself. If the mistakes remain in the drawing in this form, they are a tool to learn from. When you’re done drawing for the day, go home and look at all of them. You will almost certainly find patterns of where you went wrong and had to correct yourself. This is how you turn your weaknesses into strengths. </p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Then we usually end the session with one or two longer poses, anywhere from a half hour to an hour. Today we did a half hour pose and I practiced the sight-size method. Sight-size is a practice where the size of the drawing on the page is the size of the figure from your vantage point. You prop your drawing surface straight up, right next to the model in your field of view, and draw it making one to one comparisons of size and dimensions. This wasn’t a strict sight size drawing, which take much longer to do precisely, but I tried to get it pretty close. You can see on the left hand side the little notches drawn on the page. These are measurements of the positions of body parts. </p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcamxAxWKV71LFawEwnRGnWskHZvcU8HgSS7iGH04hwi4d46IAuJ9l9K2c04vwTUBXRyEC34JTbHQK1T2-KJKYn_R73v5ykf7RIDL6AEjA8aPs4McUuLoSQA9nZONwP2eebrRwk06Q1FUWXMHb6poW-dz5m8ZWXE9-03parzCsz-PNzFBxeCnEX-wA/s739/20221106_173523.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="661" data-original-width="739" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcamxAxWKV71LFawEwnRGnWskHZvcU8HgSS7iGH04hwi4d46IAuJ9l9K2c04vwTUBXRyEC34JTbHQK1T2-KJKYn_R73v5ykf7RIDL6AEjA8aPs4McUuLoSQA9nZONwP2eebrRwk06Q1FUWXMHb6poW-dz5m8ZWXE9-03parzCsz-PNzFBxeCnEX-wA/s320/20221106_173523.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Compare the above to this loose sketch done earlier in the day. I was still warming up and you can see all the missteps and corrections, the exaggerated length of the limbs and torso and the shakiness of the lines. Sight-size just makes drawing easier. And if you have the time to set it up and really measure everything carefully, you can reach an almost perfect depiction of the model. </p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXn0WAF1KaaN3mwFnn5ShUOEMrXhv5n9agMqb7fQ-vB_A0mS_y3r_iPFaiHNWMhtjSnnqvF3zYksOCFT2_UDM3TiqbjbZ3fsNisOWiBWSjyjV79YpRopJHY1HAkyQd6bydb-QCpcKsqQkTMrs9-qiHhpp8eStQA82mBKswQj_Vdk0Pkx9Ro-q_ONl7/s587/Untitled%206.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="544" data-original-width="587" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXn0WAF1KaaN3mwFnn5ShUOEMrXhv5n9agMqb7fQ-vB_A0mS_y3r_iPFaiHNWMhtjSnnqvF3zYksOCFT2_UDM3TiqbjbZ3fsNisOWiBWSjyjV79YpRopJHY1HAkyQd6bydb-QCpcKsqQkTMrs9-qiHhpp8eStQA82mBKswQj_Vdk0Pkx9Ro-q_ONl7/s320/Untitled%206.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br />If you are eager to do a longer pose, you can talk to your classmates about it and the model. It depends on the group though. Some are very structured, others are more of a conversation between the model and the class, someone will say what they want and the rest of the artists can yay or nay the idea.</p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I love visiting drawing groups like this. They are great for keeping your skills sharp and learning to adapt and try new things. I like to pick a spot in the class and never move even if I don’t like the perspective I have on the model for a certain pose. It forces me to learn to draw the figure from new angles. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigxwhLJgf8aX3UJgXyWiitmn6SE77Z9o4hzVRdRZaZmcaVK5jrZTi3qmhZCM7aY8Gnie8Bw3kQaI420raSUA4l-bklYty2NBENo57tCCYvv68sRsRDRyYAhgrUYsh3YDme_yucOtgNPIPz6ANAqTjkJ_uxOkio4lin8YNSMFauN9bXLLGyiHtad-S-/s1154/20221107_174324.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="741" data-original-width="1154" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigxwhLJgf8aX3UJgXyWiitmn6SE77Z9o4hzVRdRZaZmcaVK5jrZTi3qmhZCM7aY8Gnie8Bw3kQaI420raSUA4l-bklYty2NBENo57tCCYvv68sRsRDRyYAhgrUYsh3YDme_yucOtgNPIPz6ANAqTjkJ_uxOkio4lin8YNSMFauN9bXLLGyiHtad-S-/w400-h256/20221107_174324.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>Andrew Sandberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17267087515161108378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4614082520978133402.post-53332037300516001922022-10-08T23:30:00.000-07:002022-10-08T23:30:20.143-07:00Inktober 2022<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiFEiR-w715j-otgPgy3GMcM1CADdYi_Zk7QbHGXPNyVUr3rHqAneo85LWU2Xg4DBc3IgnFZfx3fMDRtgJA30bUNL5azUWmTxf2KZz92-hjyk3aXan5ZwyCvccnH6DMmFyHchglJ-OgGMlSn7NCed5NW_7YuuBfSd44wVnJqW9f7rO9VACkbBlfnNOt" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1524" data-original-width="1518" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiFEiR-w715j-otgPgy3GMcM1CADdYi_Zk7QbHGXPNyVUr3rHqAneo85LWU2Xg4DBc3IgnFZfx3fMDRtgJA30bUNL5azUWmTxf2KZz92-hjyk3aXan5ZwyCvccnH6DMmFyHchglJ-OgGMlSn7NCed5NW_7YuuBfSd44wVnJqW9f7rO9VACkbBlfnNOt=w398-h400" width="398" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;">"Match" Inktober Day 8 ($75)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It's October again, so I've been doing Inktober, an annual artist challenge to make one drawing a day everyday of October using the official "Inktober" prompts. I haven't been using ink every day but I have been creating every day, which is the spirit and purpose of the challenge. Today I made the above acrylic painting.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiDBAT9rwugDJTc8FUSByxJvyHlWM0_L24DCWfdIxSNrTDs8TXGh4xnxBUwVpspfcXXSmsStIYi1XWv9J2JItJ4aHR5jYgSKYO2r5tcdRLeBRyFYl4a3FZ-SMwJoTUg-nVZcQ6vEb5Pg3kKkXnGL4w46iU0vz6d2S2kB2NnE0ie2EIVX85ArtFll-nJ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="504" data-original-width="504" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiDBAT9rwugDJTc8FUSByxJvyHlWM0_L24DCWfdIxSNrTDs8TXGh4xnxBUwVpspfcXXSmsStIYi1XWv9J2JItJ4aHR5jYgSKYO2r5tcdRLeBRyFYl4a3FZ-SMwJoTUg-nVZcQ6vEb5Pg3kKkXnGL4w46iU0vz6d2S2kB2NnE0ie2EIVX85ArtFll-nJ=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><img alt="" data-original-height="1524" data-original-width="1321" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgNrGbMM7BcH9la3VUYYdgbRDyv0BwFonlmDhY2k6dzql-VlD8R9RjkrEch2Nsundp_UQ1MewpxcTPev-rGJi1D5X8My56L-3rOKVrQ0qGjNQhsCNzwrvZBsjlfMYVB8C8QLQTPru8Bl0__jLE6mz_ZJ9a9s0AX3hcql-bsgxSBXbw3GMPrtzVlKxsR=w347-h400" width="347" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;">"Scallop"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;">This type of edge design is called a scallop, presumably after the scallop shell. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi5kO9Wf2ywp9u-uEXI90bNTEejIyKVd23J0_OtxQGJD8Ykhy-VAB9BtCd0HbEkoBOHxSG0BlTaxr4Da5to2VrzS3bcDAp2TRbQvLg-yK2juK8PoKSNDBWVCMEPlIUnf_0iLwEJXeNbYKjtupN5y3_zALiqT95htvytTWWB7SSXiILTNR3jmQg2eX5Y" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1524" data-original-width="1852" height="329" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi5kO9Wf2ywp9u-uEXI90bNTEejIyKVd23J0_OtxQGJD8Ykhy-VAB9BtCd0HbEkoBOHxSG0BlTaxr4Da5to2VrzS3bcDAp2TRbQvLg-yK2juK8PoKSNDBWVCMEPlIUnf_0iLwEJXeNbYKjtupN5y3_zALiqT95htvytTWWB7SSXiILTNR3jmQg2eX5Y=w400-h329" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;">"Scurry"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;">I was at my local figure drawing co-op this day for 3 hours, hoping the model </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;">would do something like a scurry pose. But I liked her poses anyway. They were very restful. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgA_RBlGCPgw5zUhUc372KtvIvc_mSc5aolL4HjGXUBjVaj0Hgw4tHH4jVrkp-kCbhcKm5V4vM_Uzcbm6N3Nu9k1-3Grb5H3-QqGEAfo011yW6rF4qTEJUrYx1r_F8ikCYxmnaXODNV0lgA45A5uqhPUlqG_fvPrm8Zv1kdX7A8n0eKMxKYQXqO6K38" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1524" data-original-width="1524" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgA_RBlGCPgw5zUhUc372KtvIvc_mSc5aolL4HjGXUBjVaj0Hgw4tHH4jVrkp-kCbhcKm5V4vM_Uzcbm6N3Nu9k1-3Grb5H3-QqGEAfo011yW6rF4qTEJUrYx1r_F8ikCYxmnaXODNV0lgA45A5uqhPUlqG_fvPrm8Zv1kdX7A8n0eKMxKYQXqO6K38=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;">"Gargoyle" </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;">I learned in college that a gargoyle is technically the statue connected to a gutter, made to spit the rain water out of its mouth (though that's not really how we use the term anymore). I was thinking about the sad existence of a gargoyle come to life, never able to speak because he is always spitting water. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjv2UxivpectYEG7dL-2dySNdSZ9-2hDSF9xl4pgDJl9eOJD5VyEfn7RJUiEeYezic0cLpQ_HKTO6m6IB60TUHW7AT_WD858lEHHm6-C2facoErS6HmLLz5EBypV7bkGzJL1WVYUDaj1HtoATjjrj1hmKunP5tFY5exKlpQgYi_dcjlNfvA5FR4v-1f" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="737" data-original-width="1120" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjv2UxivpectYEG7dL-2dySNdSZ9-2hDSF9xl4pgDJl9eOJD5VyEfn7RJUiEeYezic0cLpQ_HKTO6m6IB60TUHW7AT_WD858lEHHm6-C2facoErS6HmLLz5EBypV7bkGzJL1WVYUDaj1HtoATjjrj1hmKunP5tFY5exKlpQgYi_dcjlNfvA5FR4v-1f=w400-h264" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;">"Trip"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0b3rv3eMNZIVbNaKiccsE9AfWS5PjvEhWcYpvNGyy7_cAICyYTttGUbZ-sz1-7SkcoFE7NmwOohdYPqKSkPjwNSDqgWcVnSyhHqWlMAPmjqLYBVZkqlKdvDan45r3511Ir2b6alt2shhTooR-od5hiqEMauV0sqIk61npdpeOXg2P1DTamUVE89jS" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1524" data-original-width="1524" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0b3rv3eMNZIVbNaKiccsE9AfWS5PjvEhWcYpvNGyy7_cAICyYTttGUbZ-sz1-7SkcoFE7NmwOohdYPqKSkPjwNSDqgWcVnSyhHqWlMAPmjqLYBVZkqlKdvDan45r3511Ir2b6alt2shhTooR-od5hiqEMauV0sqIk61npdpeOXg2P1DTamUVE89jS=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;">"Bat"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;">(Fossil)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><br /></span></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1524" data-original-width="1508" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdwmxRl1PWzUpNlQ0ElYT820Ut8bUw3PNXFusTzOAz0093-77qyKrZ9MEVUa32FFnLIz0ZGtz_CxxqGek2lYI70ox_c9Z8sb0MNBQPvVY_ET-agyMd0korQxjLoF-_VC8JlT4Mz3B8gcXn1A0NU98QZvvx6LAg5RqleMBIHNH1EBA9iSvlUCLIL_2X=w395-h400" width="395" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;">"Flame"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;">I made a pencil sketch of this fire pit while I was camping in southern Minnesota. </span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p>Andrew Sandberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17267087515161108378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4614082520978133402.post-18569632823823825162022-04-24T22:57:00.002-07:002022-04-24T22:57:55.516-07:00New Portrait Website<h2 style="text-align: left;"> I am now selling portraits at <a href="https://www.handpaintedportraits.com/"><span style="color: red;">HandPaintedPortraits.com</span></a></h2><div>This is a new opportunity for me to make money selling paintings that are tailor made for the buyer. Please visit the new website and consider buying a custom portrait. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.handpaintedportraits.com/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="" data-original-height="936" data-original-width="1872" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgwZDSI-h1g-G39pBsSmHqfJg1c7Ck5O6lXrRF-o8EIhb7dPmPrPmjmhBAnrP0K9_SZjG3x6yV8XTHwTQ8LIV6NJqwlcngyBCx-oOPzV8kPX41kTEWhb8c6Rcq6uTC_zaUHR19tMs99ilFRIXGLhou4NVrAidYwpAo14u63C5pz3uoKae4vjAo875nS=w410-h205" width="410" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgwZDSI-h1g-G39pBsSmHqfJg1c7Ck5O6lXrRF-o8EIhb7dPmPrPmjmhBAnrP0K9_SZjG3x6yV8XTHwTQ8LIV6NJqwlcngyBCx-oOPzV8kPX41kTEWhb8c6Rcq6uTC_zaUHR19tMs99ilFRIXGLhou4NVrAidYwpAo14u63C5pz3uoKae4vjAo875nS" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.handpaintedportraits.com/" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="764" data-original-width="994" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj73EWL3UncvcSly7Jcznepid62aI_MHlWXpPt9ftSABkxJhx539Fmimu8fApT9z3aiJjEqawFQmvmluE8YAAZlq1ceS8hSQ-p8_0Dv8Wy_JFC9cLWB-KNJgbkjkgW3m9QaGLhf63NsBw1bID_kaCfwxyZZSBgLoDGg2lKRaVdHoM-BV2n3oww_G_KN/w243-h187/capacapa.jpg" width="243" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div>Andrew Sandberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17267087515161108378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4614082520978133402.post-80981845129390137622021-09-18T10:42:00.001-07:002021-09-18T10:42:49.010-07:00Testimony, Painting Sessions<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">These are painting sessions for my current work, <i>Testimony</i>. I post these weekly on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCERQ6mXiJVvLERRH24I-JHw" target="_blank"><span style="color: #fcff01;">YouTube</span></a>. Subscribe to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCERQ6mXiJVvLERRH24I-JHw" target="_blank"><span style="color: #fcff01;">my channel</span></a> and you'll see them as they go up. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">________________</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Testimony, Painting Session 3, Modeling the architecture of the scene using masking techniques and </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">linear perspective</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="364" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OwrNjrk_KSU" width="481" youtube-src-id="OwrNjrk_KSU"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Session 4, Painting woodgrain</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="328" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wJkbjBVV_Ls" width="483" youtube-src-id="wJkbjBVV_Ls"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Session 5, Using acrylic pouring techniques to create ambient textures</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="369" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ukMe1KRvsTE" width="485" youtube-src-id="ukMe1KRvsTE"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Session 6, Modeling wood molding and plotting where the highlights go</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="406" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3ZJ7Wc2_jVg" width="489" youtube-src-id="3ZJ7Wc2_jVg"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Session 7, Continuing the ambient texture of the wainscoting using both <i>Scumbling</i> and <i> Glazing</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="408" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-5qFd_wZ2oE" width="491" youtube-src-id="-5qFd_wZ2oE"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Andrew Sandberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17267087515161108378noreply@blogger.com0Minnesota, USA46.729553 -94.685899818.419319163821157 -129.84214980000002 75.039786836178848 -59.5296498tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4614082520978133402.post-17261979070005095302021-09-05T14:12:00.002-07:002021-09-05T14:12:38.829-07:00Making a 2-Color Woodblock Print with Easy Registration<p><br /> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="367" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yML6ueWrqPk" width="532" youtube-src-id="yML6ueWrqPk"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In the Water, Toward the Woods</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Woodblock print, 5" x 7"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This is my first 2-color woodcut. I used a variation of a traditional Japanese registration system for lining up the multiple blocks required for a multi-colored print. </div><p></p>Andrew Sandberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17267087515161108378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4614082520978133402.post-87330032503729520642021-06-27T14:26:00.000-07:002021-06-27T14:26:06.554-07:00Testimony, two painting sessions<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="372" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qOzGWl4WYDA" width="481" youtube-src-id="qOzGWl4WYDA"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="292" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tXd3rbanAgw" width="480" youtube-src-id="tXd3rbanAgw"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">These are the first two paintings sessions of my new picture <i>Testimony</i>. I'm using matte acrylic on canvas.</div><br /><div><br /></div>Andrew Sandberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17267087515161108378noreply@blogger.com0Minneapolis, MN, USA44.977753 -93.265010816.667519163821154 -128.4212608 73.287986836178845 -58.1087608tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4614082520978133402.post-18819793157412053192020-06-24T18:26:00.002-07:002020-06-24T21:44:59.894-07:00Kate Jarvik Birch<p class="p1" style="font-family: helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAptwi8KfQlNVbwsFEUroZZj0kmNM3OlbTVm96Lm3b4aK6SyCurRPoOJjsYuehEOEzu0uXuhmCwWmzDLf8-LZvv-54z-I1H03hwSqtbgoIjQVVvyd43FnYlizApuEsAjvbyUgDVIc2gjs/s574/kate+hand.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><font face="arial"><img border="0" data-original-height="574" data-original-width="572" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAptwi8KfQlNVbwsFEUroZZj0kmNM3OlbTVm96Lm3b4aK6SyCurRPoOJjsYuehEOEzu0uXuhmCwWmzDLf8-LZvv-54z-I1H03hwSqtbgoIjQVVvyd43FnYlizApuEsAjvbyUgDVIc2gjs/w398-h400/kate+hand.png" width="398" /></font></a></div><i><font face="arial" size="5"><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><font size="5"><br /></font></i></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><font size="5"><br /></font></i></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><font size="5"><br /></font></i></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><font size="5">Kate Birch is a Utah based artist and fiction writer. I first encountered her on Instagram and was impressed by two words written beneath every post: "Daily Painting." In almost as many posts there is a third word: "SOLD."</font></i></p></font></i><p></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><font face="arial" size="5">Kate produces a painting almost everyday. She has made a business of these paintings and I wanted to learn more.</font></i></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b><br /></b></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Andrew: </b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Finding the motivation to produce can be one of the biggest challenges for artists. You produce a painting a day. How did that begin and how do you stay motivated?</span></font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b>Kate: </b>It started New Year’s Eve three or four years ago when I decided to write a poem everyday. I got to July and I wanted to quit with every ounce of my being. But I kept going and finished off the year. I realized there was something to creating constantly and putting it out in the world even if you don’t like it. You’re not going to love everything you produce but every once in while you’ll create something that you’re truly proud of. And I found that other people find beauty and joy in things that I do not necessarily connect with.</font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b>Andrew: </b>And how did that transition into a painting a day? Did you develop an interest in painting at that time?</font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b>Kate: </b>No I had gone to school and gotten my degree in fine arts in 2005 and began a career as an artist. But then I began to focus on writing and published a number of books. So I waffled between the two. But I had a financial setback the December before last when I separated from my husband, so I needed a source of income that would be more consistent than writing and selling published prints. I had done #Inktober, creating a drawing a day for the entire month of October, and loved it. So I decided I would make a painting a day and offer it to friends on Facebook. This went well. I took a break when I got job ghostwriting a book. When that job was done I began again making a painting a day. It's been a great way to do what I love and connect with people. It's a way for people to buy fairly inexpensive original art and it's a way to support myself.</font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b>Andrew: </b>You write on your Instagram posts when the pieces sell. It's impressive to see how many of them do sell. Was that always the case?</font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b>Kate: </b>It was when I started on Facebook and they were mostly selling to friends. And I was selling them for much lower prices then. Now on Instagram it's becoming its own little business and it's exciting to see it growing. It's much more exciting when I don’t know the people who buy them and I was surprised at how many people wanted them. And many people who buy one end up buying more, because they really are prettier in person. There is something about the texture of the gouache that you can’t really capture in a photograph. And I like that it's an opportunity for people to buy original art at a low price. There is a special quality to owning an original painting that doesn’t come across in prints, which is how I had sold much of my earlier work, through print publishings sold at places like Pier One and Target.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b>Andrew: </b>As a consumer it's nice to be able to enjoy landscapes from environments you’re not used to. Are your landscapes done from life or photographs? And are they all from your own area?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b>Kate: </b>The landscapes are from photographs. And living in Utah I have access to all kinds of scenery, from rock arches to mountains, but I get bored doing scenes from only here, so I use photographs from all over the world. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b>Andrew: </b>The piece that I bought, of the hand; is that your hand?</font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b>Kate: </b>Yes. That was a study that I did the other night in reaction to another artist’s painting which used a similar lighting. It was just a study for myself before I decided to put it online. I was pleased that you liked it because I've been doing landscapes for so long and was beginning to feel bored with it. So I felt like branching out.</font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b></b></font></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b><br /></b></font></div><font face="arial" size="5"><b>Andrew: </b>I think that’s why I liked it so much. It was a change from what I was used to seeing from you. But having prepared for this interview I found that your work is actually very diverse. Some of your older work has a much more 2-D graphic quality. I found ink studies of architecture and still-life. Plus your novels deal with very abstract science fiction concepts. It is surprising to find an artist with such a diverse taste for subjects.</font><p></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><b><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></b></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font size="5"><b><font face="arial">Kate: </font></b><font face="arial">I think what you’re seeing is someone who gets bored very easily. (Laughter.) I'm always looking for something a little bit different to occupy my mind. I just can’t tolerate it. I have to move to different things or it becomes torturous. I have to be learning something new with each project or it becomes monotonous.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.katejarvikbirch.com/art?lightbox=image2up" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><font face="arial"><img border="0" data-original-height="523" data-original-width="365" height="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6USrn-Z_p9PK_rtz4ghjTClftqyrLcAl24_fFKiJY-EP_Nc6pd8g8Rf6xlOSbn1FtexgIj6JjqX24HK7P4B6xkSPOGpMl8Dd0trfOPjsB3pHHb5xW4nVetwN5Y277DUXUWWypMC59Fg0/w348-h500/kate+Doubel+mums+.png" width="348" /></font></a></div><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial"><br /></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial"><i><span class="font_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="color_13" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></i></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial"><i><span class="font_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="color_13" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></i></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial"><i><span class="font_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="color_13" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></i></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial"><i><span class="font_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="color_13" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Double Mums. Published by Poems Art Publishing. Kate's paintings have been </span></span><span class="font_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="color_13" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">featured at World Market, Z Gallerie, Home Goods, Pier 1 Imports and more.</span></span></i></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b><br /></b></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b><br /></b></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b><br /></b></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b><br /></b></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b><br /></b></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b><br /></b></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b><br /></b></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b><br /></b></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b><br /></b></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b><br /></b></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b><br /></b></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b><br /></b></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b><br /></b></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b>Andrew: </b>Can you walk me through a day in the studio?</font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b>Kate: </b>I get up, get a cup of coffee, and begin thinking of the day’s composition. If it's a still life I might be searching through my refrigerator for subjects. At this time of year I work in a small studio off of my bedroom. Generally I work from photographs on my computer. I use small Strathmore cold pressed watercolor paper, taped to a board to keep it from buckling.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> I u</span>sually sketch first with a mechanical pencil. My paint is set up on four different palettes with different colors that I re-wet each day to activate the paint.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b>Andrew: </b>You use gouache?</font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b>Kate: </b>Right. The gouache is very forgiving. I can build up the image without worrying too much about mistakes. I first used gouache in college and fell in love with it. You can lay it on thick to create these very velvety tones, or thin it down to this cream like consistency, or even thin it down to a glaze.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b>Andrew: </b>In looking at your recent painting of dandelions, I have trouble telling what is transparent and what is opaque. Is this ultramarine in the vase?</font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghxq0f1pPdiSX72daXEgFHqBMbOh2memUfupOSk-FpTAW2ZHdkuP9e9xdnzmp6ThZqN-6InW6YooirWjz7MjdxNgvb125XIAg_4ndAtkVdm34K8-V4UyLkOK5s5ySnKI5xJzIqT9V5xk4/s558/kate+dandelions.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><font face="arial" size="5"><img border="0" data-original-height="558" data-original-width="557" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghxq0f1pPdiSX72daXEgFHqBMbOh2memUfupOSk-FpTAW2ZHdkuP9e9xdnzmp6ThZqN-6InW6YooirWjz7MjdxNgvb125XIAg_4ndAtkVdm34K8-V4UyLkOK5s5ySnKI5xJzIqT9V5xk4/w398-h400/kate+dandelions.png" width="398" /></font></a></div><p></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b>Kate: </b>Yes, it’s ultramarine. And different paints have different levels of opacity, so the ultramarine, for instance, has a transparency despite how thickly it’s applied.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b>Andrew: </b>When you work on a still life like this, does it come as a moment’s inspiration or is it planned days in advanced?</font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b>Kate: </b>It depends. Sometimes I have material queued up, but I have to find something that's speaking to me that morning. In this case I had seen a painting on Instagram of dandelions and thought it was charming, and happened to have a front lawn overrun with them at the moment, so I went outside and picked some.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b>Andrew: </b>That’s one of the great values of Instagram, isn’t it? Finding new art to look at daily.</font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b>Kate: </b>It is. I’m constantly scrolling through and finding new artists that inspire me. I love Instagram. And it’s great for meeting people all over the world. I’ve sent paintings as far as Australia to connections I made on Instagram.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b>Andrew: </b>Who are some artists that inspire you?</font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b>Kate: </b>I love Richard Diebenkorn, Edward Hopper, Wayne Thiebaud, Gustav Klimt. John Singer Sargent is one my favorite painters.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b>Andrew: </b>That last name makes the most sense in looking at your work.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b>Kate: </b>He was the master of brevity. He could use so few strokes to create so much. I don’t think I could ever do that because I’m too meticulous and not loose enough. I admire anyone who can be loose with their brushstrokes, but I’m very tight. You are what you are, I guess.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b>Andrew: </b>Actually the first thing I noticed about your work is how economical your brushstrokes are. You are very controlled, but there is a flow and sense to the control. It reminds me of Vermeer.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b>Kate: </b>Thank you. I think the work of an artist is to distill something. When I paint I am constantly trying to distill the subject down to its essence. To find the simplest version that still feels rich.</font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb1Bvs5NWCJsSFOK76o405wUpqsalNkhWBd4CNB1TR9S3AIWXan97VU-xWurdtLLOk_RNlc25ukReKgEJ7VDyEH_9O3oAzIYImg7VoK1HuFvbsFcE7pKy5Vt4lisKpKYKKwoLv96T7cEE/s561/kate+rainbow.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><font face="arial"><img border="0" data-original-height="546" data-original-width="561" height="389" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb1Bvs5NWCJsSFOK76o405wUpqsalNkhWBd4CNB1TR9S3AIWXan97VU-xWurdtLLOk_RNlc25ukReKgEJ7VDyEH_9O3oAzIYImg7VoK1HuFvbsFcE7pKy5Vt4lisKpKYKKwoLv96T7cEE/w400-h389/kate+rainbow.png" width="400" /></font></a></div><i><font face="arial">Observe the economy of means in this depiction of a rainbow over a canyon. In 5 x 5 inches, using 6 colors, and the barest minimum of distinct marks, Kate creates a vast environment, and teaches us how to react to it. </font></i><p></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b>Andrew: </b>When did you become interested in visual art?</font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b>Kate: </b>Very young, before I can remember. I was always drawing or playing with clay. And my dad was an inspiration. He had some training as an architect and designed the house I grew up in. He was quite artistic and we have the same sort of visual mind.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b>Andrew: </b>Was he encouraging?</font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b>Kate: </b>No. He was always in his own world and he left when I was 10. But my mom is quite a good painter, though she doesn’t think of herself that way. She was a journalist and is now a playwright.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They were both creative people and my mom never limited me or discouraged me from doing what I wanted.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b>Andrew: </b>Did you begin college as an art major?</font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b>Kate: </b>No, I started in elementary education. I had an art teacher that encouraged me to pursue visual arts. I’m grateful to her for directing me away from education. I later tried teaching art classes in my children’s school and hated it.</font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b>Andrew: </b>How did you pursue opportunities after college?</font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b>Kate: </b>It's mostly about putting stuff out. When I was first contracted to sell published prints, they found me at a local art show. I used to query galleries that I liked. It's mostly just asking and not being afraid of being rejected. You do get rejected, but occasionally someone says yes. And then things fall into your lap. You have to be ready to engage chance opportunities. Nowadays there are things like Instagram, which are great because you’re not limited to any locality.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b>Andrew: </b>How do you price your art?</font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b>Kate: </b>Oh my gosh, it's so hard! My friends constantly tell me to charge more. I just started selling the little ones at 80. My standard now is the square inches times 2. That might not always be representative of the work that went into it, because some pieces take longer than others. But I don’t like to think about it, so it’s nice to have a set price for a type of painting.</font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b>Andrew: </b>You’ve done a lot in your career. Is there a dream project?</font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b>Kate: </b>I have so many. I'd like to write a movie, I want to do really large scale portraiture, or a mural.</font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b>Andrew: </b>Do you have an ultimate goal as an artist?</font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><b>Kate: </b>(Pause) I think it’s about my own enjoyment, not necessarily about the production.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I do sometimes feel, when I walk through a museum, that feeling of: <i>Maybe someday people will be looking at my work like this</i>. But it's more about my own satisfaction in learning and improving. It gives me purpose in the doing.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="times"><font size="5">Learn more about Kate: </font><a href="https://www.katejarvikbirch.com/about">https://www.katejarvikbirch.com/about</a></font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="times"><br /></font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="times"><br /></font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="times"><font size="5">Follow her on Instagram: </font><a href="https://www.instagram.com/kebirch/?hl=en">https://www.instagram.com/kebirch/?hl=en</a></font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="arial" size="5"><br /></font></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><font face="arial" size="5">Help keep this blog alive. Donate at <a href="https://www.patreon.com/andrewsandberg?fan_landing=true">PATREON</a></font></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p>Andrew Sandberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17267087515161108378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4614082520978133402.post-21194663738518998012020-06-17T22:25:00.001-07:002022-11-08T21:42:20.330-08:00In the Water, Toward the Woods, WoodcutThis is a two color woodblock print made with oil based inks. Woodblock prints are "relief prints," in that the nonprintable areas are carved away, leaving a low relief of the image left level with the original uncarved surface. <div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-R0VbFDQiommxt4FUj3RYvsn1EdsDWryGq1UTNHup9OzhW4g_0Ey9cItyjKyU_79LQDiIT4qJV8ojgqgmXmbR_6CgJA4GYmn01RPDbfXLJynnrDOtGUKuDBvWGuwWqGT6Nh1elXgtghE/s2233/DSC_0019.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2233" data-original-width="1621" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-R0VbFDQiommxt4FUj3RYvsn1EdsDWryGq1UTNHup9OzhW4g_0Ey9cItyjKyU_79LQDiIT4qJV8ojgqgmXmbR_6CgJA4GYmn01RPDbfXLJynnrDOtGUKuDBvWGuwWqGT6Nh1elXgtghE/w290-h400/DSC_0019.JPG" width="290" /></a></div>The inspiration for this image is Ichijo Narumi's postcard print designed in 1906. Narumi's print is a lithograph, not a woodcut. But the simplicity of the design and imaginative use of the limited palette is a model for any printmaker doing their first two color print. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi25Fpmn_t-FPuz4hmsv2g08FeFXIhzu227mJ79XaWKFnrnV79lqhh5kMV1NLRFNNfEjNKbpA_XAMTodg3ysSuX-AO7UzU-da1JcSYkxu5ve0tfEmGkhnqvp1QzYAGPxnLZs3iYwG_1zdg/s635/95855f54193c6e9e93a7c21c35643028.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="635" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi25Fpmn_t-FPuz4hmsv2g08FeFXIhzu227mJ79XaWKFnrnV79lqhh5kMV1NLRFNNfEjNKbpA_XAMTodg3ysSuX-AO7UzU-da1JcSYkxu5ve0tfEmGkhnqvp1QzYAGPxnLZs3iYwG_1zdg/s320/95855f54193c6e9e93a7c21c35643028.jpg" /></a></div><div>Two color prints are made using two printing plates. I carved both into one block of pine, each registered at the top and right sides so that I could simply slip the paper into the pre-carved grooves and know that the second printing would line up with the first. The green block is printed first, the brown second. Because the brown ink is transparent, where it overlaps the green ink, it produces the darker color of the forest and signature, making this technically a 3 color print. </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJL1Qrr8fMRzbL_hlSA_9wYX-q_YJUu2l43XZOlDdoa8mtC7U6pLZpeotL_JcJ34fLUFoeOrFd5cd3S7NnJpelQPSwWyMjssZNOM7wPZBAd6dMgfNgPc2FMTD9RN_jXIIJXXxSaYsRPwQ/s6000/DSC_0012.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJL1Qrr8fMRzbL_hlSA_9wYX-q_YJUu2l43XZOlDdoa8mtC7U6pLZpeotL_JcJ34fLUFoeOrFd5cd3S7NnJpelQPSwWyMjssZNOM7wPZBAd6dMgfNgPc2FMTD9RN_jXIIJXXxSaYsRPwQ/w400-h266/DSC_0012.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>I proofed the the block in different forms to gauge its appearance, leaving me with distinct "Artist Proofs." These allow the printer to see what work is left to be done. In this case I still needed to carve lines into the hair. </div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-X1jTwzgvWH7n4UGL7hJW-MMTD_AeDYwG67WSFqZ-L7yNUorCz9zrY32N9LaKG0r-6W6q_2memx6VdfAELsbWJe2oRVTB_08tU0fkxxN9tHXy4PUCnvLH2xOG2_gdwSkTL8dXIkb6z7w/s2486/DSC_0022.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2486" data-original-width="1776" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-X1jTwzgvWH7n4UGL7hJW-MMTD_AeDYwG67WSFqZ-L7yNUorCz9zrY32N9LaKG0r-6W6q_2memx6VdfAELsbWJe2oRVTB_08tU0fkxxN9tHXy4PUCnvLH2xOG2_gdwSkTL8dXIkb6z7w/w285-h400/DSC_0022.JPG" width="285" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>I produced 9 roughly identical prints using these colors. Future editions will use alternate colors. These first 9 are $29.50 a piece. Please message me to purchase. Or consider becoming a "Print Subscriber" through my Patreon page and receive a new print every month sent to your door. <a href="https://www.patreon.com/andrewsandberg?fan_landing=true">Patreon Page</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNEdsOFeJgEztxaKHmkfy3HjlsKB5G-UacaxF5yAl2OYVF-CRGy2DgtWsjAkEBeTAPT_fAPxx8G4jJEI-_wyyP5oRY0a2YfHPpKJ2UlydRHUZOLHvCWb-CZUKCg4SqzoaKj17TP6XaPeo/s5012/DSC_0025.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5012" data-original-width="3172" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNEdsOFeJgEztxaKHmkfy3HjlsKB5G-UacaxF5yAl2OYVF-CRGy2DgtWsjAkEBeTAPT_fAPxx8G4jJEI-_wyyP5oRY0a2YfHPpKJ2UlydRHUZOLHvCWb-CZUKCg4SqzoaKj17TP6XaPeo/w254-h400/DSC_0025.JPG" width="254" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Andrew Sandberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17267087515161108378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4614082520978133402.post-68814477515165749702020-05-11T21:46:00.001-07:002020-05-11T21:46:59.621-07:00Sun Earth Man, Wood Block Printing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJBnRX9VQ65Eks-yFXunPBKMZCZFH_n1z1dOtjqvd89TiD2PIQJA9lU9doUlhS7w8N-gEVEiM1xHPtM69-b9K4DnNQ8tGgDmdHvK0r5qW6QgSUmhER-K7s3y5fwRJ_RIVRhSrrvMjsL3s/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2966" data-original-width="1939" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJBnRX9VQ65Eks-yFXunPBKMZCZFH_n1z1dOtjqvd89TiD2PIQJA9lU9doUlhS7w8N-gEVEiM1xHPtM69-b9K4DnNQ8tGgDmdHvK0r5qW6QgSUmhER-K7s3y5fwRJ_RIVRhSrrvMjsL3s/s320/black+man.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is Sun Earth Man, a woodblock print. This video documents its creation</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jvNHISnwGQ0" width="320" youtube-src-id="jvNHISnwGQ0"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This print is $29.50 to purchase. You can also become a Patreon Subscriber and receive a new handmade print in the mail every month. Please consider subscribing.</div>Andrew Sandberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17267087515161108378noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4614082520978133402.post-35787214274636752402020-04-08T22:29:00.001-07:002023-07-20T22:32:16.027-07:00Drypoint Printing The Pythia<div class="p1" style="font-family: helvetica; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
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This plate is then run through a <b><i>printing press</i></b> with a dampened sheet of paper on top. The paper is dampened so that it is pliable enough to be forced into the grooves of the plate by the pressure of the press.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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Unlike other intaglio methods, like etching and engraving, the incised lines of the drypoint plate are shallow and depend for inking on the sharp raised <b><i>burr</i> </b>along their edges. As the plate is used the burr deteriorates. As such, only a few prints can be pulled from a drypoint plate.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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New lines are scratched into the plate over the old, and the combination of the old dull lines with the fresh dark lines produces a richer tonal range. E<span class="Apple-converted-space">ach stage of development in the plate is known as a <b><i>state</i></b>, and each state represents a separate edition of the print. </span></div>
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This print depicts a woman experiencing a visionary state, in which she is mentally abstracted from her physical environment. It is named for <i>The Pythia</i>, the priestess of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. The Pythia was believed to be a medium for divine prophecy, delivered to her in ecstatic trance.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This print is available in each of its first two states. 4 prints are available of each, </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">$45</span><span style="font-size: large;"> a piece.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Portrait of our Grandmother, for my cousin Betsy</span><br />
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