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billmahler
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| 06/08/2008 8:36 PM |
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My wife and I enjoy visiting Sayen Gardens, a town park in Hamilton, NJ.
This is a special little resting spot, which overlooks a wishing well and is surrounded by flowering trees.
It was to be an afternoon, but it seems that the camera decided that my sunlight was really moonlight and cooled things down a bit.
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..send ye not therefore to know for whom the bell tolls- it tolls for thee. John Donne
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Kassie
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| 06/08/2008 10:36 PM |
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It's a very peaceful painting…maybe restful is the word. I like it as is. But if you're not satisfied, I find it helps to take written notes about the colors when just using a camera. Always appreciate your sharing.
Kassie a/k/a Kathy
ps. If you really want it to look like sunshine, the secret is in the shadows. I believe from observation that is how Kinkaid makes the light shine in his pictures. (Darker shadows.)
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Snowartist
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| 06/10/2008 1:59 AM |
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| very nice spot. I like the spots of sunlight. |
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mikec@pols
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| 06/10/2008 6:54 AM |
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Love your work, Bill! This is very pleasing and inviting...looks like somewhere I would love to sit and 'take in' life...
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"You either grow or regress...nothing stays the same...." (unknown)
"A man may fall several times in life, but he is not a failure until he says that he was pushed..."
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Maggie429
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| 06/10/2008 7:16 AM |
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Bill - I love the colours you have used. Very calm. The stonewall behind the bench is great. The whole thing is great. Love the sunlight and shadows. If I saw this at a gallery, I'd definitely consider purchasing this one... |
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Mgi
www.hoviscreations.com |
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billmahler
Posts:206
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| 06/12/2008 10:54 PM |
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Thanks to all who looked and commented
Rarely, I run across something that says "Paint me" and I see the painting in my mind, and the paint just flies at the canvas.
This was one of those images.
I must acknowledge the ideas I got from a wonderful book by Carolyn Lewis-
Mood and Atmosphere in Oil Painting.
She's practical and inspirational- a great combination!
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..send ye not therefore to know for whom the bell tolls- it tolls for thee. John Donne
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klippie
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| 06/13/2008 3:21 PM |
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Love Paintings like these so peaceful and calm.
Makes me want to go and relax there.
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If at first you dont succeed.........don't ever give up! |
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Carver Shivers
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| 06/20/2008 12:11 AM |
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| Hi Bill, this is a very emotional piece... very quiet and peaceful... wonderful play of light and shadow. Would love to see this larger. Great work! |
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Carver
www.shiversgallery.com |
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billmahler
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| 06/22/2008 7:41 PM |
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Retha and Carver
Thanks for looking and for your encouragement
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..send ye not therefore to know for whom the bell tolls- it tolls for thee. John Donne
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eyecandy
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| 08/30/2008 10:20 AM |
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Hi Bill,
Once again it seems that you have that blue filter over the lens of your camera or you have the white balance set wrong, if you are using a digital camera. The greens are too blue and the shadows could be darker and the yellows to pale. Unless, of course if you want this soft pastel moonlight look. The scene is great and imparts to mood that, I'm sure, you intended. |
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Phil Sydell
Boynton Beach, Fl
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billmahler
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| 08/30/2008 9:52 PM |
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you have that blue filter over the lens of your camera
Phil
Thanks for looking with a fresh eye at some of my paintings and taking the time to critique them.
As you noted, many of the recent efforts have a blue tint to them.
That's not the camera, it's me.
I used to use Payne's Gray and Mars Black a lot, but I recently chucked gray and black in favor of mixed grays and blacks using colors like prussian blue, viriidian, ultramarine violet, yellow ochre, cad yellow, cad red and indian red.
Some of that is the influence of reading Richard Schmid, who uses no gray of black, but I had been leaning that way anyway, and he gave me the push.
The result has been more colorful and emotional paintings, but I seem to see a lot more blue lately, and I paint what I see when I'm at my best.
A good example is the Open Hands picture, where there is a lot of blue in the pinkies, where there was gray in the reference. Schmid emphasizes that there no such thing as gray. There is cool gray and there is warm gray with infinite variations of each. I saw it as a cool gray and used grays made with blue and viridian to capture that.
Since I'm a lot older than Schmid, my eye is not as subtle and I'm not as patient, so my grays are more primitive, I think, but they express what I see.
The reference foto for this picture was taken in the early PM, but when I painted it it became evening.
That's the way I translate early afternoon at that spot to paint, because I recaptured it exactly as I remember it and I wouldn't change a stroke.
I've been looking for some warm, bright and happy pictures to get me out of this blue trend, but nothing seems to find me.
For me, the subject has to find me and yell "Paint Me!." I have a stack of half-done pictures that were awful because I tried to seek a subject instead of letting it find me.
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..send ye not therefore to know for whom the bell tolls- it tolls for thee. John Donne
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Priti
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| 08/31/2008 7:58 PM |
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Hi Bill,
I am a newbie compared to you and you are a great inspiration. Love your "blue" period. |
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Priti
http://priti-fine-art.blogspot.com/ |
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vikingwife
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| 09/02/2008 6:10 AM |
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I like this a lot. I didn't think this was a moonlight painting. To me, it looks like the end of a quiet afternoon in the shade. It also made me think of Monet's water lilies and how this could have been a resting place on the side of his pond. The colors (even though you may be tired of seeing them in your work) really work well to create the atmosphere of late day tranquility. I'm not sure if different colors would give that same feeling. Nice work!
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Bpier
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| 09/05/2008 1:39 PM |
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I like this Bill.....just the way it is. I wouldn't change a thing.
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Brian
www.brianpierfineart.com |
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