Friday, February 6, 2009
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Oil Painting Art Reproduction
Oil painting art reproduction gets its name because it is oil painting that is intended to be painted over in a scheme of working in layer. There is a popular misconception that oil painting art reproduction should be monochromatic, perhaps in gray-scales. In fact, a multi-color oil painting art reproduction is much more useful and was used extensively by oil painting art reproduction artists such as Giotto (whose oil painting art reproduction techinque is described in detail by Cennino Cennini).
The colors of the oil painting art reproduction can be optically mingled with the subsequent oil painting art reproduction, without the danger of the oil painting art reproduction colors physically blending and becoming muddy. If oil painting art reproduction is done properly, it facilitates over painting. If it seems that if one has to fight to obscure the oil painting art reproduction, it is a sign that it was not done properly.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Heidi Daub at Aarhus Original Oil Painting Gallery
With a personal vivid style and recognizable imagery, Heidi's modernistic landscapes play along the border of abstract and representational Original Oil painting.
"I am concerned with ordinary things and the extraordinary ways in which the ordinary shapes our lives. My Oil paintings and Fine art Paintings evolve from an introspection,... an awareness,... There is an aspiration to a holy moment so to speak. How we perceive and feel, the nebulous space between the physical reality of a given situation, person or place, and the perceptions we carry, the curiosity and non-linear ways of looking at time."
Heidi Daub graduated from Montserrat School of Visual Fine Art Reproductions, has lived and worked in Maine since 1984 and exhibited her Oil paintings on canvas widely throughout New England since 1987. Heidi is represented by oil painting galleries throughout New England and her work is housed nationally in many private Oil Painting collections.
In 2008, Heidi has inaugurated the Women of Maine Visionary Fine Arts Reproduction Award to support women involved in audio, visual or literary Fine Arts Paintings who exhibit outstanding commitment and are inspiring to others.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Work by New Brunswick Printmaker Dan Steeves on Exhibit at Tides Institute
Dan Steeves was born in 1959 in Moncton, New Brunswick. He received his B.F.A. from Mount Allison University in 1981. He currently lives in Sackville, New Brunswick where he is Printmaking Instructor and Lecturer in the Fine Arts Reprodcution and Oil painting Department at Mount Allison University. In 2007, Dan won the prestigious Sheila Hugh McKay Foundation's Strathbutler Award, which honors exceptional Oil painting on canvas artistry in the province.
Steeves' work has been exhibited in art galleries in Canada, the United States, Holland, Italy, Japan, Poland, Taiwan and the Ukraine. His prints are represented internationally in both public and private collections including Canadian House, (Nagoya, Japan), Royal Bank, Beaverbrook Art Gallery Reprodcution, Regent College, Istituto Per La Cultura E L'Arte, (Catania, Italy), Chernobyl Disaster Museum, (Kharkov, Ukraine, USSR), Canada Council Art Gallery Bank, Permanent Collection, University of New Brunswick Art Reprodcution Centre and New Brunswick Oil painting Art Bank, among others. He is represented by the Abbozzo Gallery of Oakville, Ontario, and the Peter Buckland Gallery of Saint John, New Brunswick. The prints included in this exhibition are on loan from the Peter Buckland Gallery.
Also on view and on loan to TIMA until October is an Original oil painting by N.C. Wyeth titled, The Little Cockle, originally created to illustrate a passage from the book, The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson.
The Tides Institute is open Wednesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. ? 5 p.m.
The Tides Institute and Museum of Art gallery and Art Reproduction(TIMA) is located in the former Eastport Savings Bank Building, an 1887 National Register of Historic Places anchor property in downtown Eastport, Maine. Open year round, TIMA curates three to four new exhibitions each year, as well as exhibits works from its permanent collections, which focuses on the international Passamaquoddy region and the broader U.S./Canada northeast coast. Art Gallery and Art Reproduction TIMA operates as a cultural catalyst ? acting as a cultural resource, cultural facilitator, and cultural collaborator working with a wide range of partners on both sides of the U.S/Canada border.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Painting the Bold Coast exhibit at Bayview Gallery, Camden
Marine artist William Beebe has been Online oil painting the coast for over 16 years, and he now dedicates himself to rendering the historical wooden schooners of the 19th and 20th centuries. An admirer of Impressionist Claude Monet and Frank W. Benson for their brushwork, palette and interplay of light, Beebe creatively uses layers of various colors to achieve depth in his images. A black hull may have Naples Yellow, Cobalt Blue, or Umber added to create light and dark or warm and cold areas. His crisp lines and detailed renderings bring vitality to his maritime work along with a traditional realism honoring the excitement and joy of the nautical journey. His oils capture movement and place, celebrating the timeless grandeur of these majestic sailing vessels.
Vern Broe has painted the coast from several New England locations - Gloucester, Marblehead, and of course Maine. Versatile marine painter and former draftsman, Broe explores the contrasting qualities of light and dark and their various tones in his Original oil paintings. Water takes on an illusionary sense due to his skillful, delicate use of multiple washes of acrylic paint. Well-studied, keen lines define his vessels, giving them a subdued character against a receding, dream-like backdrop. He pays homage to the sailing and working crafts that grace the coastline.
Maine resident Robert Spring is well versed in portraying images in both oil and watercolors. Influenced by J.M.W. Turner, his oils are luminous and impressive, exhibiting an inventive palette that plays up the frequently subtle nature of his subject matter. Texture and color create a rhythmic energy, bringing new life to his seascapes. A sculptor as well, Robert's use of thick impasto suggests a tangible quality with his oils, texture and movement working in unison. His watercolors evoke a feeling of mystery, leaving the viewer to draw his own conclusions as to the outcome of the oil painting on canvas. A heightened sense of drama with no resolution contrasts with a momentary stillness and peace.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Oil Painting Workshops with Nina Weiss
On Saturday and Sunday, August 16 & 17, Nina will offer Oil Painting and art reproduction Drawing the Maine Landscape, a two day, ten hour, workshop. Students will work plein-aire studying the inspirational oil painting on canvas landscapes around the beautiful harbor town of Corea. Emphasis of this workshop will be on rendering basic forms of the landscape, using line and gesture and seeing and expanding the use of Art reproduction color in landscapes. Students will begin with compositional sketches and Oil Paintings color studies and progress to works in the color medium of their choice.
The one day (Friday) workshop is $75 and the two day (Saturday / Sunday) workshop is $140. Each workshop is capped at 15 participants.
Friday, December 26, 2008
Paper Marbling an Oil Painting
This oil painting on canvas decorative material has been used to cover a variety of oil painting surfaces for several centuries. It is often employed as a fine art painting writing surface for oil painting calligraphy, and especially book covers art reproductions and endpapers in book binding and stationery. Part of oil painting appeals is that each oil painting print is a unique monoprint.
Monday, December 22, 2008
Aurora Triumphans (1877-8) oil painting by Evelyn de Morgan (1855-1919)
Evelyn de Morgan’s (1855-1919) Aurora Triumphans has been a big draw to the town for art lovers for many years. It was bought by Herbert Russell-Cotes, son of Sir Merton & Lady Russell-Cotes, in circa 1922.
Aurora Triumphans is one of Evelyn de Morgan’s key works. It was exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery, London, in 1886, the year before her marriage to the potter William de Morgan. The de Morgans were leading figures in the Art & Crafts movement.
The subject of the painting is Aurora, the ancient Greek goddess of dawn, ‘breaking free’ from the ‘shackles of night’. It is a fitting subject for the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum with the ‘day & night’ theme that runs throughout the house. Further background information about the painting and the artist follows this news release.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Hard-edge oil painting
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Theft of Tom Roberts oil painting
The work, which in its frame measures 560mm in height by 455mm wide, was stolen from a wall at University House on Balmain Crescent in Acton.
The work is entitled “Road near the Goulburn River” and is conservatively valued at $25,000.
The theft was reported to police yesterday, and has occurred while University House underwent refurbishment.
It is believed the painting was stolen sometime between April 30 and June 18 this year.
Friday, December 12, 2008
Contemporary Art Reproduction Galleries
Contemporary art galleries are generally open to the general public with no charge; yet, some are semi-private. These Art reproductions usually profit by taking a cut of the art's sales; from 25 to 50% is common. There are also numerous not-for-profit and art-collective art galleries. Some art reproduction galleries in cities like
A contemporary art gallery's definition can also include the art gallery artist run centre, which often operates as a space with a more independent selection and attitude.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Acrylic Paint, Water-Color Painting
Monday, December 8, 2008
Traditional Faux Painting
History of Faux Painting
Faux finishing has been in use for millennia, as of cave painting to Ancient Egypt, but what we usually think of as faux finishing in Decorative Arts begin with Plaster as well as Stucco Finishes in Mesopotamia over 5000 years before.
Faux became vastly popular in Classical times in the form of faux Wood, faux Marble, and Trompe l'oeil Murals. Artists would trainee for 10 years or further with a master faux artist before work on their own. Great credit was rewarded to artiste who could really trick viewers into believing their work was the genuine thing. Faux painting has continued to be more popular throughout the ages, but experienced main resurgences in the neoclassical revitalization of the nineteenth century and the Art Deco style of the 1920s. Throughout the modern history of attractive painting, faux finishing has been mostly used in profit-making and public spaces.
In the late 1980s and early on 1990s faux finishing saw another major revitalization, as wallpaper began to fall out of style. At this point, faux painting has started to become tremendously popular in home environment, with high end homes leading the trend. While it can be quite costly to hire an expert faux finisher, numerous faux painting techniques are easy enough for a beginning home proprietor to create with a little training. People are also fascinated to the ease of changing a faux finish, as it can be simply painted over compared with the harass of eliminating wallpaper.
Friday, November 28, 2008
Traditional Oil Painting Practices
These variables are strongly related to the expressive ability of oil paintings. When we look at original oil paintings, the various character of oil paint permit one to sense the choice the artiste made as they apply the paint. For the spectator, the paint is still, but for the artiste, the oil paintings is a fluid or semi-fluid and must be stirred 'onto' the painting surface.
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Portrait Photography System
Since the dawn of picture making, people have prepared portraits. The attractiveness of the daguerreotype in the heart of the 19th century was due in great part to the demand for low-priced portraiture. Studios spring up in cities around the earth, a few cranking out more than 500 plates a day. The technique of these early works reflects the technical challenges connected with 30-second exposure times and the painterly artistic of the time. Subjects were usually seated next to plain backgrounds and lit with the soft brightness of an overhead window and anything else might be reflected with mirrors.
As photographic system developed, a fearless group of photographers took their talent out of the studio and onto battleground, across oceans and into distant wilderness.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
The Procedure of Oil Paintings
The oil painting artist might draft an outline of their subject prior to applying color to the surface. “Pigment” may be any number of normal substances with color, such as sulphur for golden or cobalt for navy. The pigment is mixed with oil, typically linseed oil but additional oils may be used as well. The various oils dried up differently creating mixed effects.
Traditionally, an artiste mixed his or her own paints for every project. Mixing and Handling the raw pigments and mediums was excessive to transport. This altered in the late 1800’s, when oil paintings in tube became broadly available. Fine art reproductions Artists could mix colors rapidly and simply without having to crush their own pigments. Also, the portability of pipe paints allowable for plein air, or outdoor work of art gallery.
Monday, November 24, 2008
Prehistoric Eastern art
Spiritual Islamic painting forbids iconography, and express religious thoughts through geometric design instead. Yet, there are a lot of Islamic paintings which display religious theme and scenes of story common among the three main monotheistic faith of Islam, Christianity, as well as Judaism.
Thursday, November 20, 2008
ITALIAN PAINTING OF THE 15TH CENTURY
In the fifteenth century, artists learned to depict the visual world in a naturalistic manner. They extended their understanding of light and shadow, of space and anatomy. The idealized statuary of classical antiquity served as models, while in architecture the classical orders were applied to Renaissance buildings.
The prosperous mercantile economy of Florence helped to nurture the fine arts. Commissions came from the church, the state, and wealthy families. Classical as well as biblical heroes and heroines were portrayed as examples of virtue and moral fortitude.
However, to view the fine art oil paintings reproductions of the Renaissance as a mere conquest of naturalistic representation would overlook the complexity of the period. Carlo Crivelli painted sumptuous altarpieces in a boldly ornamental manner, and Cosimo Tura frequently departed from logical, naturalistic norms in favor of an energetic idiom with an eccentric elegance. Portraiture flourished during the Renaissance, and the Venetians, foremost among them Giorgione and Bellini, excelled in their depictions of pastoral landscape.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Purposes of Exterior Paint
Peale was a major figure in both fine art reproduction and science during America's revolutionary and federal periods. In 1786 he converted the oil painting gallery attached to his Philadelphia home into a museum of "Natural Curiosities." Peale's enthusiasm for learning was such that he named most of his seventeen children after famous scientists or oil painters.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Mather Brown, William Vans Murray, 1787
The theme of tyranny dominates the foreground. Trained as a lawyer, Bordley raises his hand in a gesture of debate. He points to a statue of British Liberty holding the scales of justice, reminding English viewers that the American colonists lived under British law and thus were entitled to the rights it guaranteed. Britain's violation of these rights is signified by the legal document, lying torn and discarded at Bordley's feet. Growing at the statue's base is jimsonweed, a poisonous plant, which serves to warn of the deadly consequences of any attack on American civil liberties.
America's agricultural self-sufficiency is referred to in the background, which depicts Bordley's plantation on Wye Island in the Chesapeake Bay, where Peale painted the canvas. A peach tree and a packhorse signify America's abundance, while the grazing sheep suggest freedom from reliance on imported British woolens.