It’s Friday, but the new video will be coming next week.
Meyer Vogl Gallery This is a selection of 10 (one is missing) paintings I recently sent to Meyer Vogl Gallery. Acrylic, gouache, and oil, several are 8x8, 6x6, a 6x8 and a 10x10.
I hope everyone is doing well, painting and enjoying the beginning of the swing into Fall! A little over a week ago I was not impressed with the coming season… and it’s accompanying hurricane season! And now it’s ramping up out to the east again. We got through Idalia with minimal discomfort, except for a couple of limbs that fell from about 60’ up a 90’ tall loblolly pine that is just on the other side of our property line. If it wasn’t, it would have been ground bark and pulp by now. These things are dangerous, native to the region yes, but hazardous to have planted (appx 60 yrs ago) close to structures. They break and fall when the winds are at storm level, many times taking out buildings and people. The largest limb that fell was about 13-14” in diameter at the base, where it attached to the tree, by about 20’-30’ long! It missed our studio by about 20 paces. It took us half a day with the chain saw and loppers to cut it up and remove the tangle of other broken trees, limbs and bamboo that it took out on it’s way down to the earth. We were lucky. There are others like it that could do more damage near by. We begged our neighbor to let us remove it, even if we footed the entire bill, he refused. Our fears partially came true. Other than that, no high water, some dang nasty winds, and a limb to clean up was the end result of Idalia.
We did get out to paint the afternoon before Idalia’s arrival. What we painted were the outer bands of hurricane Franklin, who kindly wandered NE. It’s a 9x12 oil on acrylic primed panel. Done in about 20 minutes due to the incoming rain squalls.
This photo is the day after at the beach on Tybee… decompressing from all of the hurricane anxiety… not bad!
The book, The Art of Color and Design by Maitland Graves, is a text book from the Pratt Institute from the 50’s. Not a lot of color photos, but it’s filled with color theory ‘nerdy’ photos and illustrations. It’s a VERY serious study of design and color theory for anyone who really wants to dig into it. There are exercises that you can actually do for yourself, with answers. More than that, it is the BASICS, in every way. I’ve still not made it all the way through the book but hope to eventually. It is a class, so if you pick it up and read it, give your self some self appointed college credits! It’s available from several sources, one of them is linked to the title at the beginning of this paragraph. Here are a few photos from the book to give you and idea about how truly academic it is. So if you’re thinking there aren’t books about color and design that really give you your money’s worth, think about this one.
I’ll see you next week, as long as Hurricane Lee, leaves us be!
Keep your brushes wet!
Cheers,
Marc
New video coming next week!