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As a landscape painter I feel colors and textures rotate through the seasons. My own appetite for silver, blue and lavender spikes as winter approaches. My desire for pink and green jumps with the approach of spring. Tracking the seasons … Continued
Our ability to recognize patterns and convert them into useable, purposeful and decorative material has thousands of years of history. Much of it began in the Middle East. In 15th through 17th centuries Persian patterns had become formalized, from Islamic … Continued
The Renaissance art historian Bernard Berenson claimed that Lorenzo Lotto’s “St. Nicholas in his Glory” contained his favorite Renaissance landscape (example 1). It occupies only about a quarter of the painting. I found it where Berenson remembers it, in a … Continued
To create the feeling of deeper space consider “Deepen, Brighten, Blend and Extend.” Let’s begin with deepening color. Layered translucent colors work here. They generate darker darks and unify fields of patchy color which can fracture a painting’s unified feeling … Continued
Over a thousand years ago Chinese painting scholars advised artists to follow some basic principles. They included presenting a landscape with an experience of the near, middle and far distance. Vertical arrangements should consider the earthly or worldly lower domain … Continued
You and I have a brain that tells us where to look and what to look for. It’s selective and predictive. It looks on to the environment’s reflective patterns of light with expectations. It stops when it finds them. The … Continued