Born in Hartford, Conn. in 1881, she started her art training at Hartford Art School in 1889, she attended William Merritt Chase’s Summer School in Tory Island and ended up at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She studied With Edmund Tarbell and married Philip Hale in 1902, a faculty member at the school. [...]
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August 24th, 2010
Composing Your Painting with Abstract Patterns
Today’s post is about composing with abstract patterns. We all have the urge to fall in love with detail when we see a subject we want to paint. It’s natural, something were born with, (or cursed with). But detail is the death knell to composition. There is no pattern in detail, it doesn’t hang [...]
August 19th, 2010
Sparking The Creative Process
I think most of us have ideas for paintings floating around in our heads but because we’re used to painting from a photograph or having the subject in front of us all the time we don’t feel confident enough to pull off a painting from memory or ideas for a painting that we think will [...]
August 1st, 2010
Masonite and Shellac
I’m back. It’s been a couple of months since I’ve been able to take the time to stop and blog a little. June was a blur and July was just as bad. So far I’ve had to take 4 trips lasting several days this summer and I’ve had little time to be able to blog, [...]
May 22nd, 2010
Learning From Other Paintings
Painting and observing directly from life is the best way to learn to paint, but studying other paintings is essential also. Knowledge about painting and technique has been handed down through history so there’s no sense in re-inventing the wheel.
Study paintings to see how other artists simplify shapes or how heavy or thin they [...]
May 20th, 2010
Learning with Thick Paint
Students new to painting are usually hesitant and indecisive in their work, which usually means keeping your paint thin because you’re not sure how to mix colors. This is a problem because paint thinned with a lot of thinner or medium is weaker color. Oil paint is opaque and works best when
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April 28th, 2010
Sam Hyde Harris
Sam Harris, born in England in 1889, came to Los Angeles at the age of 15 with his father and 6 siblings. He soon started his art career doing signs and lettering on the sides of buildings. Sam attended evening classes at the Art Students League in Los Angeles and the Cannon Art School where [...]
April 13th, 2010
Discussing Color Schemes – Part 3
An exercise using a Triadic Color scheme is a good way to familiarize yourself with the color wheel. A triadic scheme is any three colors equally spaced on the color wheel. Trying a variety of triadic schemes for the same subject gives you a feel for each color and how it relates with colors as [...]
February 11th, 2010
Preliminary Sketches
Sometimes when I paint several color sketches or preliminary sketches before a larger painting, it can quench the desire to paint that subject. So switching up the medium can help me see that subject differently.
Since I usually use oils, using pastels for color sketches is more direct and spontaneous than oils. The sticks of pastels [...]
February 8th, 2010
Doing a Live Demo Over Computer Streaming
The Pastor of the Alive Church in Tucson, Jeff Love, asked me if I would be willing to do a large painting during a five-week series he is doing on “Life Palette”. The pastor is also a part-time artist and wanted to use the principles of a good painting and compare them to principles we need in our lives. There [...]
