walking – art and everything after http://artandeverythingafter.com steve locke's blog about art and other stuff Fri, 22 Dec 2017 02:08:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.7 42399584 Walking for color (and some Beeches for real this time) http://artandeverythingafter.com/walking-for-color-and-some-beeches-for-real-this-time/ http://artandeverythingafter.com/walking-for-color-and-some-beeches-for-real-this-time/#respond Mon, 09 Apr 2012 02:21:25 +0000 http://artandeverythingafter.wordpress.com/?p=356 read more)]]>

I am thinking about my palette for paintings and I have been doing a lot of walking lately.

Now, I am not the sort of person who has ever been remotely interested in painting the landscape.  Seriously, it was something I did when I was in school but I was never very good at it.  Then I went to Skowhegan and I met amazing painters who were really committed to painting the landscape (like Ellen Altfest, Frank Meuschke,  Lois Dodd, and Yvonne Jacquette) and I knew I didn’t have that kind of commitment in me for the landscape.

I will say that the color in the landscape has become very urgent for me lately.  Specifically, the way green is becoming a situation for color.  I start thinking what it could mean to formulate a painting where varieties of green are the basis for the color relations. So I’ve been walking in the landscape a lot lately and looking at trees. And mixing that color when I get home.

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