the Sierra Mountains, the Rockies, Latin America, and Mexico. They tried to express a love of nature and a feeling for man's place in it. At the same time, culture was becoming the province of all people not just a wealthy elite. Thus, as foreigners looked on in amazement, the Hudson...
You will learn how to create depth and perspective with the close up cliffs overlooking the valley and distant mountain. Each step will be shown in detail, so you can easily follow along and create your own mountain landscape. Using the techniques in this lesson, you can greatly enhance the...
Not being an artist born of whole cloth but rather having had to find my way through years of experimentation and self-teaching, there have been periods of profound grace during which the work might propel itself into new territory or rediscover a familiar path with new eyes. My best paintin...
The man wanted to paint and people could get in the way. It leads me to believe that the numerous small floral compositions might have been quick, tourist executions. You know, the kind of thing a master would toss off in a matter of seconds to offer a visitor in order to speed them...
(page 37, Dali by Gilles Neret) shows a horse in the process of metamorphosing into a rock on a smooth almost glacier-like plane with mountains in the distance and a solitary figure who looks to be walking in the direction of a giant rock. The long shadows and the colour of the ...
The real name of the monument is We are our mountains. It means our bodies are part of our land, that is why you see only the heads. The rock is red tuff. It was brought from Armenia when the monument was built in the ‘60s. There is none of that stone here.’ Ara told me ...
I also love painting in Arizona now. It’s like being on the moon, these huge saguaro cacti that are all over the place. All the mountains in Tucson are geometric; they’re very new and very jagged-y. It looks like somebody put big blocks out there. I’m painting a mountain called...
We had a stereoscopic view taken by Mr. Soule out of our parlor-window, overlooking the town of Cambridge, with the river and the bridge in the foreground. Now, placing this view in the stereoscope, and looking with the left eye at the right stereographic picture, while the right eye loo...