tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8472491492551060602024-03-13T07:01:08.262-07:00Jon MacAdamjonathan macadamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611773206158125928noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-847249149255106060.post-2935197013935649402018-02-23T18:26:00.002-08:002018-02-23T18:26:34.637-08:00First Landscapes, Italy<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">
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jonathan macadamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611773206158125928noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-847249149255106060.post-82423473598889757262018-02-18T06:51:00.003-08:002018-02-18T06:51:54.270-08:00homesick; a series of dreams When my family moved from England with my family to America at first I was very excited . After a year I became homesick and began having dreams that I was back in England. In the dream would be a passenger in a car driving through fields. Hedge rows opening closing revealing the landscape as it stretched toward God I thought. The car would be driving at dusk and at night in these dreams. Forms would appear and disappear in the warm, yellow eye of the car head lights. There was a sadness that would come over me when I awoke and realized that I was not in England but only briefly transported and was now back across the sea.<br />
When I returned to England as an adult I walked from my house to my old primary school. All the smells came back to me from the bushes that lined the walk. A smell that was no where else on the planet it seemed. My body shrank to three feet tall again. I could also hear for a moment the sound of children's voices echo through time on the courtyard of the school where we used to play, and our playing seemed important. I remembered children dotting the old Colchester park like sheep on the hillside. Where did we all go? The forest that lined the walk to Matthew and Stefan's was now a housing development. The little nook that I brought a pan to if I was going to run away from home was now no secret place but exposed to concrete and houses. <br />
I am realizing that painting is like a time machine. We can travel to the past and future and connect to those memories and the feelings. jonathan macadamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611773206158125928noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-847249149255106060.post-38257276598096083632018-02-18T06:03:00.002-08:002018-02-18T06:03:57.985-08:00A look at Caspar David FriedrichFor me the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich put man in the landscape in an astonishing way. The figure is often dwarfed by the surroundings. We have the intellect to understand our surroundings but we are still no closer through each new discovery that science provides to understanding the universe. Each discovery brings about a new question so we are left continually searching. The mystery of things is always infant of us. We also can not deny its beauty and the pull that we have toward it.<br />
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In "Wanderer above the Sea Fog," I am reminded of those times that I have been hiking in a fog and the objects near you have a singularity. I felt as I was alone but being watched by another being. Each shrub would reveal itself to me as I approached it. I could se it as a unique object apart from the rest. <br />
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In the painting below,"Monk by the Sea," the landscape dominates. The figure is dwarfed by the elements. Sea and sky overtake and I end up feeling for this little monk. We are dwarfed in size by the sky, by the universe extending beyond comprehension. All we can do is try an take in that very small piece that comes to our little minds. It is a wonder that we can even take it in and make any sense of it at all. I try to celebrate that wonder in my work as did those artists that I admire who came before. I love these paintings because they remind me that I am not the center. I am a part of something that was written a long time ago. Something written by a hand that I can not see and spoken by a voice that I can barely make out in music and quite moments. </div>
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jonathan macadamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611773206158125928noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-847249149255106060.post-55732050923665461542017-10-05T06:54:00.001-07:002017-10-05T06:54:18.698-07:00The movement of water I have been looking at some of the drawings of Leonardo da Vinci to help understand how water moves. I love the drawing in the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, England. The movement of the water is slowed down as we see the beautiful patterns that the swirling wind and water make as they fall on the landscape below. The coils of rain look like hair that has been carefully rendered with the black chalk on paper. They do resemble the Chinese paintings that tend to go beyond the physical realm, yet de Vinci is very much looking at Nature and studying closely. Like Abrecht Altdorfer, he was responding emotionally to nature. These pure landscape paintings with no figures at all make the landscape the sole subject of the painting. <br />
These studies turn the water into a sort of mathematical study, the geometry of the fluid water as it hits up against rocks and itself, falling and folding to make waves and curls again and again. The effect is mesmerizing and puts us in somewhat of a trance like when we watch the ocean waves come in and hit the shore. Each one a little bit different than the one that preceded it. <br />
The drawing below of water pouring into a pool is also mesmerizing to look at. The way the clear stream all of the sudden turns into a magical swirl of shapes is so playful yet close to the heart of what we experience when water moves. Photography hardly describes the phoneme as well as paint does, or for that matter drawing. You can feel and see the water bubbling up as the source from above comedown on it. The concentric circles get further apart as the water moves away from the source. Leonardo took it upon himself to reveal natures mysteries yet still keep them as mysteries. I feel after looking at one of his paintings or drawings that I understand what I saw better, yet I am so blown away that I am still no closer to understanding how it all works. My curiosity is fueled to love what I see more. The inner workings of the body, the endless questioning pulls me toward as source. How does it work? Where does it come from? Why so beautiful? Why so ordered?<br />
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https://youtu.be/Bbzj4xADz7Yjonathan macadamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611773206158125928noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-847249149255106060.post-57839695943375513422017-09-22T08:19:00.002-07:002017-09-26T05:59:17.635-07:00Question and Answer with Chris Larson of Rivers and Roads.<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<br />jonathan macadamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611773206158125928noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-847249149255106060.post-24011344600521601072017-08-07T08:27:00.001-07:002017-08-07T08:35:26.803-07:00Poets and Painters, from 1795 to 1849.When I go back and look at some of the first paintings that American artists were making I am fascinated by their optimism. In paintings like "Kindred Spirits," 1849, by Asher Durand, you feel the sublime in nature and the conversation of two friends as they marvel at its rugged beauty. This was painted a year after the death of Durand's friend Thomas Cole. The painting commissioned by Jonathan Sturges depicts Cole on the right with his easel under his arm, talking with a poet William Cullen Bryant. I looked up some of Bryant's writing and the first quote I came upon was what I might have expected; " Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings."<br />
This spot in the Catskill Mountains is painted lovingly and reverently. There are no ruins from Europe. There are only the broken branches of trees and the mountains that seem as if they have been placed, or composed in a way that skips the eye back into space getting lighter, softer and more ultra-marine as they move into the distance. Its gives us the feeling of peace between man and nature, where two friends just stand in awe of what they are seeing. It is an idealized moment. The hawks flying free and the light just right. So many landscape artists of this period seem to have the feeling of America as a paradise regained in their work. The waterfall running through the center is another great design in composition. It leads our eye up and down the painting and for me adds a sound of water moving. There is great attention placed on the detail of the ferns in the foreground to the left. The over hanging branch also has a visual rhythm as the pattern of the leaves seem to speak order in the wild. There is a great balance in the painting. There is not only reverence for Nature but also that of Thomas Cole. The Oxbow, by Thomas Cole is another great painting, painted in Massachusetts. <br />
The last painting I have chosen goes back a little further to 1795. In this painting we can see an influence of the European painters such as Claude Lorraine who lived in France in the 1600s. Winstanley has a painting that can still be seen at Mount Vernon, that was owned by George Washington. During a visit to Mount Vernon I was fascinated by these paintings and their dark beauty. The mood and mystery is something that I am drawn to in my own paintings. This painting by Winstanley was painted around the same time that the poet William Wordsworth was composing lines prasing Nature for its doorway into the human spirit. These words echo that of Bryant; "Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher." <br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Constable copied the painting Hagar and the angel who said looking back this was an important epoch in his life. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I love hearing how other artists were influenced by each other. When you hear that they saw certain works you can start to make connections.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Claudes sketches were not ends in themselves but was interested in the imagination and how he could look inward to use the landscape as a body that expresses a spirit beneath; as Casper David Friedrich puts it: "It is not faithful representation of air, water, rocks, and trees which is the artists task, but the reflection of his soul and emotions in these objects."</span><br />
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<br />jonathan macadamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611773206158125928noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-847249149255106060.post-86318662498054571692017-01-30T11:29:00.002-08:002017-01-30T11:29:52.941-08:00creativity is an endless pleasure<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; line-height: normal; min-height: 29px;">
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">When we try and preserve a moment by taking a picture or a video, we never quite do the place justice. there is too much information. There is so much going on in any given moment. when I paint or draw out side i see more and more that our landscape is consumed by urban and suburban sprawl. I want to preserve the beauty that is being engulfed. We live in a time where things are changing rapidly. Painting slows me down. I start to look. I take off the veil that is over my eyes and I see things that are always there. A constant beautiful song that is under everything but so faint that you need to stop and listen carefully to hear it. Painting and drawing do that for me. When mankind and nature are in harmony it feels right. It feels good. I love the romantic poets of the nineteenth century. they understood that nature had a voice and could teach us spiritual truths if we were willing to listen. With the dawn of industrialization these poets were aware that their beloved countryside was changing. Factories were creating dark clouds on the horizon in the name of progress. These poets like William Wordsworth mourned what was being lost and the beauty that still can not be surpressed. I too see this beauty out of the corner of my eye as it vanishes. I try and look at it. the graphite on paper turns the page into someplace that is real. The magic always works for me for some strange reason. Turning the sky and clouds into paint helps me to remember that these things are sacred. I stop to listen and hear the most beautiful music. Nobody is going to paint the same scene the same way. We all bring with us in the brush and the line something of ourselves, of our past experience, our teaching, our own vision as we respond to what it is we are seeing. It is endless. Creativity is an endless pleasure.</span></div>
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jonathan macadamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611773206158125928noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-847249149255106060.post-6232254774446557262016-12-30T06:13:00.001-08:002016-12-30T06:13:34.057-08:00Canvas or Panel?A friend asked the other day which I prefer painting on, canvas or panel. I have been painting on larger canvases as of late but I do hate the sound of the canvas if I am constantly dabbing on an area. Painting outdoors it is better to work on a panel as the light will not go through the back of the canvas if I am painting into the sun. The stiffness of panel also I like painting against. Sometimes the give of a canvas id too much. That said canvas has its own properties that I like as well. Much lighter when painting large is nice. Haling around big panels can be tough. Another option that I have tried and like is to glue the canvas or linen to a board. This world well and you can get the texture of the linen as well as taking care of the problems with canvas that I have mentioned. If a sharp object pokes the canvas you have something behind to protect it as well.<br />
<br />jonathan macadamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611773206158125928noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-847249149255106060.post-65069686463268655242016-12-29T21:09:00.001-08:002016-12-29T21:12:34.448-08:00the end and the beginning With the end of a year and a new one upon us I thought I might try and start to try and be a little more consistent with entries. I like many artists prefer to paint rather than write about the act of painting. I think this time of year one thinks about childhood. Giving gifts to my children I naturally think about my own childhood. There is something of a longing in most good paintings that I have seen. A Rothko painting makes me long for communication with the spirit; my own or in another realm. I have memories of driving in the English landscape to get a christmas tree. I remember seeing a group of trees in a field with fields and trees receding into the frozen landscape and liking what I saw. it is a clear memory I'm sure tampered with by time but I remember taking a mental note as if to my adult self my seven year old self stored valuable information. I would awake in America having dreamed that I was in the English countryside. Nothing ever really helped with the feeling of home sickness. I am home with my family and the people are what matter now but the places that imprinted on my brain then. The rural beauty and the field desolate unused until the spring seemed to be telling my little self something. "This is what time is. Things will come and go. Life and death, cold weather and warm weather, sadness and joy, they all need one another and ad to the richness of life. As the year closes and another begins there is hope. <br />
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<br />jonathan macadamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611773206158125928noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-847249149255106060.post-69983926561160520512016-09-29T06:31:00.001-07:002016-09-29T06:31:12.107-07:00Painting Plein Air<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This week I made a few studies out doors of Choate Island. The view is from J.T. Farnham's 88 Eastern Ave, in Essex, MA. It was an amazing, clear morning. The strong shadows changed dramatically over the course of two hours so I had three paintings going to try and record what the light was doing. What I love about being outside painting is that the painting becomes like a record of passing time. It is frustrating when you get something down on the panel and then the light completely changes, but at the same time there is a joy and humor in the fact that we really don't get to hold on to anything. The longer you look at something the better. It is important to look more at what is in front of you as the time spent looking at your painting.<br />
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By keying in the value of the sky first I base the rest of the values from that. If the sky is too dark you get in trouble. The refection of the sky in the water is almost always a little darker in value that the sky due to the perspective. In the excitement of driving up to paint at 5am I left my wallet at home and my friend Wayne stopped by on his way to work to give me $20. Thank you Wayne! It was really nice also to have no one around, only a few joggers and those cars going by. A group of artists that I liked are those from the Barbican School. Theodore Rousseau it is said "made himself a mirror rather than an artist" by Theophile Gautier. Many of the artists that I am drawn to seem to be after a certain truth and realism. In the process these artists tend to make pictures that do not look "real", but instead are a unique perspective on how they the artist see and feel about what they are seeing. No one can really be a mirror because we are human and that will spill out. </div>
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jonathan macadamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611773206158125928noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-847249149255106060.post-73760603235206653752016-05-08T06:05:00.001-07:002016-05-08T06:05:09.375-07:00Musings on Manet I recently bought a book on Eduard Manet. I was instantly drawn to his paintings when I was younger. They had a freshness about them. When I was in the museums as a child I remember thinking that most of the "Classical" paintings made me want fall asleep, but these figures had life in them. I could see the thickness of the paint applied on the surface. "The Fifer" I remember seeing in an art book and thinking that it was nice for an artist to depict children in a way that was serious. "Monk in Prayer" at the MFA in Boston was haunting in its realism. Manet has a way of drawing from the past and simplifying. The skull is painted in a painterly way reminding me that this is just a painting, and these are symbols that we are looking at. "Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe", is a favorite of mine for the strange landscape in the background. Manet was looking at Giorione's and Titan's,"The Pastoral Concert," as well as engravings by Raimondi. Giorgione's landscapes are dark and beautiful with space that seems hard to navigate. Manet's painting too seems hard to believe for other reasons. Both paintings seem to be conjuring a pastoral ideal but Manet's is closer to what we might see in the woods yet still a very loose and imaginative landscape. I could look at this paintings all day. The "Olympia" and its predecessor, "Venus of Urbino," also shows how the past is suddenly thrown into the modern. Manet was looking to the past but drawing from it in a away that made his paintings relevant to his present time yet continuing the narrative of art history. I find this dialogue with the past in his paintings fascinating weather he is drawing from great painters like Diego Velazquez or Raphael.<br />
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<br />jonathan macadamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611773206158125928noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-847249149255106060.post-15136295592994517142016-04-11T07:01:00.000-07:002016-04-11T07:12:18.309-07:00George Inness and Toanlism.I have been thinking of the American Tonalism over the past month as I have been working on a particular commission. One of my favorite painters and one who is linked with this movement is George Inness (1825-1894). The paintings of his late career are among my favorite. Inness was quoted as saying that "The true use of art is, first, to cultivate the artist's own spiritual nature." I can see in his work that he was interested not only in the plastic material world but another one that is harder to describe. Inness died in 1894 at Bridge Allen in Scotland. The end of his life sounds like something from a film! According to his son his last words were "My God! oh, how beautiful!" as he was viewing the sunset, and fell to the ground and died minutes later. <br>
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I find inspiration in these moments where the metaphors of life and death are layers out. The sunrise and sunsets are a constant reminder of birth and then the closing. The highway and roads are also a clear metaphor for life's journey played out in so many songs but still hits me. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8iEqS6wCLIS8N55ZKlpUfXheGWqpKGFsSwa8bAi_S3qEAezrTS7G7a6qJD7U2v7-wQnFaH8tvy_Juu7aS6F-oG9HyKUfh3OW6ZNueSb8gDk8dbNevYQkxCgGebczh9rq_LneqdJESgPo/s640/blogger-image--2130333839.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8iEqS6wCLIS8N55ZKlpUfXheGWqpKGFsSwa8bAi_S3qEAezrTS7G7a6qJD7U2v7-wQnFaH8tvy_Juu7aS6F-oG9HyKUfh3OW6ZNueSb8gDk8dbNevYQkxCgGebczh9rq_LneqdJESgPo/s640/blogger-image--2130333839.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Truck on the road</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">5x7</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Oil on panel</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> I remember looking out the window on road trips. On a long car ride the imagination would take over and I would enter into a day dream. Sometimes I would imagine that we were from a time long past and in the future marveling at the cars and buildings. This is a helpful habit for an artist. Take nothing for granted! As an artist I am a witness to this time and place and record it for those that come after. To see the beauty in this world and contemplate it before it fades or becomes something else.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ6kKWZsYbG8OjjssnMnUy7yu8-SSx5fBD5e4dqwBcLqruJmxINVSQ5fOVG3BAzE5tUyZicQaPVpFXS4ncSd0X1a8mkr2WHy4vRxxIlnStWgBvOP_zj1fJFeCKz4SJoTyGFvW4sTIbJ_k/s640/blogger-image-1977775243.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ6kKWZsYbG8OjjssnMnUy7yu8-SSx5fBD5e4dqwBcLqruJmxINVSQ5fOVG3BAzE5tUyZicQaPVpFXS4ncSd0X1a8mkr2WHy4vRxxIlnStWgBvOP_zj1fJFeCKz4SJoTyGFvW4sTIbJ_k/s640/blogger-image-1977775243.jpg"></a></div> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> "Tree on the road side"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> 36x24 oil on canvas</div><br></div>jonathan macadamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611773206158125928noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-847249149255106060.post-84252531144311526102015-12-29T22:21:00.001-08:002015-12-30T13:57:07.759-08:00North of Boston<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJWSoUAKi89v14NYYLHv_JIPAmP91CA6TZHiOWe47wx3RTe9KlWIcGnxILfMYCxpR7saz9ZDH6fHsB7ZYJGoWt8XBmZmTo0BXmSne490SwlXmjFml3JoPEcR5LCUEoAmWjwlADroclYv8/s640/blogger-image-1476124590.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJWSoUAKi89v14NYYLHv_JIPAmP91CA6TZHiOWe47wx3RTe9KlWIcGnxILfMYCxpR7saz9ZDH6fHsB7ZYJGoWt8XBmZmTo0BXmSne490SwlXmjFml3JoPEcR5LCUEoAmWjwlADroclYv8/s640/blogger-image-1476124590.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Oil on canvas 36x36 on view at Walker Creek in Essex, MA</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I have always found much inspiration from the area north of Boston. The painting above is done from the trustees of reservations property in Essex. The late fall early winter is a wonderful time to paint and see the salt marshes. The warm orchers and Indian red that can be found in the dead marsh grass can look like fire in the sun. I love the contrast those colors with the coolness of the sky above. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> While driving around the North Shore I find that the places I like to paint are the locations that I have fond memories. Below is "Singing Beach" in Manchester by the Sea. This beach was a constant destination in college and later on when I lived in the area. Beverly Farms where we lived also became a favorite as I could walk to west beach and the marshes that lay behind it. I have painted Chubb's Brook in most every light just as Monet painted the Cathedrals and Haystacks. </div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_8VaU16_DtDQe2-QieJ9rNO66IB5GvsT7vCGwedCyTcygTN4Der6Mwj9LIyZOg-g09obcWFQO31vVhE2ivw9t782rmnHzv4uSgZrHVcny6EuwWxOpEfyCrhqD7Z3FcSSF3uZf-i_benA/s640/blogger-image-1050516556.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_8VaU16_DtDQe2-QieJ9rNO66IB5GvsT7vCGwedCyTcygTN4Der6Mwj9LIyZOg-g09obcWFQO31vVhE2ivw9t782rmnHzv4uSgZrHVcny6EuwWxOpEfyCrhqD7Z3FcSSF3uZf-i_benA/s640/blogger-image-1050516556.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"Singing beach with figures"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">18x24</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSkA7AnVCG46gxKhSIYg2XFPPZNsQKVs08xM9ZrwgdvNv1WC_ukhCKM2udAvjlSnWkuY4z2A8zmmOGmywEIaRaEvr7PVTiAX8f4m0LCPY3FjtShJ1Qf5N4iEcPtMXPcX_68GLL_hFlQ64/s640/blogger-image--1989965606.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSkA7AnVCG46gxKhSIYg2XFPPZNsQKVs08xM9ZrwgdvNv1WC_ukhCKM2udAvjlSnWkuY4z2A8zmmOGmywEIaRaEvr7PVTiAX8f4m0LCPY3FjtShJ1Qf5N4iEcPtMXPcX_68GLL_hFlQ64/s640/blogger-image--1989965606.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"Summer Love"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">24x24</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGSoPxJnl-pt1c57g-lbIkEFww59OiRguVoCErCBGsX9Ast58dlHPWFW2gfK0Dz3vpNugVbq2dZQPCBjdEOk3tEd1s3L7TJpPotiqp5IweBmLPhHy0s6Zt4PAb9WbjJNnceghbYLiZgGU/s640/blogger-image--1137894396.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGSoPxJnl-pt1c57g-lbIkEFww59OiRguVoCErCBGsX9Ast58dlHPWFW2gfK0Dz3vpNugVbq2dZQPCBjdEOk3tEd1s3L7TJpPotiqp5IweBmLPhHy0s6Zt4PAb9WbjJNnceghbYLiZgGU/s640/blogger-image--1137894396.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"Sea Lawn" Magnolia, Gloucester, MA 24x36</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This trustees property is another favorite. There are so many interesting views and I have many nice memories of picnics by the sea and watching our children run around. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTpcSIplOSa-cM4ZOd9GS-mywk0LuKHwEcg6UvDBLm4el3BT1N42jqZrOYAibSJ1igEG3KSLMMpvA88br358AHO8NU2wgUW_iTeQ1TjEoAtKihr4jtDsqwK60Ukh4MlSC0MXyCKAhRWp4/s640/blogger-image-1705655963.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTpcSIplOSa-cM4ZOd9GS-mywk0LuKHwEcg6UvDBLm4el3BT1N42jqZrOYAibSJ1igEG3KSLMMpvA88br358AHO8NU2wgUW_iTeQ1TjEoAtKihr4jtDsqwK60Ukh4MlSC0MXyCKAhRWp4/s640/blogger-image-1705655963.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"Nocturne Harbor with full moon" 8x10. Above is another painting done of the harbor in Manchester by the sea. Recently I have enjoyed painting nocturnes. Using burnt umber and ultramarine blue together I create the grisaille "grey" tonal painting. This location I remember walking by in college and seeing the moonlight over the harbor. I did a drawing on location and removed a few of the boats in the distance. I like to do smaller sketches and drawings of larger paintings and work out the composition before working on a larger painting. </div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrV_6yIUW1UmI0ag8OafAD6lREHFG57fvq3w5x2IG-Ht-OQtqESLYrVAJymBxeCoL4HZvmtpNw1b4_iGHcZ0B-lq3naRX3A9PyprOb3F_5LjrPQa3GtY7EMmF2lbQZ9iZjrQVMB0rCFpE/s640/blogger-image-514119674.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrV_6yIUW1UmI0ag8OafAD6lREHFG57fvq3w5x2IG-Ht-OQtqESLYrVAJymBxeCoL4HZvmtpNw1b4_iGHcZ0B-lq3naRX3A9PyprOb3F_5LjrPQa3GtY7EMmF2lbQZ9iZjrQVMB0rCFpE/s640/blogger-image-514119674.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"Summer Marsh" 24x36 was done by the Parker River. I had painted here all day and used the moments of the day that worked best for the painting. This is the great benifit to working out of doors. You can see it is toward the end of the day and the light is coming from the left side of the canvas and illuminating the sides of the trees along the river. This painting was in the HBO movie "Olive Kitteridge" which I have yet to see. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHoPeGzDJ0dhhIrdMeNrfFyo5iTQe1ywcYz7loM28HIPHlOauRbljM5id955BJoxwfJO6-eFpLWS5PCD9iGrG2xaoJt4d2ujtqE1xkhVbmj6atIMjcxoH-Z9CE6AvE82DN7sqVu91xKkc/s640/blogger-image--1883521806.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHoPeGzDJ0dhhIrdMeNrfFyo5iTQe1ywcYz7loM28HIPHlOauRbljM5id955BJoxwfJO6-eFpLWS5PCD9iGrG2xaoJt4d2ujtqE1xkhVbmj6atIMjcxoH-Z9CE6AvE82DN7sqVu91xKkc/s640/blogger-image--1883521806.jpg"></a></div>"<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Figures on the Beach" summer sky 24x36. This last painting is made from a few visits to different beaches. The first right hand side of the canvas is of West Beach in Beverly Farms looking over to Salem and Marblehead. The right side originally had trees but felt "wrong" so I continued the ocean over. I enjoy the liberties that painters can take manipulating a scene to create a desired effect where a photographer or photorealistic is often stuck with slavishly recording what is in a photograph.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><br></div>jonathan macadamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611773206158125928noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-847249149255106060.post-50717652785459754952015-05-27T23:42:00.001-07:002015-12-30T14:16:19.268-08:00Sun Bathers<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKKYSATfZ3Iyw9tyoR4hWTEEqfxGLK8oH0XSqj0VuJvHz0N-AsXkyaBmtToimggWWtTXeMr7q8NINruXiqznMdPGUG1D-YRUQIVvV79x4ZrZZYY6DSjSV1lLUJi2oTNQ-H9Uc4CUoEsXU/s640/blogger-image--813611756.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKKYSATfZ3Iyw9tyoR4hWTEEqfxGLK8oH0XSqj0VuJvHz0N-AsXkyaBmtToimggWWtTXeMr7q8NINruXiqznMdPGUG1D-YRUQIVvV79x4ZrZZYY6DSjSV1lLUJi2oTNQ-H9Uc4CUoEsXU/s640/blogger-image--813611756.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"Reading at the Beach"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">18x24</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Oil on canvas</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Above is a recent painting at Cavalier Gallery in Nantucket. The beach is the perfect place for an artist interested in the figure. All the models you could ask for posing for you unpaid. It can be hard working plien air and simplifying the scene to its essence. This process is what I enjoy so much. Looking around me and distilling the interior and exterior worlds. I see the forms as physical but carting a spiritual mystery that no science can prove but our intellects tell us that there is something more to the world that what we see and feel. Something behind the scenes. </div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE6vOmqhcH9eSF9WqsI626eNEOXYMxk2ABfEetwQ3Ux7c12GD97GkHbBT3fpB__SwflhRqjtlvOXXwG6OV8srg1M8-4jO7rfw3SMuQ_AMnY9pYx9Jzw5LgpS7l4MohR8_Y3uQSpQ11VlM/s640/blogger-image-751168865.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE6vOmqhcH9eSF9WqsI626eNEOXYMxk2ABfEetwQ3Ux7c12GD97GkHbBT3fpB__SwflhRqjtlvOXXwG6OV8srg1M8-4jO7rfw3SMuQ_AMnY9pYx9Jzw5LgpS7l4MohR8_Y3uQSpQ11VlM/s640/blogger-image-751168865.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"Rainbow Umbrella"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">11x14</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Oil on panel</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Jonathan MacAdam</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">These paintings for me carry that strange human weight. The drama that a figure when placed in a landscape creates, and the questions that plague the philosopher What are we? What are we doing here? What is this strange reality that seems grows more unknowable with each generation as our knowledge grows. We are again and again stripped down and brought back to the beginning and faced with mortality and the question of a spirit. As in the tragedies and comedies of Shakespeare the artist has the stage and looks at the figures from afar and can see their simple fates. There sun bathing seems as I beautiful enjoyment of the moment and an effort to slow down death. The love affairs of Summer's past hang there suspended. Light itself we can hardly understand. The physics are astounding. We can't hide from it we can only see what it reveals; feel it's warmth; contemplate its journey from the sun itself. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik6tr8eByaflsKyMcKRmU5sjnnCTEj08CCiuHoIOorkIe_So-vtidoyzYTb008si96J66nZ4eyWzrPYi9xa0OILNLQ5pueBzJaX_ogojON4Tv9kapn0dm-Etbe8nmFL1OwUb2aSb71Jko/s640/blogger-image--173785382.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik6tr8eByaflsKyMcKRmU5sjnnCTEj08CCiuHoIOorkIe_So-vtidoyzYTb008si96J66nZ4eyWzrPYi9xa0OILNLQ5pueBzJaX_ogojON4Tv9kapn0dm-Etbe8nmFL1OwUb2aSb71Jko/s640/blogger-image--173785382.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"Couple at the beach" 8x10 oil on panel</div><br></div>jonathan macadamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611773206158125928noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-847249149255106060.post-12543275114748724562015-04-18T17:28:00.001-07:002015-05-16T08:32:00.652-07:00Beach Paintings<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">"Child at Play"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Work in progress</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">18 x 24</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Oil on canvas</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg59RqpOypiyAMBtZvb-i3pLKvsou0KMPUvVEkaCknq0Kvobx_tYmnGycl2oqWx__PYpz5EWZBPHChJll-ig_tMQCFWSWiVGavpcN2kYh2v8UKgbjXn2kLuZ2a6sQi2vR-GFFV2s1k-9TU/s640/blogger-image-896490136.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg59RqpOypiyAMBtZvb-i3pLKvsou0KMPUvVEkaCknq0Kvobx_tYmnGycl2oqWx__PYpz5EWZBPHChJll-ig_tMQCFWSWiVGavpcN2kYh2v8UKgbjXn2kLuZ2a6sQi2vR-GFFV2s1k-9TU/s640/blogger-image-896490136.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The ocean and beach is one of my favorite places to go and to paint. The light on a clear summer day with the big expansive views allow a painter so many subjects to choose from, not to mention all the figures. The figures bathed in light and often at rest are perfect models. I also love drawing and painting my own family at the beach. These have been really rewarding as many include my wife and children as models. The beach is a great place to draw as you don't really stick out as you are drawing. <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The views from sitting down in a chair can be interesting rather than standing. Also, all the figures over a great distance are fascinating to me as they appear in different sizes as the perspective moves back into the horizon.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> I started the below painting by covering canvas in a warm color. Vermillion thinned down works nicely. Below is the almost finished painting where you can see I added my son to the composition as I wanted another figure in the foreground. Painting at the beach also allows me to place objects like chairs and umbrellas in the painting from drawings to balance the painting with color and form that works for the composition of the painting. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7hVceKvR47YQXsuBPsXS-_duTxEkKTKViu9feAcBzi7M9mAjgeAm_mIubGcTtfOQ-guw3AQ4ubcZPixmv96bx0kp35WsyYolCMzpatHkgNH0znxf4ccBQbl9tYwXxXvVgOOxgK3GkEwA/s640/blogger-image--1165110657.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7hVceKvR47YQXsuBPsXS-_duTxEkKTKViu9feAcBzi7M9mAjgeAm_mIubGcTtfOQ-guw3AQ4ubcZPixmv96bx0kp35WsyYolCMzpatHkgNH0znxf4ccBQbl9tYwXxXvVgOOxgK3GkEwA/s640/blogger-image--1165110657.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><br></div><br></div><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> I really enjoyed seeing some of the photographs of people at the beach by Vivian Maier recently. The figure against the ocean as a back drop creates a great tension. The flexing of mussels against the movement of the ocean is beautiful. Another artist who I admire and enjoy their figure paintings is Wayne Thiebaud. playfulness of Wayne Thiebauds' beach figures capture some of that fun and color that I associate with the beach. Wayne is 94 years old born in 1920! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5wxNkoeJmO6N3o1tuIf7lBQgr9j3Pn8Wv0YXGXePrxBrLCfoIBIOopYJAnE9v6u3bYn2EN4gpxsKO793iEMqGGtG-uaKnEQFePQhSO4hcZBNycNNQ_2uNq6pZPM3Yrwbe9HpWTJl2i-E/s640/blogger-image-1089320517.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5wxNkoeJmO6N3o1tuIf7lBQgr9j3Pn8Wv0YXGXePrxBrLCfoIBIOopYJAnE9v6u3bYn2EN4gpxsKO793iEMqGGtG-uaKnEQFePQhSO4hcZBNycNNQ_2uNq6pZPM3Yrwbe9HpWTJl2i-E/s640/blogger-image-1089320517.jpg"></a></div><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-RfgQyqYnpYSQesbO-zz47r9dj-O1Lqq2n41mmwxekf-vrq_oEpFFCZpfQoWWyBLuLZISwO30-0WGGuOkCRBU4A4um9DjRPGMqfO2nS9I6-hgDDy-rJLp8OQa7pFQjvCYwz7s60RYrXk/s640/blogger-image-160908884.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-RfgQyqYnpYSQesbO-zz47r9dj-O1Lqq2n41mmwxekf-vrq_oEpFFCZpfQoWWyBLuLZISwO30-0WGGuOkCRBU4A4um9DjRPGMqfO2nS9I6-hgDDy-rJLp8OQa7pFQjvCYwz7s60RYrXk/s640/blogger-image-160908884.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQun7kbV1rp4i0amwCckwlyZ25GIt3vyhvgSRFehq7sFDJSoluPxz__c8vdJdetFQn2kKJRoHRW-n75iqguWTm8CWDjw9dCwcKm2aY9Aymd8qEz5YIuPQxiK9LkZkXB4khYNi3zRuYRTg/s640/blogger-image-1366650603.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQun7kbV1rp4i0amwCckwlyZ25GIt3vyhvgSRFehq7sFDJSoluPxz__c8vdJdetFQn2kKJRoHRW-n75iqguWTm8CWDjw9dCwcKm2aY9Aymd8qEz5YIuPQxiK9LkZkXB4khYNi3zRuYRTg/s640/blogger-image-1366650603.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQjQCFWyQTWq7E2WdQSxju6GO7ZP-183kM9t-mY_Yt-7s5yIIcWOvhCw95ddwGHVAfoa3D-JFcktXL3bKbSTol4N3D2Bp1bXcdLw-EbDlg6nMO_aG8peqb4aWsUv4Us6v4S-YPozGSy-w/s640/blogger-image-1849388986.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQjQCFWyQTWq7E2WdQSxju6GO7ZP-183kM9t-mY_Yt-7s5yIIcWOvhCw95ddwGHVAfoa3D-JFcktXL3bKbSTol4N3D2Bp1bXcdLw-EbDlg6nMO_aG8peqb4aWsUv4Us6v4S-YPozGSy-w/s640/blogger-image-1849388986.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Here is finished work 24 x 36 inches, oil on canvas. </div>"Day in July"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">On view at Cavalier Gallery on Nantucket Island.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I really love painting a group of people gathered together. There are few reasons that a group of people get half undressed and pose for free for a painter other than to sit by the ocean. </div>jonathan macadamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611773206158125928noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-847249149255106060.post-73649344545408941522015-04-11T07:29:00.001-07:002015-04-15T18:33:56.086-07:00drawing from drawing<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipWT406z1o8CP_QC_YphgQ4Rx2RdsqVdHfCku24twYjUrxhYKtvYlR58et9bU1aIEZER_spmZl4ZHUDh1jVQTU_Vm5XKQ0LLKLQ7Ya_KDO8wpIvMqh6NyfB_CrRfkq2O1du9IUNNTijBE/s640/blogger-image--1727867855.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipWT406z1o8CP_QC_YphgQ4Rx2RdsqVdHfCku24twYjUrxhYKtvYlR58et9bU1aIEZER_spmZl4ZHUDh1jVQTU_Vm5XKQ0LLKLQ7Ya_KDO8wpIvMqh6NyfB_CrRfkq2O1du9IUNNTijBE/s640/blogger-image--1727867855.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Girl with drink at the beach</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjr_QswxaJ3jJbJOMu4rr2Ui5We2d-uRK0aQouFZq8ONzgXnuIu0bj8THeO4CJSusxMJ8ZaYcY0Qb39VXTB7UdcUMNE3Qnb_MID1mraRTkhjTyCMZOKV41UiFhqVn2OFNZmvJ6_rlZ0Ag/s640/blogger-image-317425592.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjr_QswxaJ3jJbJOMu4rr2Ui5We2d-uRK0aQouFZq8ONzgXnuIu0bj8THeO4CJSusxMJ8ZaYcY0Qb39VXTB7UdcUMNE3Qnb_MID1mraRTkhjTyCMZOKV41UiFhqVn2OFNZmvJ6_rlZ0Ag/s640/blogger-image-317425592.jpg"></a></div><br></div>Woman walking on beach study</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu5omRRKAmloH4ILrpD-N-SdT9YDoN508sbtbFlo8Gt7ZqnxUuBj5fPcEtGmr4oQYe56UppbNazD1bhMKX_7L2xiRo0-3GRL7I1q8Ur4e3YkDdzIaJmBnVPgreE7ew_IkcyGht6j6JpfM/s640/blogger-image-1260328601.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu5omRRKAmloH4ILrpD-N-SdT9YDoN508sbtbFlo8Gt7ZqnxUuBj5fPcEtGmr4oQYe56UppbNazD1bhMKX_7L2xiRo0-3GRL7I1q8Ur4e3YkDdzIaJmBnVPgreE7ew_IkcyGht6j6JpfM/s640/blogger-image-1260328601.jpg"></a></div><br><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Currently I have been taking drawings from the past summer with figures at the beach. In drawing I can work out the composition and add details from life. I have always enjoyed drawing. Drawing is the foundation of painting. Making many lines, marks and smudges to make one big picture. Whether you use a paintbrush or a pencil drawing is crucial. Like in music each note adds to the piece and it builds slowly to create form and volume. I like going over and over again changing and correcting trying to make the space real and pleasing. </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Drawing takes time. It sits you down and you are forced to look at things and study them. In a way it is a form of meditation. Some times it takes a lot of energy to look at things. Really study them. We don't want to slow down enough to do the looking. Drawing helps me slow down and really be amazed at what is around me. Reality is so strange and wonderful yet easy to take for granted. As I look at people moving in space and try to discribe that space and those bodies in it I become more a part of what is around me. More connected to what I am looking at. Most of the time the scene is very complicated and I am forced to simplify. Below is a small study of a girl at a beach and then an empty beach in Maine. </div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv1Wp2X5P7ZUoTBEtJI3ZJ8Mscgy0_8hWAuURXWchMwWYYmA36AzmRk2TQCxKPnEKxcDYUB0uUYhhxgkC2LNktzYETlzkFuJ7sVMbU63Xx8J5flPqnKIXmm5N6sPb95osLIQf9KoSFrAg/s640/blogger-image--991998146.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv1Wp2X5P7ZUoTBEtJI3ZJ8Mscgy0_8hWAuURXWchMwWYYmA36AzmRk2TQCxKPnEKxcDYUB0uUYhhxgkC2LNktzYETlzkFuJ7sVMbU63Xx8J5flPqnKIXmm5N6sPb95osLIQf9KoSFrAg/s640/blogger-image--991998146.jpg"></a></div>jonathan macadamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611773206158125928noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-847249149255106060.post-17685880019306724592015-04-04T08:14:00.001-07:002015-04-04T08:14:40.506-07:00Canvas vs. Panel<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfDln9wcluWE6OMURla4kxcWRfFRaki4fSQFSfAjEkDOBqm9-q3zHnjkSftbsbP7iQwQ8OSSKfcDyBSlQXz57iwSdRULKhVFDOQeaUQqHI0iL55TDaEVxccTBHtcvhDNwcyWD9W7OosaU/s640/blogger-image-905881997.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfDln9wcluWE6OMURla4kxcWRfFRaki4fSQFSfAjEkDOBqm9-q3zHnjkSftbsbP7iQwQ8OSSKfcDyBSlQXz57iwSdRULKhVFDOQeaUQqHI0iL55TDaEVxccTBHtcvhDNwcyWD9W7OosaU/s640/blogger-image-905881997.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Summer Marsh</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">38 x38</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Oil on canvas</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I often debate with myself what surface I prefere to paint on. Sometimes it is nice to switch things up. If I have been working on panel it can be nice to move over to canvas. The give that canvas has can be nice in the early stages when mapping the image out. The play and bounce of the canvas becomes its own language. The force that the brush playes back is a conversation that feels different than panel. It is also nice to hit a new canvas and hear the drum sound. When painting with turniptine the canvas absorbs the terps better than the panel would. The hard panel has a directness were each mark is free from the texture of the canvas or linen and is easier to read and give the illusion of space in an emediate way that canvas doesn't do. Sometimes when getting up close to a canvas the materials stop the mind from the trick of photographic illusion. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">With the painting above I used a palette knife in the clouds in the sky. I really enjoy painting the sky and like John Constable will make studies for larger works.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyD-TflkjojSmgH6xFfm0jxua7bSKd-6iCjO-6ZFRDeOSj1b2-OmJ8ASn_Y-aWQf8rfrYtSY9gg3ssIm6iZToiSkLqComoQ4dus-bKvHAIM6ujIF2Q_6NVi_a3vYi4IZkapaFVpjpzV84/s640/blogger-image--1325742440.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyD-TflkjojSmgH6xFfm0jxua7bSKd-6iCjO-6ZFRDeOSj1b2-OmJ8ASn_Y-aWQf8rfrYtSY9gg3ssIm6iZToiSkLqComoQ4dus-bKvHAIM6ujIF2Q_6NVi_a3vYi4IZkapaFVpjpzV84/s640/blogger-image--1325742440.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Sea Lawn</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">24x36</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Oil on panel</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This painting is painted with more layers using liquin as a glaze. With panel I find that I tend to paint with a little less impasto. It I do use impasto it is with the whites and I employ less paint with the darks such as brown and green. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Usually the panels are first painted with an orange or thin red oxide. This way the white really jumps out and the values can be established. To me in landscape painting the values are the first thing as with drawing. The color comes next never before the value. After this the sky was keyed in. All the other values are compared with the sky. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Below are some skies painted by John Constable. I often also make sky studies for reference using them in later paintings.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSrqYsYJqonxpHbotA4AeuemUmrWMZyIonvL_BTGmrJ5jq0bIN6YPD_-D0I4oEofbPmuwnKVYyKGkfZut6bKm7wgYJXfE48L3AtOKJB3e5OoAnWTdzWhcJIhUoGiR1q9MBDd98IvjLF10/s640/blogger-image-913550200.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSrqYsYJqonxpHbotA4AeuemUmrWMZyIonvL_BTGmrJ5jq0bIN6YPD_-D0I4oEofbPmuwnKVYyKGkfZut6bKm7wgYJXfE48L3AtOKJB3e5OoAnWTdzWhcJIhUoGiR1q9MBDd98IvjLF10/s640/blogger-image-913550200.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdOTYUKtcLXVHnq0u7fEqmsckA5NXd3K2qS1p1ruh5xL54oG7IKDCIirp0OeZWo9m1ThcA5m9sIiGO1BbKnLX18XcggVGvhI5aB2K6JSYGh1bymoFH4AugZ-SEGHhl0IVbWpinC3GBCvI/s640/blogger-image-1087325480.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdOTYUKtcLXVHnq0u7fEqmsckA5NXd3K2qS1p1ruh5xL54oG7IKDCIirp0OeZWo9m1ThcA5m9sIiGO1BbKnLX18XcggVGvhI5aB2K6JSYGh1bymoFH4AugZ-SEGHhl0IVbWpinC3GBCvI/s640/blogger-image-1087325480.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Below are a few paintings on panel that the skies were borrowed from smaller sketches of the sky that were done plien air. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhivKyx9KmcZNDarV-KKpPSCGbypNJgLGoQfLFvZzvXJvWroUBic_MPtj_KuE1Rz0gDPCx5mns5uLp8ZbVmyVcTp9zAgz6WgOYVgdfVEZHT3hdaWq4f65VOhAmUhWYheBIBM0Jy8Y0VjNk/s640/blogger-image--1957665765.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhivKyx9KmcZNDarV-KKpPSCGbypNJgLGoQfLFvZzvXJvWroUBic_MPtj_KuE1Rz0gDPCx5mns5uLp8ZbVmyVcTp9zAgz6WgOYVgdfVEZHT3hdaWq4f65VOhAmUhWYheBIBM0Jy8Y0VjNk/s640/blogger-image--1957665765.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div>128 South</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">36x48</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Oil on panel</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjghsjyJi_VCFbxKiib3ESkYI822h7Yh1oEoOuSl7aj6SZcFrikKMsASZslm9LoGvwUDMgBlN9uVL_rwTKswnJPe7_J1K-pB50Ig1wFntGffuK_qm_c7HOBMI8ZIDg_5UzhOTZ2gp2Fmbo/s640/blogger-image--1881706329.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjghsjyJi_VCFbxKiib3ESkYI822h7Yh1oEoOuSl7aj6SZcFrikKMsASZslm9LoGvwUDMgBlN9uVL_rwTKswnJPe7_J1K-pB50Ig1wFntGffuK_qm_c7HOBMI8ZIDg_5UzhOTZ2gp2Fmbo/s640/blogger-image--1881706329.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div>Sky over Land</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">36x60</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Oil on panel</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiSgc404snjr7bOaJAWg3HprJ3zUV83gvfcx854kBq9jiAM8M7dS7NtudTzbzkVphyphenhyphenYeBvqrivyXt1noYkcShR2heTunPVCHAI15-18pDT0M-fu4YVWgBPp7ry51YoDZfWSvwl0xgxZ_w/s640/blogger-image-72163800.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiSgc404snjr7bOaJAWg3HprJ3zUV83gvfcx854kBq9jiAM8M7dS7NtudTzbzkVphyphenhyphenYeBvqrivyXt1noYkcShR2heTunPVCHAI15-18pDT0M-fu4YVWgBPp7ry51YoDZfWSvwl0xgxZ_w/s640/blogger-image-72163800.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Hay Bales</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">24x24</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Oil on panel</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The sky above looks from the image as if there is too much cerulean blue. In truth there is more ultramarine but the photograph doesn't reflect this. My studies of sky's first began in Orvieto, Italy; a medieval hilltop village in Umbria.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Below is s photograph I took there of the sky moving above the ochre tufa of the buildings.</div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3OqKJ51FI7bEEAKObS8ZCRs-MxlRSU2Vuk4f1-kE76nKf6ubBIQYJSxmMuzEMp9rgdG0lOIC5sF8TCGX6JHrYUChYCDZ0GQIoFZq7_mYvByTFIfB4AfucgWGCbCozjwc4csUqNicmtTg/s640/blogger-image--679185322.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3OqKJ51FI7bEEAKObS8ZCRs-MxlRSU2Vuk4f1-kE76nKf6ubBIQYJSxmMuzEMp9rgdG0lOIC5sF8TCGX6JHrYUChYCDZ0GQIoFZq7_mYvByTFIfB4AfucgWGCbCozjwc4csUqNicmtTg/s640/blogger-image--679185322.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div>jonathan macadamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611773206158125928noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-847249149255106060.post-31611757830488264252015-03-27T19:24:00.001-07:002015-04-04T08:02:57.704-07:00Favorites at The Addison Gallery of American Art<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjySxu26uZmeCE_MFGqebqHI3JkPpGcqsrBGFg_MB0jmUr5_3cd_iSd7MC14ZUMAf_9V6WmMkw39DSALEXiHQArjmglkz1jarTtLyiTSl86fyzHoZJrEWwOre2kW66U-jJbws1V8-vhBS4/s640/blogger-image--1608156805.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjySxu26uZmeCE_MFGqebqHI3JkPpGcqsrBGFg_MB0jmUr5_3cd_iSd7MC14ZUMAf_9V6WmMkw39DSALEXiHQArjmglkz1jarTtLyiTSl86fyzHoZJrEWwOre2kW66U-jJbws1V8-vhBS4/s640/blogger-image--1608156805.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">When in the studio I like to put up a few paintings on the church bench to see how paintings relate. Here I have a few evening paintings of various sizes. It is a good practice to hang up a finished painting and live with them for a little while. Some times it can be helpful to hang the painting upside down a see if the painting has any problems that stand out. After looking at the work for so long it is hard to see the painting with a fresh </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">perspective. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> Today I took a trip to the Addison Gallery of American Art and saw a few of my favorite artists which is always an inspiration. Winslow Homer, Albert Bierstadt, George Inness and Sarah Surplee all amazed me with their handling of paint. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitx7_VwMCpNDQSDCsZ6eDDNBCBFWINX6aCI8Asjtzfvq74KcOG6iM66hyinLc-ucxKqMHnIpl9yDzJ0SCB0O3dDdizDpm66dNdN7X5MdokzDVBZRxD5uw5xmBwdGhoYNdMH8DKeUbc3gM/s640/blogger-image--1183827153.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitx7_VwMCpNDQSDCsZ6eDDNBCBFWINX6aCI8Asjtzfvq74KcOG6iM66hyinLc-ucxKqMHnIpl9yDzJ0SCB0O3dDdizDpm66dNdN7X5MdokzDVBZRxD5uw5xmBwdGhoYNdMH8DKeUbc3gM/s640/blogger-image--1183827153.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJj80UcGZB2X6Qq6NcIpMcWmSs1Plk_amo5f2zYX7MIbceHyiATQM45xsK-bfKDVfI7PDU2Iq1c8niRh9OFvbwiNoaQZmCnitJvxmxx4M02cFakx-bO1wCXW_I-VQ3-UVegW77JHLajWs/s640/blogger-image--1764305582.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJj80UcGZB2X6Qq6NcIpMcWmSs1Plk_amo5f2zYX7MIbceHyiATQM45xsK-bfKDVfI7PDU2Iq1c8niRh9OFvbwiNoaQZmCnitJvxmxx4M02cFakx-bO1wCXW_I-VQ3-UVegW77JHLajWs/s640/blogger-image--1764305582.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk1_X0rz9XZdvZtvoW0JsqOsMLYNhgodazDwRAhzT8Q5J2oPY_s_unRmDatz_LxpzQU6u-KucmywNQH20ovwwYOnfnHyxyEnVFdiNFBp9cwyk96ZRzCq5o81fGW5NU9mryS4d5jSkZoUw/s640/blogger-image--37600978.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk1_X0rz9XZdvZtvoW0JsqOsMLYNhgodazDwRAhzT8Q5J2oPY_s_unRmDatz_LxpzQU6u-KucmywNQH20ovwwYOnfnHyxyEnVFdiNFBp9cwyk96ZRzCq5o81fGW5NU9mryS4d5jSkZoUw/s640/blogger-image--37600978.jpg"></a></div></div></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKtUNXKP7n8-Pgx0owrjoKHVwlI8tBVKcJI-O1ByW-BhTFAYgCqTAr4KkfEllSggsP1SZiGknnUXdbNzjFbGCNvowFSBEFgfa8sVMKDzyhhRH9k8CuHfzMkNlryyvoUVvG2NPzUQF2HBI/s640/blogger-image-1545496725.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKtUNXKP7n8-Pgx0owrjoKHVwlI8tBVKcJI-O1ByW-BhTFAYgCqTAr4KkfEllSggsP1SZiGknnUXdbNzjFbGCNvowFSBEFgfa8sVMKDzyhhRH9k8CuHfzMkNlryyvoUVvG2NPzUQF2HBI/s640/blogger-image-1545496725.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I had never seen Sarah Surplee's paintings and felt as if I had stumbled across a soul mate. This highway was Rt 495 in Massachusetts were I have painted myself. It is wonderful and humbling to find other artists that have worked in the same vein. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNMgUueiiSD1KlIuF9Ik86G6kwA9S-Z1iJ_gGgKC8NLm6G8LWqSIVfgHHvHSRtxhpMjXvUaKDq8-Dhyphenhyphenfi3CuFU7G9r6sdz92CZD1o6_psoYWx_TpAnbi62HlPb8U4sWXlj6gv7kbAqIgU/s640/blogger-image-372428234.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNMgUueiiSD1KlIuF9Ik86G6kwA9S-Z1iJ_gGgKC8NLm6G8LWqSIVfgHHvHSRtxhpMjXvUaKDq8-Dhyphenhyphenfi3CuFU7G9r6sdz92CZD1o6_psoYWx_TpAnbi62HlPb8U4sWXlj6gv7kbAqIgU/s640/blogger-image-372428234.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Here is a photograph of a tree by David Armstrong that reminded me of paintings of trees that I have done. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0ZE9-QGVvFy22461jjYev3gg_3IvOLks5TGi-CctACfY0jtayspRfyX3DylTYZYS7S-FyuO-4IZI5TZNAQklSwp9kwDItzdcZO_6g75d6A8E1CTc_4q1gDu1JkYdjsTXrm9tQhnjw0EE/s640/blogger-image--12901062.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0ZE9-QGVvFy22461jjYev3gg_3IvOLks5TGi-CctACfY0jtayspRfyX3DylTYZYS7S-FyuO-4IZI5TZNAQklSwp9kwDItzdcZO_6g75d6A8E1CTc_4q1gDu1JkYdjsTXrm9tQhnjw0EE/s640/blogger-image--12901062.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_4YExIjDig1dTNQECe-Z1NNbRKoyisVo1vxTwN9fzB_O_RobN10hdM4KDwvbvXbWtD4RODHYlkH8JcfTl3V08pePquQaz0nmzjCYoeycr83aIOBHlOgFd3poLyqbZX4iJwNuW5izck1U/s640/blogger-image-1472374159.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_4YExIjDig1dTNQECe-Z1NNbRKoyisVo1vxTwN9fzB_O_RobN10hdM4KDwvbvXbWtD4RODHYlkH8JcfTl3V08pePquQaz0nmzjCYoeycr83aIOBHlOgFd3poLyqbZX4iJwNuW5izck1U/s640/blogger-image-1472374159.jpg"></a></div><br></div></div>jonathan macadamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611773206158125928noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-847249149255106060.post-27019184347136845272015-03-26T05:26:00.001-07:002015-03-26T05:27:52.918-07:00Old Lyme<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This summer I took a trip to the old Lyme are colony and the Florence Griswold House. I wish that there was some places like this that still survive. Rome and board was only a dollar day! These communities helped artist development as they went out and painted together. Childe Hassam and Willard Metcalf were two of my favorites from the group. "May Night" by Metcalf is a haunting picture. I love nocturnes and am always surprised when I see them as if the American Impressionist were not "allowed" to paint so dark. </span><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Willard Metcalf painted 26 paintings there In one year. The subtle harmonies are reminiscent of my favorite Tonalist painters George Inness and James McNeil Whistler.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I was in Old Lyme showing a few Central Park paintings at the Old Lyme Art Association. This was one of the first in the country. Incorporated in 1914 but artists began showing at the Library in 1902. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Below are a few panels from the Florence </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Griswold House. My Aunt Bonnie MacAdam used to work here before she went to the Hood museum in Hanover. NH. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><br></div><div>Traveling Artist Studio</div><div>Artist Dash</div><div>Florence Griswold House</div><div>Door Painting</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeu8tNPfDIht-55aa3T07GaaL3TEkVP7SA9b0ftZ7QjzTuxkUFzGS4-3XlgL-fX1EBl_a24ouG7AEjKrSEPuyLAWuItfpBVLaQH10ndK8UGImfgp5x_ipS66xCS0Ku2S3dtzKYa61_38I/s640/blogger-image--1746998403.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeu8tNPfDIht-55aa3T07GaaL3TEkVP7SA9b0ftZ7QjzTuxkUFzGS4-3XlgL-fX1EBl_a24ouG7AEjKrSEPuyLAWuItfpBVLaQH10ndK8UGImfgp5x_ipS66xCS0Ku2S3dtzKYa61_38I/s640/blogger-image--1746998403.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjGWu2uliS5RjQDLK5mX7i92dStx5Ygi-Qfdl8q_2Xek1qbpQ7j-JWz2YJWc0VjJGKhGf4hrP6zKpM5go5t2xMPpMDEpbehyWfzy4CN7NMLKDVI7hNwGdxNXz6tc5DLe66UKSSxokM3Ao/s640/blogger-image--1327323938.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjGWu2uliS5RjQDLK5mX7i92dStx5Ygi-Qfdl8q_2Xek1qbpQ7j-JWz2YJWc0VjJGKhGf4hrP6zKpM5go5t2xMPpMDEpbehyWfzy4CN7NMLKDVI7hNwGdxNXz6tc5DLe66UKSSxokM3Ao/s640/blogger-image--1327323938.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg-373PJfmOuNxi7ctgXrplccPMFZrBEWS0MDjncuv5TC4iBH9uwrSemdFn1oFzTFjtYJHZ0w1PhB5AASKjQyQ90HuAJEOC3mHf4btrZOar0YytbDY2kIhOPflNDopas2dX9MldU6LgMw/s640/blogger-image-708542859.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg-373PJfmOuNxi7ctgXrplccPMFZrBEWS0MDjncuv5TC4iBH9uwrSemdFn1oFzTFjtYJHZ0w1PhB5AASKjQyQ90HuAJEOC3mHf4btrZOar0YytbDY2kIhOPflNDopas2dX9MldU6LgMw/s640/blogger-image-708542859.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbM0PwJnCElDaGR9mKduZauhNL0TciC1xukbCsndT9YQlqn8KDpW2gh-uNX67gQILduxmWt5jXjrqfyF_sb7GywSESzJixmn9_FfSXJjVJmz2KOajsQN1rqBljtD1Fi3To5lTqJoNZ1Dw/s640/blogger-image--1746533840.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbM0PwJnCElDaGR9mKduZauhNL0TciC1xukbCsndT9YQlqn8KDpW2gh-uNX67gQILduxmWt5jXjrqfyF_sb7GywSESzJixmn9_FfSXJjVJmz2KOajsQN1rqBljtD1Fi3To5lTqJoNZ1Dw/s640/blogger-image--1746533840.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div>I had a few paintings showing at the Art association next door. </div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM9Q7Gc5-2emTivLAbrzDp4-yD4chB5SAu_zNFEUiyLlw3Nv_WLilv0CXGKar82dZwD_4jloJlOC8ftYk3LxztuuU6MwtmgAKvNnn0Bg5r-npMG8VbJmqrg7IhtUud54kFbGu9RpTgY4I/s640/blogger-image-470531504.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM9Q7Gc5-2emTivLAbrzDp4-yD4chB5SAu_zNFEUiyLlw3Nv_WLilv0CXGKar82dZwD_4jloJlOC8ftYk3LxztuuU6MwtmgAKvNnn0Bg5r-npMG8VbJmqrg7IhtUud54kFbGu9RpTgY4I/s640/blogger-image-470531504.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div>Central Park Terrace</div><div>38x34</div><div>Oil on panel</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-3MSjnoqbUd2Rccu7crVlT5wDddRjH9ixqw1mgbqkz6nm8arwtxlAwuRI42G3JLmPN_EUmNqWcntjMgSQnAIApvz__YeAUN06xvxp9YtWvWYQHfR4AR93lKXRTI2SHfJ9pLTDFAM9Cys/s640/blogger-image-1073640073.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-3MSjnoqbUd2Rccu7crVlT5wDddRjH9ixqw1mgbqkz6nm8arwtxlAwuRI42G3JLmPN_EUmNqWcntjMgSQnAIApvz__YeAUN06xvxp9YtWvWYQHfR4AR93lKXRTI2SHfJ9pLTDFAM9Cys/s640/blogger-image-1073640073.jpg"></a></div><br></div>jonathan macadamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611773206158125928noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-847249149255106060.post-65660713041990723022015-03-25T19:06:00.001-07:002015-03-25T20:08:09.845-07:00MFA Boston<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>This past fall I took a trip to the MFA with the family. <div>We mainly went to see the Goya exhibit, but there is always the temptation to try and take in more than we can handel. They Goya paintings were sad and made me feel as if they were half in a dream and half in a nightmare. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiP2exWM3qgYo1dVrgq6QaRKkjGXFFr6MbXBmhyphenhyphengqLOL59QCBZ0T8ynQrKGtr-XnqjkglGqp9dw3HUj-hlHNm5kN4T6yDfYgxrmz2RUydl_GmGWKN5IQgZ2-zRZDN57xUO5JTMhhXeByY/s640/blogger-image-472896782.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiP2exWM3qgYo1dVrgq6QaRKkjGXFFr6MbXBmhyphenhyphengqLOL59QCBZ0T8ynQrKGtr-XnqjkglGqp9dw3HUj-hlHNm5kN4T6yDfYgxrmz2RUydl_GmGWKN5IQgZ2-zRZDN57xUO5JTMhhXeByY/s640/blogger-image-472896782.jpg"></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This painting by Sargent is always a favorite. After seeing it I always hope to do some paintings of musicians.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzARcFkNkGDpCmhCJ8XR-ClVUMI6BuvOwVBztoXXtbQ_Zxr6kuOa3_ck81RnXoksnMzYtfShqOupxLQhWI9ML0uNXykh1dceRyeL6V_BjbPGoDyYkS1ItyDJ_8uP8_xnl2PFXxGvd3pm8/s640/blogger-image-38529360.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzARcFkNkGDpCmhCJ8XR-ClVUMI6BuvOwVBztoXXtbQ_Zxr6kuOa3_ck81RnXoksnMzYtfShqOupxLQhWI9ML0uNXykh1dceRyeL6V_BjbPGoDyYkS1ItyDJ_8uP8_xnl2PFXxGvd3pm8/s640/blogger-image-38529360.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Winslow Homers in Boston are also really beautiful. The way the ocean is painted is amazing and memorizing. You can really feel the movement of the sea as the waves are coming in. I get tired just looking at this fishman and his catch with no land in site. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLkVXMCOBUD1lbfwnXkH5rBLsmoyCDcpFRAFaDEonW77DFrwV6MB2BQ9gqbp24FVvzmG_Oa4ytafgGLerbgz2QenrcNQEy9Nplulo8eWjIeXkpsQ2_pLYF45T-kRtO6u3u3mmEQPvw9hg/s640/blogger-image-1255812534.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLkVXMCOBUD1lbfwnXkH5rBLsmoyCDcpFRAFaDEonW77DFrwV6MB2BQ9gqbp24FVvzmG_Oa4ytafgGLerbgz2QenrcNQEy9Nplulo8eWjIeXkpsQ2_pLYF45T-kRtO6u3u3mmEQPvw9hg/s640/blogger-image-1255812534.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The suggestion is always more powerful to me then the spelled out every blade of grass kind of thing. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Although I think of Albrecht Dürer's watercolor "Great Peice of Turf," might balance that aesthetic. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnNIhtdvnuwj2Ajgzo0SFqAQMkn6yIHax-R7-5WoJh_NRTxo0kVcsfmZSwnuwofAMB2Fsbuo0A95gallIiyVUl0d0I0pTmW0Jxu2UpFwCcNBUlshlNf3Mbf5CqL-mA22OYgdeX2UwzsnQ/s640/blogger-image--1118635894.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnNIhtdvnuwj2Ajgzo0SFqAQMkn6yIHax-R7-5WoJh_NRTxo0kVcsfmZSwnuwofAMB2Fsbuo0A95gallIiyVUl0d0I0pTmW0Jxu2UpFwCcNBUlshlNf3Mbf5CqL-mA22OYgdeX2UwzsnQ/s640/blogger-image--1118635894.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This painting has always impressed me. The love and care that went into studying a few square feet of earth is admirable. I think of Anne Dillard and her writings and observations in "A Pilgrim at Tinker Creek". She takes us under the earth and loves every part of it and analyzes each part. She even goes so far as to imagine sculpturing a tree with all its roots! How much material wood it take to recreate. A birch tree or a red wood for that matter. It could take one person a lifetime. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Andrew Wyeth has the same attention in his studies of nature. I compare the two here. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieQnwte5fqaI3E9grg37OAKwMMwlfOfdsNUgjNUfkmEncVc8Y_Cv6i-LUGVS39sSFCiczxa9Cu0Tf28b-hSxAlX-LUh-sFKPTJqE5s4oJbGUdzXmJ4srIJVSmYYNJZ1j4eLrykt8oC-rs/s640/blogger-image--532409415.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieQnwte5fqaI3E9grg37OAKwMMwlfOfdsNUgjNUfkmEncVc8Y_Cv6i-LUGVS39sSFCiczxa9Cu0Tf28b-hSxAlX-LUh-sFKPTJqE5s4oJbGUdzXmJ4srIJVSmYYNJZ1j4eLrykt8oC-rs/s640/blogger-image--532409415.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7GmnwYepKzshuQyDjYbR2cRrdHs-5d6vouNiMEAiBy9rojqO6mhIyv9qx9lONHhFI3y3lRmrsJnYhjilaGJ5-89w5YjkXQYa7ZSfGZ_1f-ktwlecYhnGiZerkZfK3QkSetyE3x1a0H6k/s640/blogger-image-167440885.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7GmnwYepKzshuQyDjYbR2cRrdHs-5d6vouNiMEAiBy9rojqO6mhIyv9qx9lONHhFI3y3lRmrsJnYhjilaGJ5-89w5YjkXQYa7ZSfGZ_1f-ktwlecYhnGiZerkZfK3QkSetyE3x1a0H6k/s640/blogger-image-167440885.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div>I also really enjoyed the Jamie Wyeth exhibit that they had there. For me Andrew Wyeth is one of the more interesting characters. </div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9mkOtKog8NsR3h31fXKACpEE1-vmT30i-gVgeDEd4YcPthYLHni2jhwAUY99JjH9fXGa9uQ2Doo6Es4JJBFSXS1c3O5rSL0sicgK9t_Ndp0R0ucIBlKYPfwHxFvnY2aYt-wirwmuyPIo/s640/blogger-image--700414888.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9mkOtKog8NsR3h31fXKACpEE1-vmT30i-gVgeDEd4YcPthYLHni2jhwAUY99JjH9fXGa9uQ2Doo6Es4JJBFSXS1c3O5rSL0sicgK9t_Ndp0R0ucIBlKYPfwHxFvnY2aYt-wirwmuyPIo/s640/blogger-image--700414888.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div><br></div><div>This painting stikes me as so vast. He is like a space junkie. David Hockney used the phrase to cat agonize himself and I see it fitting for Wyeth as well. Our brains can't really fathom space. When it comes to a field, the Grand Canyon or the Milky Way and beyond. It all depends on the size to of the viewer. If you are an ant the tuft of grass is your world or yard. The field Weyth painted is your world. Cezanne was Abel to paint the air that is closer to us and the air that is further away. The artist here takes nothing for granted. <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> Jamie's paintings seem a little more illustrative at times like his grandfathers. This is fine with me. I love a good story. </span></div>jonathan macadamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611773206158125928noreply@blogger.com0