Monthly Archives: September 2024

Lessons in Painting Looser

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Why Painting Looser Works

Painting looser is relaxing and it helps create a more appealing piece of artwork. There are other reasons to try painting looser, but these are my reasons. Painting is therapeutic for me and creating a beautiful result makes it all worthwhile.

My art mentor preaches relaxed form while painting, so it’s a natural stance for me now as I work. I prefer the standing position while I paint at a high-top surface using a tabletop easel. It makes it easier to wield my paint brush like a magic wand if I’m standing in front of an easel.

You heard it right; I hold my brush like it is a wand! This way my entire body is involved with every brushstroke. It’s a very relaxing stance. Try it! You may love the results!

Grateful Beatitude Acrylic to Paper, Mounted, Matted, & Framed under glass 8 x 10 framed to 12 x 15 / $122

Grateful Beatitude
Acrylic to Paper, Mounted, Matted, & Framed under glass
8 x 10 framed to 12 x 15 / $122

It will be on display during the Jasper Artwalk show on September 13, 2024. Look for me at the Hive & Vine Wine Lounge located at 57B N. Main Street, Jasper, Georgia 30143. You can reserve a painting before the show by going to this post link where you will see a listing of all my available works: https://beccasgreencraftstudio.com/2024/08/26/r-shuler-art-at-the-jasper-artwalk-2024/

Landscape Painting Exercises

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UNDER THE MADNESS / W. Va. Farm Under a Storm Cloud / Acrylics to Wrapped Canvas / 11 x 14 x 2 / $192

Creating balance in a painting is an exercise I practice each time I paint a landscape. The light that appears in the sky along the edge of the dark angry clouds is reflected on the white farmhouse and on the tips of the grass growing in the field in front. The layers of charcoal gray in gradient were the trickiest parts of the sky, but I’m finally pleased with this result.

The focal point is never in the center; as I try to follow the thirds’ theory for a focal point. I prefer to exclusively place detail in the focal point areas, everything else gets only a suggestion of detail. The addition of light along the edge of the dark clouds falls somewhere in between the details of the buildings and the lack of details in the foliage along the horizon flanking either side of the house.

The madness of the storm cloud brings moodiness to the scene. The rosey haze along the horizon line is repeated in the sky and the foreground, although it’s not obvious. The color palette for this composition was inspired by a painting with similar subject matter under blue skies. (See the last image for the color inspiration.)

TWICE AS NICE / W. Va. Farm in Autumn Under Blue Skies / Acrylics to Wrapped Canvas / 11 x 14 x 2 / $192

See something you wish to purchase or have printed into a greeting card? Send an email request to the artist here: beccasgreencraftstudio@gmail.com