Artist's Magazine - USA (2020-05)

ArtistsNetwork.com 59 FOR CAROLYN MARSHALL WRIGHT, few things kill a painting’s potential quicker than a formulated plan or conc ...

60 Artists Magazine May 2020 For a long time, Wright kept her representational watercolor work and her abstract acrylic art comp ...

ArtistsNetwork.com 61 rich, bright color,” says Wright. (See the Blooming Wild demonstration, pages 64–65.) “Much of it may get ...

62 Artists Magazine May 2020 Creating Marks and Shapes Wright primarily uses Golden heavy- body acrylics—she likes their creamy ...

ArtistsNetwork.com 63 “Caran d’Ache watercolor sticks are great, too, especially in the beginning when I’m making a foundation o ...

64 Artists Magazine May 2020 Reference Photo^ The floral still life setup features a lot of items. The peonies are past their pr ...

ArtistsNetwork.com 65 4 I continuetoadddeepervalueswhilealsopaintingthe flowers,workingonthepaintingasa whole.Whilelooking atthe ...

66 Artists Magazine May 2020 LARGER THAN (STILL) LIFE Most artists are familiar with the concept of happy accidents—those times ...

ArtistsNetwork.com 67 AFTER WORKING FOR SEVERAL YEARS IN ILLUSTRATION AND advertising, Paul Balmer was building a name as an oil ...

68 Artists Magazine May 2020 A NEW GENRE Several years ago Balmer left big city life for Connecticut to start a family. No longe ...

ArtistsNetwork.com 69 A SPACE FOR ART Balmer’s studio space allows him to work large, at the easel and even on the floor. He kee ...

70 Artists Magazine May 2020 Day in Tuscany oil on canvas, 30x80 CALLING ON THE IMAGINATION Rather than working from a live stil ...

ArtistsNetwork.com 71 painting look good, I’ll leave them. If areas aren’t working, then I’ll repaint them. There’s a lot of bac ...

72 Artists Magazine May 2020 All these techniques and manipulations happen over large canvases, often as long as 6 feet. The gra ...

ArtistsNetwork.com 73 1 Aftercoveringthecanvaswithblackacrylicpaint,andonce thelineworkiscomplete,Balmerturnstooilpaint,which go ...

74 Artists Magazine May 2020 O ver the course of his 70-year career, Chiura Obata (1885–1975) was many things: an envoy of Japan ...

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76 Artists Magazine May 2020 During his first years in California, Obata held several jobs outside his artistic wheelhouse, incl ...

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78 Artists Magazine May 2020 giving him the opportunity for a more concentrated study of what he called dai-shizen or “Great Nat ...