A•Muse
4th Juried Art Exhibition
Pendleton Art Center
October 2-30, 2009
201 Main Street
Rising Sun, Indiana
812-438-9900
An eclectic display of paintings and sculptures
from traditional to contemporary styles
by artists from Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky
Opening Reception
Friday, October 2, 2009
6:00-9:00 pm – Awards 7:00 pm
Wine and Hors d’Oeuvres
Benjamin Belew, classical pianist
My paintings accepted for exhibition:
Paddling With Grandpa
Afternoon Sun
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I’ve always loved the night lights on downtown city streets. Reflections from store fronts, traffic lights and overhead lights bounce off cars and sidewalks.
Notice the linear and atmospheric perspective. The front car is on the far right but the others end are displayed in a line going from right to left towards a vanishing point. The same thing is happening with the buildings. You will see a roof top at the top right which angles downward to the left and the overhead lights angle to the left. The cars. the roof and the lights all go to a vanishing point in the distance. This is linear perspective.
Atmospheric perspective is shown by the cars at the front being larger than the ones further back. Both types of perspective give depth to the painting. You have a feeling that you could walk down the street.
This painting is 18″ x 24″ and is for sale at $850.00. If you are interested in purchasing it, contact me on the email address on this site.
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I seem to be having some very serious problems with my legs. This has been going on for a few months. Sometimes I can’t walk or stand. I experience a lot of excruciating pain. The doctor advised me to get as much exercise as possible to help kill the pain and to keep my problem from getting worse.
With this in mind, I have purchased a new bicycle. I try to ride at least ten miles a day.
I talked to my friend, David Owen this morning. He is an award winning oil and pastel artist. It made me want to try some pastel work. Since I had all the supplies I needed, I packed them on my back, put on my helmet and took off.
I stopped at a parking lot next to an old mansion. My friend Joe used to have his real estate office there.
I set up my easel. I drew in the scene, Next I got out the pastels. I was having the best time — until a wind gust came along. Over went my easel and my pastel sticks fell to the ground, shattering into little pieces. I don’t know if my drawing was any good, but I think that sometimes just going through the motions is pretty fun.
I had a nice ride back home.
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The Mississippi Queen riverboat used to cruise the Ohio River and dock at Madison, Indiana. The passengers would disembark and spend a few hours touring this historic town. This is my rendition of the boat.
Some things to notice: The areas in shadow on the side of the boat are painted a bluish shade. Look at the top at smokestacks and other areas. Where the sunlight hits it is painted white, even with a tiny touch of yellow but the shadow side is blue. Notice how it works. Also look at the reflections under the boat. This makes the water “wet.”
The placement of the boat over the bottom edge of the hills gives the impression of distance.
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I wasn’t going to put this painting on my blog, but my cousin Terri encouraged me to. It is a painting based on my vacation at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina earlier this year. I didn’t feel like it wasn’t up to my quality. It was accepted into a show recently when I submitted it as a fluke.
You will see I used atmospheric perspective. The closer persons are painted larger, while those further away are smaller. The closer ones are more clearly portrayed and those in the distance are less defined and the colors ared faded.
Maybe you will like it better than I thought. Who knows? If not, I’ll put something else up very soon.
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I love doing portraits. I finished this one last night and delivered it this morning. The subject is a woman who died two weeks ago.
You’ll see my technique — I first look for shapes of values or colors and draw them in. Next I fill in the darkest values, then I do the lightest ones. Finally I fill in the medium values. The shadows around her eyes, the area under her nose and bottom lip and chin are the darkest. Note the area above her eyebrow, along her cheek and the edge of the nose. This is where the lightest values are. The rest of the face is medium. This technique gives the face volume. It doesn’t appear flat on the canvas.
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