tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45293185686641836072024-03-12T22:28:21.875-04:00Dancing on the Head of a PinA Plein Air Painting Blog by Julia SutliffUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger99125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4529318568664183607.post-56196769832660364122022-11-30T13:02:00.003-05:002022-11-30T13:51:43.197-05:00Raspberry Stems, Late Light<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgphsXAwHFzea_mlhje-qMLJT0TysLz7uyIB1b3nrnsA2VZ8cvAtXHXTq4gJJzczR3MFdspNIkzzFOr0vcFIDHiWemHthoIiZhqiDwQPBqOL0C2cCT9iEOBQw9HVLLtT8mVI6vb8I6QKAkWktsqq-N7WWCANvxwVblBw-q5ceXMRwSDD1-iuFuQ6Pk3xg/s600/Raspberry-Stems,-Late-Light_600-px.gif" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="490" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgphsXAwHFzea_mlhje-qMLJT0TysLz7uyIB1b3nrnsA2VZ8cvAtXHXTq4gJJzczR3MFdspNIkzzFOr0vcFIDHiWemHthoIiZhqiDwQPBqOL0C2cCT9iEOBQw9HVLLtT8mVI6vb8I6QKAkWktsqq-N7WWCANvxwVblBw-q5ceXMRwSDD1-iuFuQ6Pk3xg/w326-h400/Raspberry-Stems,-Late-Light_600-px.gif" width="326" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #4b5659; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #4b5659; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #4b5659; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;">Glowing tufts of dry flowers, red-glazed stems, savagely bright afternoon sky, and the exuberance of it all against the encroaching dark.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4b5659; font-size: 13.2px;">Raspberry Stems, Late Light, 12 x 10", oil on artboard </span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4b5659; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4b5659; font-size: 13.2px;">Frame, shipping, and all taxes included.</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4b5659; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4b5659; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.juliasutliff.com/purchase" jsname="eLO0kc" style="color: #85a19b;">Money-back guarantee</a> </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #4b5659; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.juliasutliff.com/raspberry-stems-late-light">Available here</a></span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4529318568664183607.post-36521797002676158212022-11-30T12:55:00.002-05:002022-11-30T12:55:31.857-05:00Don't Settle<p><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Every time I pick up painting again after a break, I need to relearn a few things. Yesterday I remembered to wait.</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-6d96488c-7fff-a77c-c9f2-660926a2c5e2"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Despite perusing pond, woods, and field for nearly an hour, I hadn’t felt moved to paint by much of anything. I get to a point sometimes where I'm just wandering for wandering's sake, telling myself there’s some worth in just being outside, pondering composition. “Maybe I'll learn something,” I think, “even if it’s only about what </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">doesn’t</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> work.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Then I got stopped by a section of field where a few pine trees cast an indigo shadow across the gold grasses. Some dry goldenrods lit by the late sunlight stood in bright silhouette against the streak of dark. No surprise - it turned out to be nearly the same scene I'd painted on a similarly sunny November day last year. The moment grabbed me with the same emotional pull, and I had to laugh. There’s no denying it. The emotional power a composition has for you is there or it’s not, and you know it when you feel it. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s a relief, in a way, because it's good to know you can’t fool yourself. When you’re desperately trying to compose a subject out of meager nothingness, you should let go and keep searching.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.295; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I ended up behind a row of trees painting raspberry stems red-glazed by the lowering sun. (I had to break another rule I’m relearning: “Don’t paint facing the western sky late in the day.” Too hard on the eyes.) The brilliant tufts of dry flowers, the glowing stems, the savagely bright afternoon sky - and the exuberance of it all against the encroaching dark - was a sight worth stopping for.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4529318568664183607.post-8705460626310902802021-02-14T14:02:00.004-05:002021-10-18T08:07:01.353-04:00Snowy Trees<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9o43yKq9gsg/YW1jB2-rZYI/AAAAAAAASqM/T8nTX2D5y1oYpOCbo5YjyXmUVNME8dsagCLcBGAsYHQ/s940/Snowy%2BHill%2Band%2BTrees%2B75pxperinch.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="789" data-original-width="940" height="336" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9o43yKq9gsg/YW1jB2-rZYI/AAAAAAAASqM/T8nTX2D5y1oYpOCbo5YjyXmUVNME8dsagCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h336/Snowy%2BHill%2Band%2BTrees%2B75pxperinch.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #4b5659; font-size: 13.2px;">Still hooked on briers :)</span><p><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4b5659; font-size: 13.2px;">Snowy Trees, 10 x 11", oil on artboard panel.</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4b5659; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4b5659; font-size: 13.2px;">Frame, shipping, and all taxes included.</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4b5659; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4b5659; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.juliasutliff.com/purchase" jsname="eLO0kc" style="color: #85a19b;">Money-back guarantee</a> </span><br /><a href="https://www.juliasutliff.com/snowy-trees"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4b5659; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></span></a><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4b5659; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.juliasutliff.com/snowy-trees">Available</a> </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4b5659; font-size: 13.2px;">Please click <a href="https://www.juliasutliff.com/snowy-trees">here</a><span id="goog_1710276112"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a><span id="goog_1710276113"></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4b5659; font-size: 13.2px;"> for purchase information.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4529318568664183607.post-37980517878212929662020-05-07T15:44:00.000-04:002020-05-07T15:44:10.498-04:00Squash Flowers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">14 x 14 inches, oil on artboard. From a few weeks ago, when the hillside was in full bloom. Colors galore! </span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4529318568664183607.post-209017684471239042019-03-19T15:35:00.001-04:002019-03-20T11:24:09.420-04:00Doing What You Know vs. What You Don't Know<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
While out painting the other day, I got myself into a tangle. I had paint all over my board but no glimpse of a developing structure, not an inkling of how to move forward.<br />
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I had been in the mood to play, to try something different. I didn't want to repeat myself or take the safe way out. But, once stuck, all that optimism seemed like a bad idea.<br />
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It's a familiar feeling. It happens either just before I make a complete mess and go home empty handed, or when I break ground and come up with something new. When it works out, I feel released<span style="font-family: arial;">—</span>from the old way of doing things, from the fear of doing things differently<span style="font-family: arial;">—</span>and renewed. When it doesn't, like it did that day, it's frustrating. But I try to remember that it's worth it.<br />
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Van Gogh wrote "I'm always trying to do what I haven't done before, in order to learn how to do it." He's right, of course. You should always be pushing past your boundaries, even when you wind up completely lost. At those moments, remind yourself that you're exactly where you should be: up to your elbows in confusion. If you know what you're doing, it's because you've done it before. And that can result in a tepid, bored rendering<span style="font-family: arial;">—</span>a repetition, a replaying of old moves.<br />
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Which is not to say that any time you get out of a painting alive<span style="font-family: arial;">—</span>that is, with a piece that somehow works<span style="font-family: arial;">—</span>it's not something to be happy about. But if I'm just doing what I've done before, I'm usually not happy with the outcome. Not only did I fail to learn something, but my painting is missing a sense of experimentation. A teacher of mine once said we need to see the "struggle" in a painting. Patness doesn't make good art.<br />
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Turning yourself inside out every time you paint can be exhausting, of course, and unappealing. That's why it's so important to maintain a sense of play and lightheartedness. You need to not care. You may care, really, but at the crucial moments, you need to act as if you don't. Otherwise you won't have the strength and courage to risk ruining everything in order to make it better. Or to take it, and your skills, somewhere new.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4529318568664183607.post-5204038367849911282019-03-17T14:09:00.000-04:002019-04-27T17:36:24.949-04:00Bright Winter Woods<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">14 x 14 inches, oil on artboard. Lots of bright warmth in this winter scene - hard on the eyes but good for the spirit!</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4529318568664183607.post-12047865090925545812018-05-20T12:30:00.001-04:002018-05-20T12:30:16.695-04:00Plein Air Demo - Lily Pads<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I've heard Wolf Kahn and others talk about the importance of "not caring" when painting, and while that seems to make sense as a goal, I've always felt a little skeptical about how achievable it is in practice. You're putting everything you have into a painting—how can you <i>not</i> care?<br />
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Today, I grasped the flip side of that question for the first time: really, how <i>can</i> you care? Because if you care about whether your painting turns out well, you'll undercut yourself altogether. You have to try hard and give it all you have, but up to the very point that you decide to stop working on a painting, you shouldn't be looking at it as a potential success or failure, and you shouldn't want anything at all from it other than the opportunity to get out and paint.<br />
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If you're in it for the long haul, caring about the success of each painting is just too exhausting, and it inhibits growth. If you want to improve your skills—to grow, to explore—you have to feel free to do anything, to take any risk. <br />
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I'm probably able to see this now because it's harder than ever for me to find time to paint. So when I do get a chance, I have to use strategies that conserve energy, emotional energy above all. And if I use up emotional energy caring about the eventual "product" of my work, it's all too likely that on any given day, painting will seem too hard and too draining to attempt.<br />
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I wish every painting would work, but it doesn’t of course,
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try anything, even to ruin something good for the chance of making something
better, often not knowing if that state of mind is even helpful in a particular
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in any painting. But I think playfulness/fun trumps them all in importance,
because of the joy that is at the heart of fun—it’s powerful enough to overcome
the inevitable frustration of trying to get something “right,” to lift your
spirits through the moments of fatigue and difficulty, and to somehow let you
participate in the beauty around you. Experiencing beauty IS joyful, beauty IS
joy, so to work with joy is to use what’s flowing through you if you’re open to
it (the beauty around you). It’s a “high,” and that spirit can be reflected in
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">12 x 10 inches, oil on board, 2016. </span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Beautiful painting conditions in the fog, rain, and snow. My umbrella kept the rain off for a little while. Loved this tangle of flowers and stems.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">Painting here in fog, rain, and snow - my umbrella held off the rain for a little while!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sometimes it seems less important to paint well than to be
able to determine what’s wrong, or what isn’t working, in a painting. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Same thing with writing: I’ve often felt that when it comes
to expressing myself in words, I’m a better editor than writer. Not long ago, however,
I read an <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/04/29/draft-no-4">article</a> by master craftsman John McPhee about how writing IS editing. He put it this way: </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The way to do a piece of writing is three or four times over, never once. For me, the hardest part comes first, getting something—anything—out in front of me. Sometimes in a nervous frenzy I just fling words as if I were flinging mud at a wall. Blurt out, heave out, babble out something—anything—as a first draft. With that, you have achieved a sort of nucleus. Then, as you work it over and alter it, you begin to shape sentences that score higher with the ear and eye."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Writing doesn’t work without editing, and painting doesn’t,
either. I often find myself an hour into a painting gazing at an image that
just doesn’t succeed in any way, but from long experience, I can sense that there
may be potential in it yet: that if I just make a slight change or two, it
will all come together and work confoundingly well. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Other times, of course, I have to make major changes.
But the heart of the matter is knowing WHAT needs to be changed. (Or rather, suspecting: you never really know.) Also, you need to have the gumption to dive in and
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Corot spoke of working “with confidence.” Confidence, and
hope, come into play in a big way at the moment you realize your painting has gone awry. It’s always tempting to give up entirely or to
convince yourself that what you’ve done so far can still work. I think that “how
to edit” may be the crucial skill you learn as you go on as a painter: how to
recognize problems when they arise, assess the damage, and then determine what
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You just never know at the outset of any piece what will
work for that particular composition/image/subject. You’re learning as you go each day,
and you need to learn fast—that is, by the end of your painting! So paint, then
assess, then paint, then assess. Try not to do too much assessing while you’re
painting. Constant second-guessing can get in your way. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In my rush to get done, I tend to have moments at the end of
a session when I’m able to take in the whole image at a glance. It’s as if one
minute I’m a clockmaker, drilling down on one gear, and the next I can pull
back and see how every piece connects. You may need to work long and hard to get there, but that moment is the very best time to tweak and pull each prodigal part into the fold.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4529318568664183607.post-65661884306530516222015-02-25T16:24:00.000-05:002015-02-25T16:25:45.777-05:00Bearing Failure<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A great quote about bearing failure by alpinist Alex Lowe that helps me keep my chin up on bad painting days: "There are people who can't bear to fail. Those people are on the short track, as far as their careers go. You have to push hard, do hard things. But you also have to be able to say, 'OK, today's not the day.'"</div>
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