tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37282719314683045872024-03-13T15:36:50.835-05:00Paint Your Joy!The Painting Blog of Kim CarltonKim Carltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06851649644387313284noreply@blogger.comBlogger245125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728271931468304587.post-19499135252850681732017-05-13T23:30:00.000-05:002017-05-13T23:30:59.159-05:00Happy Mother's Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Happy Mother's Day, and a special thank you to you who subscribe and follow, and to you who leave comments~ you are a blessing to me. I devoted myself to our boys while they were growing up, and when they left home, I turned my attention to another labor of love. You are part of this labor of love, which kind of makes us family. </span></span></span>Kim Carltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06851649644387313284noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728271931468304587.post-18783709439551471762017-04-26T23:46:00.000-05:002017-04-26T23:46:54.054-05:00Son Worshipper, 18x24<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Son Worshipper, 18x24, Oil Painters of America 2017 National Show, opening soon!</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has been so long since I posted a blog, I actually forgot how to do it. I had to get google help to get back into my account. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are so many outlets now for social media and I am really enjoying facebook and instagram, mostly because they are much more interactive than blogging. Blogging can feel like talking to yourself, except that talking to yourself requires no effort and no spelling worries :-) </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I took some time away from my lonely blog to write for some publications and I have to tell you, the response makes that kind of writing so much more fun and gratifying. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And now I'm taking time away from <i>them</i> because I can't work with deadlines right now; I'm back to the rarefied ether of the blogosphere! </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, I have been working on some paintings that I have long pictured in my head but have had to figure out just how to create. This is a LOT harder than painting something that you see with your real eyeballs. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some of these paintings have been in my mind for decades before I learned how to paint, and I still don't know how to realize them on canvas. This one, though, only needed a good ram skull, so you would think it'd be slam-dunk, but it wasn't. I had a half a dozen people hunting around for a skull for me for OVER TWO YEARS before I finally asked my husband, Russ, if he would get me one for Christmas.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He thought I was kidding.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I won't share my secret of how exactly I convinced him that I was not kidding, but he was convinced that I wasn't joking in time for Christmas. He found a guy up by Canada somewhere who had this professionally taxidermied skull that had originally come from <i>TEXAS</i>, where I had been looking for OVER TWO YEARS. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not to digress...</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like a lot of my paintings, this one was staged in my own backyard, and all parts of it are symbolic. I am working on another larger one right now that, if it turns out, I will share on the blog as well.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Oil Painters of America 2017 National Show will be opening in the Eisele Gallery of Fine Art in Cincinnati, Ohio on 12 May. There are about 200 paintings in the show and the preview looks pretty spectacular. If you are in the area, it will be worth your while to take a peek.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also of note, my own gallery, RS Hanna Gallery in Fredericksburg, TX, is having the grand opening of its new space this coming First Friday: 5 May 2017. They have expanded, during a time when so, so many great galleries have either sold out or have had to shut their doors altogether. I feel very grateful and indebted to the outstanding leadership and hard work of Shannon Hanna and her whole crew for their tireless work and love. Please come if you can! And thank you to John and Patty Curtis, Texas art collectors who bought the first painting that sold on the night of the soft opening: my own Beach Hut! </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It looks like the art world is coming back to life after a long hibernation, and I'm so glad.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's the new address:</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">RS Hanna Gallery</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">244 West Main Street</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fredericksburg, TX</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you miss First Friday, don't worry: Hanna Gallery isn't going anywhere; come by anytime and see what wonderful things Shannon Hanna has done for the Art World lately. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As promised in
my last post, I continue onward and upward in the joyous journey called, My
Life as an Artist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's a journey
fraught with twists and blessed with surprises, and it hardly ever
goes the way I plan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do my due
diligence, don't get me wrong; flying by the seat of my pants has never been my
forte, no matter what you've heard. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So I have
professionally ventured into plein air painting, having been an avid amateur
for more than a decade.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seeing the field
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">from</i> the field, competitively
speaking, instead of from the studio window, has given me a new perspective and
some interesting insights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was slated
to write an article for Oil Painters of America this summer and thought it
would be about color, but as I began tromping around en plein air, I came to realize that I had to write about something else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So I did.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What happened
next surprised me.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I was going to
copy/paste the article for you here but it would be better for you to go to the
OPA site, because the surprising thing happened in the responses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you scroll down to the Comments section
under the article, you will see what I mean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Click <a href="http://blog.oilpaintersofamerica.com/2015/07/the-pace-race/" target="_blank">here</a> to see the Oil Painters of America article.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Then the next
thing that happened was also unexpected: another magazine wanted to do an
article on the article and the responses to it.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Click <a href="http://www.outdoorpainter.com/kim-carlton-hits-a-nerve/?utm_source=Art+List&utm_campaign=8480ba1117-PAT_A_7_22_15_7_21_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6907cc7961-8480ba1117-232062533" target="_blank">here</a> to see the Outdoor Painter article.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The most
conversation took place on Facebook though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was fun and a little scary to see it; scary because I felt like some
people were thinking that I am against plein air events.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am not; not at all!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Fun because it is comforting to know that you are not alone when you
find yourself in an unexpected place~ and I always have fun when there's a group of us!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And also rewarding, as I received several emails from people who said that
they were about to hang up their paint brushes for good, but now felt like they
had been given permission to stay in the field and explore their own art at their own pace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I'm reminded that we are on this journey
together, contributing to the culture and the historical mark of our generation; to encourage each other on the path is a part of our job.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I hope you
enjoy the articles!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Feel free to add
your two cents, and thank you for stopping by PYJ.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">I decided at the end of last year to spend this year really focusing on plein air painting. </span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">My thinking was that I would <i>only</i> paint en plein air for a year, but events have conspired to convince me that what I should really do is just what I tell other people to do, which is: "Paint Your Joy!" </span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">And it is<i> such</i> a joy to paint the figure and objects of beauty, as well as the landscape.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">Until this year, plein air painting has always and only been a great sport that I play with my friends. I've never been trained. When I decided to get serious about it, I signed up to study with two top-notch plein air painter-teachers: Ray Roberts and Jill Carver. Roberts' workshop was in the West's Most Western Town of Arizona, out in the desert, this February. Carver's was in the Cowboy Capital of the World in Texas, this March. I am a new person out there now; I cannot say enough about the skill and generosity of these two artists. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">I am just freshly back from teaching my own workshop in the hill country and am preparing to go to the Oil Painters of America's national show, and this time I am really sticking my neck out. In addition to the big OPA show, there is a "City by the Sea" plein air competition. I've never done anything like that before. I'm going to do it. In the words of my son (who was 8 years old when he said them), "What's the worst that can happen? ...They can't kill me." </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">To prepare, I have been working very hard. I have just finished three books about designing landscape paintings, and with the workshops fresh in my mind, I've been painting out as much as is weatherically possible. (<b>weatherically</b>. adverb. 1a: with regard to weather <as much as is ~ possible --KS Carlton, 2015>...) These preparations have kept me from my blog post, but I am bound heart and soul to pass along the joyous journey, so back to my post I faithfully come.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">I will share for now only my trip to Fairfield, TX, this week, where the wildflowers lend credence to the town's name.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">After exploring a wide swath of beautiful landscape, I ended up painting in the median of I-45 at the Fairfield overpass. For the first time EVER in a roadside plein air stop, I did not have a single obnoxious honker. I attribute that to the presence of my husband, whose truck was pointed toward me as I painted, across the feeder from where I worked. It was grand and glorious, and while I have not yet shot a "real" photo of the finished work, I will attach what I do have for you. First, here's the work in progress:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">The temptation was to really "get" the flowers, because they were beautiful and so paintable. </span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">Instead, I applied my lessons and went for design and essence. The bluebonnets are still present but are hiding now under the new grasses; visible, peeking out here and there, with a strong presence in the shadow of the main tree. My motif was the flowers in front of the tree shadow. If I create a studio piece after this, I will bring out the flowers a little more. I have to tell you, I just love painting out in the open air. I love Texas and I hope this little 10x8 will bring some of what I love to you. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">Thank you so much for stopping by PYJ. I'm dedicating this blog to my dear friend, Donna, who has been very patient with her MIA BFF, and to Lewis, who also has been very patient with his MIA MSP pal, and who encouraged me to post this blog. </span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">I'll let you know what the next chapter held, once I find out. </span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">Love, Kim. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;"></span><br />Kim Carltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06851649644387313284noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728271931468304587.post-26663520508622565092015-03-15T01:43:00.000-05:002015-03-16T15:46:03.964-05:00The Spring "Just Paint!" Workshop<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This spring's <strong><em>Just Paint!</em></strong> workshop will be held in the brand new <strong>Spicewood Center for the Arts</strong>, in the beautiful hill country area near Austin. John and Patty Curtis will host the workshop and will answer all your questions about how to be a part of it!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">We are planning to have a variety of workshops there in the future: portrait, still life, and plein air, as well as short-shops for color charting and other special skill-boosters. This time, I've invited students to bring their own source material; <em>whatever they want to paint</em>. It can be actual still life objects or photographs of anything that inspires them. </span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">I have found that there are a lot of people who have great art inside them but are afraid or unsure of how to let it out. That ember of inspiration can either die or be fanned into a flame.<em> I'm a flame-fanner, baby!</em> If this is you, if you want to paint your vision but are stuck... bring me an ember of inspiration and we will start a bonfire of beauty that will let your joy be seen by the people it was meant for. Quiet all the other voices and listen to the still, small voice that whispers greatness for you: believe it! Do it! <em><strong>Just Paint!</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">If you missed this one, contact Kim (<a href="mailto:kim@kimcarlton.com">kim@kimcarlton.com</a>) or Patty (<a href="mailto:jpcurtis@austin.rr.com">jpcurtis@austin.rr.com</a>) to be added to the wait list for September's workshop.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;"></span><br />Kim Carltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06851649644387313284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728271931468304587.post-24865146597319940312014-12-02T00:52:00.000-06:002014-12-02T00:52:36.848-06:00Oil Painters of America Blog<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Happy Middle of the Holidays to you! I have something I'd like to share with you and I hope it works. Today, Oil Painters of America published an article I wrote about color charts on their blog. I will post the link at the end of this but I am going to try to copy and paste it to my own blog, so that you can read it if you don't subscribe to OPA's blog. You should, though. There's always something interesting for oil painters being discussed on it; you might enjoy it.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Okay, wish me luck, I'm cutting and pasting now:</span><br />
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The Value of Color Charts</h1>
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<span class="date published time" title="2014-12-01T00:00:00+00:00">December 1, 2014</span> by <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn"><a href="http://blog.oilpaintersofamerica.com/author/kim-carlton/" rel="author">Kim Carlton</a></span></span> <span class="post-comments"><a href="http://blog.oilpaintersofamerica.com/2014/12/value-color-charts/#comments"><span class="dsq-postid" rel="4269 http://blog.oilpaintersofamerica.com/?p=4269">8 Comments</span></a></span></div>
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<em>My advice—my plea to you—is to do the charts for your sake. (Do not use mine.) The charts are not a sure-fire gimmick guaranteed to make you a color wizard, but they are the best way I know of to understand your pigments and enter the study of color on sound footing. Take your time; don’t be in a rush just to get them done. Stay alert and see what is happening, not only on your palette, but within yourself. Impatience will well up, so will exasperation as you make mistakes or struggle with decisions about the right color and value, but I urge you to stick with it. In a way, the charts are intended to be somewhat agonizing so that you will develop the patience and self-control so necessary in painting. It should be like an initiation ritual before what is to come, so you may endure it without giving up.</em><br /> Richard Schmid, Alla Prima</div>
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I begin with this quote because, seriously, anything that Richard Schmid pleads with his readers to do is worth consideration. The discipline of charting color might be compared to learning to read music or understanding grammar. I know some great musicians who play “by ear,” and writers who know nothing about the rules of grammar, but they will admit that they wish they had that academic knowledge in their hip pocket. Color charts are like that. You may not learn everything possible about color by doing them, but you will have, as Richard said, “sound footing” to begin your journey. You will also have confidence, knowing you’ve done your work.</div>
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The purpose of the charts is to show how each color on your palette relates to all the other colors there. You will want a chart for every color, to see how that particular color interacts with one other color, and then how their offspring look when mixed with white. Each chart will show the influence of the dominant color on the other colors. You will be able to tell by looking which color is represented in the chart; your red chart’s red/yellow will not look like your yellow chart’s yellow/red. You will add white as you go down, tinting each color until it’s all but white; across the bottom, all the lightest lights should be the same value. Most of the other colors start out at different places on the value scale, so the other rows will have a variety of values. Even though you can tell by looking, it’s still a good idea to label all the columns. </div>
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Here’s what you will need: ¼ inch masking tape (easiest to buy online; costs about $2.00), a pencil and ruler, one or two small palette knives (the second one can scrape the first, you won’t have to wash brushes between each color, and your squares will be pretty), and of course your paints, palette, paper towels and canvas. When I am teaching color, I start with four colors (plus white) in order to reveal the unlimited potential of a limited palette. This number of colors fortuitously fits perfectly on a piece of 14×11 canvas, which can be bought in tablets.</div>
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<img alt="Charts.Pic#1.Materials.materials" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-4270" height="300" src="http://blog.oilpaintersofamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Charts.Pic1_.Materials.materials-231x300.jpeg" style="cursor: move;" unselectable="on" width="231" />Here’s how you prepare your canvas: It’s easier to work on a tabletop for this than using an easel. Tape the canvas to a board to allow yourself freedom to spin the chart around as you fill the squares. Measure out a quarter of an inch for the width of the tape, then an inch for each square, and repeat for every color. Make tic marks with your pencil, rather than lines, to indicate placement. Put the quarter-inch tape between the marks and leave a tag hanging off the end for you to pull when you’re done. Place all vertical tapes first, followed by all horizontal tapes. You will carefully remove the tape as soon as you are done with each chart (don’t wait till later!); it is easy to pull the horizontals off first, then the verticals. Now write the initials of the colors you will be charting. For example, the colors I use for the limited palette are Transparent Oxide Brown, Ultramarine Blue, Cadmium Red, and Cadmium Yellow Pale: TOB, U, CR, and CY. The Transparent Oxide Brown chart will have these headings on the columns: TOB, TOB/U, TOB/CR, and TOB/CY. Note that the size of your chart/canvas will be determined by the numbers of colors and values you want to explore. For the limited palette, I chose four colors and five value steps, so I will have four across and five down, plus some space between each chart. Measure it out accordingly.</div>
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You will be working one column at a time, taking five value steps with each color. The first column of each chart is the master color’s value scale. All the other columns will show this master color’s effect on the rest of the palette’s colors. Here is the first column for the limited palette chart:</div>
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<br /> The next column will be a little bit more complicated, as you are adding another whole dimension: you’re making not only value decisions but also color decisions, as you mix color columns that show two colors in which one dominates the other. It should be clear on each chart that you’re showing a certain color as it’s influenced by other colors. You then create the tint steps in the value scale for each.</div>
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As you are working, remember that this is your chart and no one is timing or grading you. Let it be a joyous experience, with not one nerve wracked and nary a tear shed. Scrape your mistakes and don’t worry about the squares; your tape is in place to keep you tidy. You will be so surprised when you pull the tape off and see how beautiful your work looks. When I first finished mine, I put them on my studio wall because it was just so satisfying to look at them; like a lovely rainbow of harmonies. But they had to come down. They are a tool, and just like the tools on the pegboard, they have another use besides looking pretty on the wall. I use them for teaching and for note-taking in the field. A good field sketch combined with informed color notes is invaluable back in the studio.</div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The weekend before Thanksgiving: that's when they have the Civil War reenactment at the historic Liendo Plantation. I had to miss it last year because I was getting ready for that big solo show in Houston and had made myself very sick breathing great doses of varnish. This year looked grim too, as the weather was just awful at the start of the weekend. Then, a clearing. Sunday was beautiful! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">We were to be sitting down, and you can see the yellow cord that was supposed to keep us back. The four people center and left let that cord mark where <em>their backs</em> would be, and they were on their knees for most of the time. From my position then, were captured</span><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;"> a plethora of photos that look like this:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">...as I held the camera up over my head.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">It was exciting though. The most exciting part for me was seeing two people who I felt close to because I had painted them over a long period of time. It's funny to have a one-sided soul-connection with someone, but my heart was pouring things into the figures I was portraying, completely unbeknownst to them. When I saw them again, I greeted them: they being dear friends to me; I being a perfect stranger to them. How odd, but somehow sweet. Like when you dream about someone: you have had this experience with them that they don't remember at all! Still, it's a part of your memory of them, hopefully a pleasant one.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">So here is the bravest of them all, Gordon, and the painting I did of him, "Behind the Lines:"</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">He is the symbol of our military, staying on the periphery of <em>our</em> lives but laying <em>their</em> lives on the line for our freedom. Gordon himself, and his children, have served/are serving our country in the military. He is a true patriot and he is keeping our history alive in a very literal sense. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">And here is the most lovely of them all, Billie, and the painting I did of her, "Something Found:"</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">She is a symbol of the sweet pursuit of something lost. Her grace and beauty have moved a lot of people. She has such a gentle but strong countenance that people seem to confer upon the image of her wishful pieces of themselves. I had the good fortune of meeting her, and so know that she is everything you would wish such a beautiful person to be; humble, gracious, kind and more beautiful than a brush could render.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">I am so grateful this Thanksgiving for the things the skipper in my very first command told us we were living to serve: God, country, family. I wish you a wonderful holiday.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">So my first idea was kicked out immediately: that of Hamlet, Act 5, Scene 1; the famous "Alas, poor Yorick!" meditation. Now, Shakespeare was my favorite in school and I knew him well, but holding the skull of a friend must needs be counted as weird<em> and</em> morbid in any man's book. And Father John, as he is called, seemed not to be tragic at all, as he rested his hand on someone's skull. Rather, he seemed somehow radiant and self-transcendent; the opposite of Hamlet.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">That's when it hit me. He gave me the same feeling that I had when I looked at Bernini's sculpture, The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa! Here's what Teresa herself says about her feelings following the vision she had, that inspired the sculpture:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;"><em>"...The soul is satisfied now with nothing less than God... It is a caressing of love so sweet which now takes place between the soul and God, that I pray God of His goodness to make him experience it who may think that I am lying..."</em></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">(from her autobiography, "The Life of Teresa of Jesus" 1515-1582)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">There are no "alases" in her heart, the heart that she perceived as pierced by an angel with an arrow of fire unto earthly death. This is what I could see in the priest-monk's face as he posed in silence. It was as though he were looking at a thing of beauty that only he could see, and I was finally reminded of the verse in the Bible, James 4:14:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">So I left the top part of the painting lighter, like a lifting fog, and have entitled the painting, The Vanishing Mist, so as to allude to not only the vision that vanishes when one awakes fully, but to earthly life itself: a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. </span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">That makes me want to live a life that counts; one that is colorful and courageous, while it's still today!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It feels good, she says from southern Texas, to turn the corner toward autumn. There is an ever-so-slight hint of cool in the days all of a sudden that makes me excited to get back out to paint! </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">In the last post, I told you that I was going to Fredericksburg to do an oil painting demonstration at my gallery (rshannagallery.com). Thank you all for the great turnout! </span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">I brought my whole set-up, including a table, wooden box and spotlight, so I could paint something patriotic from life. I went with some Gerber daisies that reminded me of bursting fireworks, and a kind of red, white and blue color scheme. I had a graphic from 1776 America tacked to the back of the box, of an eagle with a shield, arrows and olive branches: perfect! Altogether it made a good subject for the day. At the point of the top picture, I had just finished the initial block-in and was preparing to talk about color and temperature. The set-up is visible on the left. The lower photo shows the finished painting, </span><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">which is available at RS Hanna Gallery. Some of those paintings on the wall are still available, too. I'll be updating inventories in the coming weeks~ I want to sincerely thank the art lovers and collectors who are such a rich blessing to me; thank you so much. I hope that the paintings you've taken home with you make you smile every time you see them! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">Today I want to share a brief sketch of a woman napping in a park on holiday, to get you ready for the long weekend. The model, Khayt, has posed for our Friday group a couple of times and seems to epitomize the relaxed vacationer. Too bad she wasn't in red, white and blue, but she does have an apple! And I believe the volume at her hand is Alexis de Tocqueville's "Democracy in America," in which the author opines about the greatness of our young country: "...I have nowhere seen women occupying a loftier position; and if I were asked... to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of that people ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply, --to the superiority of their women." A wise man!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Spring semester classes have finished and our art league is soon to be homeless again so my classroom is disappearing for awhile. I will publish workshop, class or demo dates as they are scheduled, and my next demo date, as a matter of fact, is this Friday at the Art Walk, RS Hanna Gallery, in Fredericksburg, 5 p.m. <a href="http://www.rshannagallery.com/">www.rshannagallery.com</a> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">My beautiful and brilliant mother-in-law loaned me these pitchers so that I could paint them. They were my rainy-day painting subjects: on days that I had no model or could not go out to paint, I painted them in the studio. They are 8x6 paintings in nice solid wood frames and they make me feel so happy! In my imagination, we are all vessels, looking a certain way on the outside, containing certain things on the inside, each unique and wonderful in his own way. We are always being filled up, poured out, or holding our own. These three pitchers are beautiful and purposeful, so very different from each other, but complementing each other perfectly, like a good family. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The only thing a painter can paint is the light. It seems like he's painting a tree or a face, but he's painting the look of the light that is bouncing off the object and landing on the retina. The subject is the light. Even if it's in the shadows, a painter is painting something about the light: the bounce light, the ambient light; if it can be seen, it has light touching it somehow. </span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">The light has a color to it that will be felt by the viewer as warm or cool, and will influence the local color of the object. It's smart to try to understand this, as it does influence color choices. A blue light on a red ball will make the local red color look different (purple) from a yellow light on a red ball (orange). This is because blue and red make purple, and yellow and red make orange! The funny thing is, if you paint it right, it will read "red," even if it was actually painted with purple or orange pigments. </span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">And the shadow that will be cast is different according to the color of the light as well. "Warm" light casts a cool shadow; "cool" light casts a warm shadow. The first thing a painter has to do is determine the color of the light.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">Each of these four studies, done when I was painting with Gerhartz, was painted in a different light. I was glad to be able to really closely scrutinize the temperature and relationships for as long as I wanted. Well, as long as I wanted in three hours.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">(I don't know how these will be presented in the email version of this post, so if you want to see it in its natural and deliberate format, please click <a href="http://www.kimcarlton.blogspot.com/">www.kimcarlton.blogspot.com</a> )</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have been so inspired. Recently, in Texas, we have had Sorolla in Dallas, Sargent in Houston and Gerhartz in The Woodlands. I have learned from these three artists by studying how they process and organize light and temperature and values. I spent today with Sargent, saying good-bye and asking for just one more lesson; he never ever disappoints a person who asks nicely and listens carefully.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">This is a crop of a painting I did from life while studying with Gerhartz, showing the play</span><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;"> of light and shadow across the form of girl's head, that embodies many of the ideas I've been exploring this spring. Her face is illuminated by cool north light from a window and her hair is up-lit from behind with a hot spotlight, yet most of her face is not in the light at all. I love the extreme subtleties of form that can be turned within a color-value shape, just using slight shifts in temperature. If I learned nothing else from Sargent and Sorolla, I learned that there is infinite strength in restraint. I will be practicing this idea over the summer and I'll try to be better about posting on the blog and website. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">I taught my last class of the semester this week and am looking forward to catching up on some studio work. I found out that Something Found was picked as a finalist in the prestigious Art Renewal Center's International Salon, so that's two international salons that the little Spanish lady did well in. She's back and available at RS Hanna Gallery now. Shannon has sold five of my paintings in the last couple of months so I know I've found the right place for my work. I love this time of year when all the quiet work of the winter is blossoming forth and bearing fruit! </span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">Thank you for stopping by <a href="http://www.kimcarlton.blogspot.com/">www.kimcarlton.blogspot.com</a> and have a safe and grateful Memorial Day holiday. </span>Kim Carltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06851649644387313284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728271931468304587.post-24898882775342195822014-05-19T16:32:00.000-05:002014-05-19T16:32:01.492-05:00Salon International 2014<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Salon International was very different this year. Greenhouse Gallery, the SI venue, has new owners and has moved back into their original gallery space. Many decisions are being made to "remake" Greenhouse and the Salon, including expansion of the show to include other media besides oil, and limiting the number of accepted entries to around 200 from the traditional 400. I felt honored to have both my paintings chosen this year, and then flat out elated to be one of the 12 winners chosen by the great master artist, David Leffel.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">The two paintings in the show were Something Found (above), which won the first honorable mention, and Little Gypsy Girl. The show was great and having Mr Leffel there to judge it first time out was a fantastic stroke of brilliance. Having Mr Leffel there to talk to collectors about your work while you are standing right there is nothing short of surreal.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">Thank you to the people who came out to support the arts and the artists in the salon!</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">And thank<em> you</em> for visiting the Paint Your Joy blog! <a href="http://www.kimcarlton.blogspot.com/">www.kimcarlton.blogspot.com</a></span><br />
Kim Carltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06851649644387313284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728271931468304587.post-7143429718787879592014-02-06T01:39:00.000-06:002014-02-06T01:39:02.653-06:00RS Hanna Gallery<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">I've joined RS Hanna Gallery of Fredericksburg, TX and am so very pleased to be a part of what they are doing. This pint-sized powerhouse is packed with high caliber artists from all over, but it was because of who owns it and because it's in Texas that I chose them. </span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">One of the things that I love about Fredericksburg is the busy art scene, including their First Friday Art Walk every month (<a href="http://www.ffaw.com/">www.ffaw.com</a>). I'll be there every single first Friday that I possibly can be, including this one, in spite of the dire weather forecasts. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">If you get to go, make sure to stop by and meet the wonderful Shannon Hanna and check it out for yourself, you'll love it: (<a href="http://www.rshannagallery.com/">www.rshannagallery.com</a>).</span><br />
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</span>Kim Carltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06851649644387313284noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728271931468304587.post-64311452376878826762014-02-02T00:55:00.000-06:002014-02-06T01:39:37.128-06:00Plein Air Magazine<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Plein Air Magazine's Editor-in-Chief, Stephen Doherty, has published part of John Pototschnik's article on faith in the field in the current digital edition of his magazine. He used all new paintings of some of those interviewed by John who do paint en plein air. I thought that you would like to see it, although the best way is to subscribe to either the digital edition (which has expanded stories and videos), or the hard cover.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Check them out at: <a href="http://www.pleinairmagazine.com/">http://www.pleinairmagazine.com/</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And now, here is the article (click on the pages to enlarge):</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>What a new year!</em> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">Our show in Houston, Power & Peace, ended on 6 January and was a great success, breaking a sales record for that gallery. It was a "solo show" but I was never alone in it.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">I am so very grateful to our friends and family who were there, before, during, and afterward, making everything work. It was a lot of work! And people came to the opening in spite of the fact that it was the worst weather day in the whole of 2013. I was a little afraid that it would just be a couple of people in that cavernous space, but it turned out to be an exciting and busy affair.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;"> Here are artists Denise Mahlke, myself, and Fran Ellisor, just before the doors opened.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">On another front, I just posted an interview by John Pototschnik a couple days ago, and there was an additional one by him around the same time involving 14 artists across the country: 7 women and 7 men, entitled "Faith... A Shield or a Crutch?" I will share that with you here as well:</span><br />
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In this two-part series, 14 professional artists reveal the important role faith plays in their lives and how it directs, strengthens, and enables them to persevere in their chosen field.<span id="more-2362"></span><br />
One of the blessings derived from writing this weekly blog for the past three years has been the opportunity to communicate with some very talented artists and to discover so many of them are unabashed of their faith in Jesus Christ.<br />
It’s this time of year that we traditionally celebrate His birth, and special songs such as “O, Holy Night” are ways in which that faith is verbalized. Just a few verses will demonstrate what I mean…<br />
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<span style="color: #339966;"><em style="font-size: 13px;">“The King of kings lay thus in lowly manger, </em><em>In all our trials born to be our friend; He knows our need, To our weakness is no stranger, Behold your King, before Him lowly bend!”</em></span></div>
When one speaks of faith and its importance in their life, they are often called spiritual, religious, or perhaps a “person of faith”. If they are really serious and actually attempt to live it, then labels are quickly attached such as fanatic and radical.<br />
What we fail to realize is that all of us are “persons of faith”. We all put our trust in someone or something. Some of us have faith in ourselves…in our strength, ability, or intelligence. Some look to others and have faith in them to provide what is lacking. We may have faith in our national power, our leaders, our money, our insurance, our possessions, even science. More importantly, maybe our faith is dependent on what we’ve been taught about God, or possibly we’ve put our faith and trust in what we want to believe about God and creation…a belief system of our own making. Bottom line, each one of us lives by faith and we have built our life on that foundation. The key question of course is, “How reliable is that foundation?” When all the things mentioned above are taken away…and they will be at some point…what is left? That’s the key question; that’s when the ultimate reliability of the “object” of one’s faith will be revealed. There is sufficient evidence for me, and the artists participating in this blog, to entrust our lives and eternal destination to the Rock of Ages and to Jesus Christ His Son…Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.<br />
It’s an honor to bring you the inspiring words of my friends. First you’ll hear from the women. On 29 December, you’ll hear from the men.<br />
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Kim Carlton – “Something Found” – 16″x 20″ – Oil</div>
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<b><span style="color: #cc99ff;">Kim Carlton</span>: </b>A biblical definition of faith is “the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” It is what we believe to be true and orient our lives toward. It also says in there that “faith without works is dead.” I believe that I was designed to be an artist, but I still had to exert strength and perseverance in order to actually produce art; otherwise, my faith that I was an artist would have no life beyond my own head. Art is separate from the artist; it is the substance of a vision. Strength involves disciplining yourself every day to align the day toward what you believe to be true. Perseverance requires staying on track, and getting back on track when you inevitably get knocked off. I have always been an artist but it has taken time and patience to be sufficiently trained to communicate my vision well. <a href="http://kimcarlton.com/">Carlton website</a><br />
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Dot Courson – “Fall Retreat” – 24″x 36″ – Oil</div>
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<b><span style="color: #cc99ff;">Dot Courson</span>: </b>Faith leads to strength and perseverance. Art is part of my make-up – it’s what I’ve longed to do since childhood. I didn’t get to take a direct route to become an artist, but persevered because I felt this is what I was meant to do. God has a life plan for us all. He works it out in His time and in His way. His judgment is infinitely better! As an artist, I have had successes and failures, but with each work of art -as in life- I’ve tried to be strong and use my gifts to work hard. In this economy it’s not as easy as it used to be. But in life, struggles made me stronger and I have faith that this is what I need to continue to do. I truly have been blessed and so I feel that in turn, it is my duty to encourage and help others in their lives. <a href="http://dotcourson.com/">Courson website</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: #cc99ff;">Judy Crowe</span>:</b> I chose to become an artist but before that, I chose to become a Christian. The loss of my mother when I was in high school had a direct impact on the search for answers, but questioning, studying and reading led me to my decision. I would say my life has been quite a tapestry of events since, which has shaped both my life and my career, becoming intertwined and bittersweet. I feel God has had a hand in all of it, that he’s led me to become an artist and given me the strength to persevere in times of doubt. I am very thankful for this gift of Light and Truth in my life because through it, I find hope and peace in the realization that I am doing just what I was put here to do and that I’m being led daily in the way that I should go. Even when I don’t understand and things don’t turn out the way I think they should, He never gets it wrong. <a href="http://judycrowe.com/">Crowe website</a><br />
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Debra Joy Groesser – “Morning Glory” – 24″x 30″ – Oil</div>
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<b><span style="color: #cc99ff;">Debra Joy Groesser</span>:</b> My faith guides my life and has helped me get through some very hard times in my personal life and my career: including a difficult, unhealthy first marriage, divorce, the loss of my parents, and having to give up my art career for several years… to name the major ones. As with many artists, I knew from a very young age that art is what I was meant to do…being an artist was who I was. It took a lot of faith, strength and perseverance to hold on to that and to not give up on it over the years that followed. Faith has helped me to look back and understand how the path I’ve taken has helped me in my life and my career. It’s helped me to see something good, or find a lesson, in nearly everything, good or bad. If not for the difficulties, it would be easy to take our blessings for granted. Although they are painful, the difficult, challenging times build our strength and our character and teach us to persevere. My faith guides me in all I do. When presented with opportunities and challenges, I pray for guidance to make the right decisions and for the things I do and the work I create, and to be a blessing to others. <a href="http://debragroesser.com/">Groesser website</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: #cc99ff;">Sheryl Knight</span>:</b> All three play a major part in my career and life. My strength and perseverance come from my faith in God and in knowing He is ultimately in control, not only in my life but also in the universe. I believe God sovereignly holds tomorrows pains and pleasures, failures and victories in his mighty hand. I try to focus on what God can do through me, not what I can do myself. That gives me strength and enables me to persevere even when things aren’t going so well, or when it seems I’m in a desert. I find my inspiration in nature and the beauty of it all. I see the presence of God’s amazing design all around me, even in the ordinary. I don’t believe the random events of life are anything less than His appointed order. Living by faith gives hope, meaning, and purpose to my life and art. I have a quest to achieve something deeper through my art, more than just a nice painting. I want to bring joy and peace, as well as celebration and hope. <a href="http://www.sherylknight.com/">Knight website</a><br />
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Denise LaRue Mahlke – “Communion” – 20″x 32″ – Pastel</div>
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<b><span style="color: #cc99ff;">Denise LaRue Mahlke</span>:</b> I think God has given each one of us, the gift of creativity and a longing for ‘something more’…When we persevere in faith, in confidence and boldness, not in a spirit of fear, we can move forward, onward and upward towards the dreams and desires He has given us. God’s grace and love are boundless. Committing my way to the Lord as a follower of Christ has led to a closer walk with Him and His best for me. My desire is to please Him by giving back by way of committing the works of my hands to His honor and glory. Perseverance comes daily and dedication and growth is the reward for going forward in faith and the strength He supplies. Faith, strength, and perseverance are entwined throughout and into every part of life, like the vine and it’s branches. Proverbs 3:4-5 has been a guidepost for me: “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean to your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.” <a href="http://www.dlaruemahlke.com/">Mahlke website</a><br />
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Dawn Whitelaw – “Autumn’s Last Stand” – 20″x 20″ – Oil</div>
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<b><span style="color: #cc99ff;">Dawn Whitelaw</span>:</b> My life is too full of “coincidences” for me not to be a believer. When I paint outdoors, I see His presence everywhere, and my faith is affirmed. I know that God loves me in spite of who I am. This realization leads me to live a life of gratitude. I am a work in progress both as a painter and a follower of God. My joy is in the journey. When people tell me I am a gifted painter, I know, that the true gift is not the ability to paint, but the drive and stamina to pursue the craft, and the ability to teach. The people that I can most help always seem to find their way to my door, in droves. In the end, the teaching and mentoring I am able to do will be my best work on this earth and far more significant than anything I can ever paint. <a href="http://www.dawnwhitelaw.com/">Whitelaw website</a></section><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;"><h1 class="post-title-h2" itemprop="headline">
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<section class="post-content clearfix" itemprop="articleBody"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="dd_start"></a>Women are often viewed as the “spiritual” ones in the home while men appear more apathetic, certainly not ranking spiritual matters very high on their list…and even if they do, they’re not easily inclined to talk about it. For some men,<span id="more-2465"></span> issues of faith can be perceived as unmanly and even a sign of weakness. That’s why I’m so pleased to feature a group of men (highly accomplished professional artists) who are not ashamed to proclaim that their faith is critical to their life and that their trust is in the God of the Bible. Their faith has become a shield, part of their armor, with which they can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.<br />
As mentioned in Part 1 of this series…we all have faith in someone or something, and we exercise that faith every day. When it comes to eternal matters though, one’s faith is really critical. In whom or in what that faith is placed can mean life or death.<br />
Any statement about God, or life after death, <b><i>is</i></b> a faith statement. For many people, what is identified as “faith” can better be described as “hope”. Hope in and of itself doesn’t necessarily guarantee that what is hoped for will actually be realized. That’s why it’s really important that one’s view of God and His relationship to the world is based on what He has to say, not on our hopeful speculation, no matter how sincere we may be.<br />
The Bible describes faith as the “assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen”. Of the 14 artists featured in this two-part series, all recognize that God has revealed Himself to man through His Son, Jesus Christ…and all the promises given to those who put their faith and trust in Him will indeed be fulfilled, for the Scripture assures us, “You will not be disappointed”.<br />
The one question all humanity must deal with is…”Did God really say…?” If God has indeed spoken, we would be wise to listen. The men and women featured in this series believe He has, and they have taken it to heart.<br />
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Roger Dale Brown</div>
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“Autumn Along the River” – 30″x 40″ – Oil</div>
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<span style="color: #ff3399;"><b>Roger Dale Brown: </b></span> In the beginning of my painting career, I don’t know how much strength or perseverance I had vs. naivety. Whichever it was, it was powered by God. I knew I had nothing going for me when painting came into my life. It was a sliver of light, in what had been a long dark tunnel, and I held on to it with all I had. Talent is a gift. Its up to us to develop it and that takes hard work. I started to study and become a student of art. I turned my life over to God and was rewarded with the awareness, aptitude and passion to discover art. The ability to create is a gift, and to not create would be a insult to the giver…With God’s gift I can make the positive statement that I regard it as an honor and a responsibility. <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.rogerdalebrown.com/"><span style="color: red;">Brown website</span></a></span><br />
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“Plum and Copper” – 12″x 24″ – Oil</div>
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<span style="color: #ff3399;"><b>Larry Clingman: </b></span> I cannot imagine my life without my faith. It has provided the *strength* to stand, fall, and stand again. When life has been at it’s emptiest moment, when all opportunities seemed exhausted, when it seemed there was no hope or no way forward, it was my faith that guided me. Many times in my life and career it seemed the only answer was to quit, to give up, yet my faith provided the *perseverance* to carry on. Author Richard Carlson once said, “Obstacles and problems are a part of life. True happiness comes not when we get rid of all of our problems, but when we change our relationship to them, when we see our problems as a potential source of awakening, opportunities to practice patience, and to learn”. *It is my faith that has given me the strength and perseverance to recognize and act upon these observations. <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.larryclingman.com/"><span style="color: red;">Clingman website</span></a></span><br />
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“Country of Big Dreams” – 30″x 24″ – Oil</div>
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<span style="color: #ff3399;"><b>David Griffin: </b></span> Painting has always been a difficult process for me, and surprisingly made even more difficult with age and experience. Consequently the more I learn, the more I realize how little I actually really know. So, with that personal revelation, I began again to remember God’s faithfulness and my own faith in the Creator who inspired the Scripture “that He who began a good work in you will carry it onto completion”. My “art life” has had its share of mistakes, failures, and rejections to the degree that I have thought I was not up to the task of being the best steward of this gift I can be; only to be reminded by God’s Spirit that “there is strength in my weakness” and my faith is again restored by God’s grace. I’m trying not to have any illusions about where this “art” will take me, but only daily reconnecting to the One who does know and will carry it onto completion. <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://davidgriffinstudio.com/"><span style="color: red;">Griffin website</span></a></span><br />
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Michael Godfrey</div>
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“January Evening” – 12″x 12″ – Oil</div>
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<b><span style="color: #ff3399;">Michael Godfrey:</span> </b> I have a deep abiding love for God and all that he has done. I am constantly in awe of the wonders of the natural world. His handiwork can be seen in every scale, from the microscopic to the vastness of the universe. Whatever ability I have is God given. I sincerely believe that. I think we give God pleasure when we use our gifts for him. He has put a little of himself in all of us. My work is a journey that expresses the beauty that I find from day to day. Each discovery deepens my love for God and I am thankful that he has given me the senses to experience this wonderful world and the desire to express it in art. My journey in art has been very rewarding, but it has not been easy. I think that God allows challenges in life to strengthen and to reveal what’s inside us. Anyone can rejoice from the mountaintop, but the learning comes from the trek up the mountain. It is through adversity and trial that we grow. I have kept these ideas close to my heart as I have pursued my career. <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://michaelgodfrey.com/"><span style="color: red;">Godfrey website</span></a></span><br />
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“Red Oxide and Pink” – 12″x 9″ – Oil</div>
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<b><span style="color: #ff3399;">John Hanna:</span> </b> Faith is a word that I have been familiar with since childhood. My father was a preacher so I heard that term often. Only much later in life did I realize it could apply to something other than religion. Art or drawing became a part of my life around age five. It fascinated me then and that fascination has never left. I copied the work of great illustrators and studied “How-To” books by Walter T. Foster. By the time I got to college, already with two years practical art experience working for small art departments, I came to realize that if I worked hard, I could have a full-time career in art. I began to believe that with faith and my own ability, I could make it. During my senior year, while looking for a job, I met Bill Neale, an art director at a Dallas ad agency. He suggested I go to New York. On faith and the strength of my wife Sherry, we did. My perseverance was thoroughly tested in New York, but I found a job and through those relationships really began to think about what makes art. It’s strength and perseverance that allows you the faith in yourself to succeed. <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://johnhannaart.fineartstudioonline.com/"><span style="color: red;">Hanna website</span></a></span><br />
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“Lion of Judah” – 19″x 13″ – Digital</div>
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<b></b><span style="color: #ff3399;"><b>Jeff Haynie:</b></span> My life and career has been a journey of faith. As a self-assured young artist ready to take over the art world, I fell hard to realize that I needed help to make it through this life’s challenges. So I received God’s grace in the form of Jesus Christ. He became my Friend, Savior and Personal Counselor through this journey. I feel the closest to God when I’m creating art. It’s like an ocean of freedom where anything is possible. My faith is not a philosophy but rather an honest day to day walk with a real Friend and God who understands my weaknesses, fears and insecurities. It started thirty years ago as a choice to receive God’s gift of Jesus into my heart but the reality is that was a necessity for my life and the best decision I ever made. He is waiting for anyone to come to Him and find life. (Romans 10:9) <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.jeffhaynie.com/"><span style="color: red;">Haynie website</span></a></span><br />
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“Cluster of Gold” – 11″x 14″ – Oil</div>
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<span style="color: #ff3399;"><b>Jason Tako:</b> </span> My Catholic faith in Christ has played such a tremendous part in my life I cannot put it all into words. Belief in God gives everything meaning, including art. In his monumental book on Jesus Christ, The Everlasting Man, G.K. Chesterton said, “Art is the signature of man.” We are the only creatures that create solely for the sake of beauty; the only creatures that express a concept and desire for beauty, and the only creatures that are made in the image of God. I think art, among other things, proves that we are made in His image. This gives meaning to what I paint or draw. Beauty gives a deeper meaning to human existence, and art should reflect this beauty. It should draw us in, and at the same time draw us outside of ourselves and closer to God. <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.jasontako.com/"><span style="color: red;">Tako website</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;"></span><br />Kim Carltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06851649644387313284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728271931468304587.post-34151756904770432532014-01-25T19:07:00.000-06:002014-01-27T11:44:44.381-06:00by John Pototschnik<h1 class="post-title-h2" itemprop="headline">
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="dd_start"></a><section class="post-content clearfix" itemprop="articleBody"><em><strong><span style="color: magenta;">“I like to paint. It’s more of a compulsion actually. Even when I’m sitting in traffic, or watching a movie, I’m mentally painting. It’s pretty much<span id="more-2272"></span> always been that way, so I guess I was born to paint.”</span></strong></em></section><section class="post-content clearfix" itemprop="articleBody"> </section><section class="post-content clearfix" itemprop="articleBody"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Kim Carlton’s work is currently being featured in a solo exhibition, through 6 January, at the Cloister Gallery in Houston, Texas. Her two-dozen oil paintings depict action and energy within calm and peace, hence the theme, “Power and Peace”.</span></section><section class="post-content clearfix" itemprop="articleBody"><span style="font-size: 13px;"></span> </section><section class="post-content clearfix" itemprop="articleBody"><a class="cboxElement" href="http://www.pototschnik.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/16-kc.jpg" rel="lightbox[2272]" title="Kim Carlton interview"><img alt="16 -kc" class="size-medium wp-image-2304 alignleft" src="http://www.pototschnik.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/16-kc-260x300.jpg" height="300" width="260" /></a></section><section class="post-content clearfix" itemprop="articleBody"> </section><section class="post-content clearfix" itemprop="articleBody">She is an engaging person, and yet, intensely serious about her work…always learning and growing. Her good friend, award winning artist Denise LaRue Mahlke, describes her as a person with a positive outlook and quick wit. “I love how genuine she is, generous of spirit, kind-hearted, smart, and always learning. She is the ‘real deal’ and I am blessed and happy to know her.”<br />
</section><section class="post-content clearfix" itemprop="articleBody">She’s also a realist. Kim describes painting as hard work…at least to do it well. “Being an artist is unique as a profession these days because we often must teach ourselves drawing, composition, color theory and paint chemistry, all the skills involved in the translation of the three-dimensional world into a new two-dimensional world. It’s a very complicated language to learn, and then we must spend thousands of hours practicing the art and science of painting. There really aren’t too many jobs like this. Singers can sing someone else’s songs, actors can repeat someone else’s lines, but the fine artist isn’t considered an artist unless he is the composer, designer and playwright of his own original work. After all, a counterfeiter of art brings to bear all the same skill and knowledge, but is never to be regarded as an artist, only a copyist.<br />
</section><section class="post-content clearfix" itemprop="articleBody">If an artist decides to make a life of it, then he must also teach himself marketing and bookkeeping, framing, crating and shipping, business administration and website management, plus photography and Photoshop… particularly if he wants to enter art competitions.”<br />
</section><section class="post-content clearfix" itemprop="articleBody">I am pleased to bring you this interview with Kim Carlton, a self-described Christian, wife and mother. As you’ll also discover, she is a wonderful writer…a master of the analogy.</section><section class="post-content clearfix" itemprop="articleBody"><b style="font-size: 13px;"><br /><span style="color: magenta;">What is your definition of art and your role as an artist? </span> </b>I think true artists have a vision, and art is the substance of that vision. My role as an artist is to communicate that in a beautiful and understandable way.</section><section class="post-content clearfix" itemprop="articleBody"><b style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: magenta;">Do you consider the process of painting more important than the result? </span> </b>No, for me that’s like asking if my heart beat is more important than my breathing. When I first started painting, I was so happy; all I wanted to do was paint. Then I wanted to see if my work was competitive, so I entered some shows. After that, I got pretty side-tracked with the competition, as though painting were some kind of sport. I did the same thing when I was a runner; I ran because I loved it, but when I started racing, I trained on a crazy schedule so I could win races, totally losing track of why I started running in the first place. When I realized that I was starting to lose the joy of the process of painting in favor of a “winning” result, I had to pull back and regroup. I’m a professional painter and my <i>process</i> produces a<i> result</i>. If I focus on the process, I won’t get anything done. If I focus on the result, I compromise my process. If I personally let either one be more important than the other, they both lose their strength.<br />
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“Something Found” – 16″x 20″ – Oil</div>
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“Under the Stove Light” – 14″x 18″ – Oil</div>
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“James’ Game of Risk” – 18″x 14″ – Oil (Merit Award, Salon International, 2011)</div>
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</section><section class="post-content clearfix" itemprop="articleBody"><b style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: magenta;">What colors are most often found on your palette? </span> </b>I have two palettes but I use either one for every subject. In other words, I don’t have a “landscape palette” and a “portrait palette.” I started with the colors that Richard Schmid taught in his book, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Alla Prima</span>. Then, when I was making my first plein air trip, I whittled my palette down to four colors and white for ease of packing: transparent oxide brown, ultramarine blue deep, cadmium red, and cadmium yellow pale. I tried before I left to see if I could mix my other colors from these and found that I could come close enough for comfort! When I returned home from that trip, my palette was thus laid out and so I brought it to my figure group to see if it would work there. It did! So for quite awhile, I used just these four colors, even for major portrait commissions. If I had just those four forever after, I would remain quite happy.</section><section class="post-content clearfix" itemprop="articleBody">In the last couple of years however, I’ve been experimenting with color and writing about my discoveries. I have written quite a bit and am now editing and researching to see if I’m just reinventing the wheel. I’m still using the four-color palette whenever I teach or travel, but in my studio I’m working with a more extensive palette that involves pairing colors. It is intellectually rewarding but not necessary. All an artist really needs are just a few colors. If the palette is limited, harmony is unavoidable.<br />
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<a class="cboxElement" href="http://www.pototschnik.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/3-kc.jpg" rel="lightbox[2272]" title="Kim Carlton interview"><img alt=""Little Gypsy Girl" - 14"x 11" - Oil" class="wp-image-2291" src="http://www.pototschnik.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/3-kc-236x300.jpg" width="450" /></a><br />
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“Little Gypsy Girl” – 14″x 11″ – Oil</div>
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<b style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: magenta;">Are you more concerned with value or color?</span> </b>Value. The human eye has 120 million rods, which interpret value, and only 6 million cones, which interpret color; our eyes are designed to read value. I think it’s critical to be able to express a visual idea with just value so I start my students off with one color (transparent oxide brown) and white. That and a good squint will help you learn the value of value.<br />
</section><section class="post-content clearfix" itemprop="articleBody"><b style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: magenta;">Describe your typical block-in technique.</span> </b>I let the situation dictate how I block in and create a painting and I try not to get locked into a formula. I do have a major categorical division in my paintings though. Like a musician has rehearsals, I have “field” work where I practice my “scales” and experiment. But when musicians are recording or performing in a show, that’s another level of work altogether. That’s my “studio” work. I divide my paintings into those categories: “field” and “studio.” I approach them differently and price the work differently also.<br />
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“Christina in the Shallows” – 10″x 8″ – Oil (Work in progress)</div>
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</section><section class="post-content clearfix" itemprop="articleBody"><strong></strong></section><section class="post-content clearfix" itemprop="articleBody"><strong>Field paintings</strong> are practice or fact-finding or exploratory and they are always <i>alla prima</i>, always quickly done. In the landscape, I usually do a couple thumbnails to get a composition. I do my block-in based on the thumbnail, then shadows followed by anything that is fleeting. This is really important for sunrise/sunset work, or when painting boats or urban landscapes, when someone could get in and drive away with your subject! But when a “field” painting is done in a portrait or figure group, I just jump right into the painting, no composing, no thumbnails. I’ll often start with a quick tone covering the canvas, then pull all the light area off with a towel. If I like the design, I’ll normally commit the shadow shapes first, then the light, leaving enough time to make the focal point read well.</section><section class="post-content clearfix" itemprop="articleBody">Now <strong>studio paintings</strong> are altogether different. My block-in is not based upon having to get it done quickly. I take my time, planning not only the paintings composition but the layers of paint and the treatment and handling of the layers themselves. My studio work will probably have everything from visible bare canvas to thick impasto paint, with tone and underpainting, scumbling and glazing in between, all strategically done. It’s like the anti-<i>alla-prima</i> approach, but a lot of it is still applied “all at once.”</section><section class="post-content clearfix" itemprop="articleBody"> </section><section class="post-content clearfix" itemprop="articleBody"><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_2305" style="width: 460px;">
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“Scout Arriving” (Block-in stage)</div>
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“Scout Arriving” (Intermediate stage)</div>
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“Scout Arriving” – 24″x 30″ – Oil</div>
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<b style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: magenta;">How would you define “success” as an artist? </span> </b>This is a question that always comes up with painters. I see ambition to “succeed” as a sickness in the arts right now. Well, not just in the arts. Success is being defined <i>for</i> us, as earning money and respect and fame– “winning.” There is a growing segment in our profession that is saying “enough” to that. There are performers in the other arts who are constantly promoting themselves and doing wilder and wilder things to keep the spotlight, and then there are the Anthony Hopkinses who ignore all spotlight-grabbing self-promotion and just do the job really, really well. That is success. I believe that if you are doing the thing you’ve been called to do with all your heart and soul, you will have such a joy and such an excellence, you won’t need applause or ribbons to validate you; you are a success.<br />
</section><section class="post-content clearfix" itemprop="articleBody"><b style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: magenta;">As a wife and mother, how did you go about developing your painting career?</span> </b>My original life-plan was simply to be a fine artist. When I found, in the ‘70’s, no teacher or school or career path, I decided to make one up. I chose to be a pilot so I could get paid to travel and have plenty of time to paint. I couldn’t afford lessons so I joined the Navy to let them train me in exchange for a few years of my life. It’s a long story but the short-version is, I accidentally fell in love and gave up my wings for a ring and an <i>altered </i>plan to <i>still </i>be an artist. It gets hilarious when you add the blessing of three sons, but the answer to your question is this: I never gave up and I was always working on it. I drew all the time and I studied. I always did the next thing that I could do. Sometimes I got impatient, but I have a good husband who showed me that while my window of opportunity as an artist would be ever-widening, my window of opportunity to raise these three sons would not, and it would one day be forever closed. So I made being an artist a more “minor” part of my life for awhile, until I could make it a major part. I could have it all, just not all at once. The choices I made put me behind my peers in the art world, but I read a quote early on that impacted me. It said, “In your life, would you rather be something to everyone, or everything to someone?” I cut it out and taped it to the kitchen window so I could read it while washing dishes. Having a career in art was not going to make me an artist. I am an artist. Having a family was never part of my plan in my art career, but the script that God wrote for me was so much better than the one I had outlined for Him.</section><section class="post-content clearfix" itemprop="articleBody"> </section><section class="post-content clearfix" itemprop="articleBody"><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_2295" style="width: 460px;">
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“Rapt Romance” (Detail)</div>
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“Rapt Romance” – 24″x 18″ – Oil (Dianne Rudy Memorial Award, American Artists Professional League)</div>
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<b style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: magenta;">What do you consider your greatest artistic challenge?</span> </b>Having to do the things that aren’t painting. I am not a framer or a marketer, a salesman or a businessman. I wish that I didn’t have to do all that; it steals time from painting.<br />
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<b><span style="color: magenta;">What advice would you have for a young artist/painter?</span> </b>Train yourself well: study books and DVD’s; get in workshops taught by artists who have something you need to know and who have a similar palette. People who sign up for every workshop that comes around have scrambled thinking; they’re workshop-aholics. I’ve found that a good teacher will give me the one thing I need to work on. I will spend about a year really internalizing that before the next thing presents itself to be learned. But work every day; miles of canvas will separate the good from the bad and the ugly. And never give up.</section><section class="post-content clearfix" itemprop="articleBody"> </section><section class="post-content clearfix" itemprop="articleBody">Thanks for sharing your time and talent with us, Kim. You are much appreciated.</section><section class="post-content clearfix" itemprop="articleBody"><br />
<a href="http://www.pototschnik.com/">www.pototschnik.com</a> </section><section class="post-content clearfix" itemprop="articleBody"> </section><br />Kim Carltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06851649644387313284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728271931468304587.post-14710445929898831442013-12-11T01:36:00.000-06:002013-12-16T12:35:38.391-06:00Rapt Romance, 24x18. sold<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rapt Romance, which was selected to show in the 85th Grand National Exhibition in NYC by the American Artists' Professional League and just won the Dianne Rudy Memorial Award, is also the 7th painting from the Power & Peace show that has sold. </span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I met the new owners of the work, I was deeply touched by how the painting affected them, especially the woman, Julie. She felt a kinship with the girl in the painting, curled up with a book. The painting officially became hers today and I wrote the poem below to go with the painting, into her life. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">On her stone bench, face aglow</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">What she's thinking, who can know?</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">Within thin pages lives the beau</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">Who stole her heart away.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">The rapt romance developed so</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">Her heart beat fast, time seemed to slow</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">All earthly loves she would forgo</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">To spend her life with him.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">But creeping o'er her shoulder lo!</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">The sun's alarm, like a cock's crow</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">The worldly hour its light doth throw</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">A shadow o'er her dream.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">But in her heart, love's seed did sow</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">A romance that would ever grow</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">Like sunflowers painted by Van Gogh</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">Are Julie's books to her.</span><br />
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<br />Kim Carltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06851649644387313284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728271931468304587.post-84032136238487874622013-12-02T10:37:00.000-06:002014-01-25T19:10:44.415-06:00Westward Vision<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a detail of Westward Vision, an older painting that I posted when I first started blogging.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">There has been a natural evolution of style that even I can see when I look at all my paintings together. When I painted Esther, I was very new to oil painting but very experienced with drawing. I entered two portraits in the Richeson 75 competition and they were both selected for the show, which was judged by Everett Raymond Kinstler. I asked him to help me understand how I could grow as a painter; he revealed to me the fact that I was drawing with paint, not painting. Painting is a way of seeing and thinking that I did not completely understand yet, but he actually helped my mind learn how to think differently. That's amazing to me.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;">I am going to have a few older paintings in the Power & Peace show that opens this Friday and there will be two of this model, Esther. Here is Esther's story, taken from the original post:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #663300; font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">One day, I was at the grocery store and I met a vision that took my breath away. Literally. Her name was Esther and she was behind the deli counter. Her mysterious hair was hidden in a paper wrap and her lilting accent mesmerized me. I wanted to paint her immediately but did not have the courage to freak her out by asking, so I asked for some baby Swiss instead. Our paths would serendipitously cross again, giving me another chance. She would become the subject of more than one painting and a friend for life. In this one, I am depicting her story, which she told me during a long sitting. She said that when she was a preschooler in Nigeria, she told her mother that she would one day go to America. She could not recall how she knew of America, but she looked westward from Africa from her earliest memory. I'm so thankful that she came all the way to Texas. Westward Vision was in the <strong>Richeson's first Top 75</strong> Portraits international competition.</span></span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is one of the </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">paintings that will be in the Power & Peace show in a couple of weeks. It's also featured in the "Small-Scale Masterpieces" article in this month's issue of American Art Collector magazine, along with the landscape from the last post and a still life from another post.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mother and Child, the
universal and iconic image, does not lose its power with a Texas accent!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The women who came out west were of such
strong stuff, but still so gentle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
think mothers exemplify Power & Peace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This tiny prairie girl is wearing a bonnet and boots with her flour sack
dress, which her mother has bent down to adjust. The tender moment is made strong for me by the clothing that the two are wearing. The mother is dressed for riding, not darning, but you know she made the clothes that little girl is wearing. The mothers of our own generation are equally able and versatile, strong and gentle: powerful purveyors of peace. </span></span>Kim Carltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06851649644387313284noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728271931468304587.post-48355126816815695892013-11-14T22:34:00.000-06:002014-01-25T19:12:33.704-06:00Outdoor Painter Magazine<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wish there were a way to just give you the Outdoor Painter Magazine so you could see what the wonderful writer/editor Bob Bahr wrote up about my favorite place to paint. I don't know how I would do that though so instead, I will post a link to his article along with a painting that was not actually included in the article but is linked to it in geography and spirit. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And here is the painting; it was one of three featured recently in a small works article in American Art Collector magazine (current issue, on the stands at this very moment!) called San Luis Pass, oil on linen, 9x12. It will be available at the opening of my solo show at Cloisters Gallery in downtown Houston on 6 December from 6-8 pm on a special Small Works table:</span><br />
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</span><br />Kim Carltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06851649644387313284noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728271931468304587.post-46946425302694627232013-11-07T00:17:00.000-06:002014-02-14T19:19:54.210-06:00Something Found<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I made stuff up in my imagination about this woman as I painted her and when I was finished with the painting, I thought that it would be fun to write a story to go with her. </span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My challenge was to fit the story into the little space beside the image that pops up on the website when you click on it: not a great deal of room! So instead of a whole long story written out, I tried to allow a story to be created in your mind as you read a poem that gives some context to her and the tents and the thing she's picking up, while leaving much to your own imagination to fill in. Here it is: </span><br />
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<u><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Something Found</span></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">A Spanish lady, beauty so,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">About her throat a cameo,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">One sunny day the fairground went</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">She, looking for her beau.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Her treasure bound up in the sack</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">She’d sewn to hold all she could pack:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Her jewels and money, every cent,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">So she could bring him back.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">She thought she spied him over there,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">His towering form and golden hair,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Yonder near the merchant’s tent,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Her lover oh so fair.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Her heart did throb, her breath abate;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">She prayed that it was not too late.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Of everything she did repent;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Beloved, oh please wait!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But as she neared, it was not he</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Her heart believed the man to be.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And now her fears and passions rent:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Her purse she could not see!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Retracing steps across the ground,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Her heart now raced and leapt and bound;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Could all be lost with nothing spent?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Ah praise! T’was lost, now found!</span><br />
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