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bryce cameron liston fine art blog pages home my website contact my store monday june 13 2016 i m moving my blog i just haven t been the most consistent blogger the one i see in my minds eye but there s always tomorrow i would like to take this time to thank everyone who has followed me and commented on my blog here on blogger i have been working the last couple of months to move everything over to my new website www listonart com i m still working out the bugs and trying to figure out how people can get updates via rss feed when i make blog posts if you re currently using feed burner you shouldn t have to do anything i think i can just redirect more coming on that soon along with having my blog on my new website i ve also moved my shop over from etsy now it s all in one place thanks to squarespace thank you bryce posted by unknown at 10 08 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday february 9 2016 my daily sketch what s in season sunflowers and hand thrown pot 12 x 9 sold when i started my little endeavor to paint more alla prima i decided to focus on what s around me at the time this little 12 x 9 painting of sunflowers is a great example since starting my daily sketching more on that later it has been autumn and winter so i have focused on a lot of vegetables and root crop from the local farmers market and ceramic items around my house i haven t been thinking flowers at all but when i saw these sunflowers at a local grocery store i knew i needed to paint them once more textures take a front seat with this sketch i really wanted something else in the painting that would help offset the flowers so i grabbed this wonderful pot off my bookshelf i emphasized the different surfaces in part by how i applied the paint whereas the flowers are painted with a lot of impasto i kept the paint on the pot fairly thin and transparent except for the highlights of course remember while you re painting to think about how you re applying the paint and compare that to the objects you are painting think about the surface qualities and squint btw the pot is made by my good friend virgil tyler oertle you can see more of his work here facebook posted by unknown at 9 23 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday december 18 2015 your daily painting paying attention to the surface 3 daily painting studies white onion garlic 6 x8 oil on linen mounted to panel sold red onion 6 x 8 oil on linen mounted to panel available in my etsy shop onions and garlic 12 x 6 5 oil on linen mounted to panel sold here i have three examples of some root crop i painted from the local farmers market i really enjoy painting the different textures and subtle earth tone colors of onions etc the colors and textures are quite opposite to most fruit which typically have shinny surfaces along with more intense colors in onions and garlic above i particularly found the green onions to be a challenge primarily because the bulb has a translucent skin but going up the stalk in turns more opaque and the little roots are simply a challenge all to themselves don t let them overtake your painting simplify them so if you are painting still lifes you might want to try alternating painting fruits and vegetables to help yourself better understand how to handle different surfaces in regards to the surface quality here are a few questions to ask yourself is the surface smooth or rough how reflective is the surface and also is the surface opaque or translucent or perhaps i should say how translucent is the surface it s very hard to answer these question here because there are so many variables but in asking these questions as you paint it will simply help you be more aware and responsive to the subject and hopefully see what is actually there paint what you really see i will be going over these concepts more thoroughly in later posts don t forget to squint posted by unknown at 9 48 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels alla prima art art instruction fine art garlic onions opaque reflective root crop simplify squint still life study surface quality translucent wednesday december 16 2015 daily painting improving your daily painting skills balsamic vinegar 9 x 5 oil on linen mounted to panel available in my etsy shop close up just under 2 hrs limited palette consisting of white and black cad yellow lt perylene red ult blue transparent oxide red and phthalo green to get that pure transparent green of the bottle what a fun bottle to paint can you tell the brand probably not unless you use it regularly i really didn t want the details of the label to over power the overall painting squinting and the time limit was key to keeping the details out of focus also i used no soft hair brushes just some good old worn out hog bristles posted by unknown at 9 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels alla prima art art instruction bottle color green oil oil paint painting tuesday december 15 2015 painting of the day focusing on mood lemon on blue 5 x7 oil on linen mounted to panel available in my etsy shop boutique onions 5 x7 oil on linen mounted to panel available in my etsy shop simple and straight forward here are two little 5 x 7 painting i did on consecutive days both took just under 1 hr to complete with the lemon i was after contrast and color intensity i really wanted the lemon to pop so it didn t seem pasted on the background i pushed the yellow into the background and vs versa i had fun with the glow around the lemon with the onions i was after a much more subdued look i kept the contrasts down and stuck with general earth tones both paintings have a nice balance of thick and thin paint posted by unknown at 9 30 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels alla prima art art instruction color complementary colors lemon miniatures onions still life yellow monday december 14 2015 still life painting of the day radishes radishes 8 x 12 oil on linen mounted to panel sold the title of this post is a painting a day however i actually didn t paint this one today i painted it several weeks ago i think it turned out quite well i spent about 2 1 2 hrs it s hard to go wrong when your subject contains such a color complement also it has a great juxtaposition between the abstract shapes of the green leaves and the geometric shapes of the actual radishes _ i ve been thinking about the idea of a painting a day for quite some time now but it s only been the last month or so that i ve been able to practice it my plan has been and will be to paint a small study every morning well nearly every i m not a robot with a set time limit and from life only focusing on still life and the occasional landscape so far i m really enjoying the freedom spontaneity and challenges but most of all i m enjoying the fact that i can simply call it done in less than 3 hours that has been very liberating to say the least no mater what else i paint for shows and galleries i will continue to paint these little studies in the morning and sell them online for a very reasonable price with each post i will cover more about my process and thoughts that go into them posted by unknown at 12 01 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels alla prima art color complementary colors fine art green radishes red still life friday december 11 2015 artist get away plein air painting last august i was invited along with several other artist friends to a very nice cabin retreat in star valley wyoming we were excited to get away for a few days and paint all of us being artists we spent most of the daylight hours painting somewhere in star valley most of the paintings i did while i was there were so so to me and i kept them to myself and eventually fed them to the garbage can but these three little studies turned out great the cabin was surrounded by quaking aspens so on the second day instead of heading back out with the others i decided to stay closer to home and paint in the shade i find quaking aspen have a lot of personality i think of them as i would a figure they easily become the focus and subject of a painting also the color of the bark of the aspen is similar to flesh tone when in the shadows it reflects all the colors around it so it s always a challenge to find that subtle color summer quakies study 1 prepared paper mounted to panel 9 5 x 5 25 available in my etsy shop summer quakies study 2 prepared paper mounted to panel 5 x 8 available in my etsy shop summer quakies study 3 prepared paper mounted to panel 13 25 x 7 25 available in my etsy shop posted by unknown at 10 30 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels alla prima art instruction oil paint painting plein air quakies quaking aspen summer painting trees thursday march 12 2015 a little side note about life and the art world this is not the typical post i intended for my art blog but i found this short little video clip so moving and refreshing i felt compelled to share it take 15 minutes out of your day and watch this great video you won t regret it https www youtube com watch v xn87 mcnovc sorry about the commercials on youtube now to relate this video to me a professional artist meaning one who makes his her living from their art as seen from the outside appears to be the embodiment of freedom and liberation a causal day where you follow your creative spirit and then have wine and chess at the end of the day as you watch the sunset now for a dose of reality it s nothing like that that s an illusion a fairy tale i m not one to shy away from hard work and i certainly understand that to make a success of yourself especially in the arts you have to work very very hard and wear many hats exactly what i ve done in my career i did what i though i was suppose to do but somewhere along the way in the daily fray of battle i lost me my art spirit seems to have taken a holiday without me knowing it and i don t know where it s gone i m sorry if you re waiting for a profound answer at this post i have none it s simply a question it s where i find myself these days perhaps an answer will come someday or maybe not and i ll head off to go skating and i ll leave the rat race that is the contemporary art scene of today behind keep the cheese i just want out of the trap posted by unknown at 10 51 am 7 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday march 9 2015 class portrait demo shapes and simplification short demo for my class at salt lake community college 1 hr to this stage i made slow progress because i talked through what i was doing along with answering questions the main idea i wanted to impart to the students was to simplify it s not the details that make a likeness it s the big shapes my palette was very basic titanium white ivory black cad yellow lt cad red lt perylene red ultramarine blue yellow ochre burnt sienna and raw umber stage 2 i began again after i turned the students loose on their self portraits at this point i was able to concentrate a bit better as i didn t have to talk i took a few minutes to redraw and fix some of the proportions and shapes that were off i paid particular attention to the widths vs the heights and where features lined up on the vertical stage 3 as you can see my drawing lines are still on the face i knew i didn t have enough time to get into working on the face so i spent the time working the surrounding areas i took a photo of the model and figured i would have to work from that if i want to finish it the camera image will give me the shape information and my painting as it is will give me the color and value information i believe i spent about 2 hours total i ll try to find some time to finish this portrait from the photo and then i ll post another image posted by unknown at 11 53 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday february 10 2015 art 101 simultaneous contrast in black white colors and values side by side interact with one another and change our perception this interaction is called simultaneous contrast from the merriam webster dictionary the tendency of a color to induce its opposite in hue value and intensity upon an adjacent color and be mutually affected in return by the law of simultaneous contrast a light dull red will make an adjacent dark bright yellow seem darker brighter and greener in turn the former will appear lighter duller and bluer this is an exercise i have my students do every semester it s quite simple yet fun we start with the value example below and later in the semester we do it in color exercise paint 3 small rectangles of a medium grey all the same value below the 3 are marked a b c they are the same value they really are then simply paint around each rectangle with white a slightly darker grey and then black and viola simultaneous contrast in it s most simple form as you can see the 3 small rectangles of grey appear as very different values give it a try i ll show you some color examples in a later post posted by unknown at 11 30 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts atom the artist unknown view my complete profile blog archive 2016 2 june 1 i m moving my blog february 1 2015 9 december 5 march 2 february 2 2014 4 april 2 february 2 2013 3 july 1 june 1 may 1 2012 3 december 1 november 1 october 1 2011 3 october 2 february 1 simple theme powered by blogger