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Dan McGrath Fine Art - New Work: November 2011
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Dan McGrath Fine Art - New Work. Saturday, November 12, 2011. What Not To Paint. What I've found is that the more time one spends in front of the subject, the more information is absorbed, albeit much of it unconsciously: direction of light, color of light, shapes, and so forth. Taking reference photos is also important, another source of details. Pencil thumbnail drawings and an 8x10 study force one to decide what should be included in the painting and what to leave out. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Dan McGrath Fine Art - New Work: February 2011
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Dan McGrath Fine Art - New Work. Sunday, February 20, 2011. As a project to do something different, and tired of the snow, I looked through photographs taken last summer in New Jersey at Sandy Hook State Park and decided to do a figurative work conveying the warmth and sun of mid-summer at the “Shore” as they call it. I practiced drawing in pencil some individual figures in different poses, then practiced some of these on canvas paper in oil, a cheap and easy surface on which to experiment.
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Dan McGrath Fine Art - New Work: October 2012
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Dan McGrath Fine Art - New Work. Thursday, October 18, 2012. Study) 8x10 Oil/Panel. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Lexington, Kentucky, United States. View my complete profile. Into the Fields Bottomland (Study) 8x10 Oil/Panel. Kevin Menck Fine Art. Bill Fletcher: Wet Paint. The Time of Fireflies and Twilight Skies. Dreama Tolle Perry's Day to Day Paintings. A New Website Home!
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Dan McGrath Fine Art - New Work
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Dan McGrath Fine Art - New Work. Saturday, January 26, 2013. If at first you don't succeed. Cave Lake Inlet 8x10 Oil/Panel. We took plenty of photos and, back in the studio, gave ourselves the time and patience to sort through the scenes for subjects. Cave Lake is a small lake surrounded on three sides by marsh grasses, with crystal clear water. The bare trees were backlit by the strong sun and had to be painted wet over dry. February 14, 2013 at 6:43 PM. April 28, 2013 at 2:44 AM. Kevin Menck Fine Art.
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Dan McGrath Fine Art - New Work: Toning the Canvas
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Dan McGrath Fine Art - New Work. Wednesday, November 5, 2014. I've finally followed Richard Schmid's advice and toned canvases with Turps instead of Odorless Mineral Spirits. Unless I'm painting a snow scene, heavy on the snow, I like to tone the canvas a predominant color. Others tone their canvas the complement of the predominant color and that is fine, especially for highly sunlit scenes. The image above is from an OMS toned canvas, toned olive the day before painting (! View my complete profile.
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Dan McGrath Fine Art - New Work: March 2012
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Dan McGrath Fine Art - New Work. Friday, March 2, 2012. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Lexington, Kentucky, United States. View my complete profile. Kevin Menck Fine Art. Bill Fletcher: Wet Paint. The Time of Fireflies and Twilight Skies. Dreama Tolle Perry's Day to Day Paintings. A New Website Home!
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Dan McGrath Fine Art - New Work: October 2011
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Dan McGrath Fine Art - New Work. Wednesday, October 5, 2011. Art "Off the Wall". Our cooperative gallery, Artists Attic, challenged each of us to create an "Off the Wall" painting or sculpture. A work which was a departure from our normal subjects, style, approach, etc. I responded by doing my traditional landscape but in the form of a Triptych. This one recalls our trip to California in July which included excursions to Napa and Sonoma valleys: "South of Sonoma", 12x36 Oil/Canvas. Art Off the Wall.
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Dan McGrath Fine Art - New Work: Tweeking Photographs
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Dan McGrath Fine Art - New Work. Tuesday, December 17, 2013. Two weeks before Hurricane Sandy devastated the beaches of Central New Jersey, my wife and I vacationed at a B&B and the roamed the shore, mostly in rainy weather, but, hey, we were on vacation! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Lexington, Kentucky, United States. View my complete profile. Kevin Menck Fine Art. Bill Fletcher: Wet Paint. The Time of Fireflies and Twilight Skies. Dreama Tolle Perry's Day to Day Paintings. A New Website Home!
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Dan McGrath Fine Art - New Work
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Dan McGrath Fine Art - New Work. Thursday, October 18, 2012. Study) 8x10 Oil/Panel. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Lexington, Kentucky, United States. View my complete profile. Into the Fields Bottomland (Study) 8x10 Oil/Panel. Kevin Menck Fine Art. Bill Fletcher: Wet Paint. The Time of Fireflies and Twilight Skies. Dreama Tolle Perry's Day to Day Paintings. A New Website Home!
