Art and Photography Blog

Painting of Hiker's Bunk House at AMC Highland Center

This 18" x 24" acrylic painting depicts the hiker's bunkhouse at the Appalachian Mountain Club's Highland Center in Crawford Notch New Hampshire. I simplified the scene to contrast the geometric structure of the building and the flowing nature of the mountains. I also focused on the relationships of tone and color in the different objects with the strong atmospheric perspective present due to haze and sun shine. This was painted outdoors viewing the scene.

Quick Sketch Painting of the Studio Sink

Here is a 18" x 14" acrylic painting of the sink in our studio. It is a quick sketch done in about an hour.

Painting of Yellow Fabric and Sitting Woman

Here is a 24" x 30" acrylic painting of a woman sitting under a yellow fabric.

4 Ways Painting Impacts the Art Scene

This post was contributed by Kelsey Allen, who writes about the art careers. She welcomes your feedback at KelseyAllen1010 yahoo.com, as well as comments on this post.

Painting has been the epitome of every movement within the art world and has served to bring about many masterpieces, regardless of the time period. While mostly sculptures brought about the earliest renditions of art, this thereby evolved into the paintings of the Renaissance and onward within the art world. With the advent of new technologies in the twentieth century, we have been introduced to many new forms of visual media and the arts, including revolutionary steps in photography, videography, and many other related fields. Painting has served to be a backdrop of sorts for every related arts field, as you can always draw or paint a sketch of what you are aiming for and then use new technology to get the finished product.

Visual media Painting was the original way many movies advertised themselves before the days of digital animation and proved to be the original methods in which cartoon classics like Bambi were originally constructed. While computers have done away with the work-by-hand methods, if we did not have computers, much more advertising would use painting as a resource. Even now, many musical artists have painters design their album covers, such as Tool, which translates their band into a more “artsy” character overall.

Technology Painting was one of the first steps in the ever-evolving world of art that has since transcended into the digital age. Computers now nearly do our painting for us and design graphics with such perfection that no human could ever come close. With this constant reliance on technology, painters have begun to be pushed to the side, although there is still a great respect for every artist who can still paint or draw on their own.

Human knowledge Within most introductory art history classes, you are taught the timeline of the progression of art, starting with many pre-historical sculptures and cave drawings. Once painting gets introduced to these early humans, you begin to notice the progression in art, as vases take on more intricate patterns and the addition of color takes these early works to a whole new realm. It becomes obvious that once the early civilizations discovered the use of color and painting, they were able to communicate more effectively and become more stationary in life rather than simple hunter/gatherers. The impact of painting in this regard was monumental toward the whole of evolution. Society

Even now, there is a special connotation about most artists, in that many people around the world strive to be able to simply paint one scene on canvas. There is a romantic ideal about painting on an easel in your backyard that so many people wish to make a reality, regardless if they have any talent or not. Even within this busy world of technology and speed, sometimes everyone just wants to take a break to take in all of nature and relax in its beauty in order to document it through art. While painters still dominate the coffeehouse industry (paintings are typically hung in this type of eclectic atmosphere), they have since influenced the newest genre of photographers to focus more on the abstract rather than “set” images that anyone can photograph.

Send Me Your Junk and I will Transform It

Here is a great idea. It is the ultimate recycle. The Pollocks art collective recently opened a temporary shop named Worthless. It plays with notions of consumerism and the perceived value of material objects. Participants brought in random objects to the London store that they considered junk, everything from old hard drives to tattered shoes. The Worthless team then transformed all the cast-off goods into unique pieces of art. Customers were then able to buy back their submitted items for whatever the felt they were worth.

You can see a video about the project at the PSFK post on the effort.

This idea might catch on. Instead of throwing stuff out, have an artist make into an art work. Many great art works have started from junk. Why not have this done for you?

Send me an email with a picture of your junk and I can give you an idea of what I might do.

Sunny Day Photographs from Vineyard Haven MA

Here are pictures taken on a sunny day in the Martha's Vineyard town of Vineyard Haven by ferry. It followed the rainy day seen in yesterday's post and was the best day of the week or perhaps the month.

Rainy Day Photographs from Vineyard Haven MA

In early June I went to the Martha's Vineyard town of Vineyard Haven by ferry. It rained the first day as you can see below. The fist picture shows the harbor as we approached. The next day the sun came out as you will see in my next post. I used to come here a lot in the 80s but had not been back for quite a while.