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iments i smugly packed the painting away and deposited it in my home studio overnight the art gremlins attacked it and when i removed it from the box i wondered what that hump in the middle was with that impossibly large tree it seemed i had completely forgotten my own advice and didn t evaluate the location of that tree in perspective compared to the rest of the painting eke and i was supposed to be the expert that knew everything has perspective getting to work i decided to implement another rule i espouse when you correct something you always have more than one choice of what to do here i could have reduced the size of the tree but i liked the way it divided the canvas and became a nice focal point alternately i could make adjustments that would pull that hill forward so the tree was the right size i chose the latter adding another larger tree and still chuckling at my short sightedness lol one more tree 14 x 18 oil posted by unknown at 4 57 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday august 14 2015 making it work alongside the columbia oil 11 x 14 come spend your life with me the best is yet to be my husband and i have been married for 49 years he is all science and exercise and i am all art and exercise avoidance yet mostly to his credit it works as part of our travels and thanks to a roomy van he often takes his bicycle and i have all the painting equipment i want whether we join other cyclists or artists both of us are happy i drop him off at the beginning of the ride and meet him 4 or more hours later with a wet painting in my storage box and a big smile on my face artists take heart you can make it work sfg posted by unknown at 5 14 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday august 04 2015 edge of the storm oil pre 2006 i recently re organized the photos of my work on my computer many go back to before 1998 when i had my first digital camera gradually while doing this i realized that with a few exceptions all that work the immense time effort and material it consumed was merely preparation for the work i am doing now sure i will still produce work what will be clunkers to me but i am much more often satisfied with my current work the reasons are somewhat nebulous the brush strokes may be more confident the paint may be thicker the subjects may be more interesting the composition may be better balanced or in the end they just may be better executed and look like a mature artist did it doubt assaults all artists from time to time but we celebrate when we find reason to go on so we push on we do it all because it feeds our spirits in a way the viewer can never imagine sfg fire on the prairie 2015 posted by unknown at 12 05 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday july 30 2015 when does a painting take thirty years to paint the dance 12 x 16 oil i took a photo of this dancer at a performance at our local mall in the 1980 s i loved the dynamic subject and flashing color despite my enthusiasm i couldn t bring myself to attempt it so the photo sat in my files all those years occasionally i d run across it admire it and return it to the box i wasn t ready as many classes i ve attended as many fabulous instructors i ve had as many outstanding artists i talked art with i simply wasn t ready i was intimidated by the drawing of the figure i wasn t sure of the composition i did not have a good understanding of edges i was unsure of my brushwork and i didn t know how to make it mine i wasn t ready in the last couple of years i ve done quite a bit of experimenting playing with mixing and applying the paint differently destroying and re establishing edges throwing color around with abandon diving into a timidly painted piece and making it a success not only has my work improved in my opinion but i discovered how to solve many problems in different ways and most importantly i became more adventurous and confident after 30 years i was ready my work is now available on zatista com see my latest work posted by unknown at 10 12 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday may 05 2015 on the clock on the clock oil 11 x 14 if you have been following my facebook page you have seen a lot of my new work lately my plan is to continue putting work on facebook and then elaborate more on them here with information directed more to artists and those interested in the painting process itself i worked on some unfinished portraits today last week our figure painting group wanted to do a reclining figure so this model had light work i titled it on the clock 11 x 14 since he was paid to snooze ha the unusual perspective was fun here i was using my limited palette which consists of daniel smith mixed white winsor newton cadmiun yellow cadmium red alizarin crimson and ultramarine blue i choose to use this limited palette when painting away from my studio to lighten my equipment i work in several different ways in this approach i start with the features and build the composition out as time allows rather than determining a fixed composition at the beginning i stop when the session is over or more importantly when the composition is in balance it s one of those you ll know when it happens things fine art oil painting original painting susan greaves art collector art collecting artist fine artist art instruction susan f greaves impressionism impressionist painting instruction posted by unknown at 8 31 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday april 08 2015 in the class today at o street gallery i will be showing the work of my mentors like sergei bongart this work of mine shows the influence of the russian impressionists like maliavin curious google him posted by unknown at 11 18 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday march 16 2015 why i m glad i cannot paint like carol marine i discovered the exquisitely simple and purely colored paintings of carol marine on ebay i must confess that i suffered a bout of jealousy since she was selling far more consistently than i was her small delights brought in more bucks too convincing myself that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery i bought a supply of 6 x 6 canvases and set up an arrangement of cherries and a blue teapot and had at it in fact i had at it quite a few times somehow the colors were never as clean the planes were not as well thought out the drawing was not as precise and a number of other qualities were missing i soon returned to painting my own subject matter my way still not satisfied and after studying the work of many artists i have finally fallen into a method more suited to me it seems to reflect the way i see the world as complicated and imprecise as full of the joys of beautiful color and mysterious shadow as precise and imprecise all at one time and all because i cannot paint like carol marine thank you carol posted by unknown at 11 04 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday february 22 2015 wow it s been a long time since i posted to this blog i have been happily involved with our daughter s move our new granddaughter and her sister the christmas joy preparing for a show that starts soon a workshop teaching weekly classes and a clearance sale of older paintings who said that being 70 would give you time to smell the roses why do i write for a blog anyway admittedly it is a distraction and just a bit time consuming especially when i haven t been smacked in the head with inspiration when i think about it though writing for a blog is something like teaching each topic i select unless i ve had that smacked in the head moment makes me take time to consider it from fresh angles as a new student perhaps would see it and then verbalize my thoughts i take a few more liberties and assume blog readers are not first lesson painters but you see the point the best teachers i have had could hook their course of reasoning onto something the student was already familiar with and describe the concept from that perspective bill reese william f reese would tell his students that approaching a painting was like decorating a room you wouldn t start with the ash tray you would paint the walls and put the rug down correspondingly you should begin a painting by considering the big shapes that constitute the composition which is the framework upon which everything else hangs when teaching i m sometimes surprised that i can come up with those parallels or use terminology that i don t normally use to clarify what i am trying to get across a student the same thing happens when i write for my blog the result is i learn the most thanks dear readers for indulging my learning posted by unknown at 11 33 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday april 09 2014 my life autumn vibrations oil 11 x 14 my life is it exciting what can i say the most exciting thing in my life is my art that s a good thing if you consider that i ve been married for nearly 48 years have two remarkable kids one wonderful daughter in law one very special granddaughter plus another grandchild on the way now that my adventurous husband is retired we travel a lot usually visiting family and friends who fortunately are scattered all over the country all these things are great blessings and more than i deserve but they are nothing that makes my life extraordinary i have the usual too busy days frustrating encounters with my computer and disappointment when the dryer turns my favorite pants into high waters but these are not really exciting perhaps all this banality is what lets me ramp up my senses when i step up to my easel when i m painting i have to look really look at my subject and take note of its color and texture i must hear the melody of the color relationships and the staccato accents of more intense color and contrast i must feel the way the eye glides over the soft edges or halts at a hard one i haven t figured out how to impart smell but i get a somewhat puzzling sense of peace around oil paint two hours of painting can work on me like a visit to a theme park on a six year old what can i say it s a great life posted by unknown at 9 17 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday december 24 2013 wishing you merry christmas pitcher and poinsettias 16 x 20 oil thank you thank you thank you for a really fantastic year for greavesart and the good art works effort we have raised 9 454 63 for worthy causes this year may 2014 bring peace and prosperity to all posted by unknown at 8 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday november 17 2013 continuing the series of painting done in taos the weather was outstanding the entire week alla prima international spent in taos nm however one morning was overcast we stayed near the hotel and i painted from an upstairs balcony this view was of a neighbor s large tree and the field of purple asters beyond unfinished painting after plein air session evaluating the painting later i felt the left side beyond the tree was confusing the light roofs of sheds below the tree slope were not explained well further the fence was incomplete i decided to extend the road across the canvas behind the tree to unite the left and right side a little more work on the tree and the fence topped it off finished painting tree and asters taos 11 x 14 oil posted by unknown at 1 55 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday october 29 2013 our lady of sorrows 14 x 11 oil our lady of sorrows is located 1 5 miles southeast of downtown taos on witt road we passed it daily as we returned to the san geronimo lodge our headquarters of course that meant we had to paint it and i did two paintings in its vicinity this one was from the back of the church looking at a brilliant tree across the street i counted a total of 7 crosses on the church and in its yard and couldn t resist one more the one carried by the priest evaluating the painting which had been smeared as i put another piece into the wet painting storage box i saw that the shadow on the side of the church was too neutral giving the area a dead look also there was no good center of interest the tree wasn t enough to pull together the tower of the church and the large tree on the right the crosses did not stand out enough and the main tree needed more definition the tree on the right was not substantial enough and the cast shadow from that tree was too dense boy this one was a mess unfinished painting after plein air session going to work i warmed the cast shadow on the side of the church accounting for lots of reflected light and warmth i defined the crosses by cooling the shadow side and painting the edges that caught the sunlight to give the distant tree more substance i enlarged it and added more brilliant foliage using the technique of marbled paint not fully mixed pigments i worked on the right had tree and added some branches knowing that shadows have light reflected from the sky i adjusted the overly dense shadow at the bottom right the center of interest was still not strong enough to carry the work so i added two figures turning the corner as they went to mass the priest s standard gave me the chance to add another cross saved appropriate for a painting of a church i think finished painting our lady of sorrows taos 11 x 14 oil posted by unknown at 3 54 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday october 28 2013 taos casita 11 x 14 oil this is one of the first paintings i did on location last month in taos new mexico evelyn boren a member of alla prima international as i am showed us these charming casitas in downtown taos this one had an especially picturesque garden and the morning lighting set it off i wanted to show the effect of the light on the adobe where the bouncing light intensified one plane and left the color perpendicular to it cooler the colorful door and window were pleasant as well unfinished painting after plein air session i saw when i evaluated the work later that there was some confusion in the foreground about what was in light and what was in shadow i m baring my soul here i spent some time perking up those flowers and even added dark centers to the sunflowers behind just a little work on the door window and treetops finished it up finished painting taos casita 11 x 14 oil posted by unknown at 7 10 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday october 24 2013 bridge to faith 11 x 14 oil continuing with the series of paintings started on location in taos new mexico after i had finished working on site on delivery see 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