Day Thirteen: Gloaming by Charles Harry Eaton
Hello and welcome to day thirteen of 100 days of tonalism.
Painted after - Gloaming by Charles Harry Eaton, Study by M Francis McCarthy - Size 5x7, Oil on wood panel
Today's study is of 'Gloaming' by Charles Harry Eaton.
Just researching Charles, He's not a painter that I'm super familiar with but after scanning Google and his site on Artsy, I can say, I really like what I've seen of his work. I can see he has a similar approach to composition as I do and his work really resonates. There's some biographical info on Artsy, doesn't say when he was born but he died in 1901.
I've been using this blog as a bit of a soapbox for the last few days. I hope you don't mind. I could write (actually rewrite) more biographical stuff on the artists whose work I've done studies of ,but I'm not an art historian, I am a painter. I have a lot of opinions about art that are quite easy for me to communicate. Feel free to skip my diatribes and coast around the net gathering your own information should the work of any of these artists surprise or inspire you.
Ok, we were talking yesterday about the idea of evolution in art.
When I first started painting I just got some paints, brushes and some photo reference and just got to it. I had a few books as well that helped me jump in. What I didn't have was a truly good understanding of the history of Landscape painting or, a great sense of the giants whose shoulders I'd need to stand on to become a great painter.
I've written elsewhere about my discovery of the great American painters and, by extension the various European schools. Today I want to talk about my decision to try and capture some of the feel and surface quality of the masters in my own work. I made this decision because their work moved me deeply. I was filled with their reverence for painting almost as soon as I saw some of these great works in person. So I changed course, I had no choice because, what I saw at the museum had a quality missing from 95% of the contemporary paintings I was looking at.
We'll continue talking about this progression that I had as a painter tomorrow.
Cheers,
M Francis McCarthy
A Bit about 'Gloaming' by Charles Harry Eaton. I mention on the video the issues I have with Charles composition on this painting. I decided to go after it any way. Sometimes intuition must overrule the intellect. Painting is very much a collaboration between the mind, the intuition and the universe. All three must come together to create anything worthwhile. A good artist knows how to go with the flow.
I like the greens/reds juxtaposition of the trees and grass in this painting and it's another study that I went in quite thinly with the paint, at least at first. As I progressed I got a bit thicker with the paint.
You might think that this is breaking the thin over thick rule but it isn't, because most of the painting is wet on wet, so the paint film will dry as a whole. Also drying time is sped up because I use Alkyd mediums.
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Original Painting,
Gloaming by Charles Harry Eaton