Afternoon Meadow 5x5
Hello and welcome to Tonalist paintings by M Francis McCarthy.
Today's painting is 'Afternoon Meadow' 5x5".
Our video today follows the progression of this study from its initial drawing stages to a glorious finish. Also featured, is my usual rambling narration, so please check the video out.
New Year, new blog post. I confess that I attempted to use Dragon NaturallySpeaking to transcribe my video narration for this blog. Unfortunately that did not work out, what Dragon gave me was one enormous block of text. It didn't take long to realize that it would take me longer to edit that into something that was readable than to just write a fresh blog post.
Today, I'm going to write about some of the things that I hope to accomplish in this shiny New Year 2016. Not just with this blog but with my painting and also my career as an artist. As far as the blog is concerned, I would like to continue imparting information of value with every blog post that I do. I respect valuable content in the websites, articles and other media that I engage with, and so it makes sense for me to put meaningful content out into the world. Today's blog post is somewhat of an exception to this general rule. This will be another good year for sharing information with you my gentle reader.
As I've stated before on this blog, I am attempting to pull materials together and spend some time creating a book about Tonalist painting for the artist. It's crossed my mind that I might use this blog as a place where I can bring together ideas and start to mold them into the sort of text that I need to write to do this book. This concept is a lot like the idea of doing a study prior to doing a larger painting. Time will tell if this idea pans out or not.
Another thing that I would like to do this year is to have some more nice exhibitions of my work. I had a really good show at the Hangar Gallery in Kamo last year and I learned a lot about how I wish to present my actual paintings to the public moving forward. This is not an area of my art career that I've been especially good at. Like most artists I prefer to paint and marketing is not something that I enjoy as much. That will change somewhat this year.
I want to continue doing progressively larger paintings that are successful. I've made some great strides this year but I know that I can do better. One of the biggest realizations I had last year was that I needed to work with far larger brushes than I had been previously when scaling my motifs up to larger sizes. I plan on going even further in that direction this year.
I hope to do some more extensive traveling this year and I look forward to the impact and enhancement that it will give my work. I will be traveling to the United States as well as Italy, France and England.
I guess that's enough for today. Like I said on the video narration I was very close to skipping out on today's blog post because I've been in semi-holiday mode (with the rest of New Zealand). We will resume our normal blog schedule on Wednesday, January 6 so stay tuned.
Cheers,
M Francis McCarthy
Landscapepainter.co.nz
A bit about 'Afternoon Meadow' 5x5"; as I stated in the video this motif exists only as a small study. After I completed it I did do a larger drawing on an 8x8" wood panel, but before moving on with the color I opted out.
I've been looking at the study on the table at the front of my studio where I have it on display and I actually really like this painting and I'm wondering if it might not have made a good large painting as well.
To see more of my work, visit my site here
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| Afternoon Meadow by M Francis McCarthy, 5x5 Oil Painting on Wood Panel |
Our video today follows the progression of this study from its initial drawing stages to a glorious finish. Also featured, is my usual rambling narration, so please check the video out.
Today, I'm going to write about some of the things that I hope to accomplish in this shiny New Year 2016. Not just with this blog but with my painting and also my career as an artist. As far as the blog is concerned, I would like to continue imparting information of value with every blog post that I do. I respect valuable content in the websites, articles and other media that I engage with, and so it makes sense for me to put meaningful content out into the world. Today's blog post is somewhat of an exception to this general rule. This will be another good year for sharing information with you my gentle reader.
As I've stated before on this blog, I am attempting to pull materials together and spend some time creating a book about Tonalist painting for the artist. It's crossed my mind that I might use this blog as a place where I can bring together ideas and start to mold them into the sort of text that I need to write to do this book. This concept is a lot like the idea of doing a study prior to doing a larger painting. Time will tell if this idea pans out or not.
Another thing that I would like to do this year is to have some more nice exhibitions of my work. I had a really good show at the Hangar Gallery in Kamo last year and I learned a lot about how I wish to present my actual paintings to the public moving forward. This is not an area of my art career that I've been especially good at. Like most artists I prefer to paint and marketing is not something that I enjoy as much. That will change somewhat this year.
I want to continue doing progressively larger paintings that are successful. I've made some great strides this year but I know that I can do better. One of the biggest realizations I had last year was that I needed to work with far larger brushes than I had been previously when scaling my motifs up to larger sizes. I plan on going even further in that direction this year.
I hope to do some more extensive traveling this year and I look forward to the impact and enhancement that it will give my work. I will be traveling to the United States as well as Italy, France and England.
I guess that's enough for today. Like I said on the video narration I was very close to skipping out on today's blog post because I've been in semi-holiday mode (with the rest of New Zealand). We will resume our normal blog schedule on Wednesday, January 6 so stay tuned.
Cheers,
M Francis McCarthy
Landscapepainter.co.nz
A bit about 'Afternoon Meadow' 5x5"; as I stated in the video this motif exists only as a small study. After I completed it I did do a larger drawing on an 8x8" wood panel, but before moving on with the color I opted out.
I've been looking at the study on the table at the front of my studio where I have it on display and I actually really like this painting and I'm wondering if it might not have made a good large painting as well.
To see more of my work, visit my site here
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| Afternoon Meadow 5x5 (Detail) by M Francis McCarthy |