tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74799050679620317572024-03-14T05:32:46.681+11:00Painting Light by Fred MarshFred Marshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04388746161974077855noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7479905067962031757.post-25234445962156348842015-05-18T19:35:00.000+10:002015-05-18T19:35:25.247+10:00<h2>
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Painting in Provence, France</center>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Last year we were fortunate to travel from Sydney and spend a week painting "en plein air" with Julian Merrow-Smith in the Vaucluse area of Provence. Julian is well known for his blog featuring the daily auction of his small paintings </span><a href="http://shiftinglight.com/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="">"Postcards from Provence"</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left;"> .</span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 27px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In addition to Julian's expert mentoring whilst painting this wonderful landscape, we were accommodated at <a href="http://www.bighouseinprovence.com/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="">La Madelene</a>, and what an exceptional experience it was. It is a beautifully renovated 12th century priory near Malaucene. </span></center>
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<!--End share this button--><br />Fred Marshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04388746161974077855noreply@blogger.com0Malaucène, France44.17444 5.1320498999999744.083341 4.97068839999997 44.265539 5.29341139999997tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7479905067962031757.post-35475820672339645292014-04-18T15:20:00.001+10:002014-04-18T15:28:08.783+10:00Paintings of Coogee - effect of light conditions on the subject<div style="text-align: left;">
After all the rain in Sydney it was good to get out in the sun again. Visited Coogee beach on a lovely sunny day and did a small watercolour of the bright light hitting the surf life saving club and hotel. </div>
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Watercolour, ink & gauche on Strathmore 300gsm<br />
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A few months ago I painted a larger oil showing the view just after the sun went down. The combination of the night light and ocean reflections provided stunning light & atmosphere. Although the two were painted from a different viewpoint, they both feature the surf life saving club on the left and the Grand Pacific private hotel with the Barzooka restaurant to the right of it. (which incidentally is recommended for lunch and dinner)</div>
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The same subject with two very different light conditions - the uniqueness of a painting is very much about the prevailing light and atmosphere. Any views?</div>
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Fred Marshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04388746161974077855noreply@blogger.com0Coogee New South Wales, Australia-33.921962420345835 151.25687728308105-33.925256420345832 151.25183478308105 -33.918668420345838 151.26191978308105tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7479905067962031757.post-57065261161602434492014-03-06T16:00:00.002+11:002014-03-06T17:12:11.736+11:00Nocturnal Painting - Three Amigos at the Domain near Sydney Hospital & Parliament House Sydney<div style="text-align: left;">
I am finding the city at night an interesting place to paint. The light effects and shadows create interesting shapes and a sense of mystery which lends themselves to a more abstract quality in the paintings.</div>
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This painting came as I was heading home after an exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW, and my friends were waiting for me to catch up. The light behind them created mysterious atmospheric silhouettes.</div>
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10 x 12 inches (25 x 30 cm)</center>
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<br />Fred Marshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04388746161974077855noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7479905067962031757.post-78494085939210444132013-10-31T12:57:00.000+11:002013-10-31T14:18:39.936+11:00Pearl Beach near Sydney, Australia. <div style="text-align: left;">
Every so often I participate in an art weekend with a group of friends, discussing painting methods, things that have inspired us, sharing ideas, watching art films, etc., etc. A few weeks ago spent one of those wonderful weekend with friends who live at Pearl Beach, which is just north of Sydney, Australia. <br />
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My plein air (painted on site) paintings and sketches from that weekend, are shown below. </div>
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It was a beautiful clear sunny day & we sat high on the rocks above, to paint this one. Evidently the name of the beach comes from the pearl shapes made by the waves in the wet sand.</div>
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The next day we descended to the beach where the light was quite different to yesterday, being quite dark and cloudy during the early morning. </div>
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A couple of sketches using watercolour pencil on paper<br />
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Pearl Beach Headland<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Four of our group will be attending the renowned Julian Merrow Smith's </span><a href="http://shiftinglight.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">"Postcards from Provence"</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"> plein air workshop in the south of France next year, which will be a wonderful experience.</span></td></tr>
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Fred Marshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04388746161974077855noreply@blogger.com0Pearl Beach NSW, Australia-33.5449172 151.3070576-33.5581517 151.2868876 -33.5316827 151.32722760000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7479905067962031757.post-87848307230150105892013-04-02T19:00:00.000+11:002014-04-17T18:11:37.241+10:00The Finger Wharves from Sydney Harbour Bridge<div dir="ltr">
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Here is an oil painting that I did which captures the view looking towards the western side of the harbour bridge, & portraying the finger wharves below. The contrasting warm and cool light effects at this time in the late afternoon were very special.</div>
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A watercolour sketch of circular quay and some photos looking east from the pylon, appear on my sketch blog <a href="http://paintedjourney.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">"the Painted Journey".</a> </div>
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A few weeks ago I travelled to paint the Hawkesbury River near Freemans Reach. The small plein air painting appears below.</center>
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I didn't realise it at the time but I was only a river bend away from where Arthur Streeton in 1896 painted the iconic "The purple noon’s transparent might". I love the deep (but low chroma) blue that Streeton uses in this painting.</div>
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The site is well marked now as <a href="https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=%22Streeton+Lookout+at+Freemans+Reach%22&hl=en-GB&ll=-33.566144,150.774093&spn=0.009154,0.016716&fb=1&gl=uk&hq=%22Streeton+Lookout+at&hnear=0x6b0d6319c0bcc695:0x5017d68163339a0,Freemans+Reach+NSW,+Australia&view=map&cid=1081283275369042848&t=h&z=16&iwloc=A" target="_blank">"Streeton Lookout at Freemans Reach"</a> overlooking the spot where Streeton painted the river. When Streeton discovered
the Hawkesbury, the river became a subject for a series of
large works. Streeton used unorthodox (for the time) shapes for his canvases and used a square one for this "panoramic" painting . He felt that he discovered "the great hidden poetry" of the Australian
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Katherine Tyrrell has an informative post on Arthur Streeton on her blog "<a href="http://makingamark.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/about-arthur-streeton-australian-landscape-painter.html" target="_blank">Making a Mark</a>", and built a new <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/arthur-streeton" target="_blank">website about Streeton</a> with links to information and online images.<br />
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Streeton, Tom Roberts, Charles Condor, Frederick McCubbin and the other Australian Impressionists are well known for their plein air painting expeditions and "camps" near Sydney and Melbourne in the mid<em> </em>1800s. The National Gallery of Victoria has a good overview reference of these sites <a href="http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/australianimpressionism/education/insights_ssites.html#07" target="_blank">at this link</a> </div>
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I have recently sketched at a couple of the other Sydney sites ( Coogee and Mosman Bay) that they painted at, and they will feature in a couple of future posts.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The light was something very special and as the sun peeped over the Macdonnell Ranges it sent out its first rays illuminating the river into a sparkling sliver of light. So when I arrived back home, it was one of the memories that had to be painted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The 2012 St George Art Award is a national prize which has the theme of "New Beginnings". My painting capturing the start of a unique new day fitted well with this criteria. Fortunately it has been chosen as a finalist for the prize. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The prize will be announced on Friday 19 October 2012, and the exhibition will commence on Saturday 20 October - Sunday 16 December 2012 at:-</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I have just released some new paintings, inckuding these shown below.</span><br />
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Reflections at the Edinburgh Castle Corner<br />
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I am becoming very interested in painting the light effects seen in cities. Sydney has experienced its greatest volume of summer rain in over 50 years, which has provided some great light effects in the city streets. The corner of Bathurst & Pitt Streets provides the stage for the light hitting the umbrella.</div>
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A few weeks ago Terry wrote about the need to simplify, i.e. what should a painter leave in or out of a busy scene. I find that "leaving things out" is one of the hardest things that a painter has to decide when constructing a painting. I know that many of my colleagues have the same difficulty.
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Terry's approach involves applying rules which helps keep his mind focused and organised. His rules are <a href="http://terrymiura.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/simplify.html" target="_blank">outlined in his post</a>, however he went on to invite his readers to paint the same photo and respond how we deal with the same problems.
Here is my take.<br />
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I like to unify the colours of the painting by painting a base colour. In this case a light burnt orange which will be the complementary colour of the blues of hills and sky. This approach makes it easier to set off cool and warm colours against each other and achieve broken colour in these areas. I then do a simple drawing cropping information out of the original photo </div>
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Paint in the basic tones letting the orange come through. The base colour is also used for the sunlight areas of the buildings. I like the light effect when one can transition the walls of buildings from warm at the top to cool at the bottom (or vice versa). I find that I can also desaturate the intensity of the blue when scumbling it over the orange. I then invent a shadow to unify the foreground into one major shape, and making it a rest area for the viewers eye. I use the photograph and try to not copy it.</div>
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Adjust the tones and colour to create distance and build contrast in areas to guide the eye through the painting. My natural inclination is to paint hard edges so I need to spend time going back to soften edges, otherwise the eye will be zooming all over the picture.</div>
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On New Years day I had lunch at a friends apartment which has a magnificent view over Lavender Bay and the western side of the Harbour Bridge. I am interested in the different viewpoint that one sees from looking down on the subject. A couple of photos from the same viewpoint appear below</div>
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Here are a couple of previous paintings of Lavender Bay (both are sold)</div>
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The area is in the heart of the vine, sunflowers and lavender country. Strawberries and melons have such an intense flavour here.</div>
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We had a box of very fresh & tasty cherries, and they looked so nice they just had to be painted. <br />
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The models were so tempting that they only lasted seconds after the painting was completed.<br />
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