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Just your ordinary medieval town in Tuscany

6/22/2016

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In May I did a landscape workshop taught by Art Students League's virtuoso abstract painter Frank O'Cain. The ideas that work for me: taking notes on the light and colors, looking at composition rather than detail, not looking to create finished paintings as much as capturing a moment. Arezzo was perfect for such a workshop-- all the light, color, architecture, trees (and food!) that make Tuscany special, with minimal Disneyfication.
I also experimented with watercolor (last 3 pictures of this set), much more portable and discreet than acrylics, although more difficult to control.
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David Lane
6/22/2016 07:27:20 am

Wonderful work. Especially w/watercolors, which have a mind of their own. We loved Arezzo as well, & pics don't require quite the same intensity of looking; this was a great idea. love, D

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Frank O'Cain link
6/22/2016 08:12:56 am

The long nerve of becoming leaps about your work.
the joy of doing and the energy of finding and sharing all live in the compositions and the continual search you seem to have found the light and the emotion layered in the layers of color.
Luk Frank

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Rose Diamond
6/22/2016 08:20:37 am

Thank you for sharing these glorious paintings and thoughts...and for reviving my memories of our Arezzo adventure.
Keep you work coming!!!
Rose

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Philip Michael Levine link
6/22/2016 10:23:29 am

Definitely see some movement to abstraction which after all was what the workshop was about. Nice going!

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Dorothy Nelson
6/22/2016 06:54:17 pm

Really, really beautiful work <3

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Nancy Deering
6/23/2016 03:50:16 am

Your work is lovely.. The water colors are full of energy. I like the movement towards abstraction.
Thank you for sending these.
Nancy

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