Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Why Do You Paint Telephone Poles?


Scraytonify asks: "Why do you choose to paint the scenes you do with telephone poles and wires and fire hydrants?" 

Answer: I like the stuff we normally overlook. We tune them out of our ordinary habitual awareness, but we'll be nostalgic for them when they're gone.

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Watch the painting being made on my Gumroad tutorial "Casein Painting in the Wild."

7 comments:

  1. Also, it is convenient as a way to indicate scale, perspective, and sense of reality. A certain _thereness_.

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  2. Also, I enjoy how telephone poles illustrate concepts of mass and line.

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  3. Also, the way you paint them is gorgeous - the color you use and the variability of your lines and strokes.

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  4. Didn't they used to call that style the "Ashcan School"?

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  5. Didn't they used to call that style the "Ashcan School?"

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  6. Have to disagree with you on this one, James. I will NOT be nostalgic for telephone and power poles and wires IF they ever disappear. There is a reason I try to ignore them and don't include them in my art. I'm a country girl at heart.

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  7. How are casein painting framed, like watercolor, with a mat frame and under glass or like an oil painting with just a frame.

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