painting show held over until mid Feb!
My river paintings will remain on exhibition until mid February at Snoqualmie City Hall, Snoqualmie Washington!
Painting in Exhibition
The river painitngs are currently on dispaly in the Snoqualmie City Hall – a beautiful new building with a river theme. They look great.
Here is a link to their web-page with directions.
Snoqualime is about 45 mins due east of Seattle on I-90. Be sure and see the falls while you are there.
show is down … but sales are up!
The show is down but I’m not taking home all the paintings!
Looking forward to seeing you Tomorrow!
I am looking forward to seeing you at the opening of my show tomorrow at 4:00 – as always see the site map for details!
Listed in the Seattle PI
Oil painting is alive and well. This northwest artist, former student of Robert Fulghum, and Brooklyn expatriate,
reminds us what the excitement of a descriptive brush marks and intense color is all about.
http://events.seattlepi.com/seattle-wa/events/show/138798625-ann-heideman-painting-exhibition
The Exhibition is Up!
The show was hung yesterday morning and looks great.
It is only open to the public during church hours – so the opening on the 29th is the best time to go unless you happen to be by the neighborhood around ten on a Sunday…
Here a picture with my cell phone – I will take better ones this week and post them.
directional marks in a completed oil painting
After a lot of work – I think I’m done. My show is being hung in a few weeks so I need to be done…. The big change I made was change the direction of the marks on the ground – which is swamp – i changed them from horizontal to vertical. The water is flowing down in all directions.
The painting has been a big challenge – and I’ve never done a large painting in a few weeks before – I think I spent about 60 hours on it – I painted many 8 hour days – and into the night…
click on the image for a larger view ……
photo of painting compared to original painting …
this was an interesting way to work on this painting and something I’d never done – i made a black and white print of a photo of it and compared it to the original photo – girding it off in the same way the original was. Technology can be amazing! It can give you a new perspective on your work. I’d advise to any painter.
AH
tomorrow – the finished painging!
nearing completion in an oil painting
I have put in a number of eight hour days on this thing. It’s different than the way I usually paint – there is a lot more surface rendering. But like the plants in my garden this river delta is very much alive!
some of the big jumps iin the slide show have to do with the some what hapazard way I took the photographs in my studio – they are at slightly different angles and that made for some uneven cropping …
middle steps in an oil painting
At this point I am working with both color and form to get more of the look and feel of what I want the viewer to experience when they see the painting. It is not just working to make the colors and shapes match the ones in the photo – but they have to look ‘right’ – exist in their own color world. Here the next three states …
In state seven I am still working to define the big shapes of the underwater rivers – using color to seperate deep from shallower water. The more I study the image and the painting the more I learn what is what – where is the edge of the land into water …
state eight …. at this point I begin working with the underwater rivers and am having far too much fun with their twisting shapes. I am also continuously working on the rest of the painting. It’s hard for me to stay in one place at one time. I’m always moving around pulling and pushing the image together. I have done a lot of work on the islands on the right.
state nine ….. although I liked painting a lot of the underwater rivers I took out a lot of them because there were too many and they were not reflected in the original image and they made the painting too busy and unfocused. I tried to bring more definition to the ones that were there and grayed down the color by adding burnt umber to the ultramarine blue.
and a slide show ….
correcting an oil paintng
This is the time when the first flush of fun is over and the work begins – I can see things are out of place and too many marks have no meaning – so first I mark what I want to change with yellow lines – I do this looking at the photograph I’m wokring off of thinking of isses of making the painting have the right sense of scale and mass more than it being an exact copy of the photo.
Then after redrawing some boundraies of the rivers I realize I need even bigger changes – and oil paint does not dry very fast – which is good and bad – so it’s time to rub off some paint!
Now I can draw in some big underwater shapes. It’s not very pretty, but it will help the picture evlove in to a nore meaningful tangle.
And here is a slid show
complimentary colors
Worked on the painting yestseday and got here – I try not to use earth tones – it dulls the glow. I use a lot of sap green, cobalt, ultamarine, alizarin and cobalt violet – those wonderfuly rich cadmiums will dot in later – I hope they are not banned – I’ve already been exposed to the toxins!
This painting is 4′ x 3′. Again it’s the Skagit Delta as seen from a Cessna. (see the previous posts for state one and two.)
Check out my new all inclusive website – www.annheideman.com for all links and information on my upcomming Seattle show!
starting a new painting …
Here are state one and two of a new oil painting. The motif is the Skagit Delta as seen from 2,000′ – a view from a small plane. This one is unusual in that I am working on a white background — I usually put down a color first to give a glowing tint – oil paint has a transparency to it that is wonderful.
Light travels through the paint and refelcts back from the white or colored canvas on the back – in an ever so subtle way. That’s one of the beauties of the medium, and something that can’t be matched by acrylic. It is the qualities of oil itself that make the colors rich.
I grided my photo – I had made it to scale by croping it slightly in photo-shop so it would go with the 4′ x3′ format of the painting – and I grided the canvas as well. I made a lose pencil drawing to locate the big shapes and then began. As you can see in state two the idea of caligraphy begins to take hold. At this point the painting very much guides me as to where to go …
how to paint an oil painting
first I put a colored wash on it and drew the basic shapes with penicil. Then I started painting in the large masses with broad gestures of color
As the painting contines I begin to interweave areas and use color and edge to delinate forms – the garden grows!
I use the darks to push back the space and the bright colors to bring it forwards. I like to concentrate on where forms intersect.
Bellow is the slide show of the stages …
I hope you can join me at my show – follow this link to the gallery site
new watercolor from July 4th
painted on a mountian top in Eastern Washington on a beautiful day – Old Blewett Pass Road. Wonderful day! See home page for Seattle Exhibition details.
updated site
This has been quite a lot of work. I have paid for a site with my name on it, but the tools they had to down load – including a version of WordPress were horrible!! So I am staying here in regular blog land and using the weebly site for the gallery. Best of both worlds. The Weebly site is only half done, but I hope to get it finished by the week-end.
The show opens in Seattle on Aug. 29!
AEH
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