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Morning Haze

10/19/2013

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An example of the type of step study that will be featured in my new book, "Mondays with Camille" and Everything Else you Didn't Learn in Art School about Color," due out in late November 2013.
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This is one of my favorite spots to paint — our state-of-art, combination wetlands/water recycling facility in Petaluma, CA. Wetlands are a great subject to paint repeatedly because they are always changing. 


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This was a very hazy morning, so I am striving to paint the color of the air. In this scene, the air was very soft pink.    



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Step One: I overcolor at first with the intention to eventually add color to modify the first color notes I lay in.
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Step Two: As I say to my students, you can tame a stallion, but you can't bring a dead horse back to life.
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Step Three: The dead horse could have been a sky too dark and too blue.

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Finished Painting: "Morning Haze, 9 x 12 inches, oil on canvas
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Sun Streak

8/12/2013

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An example of the type of step study that will be featured in my new book, "Mondays with Camille" and Everything Else you Didn't Learn in Art School about Color," due out November 2013.
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Here is a gray day landscape study. 

When I have been asked how I am able to get the light effects, I quote Charles Hawthorne (Hawthorne on Painting), "It is beautifully simple, painting — all we have to do is to get the color notes in their proper relation." 

This is what I try to do — decide which color note I can see most clearly, put that first color note down quickly, and then that note becomes the key to my whole painting because everything else is related to it. 


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Actual Scene, in Petaluma, CA
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First Note
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Step One

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The sky is the lightest and warmest in this scene so I started the color of the sky near the horizon with a warm pink -- slightly lighter in value than the cooler and darker top part of the sky. The warmth in the foreground brings the grass forward. The water was seen as warmer than the top part of the sky.
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Finished Painting "Sun Streak" 8 x 10 inches, oil on canvas
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Charleston, South Carolina - "A Portrait of a Place"

1/6/2013

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"City Market" 11" x 14"
I was recently in Charleston, SC. Here are a series of paintings I did while I was there. They are currently on display in Galerie On Broad in Charleston.

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"Concord Street Afternoon" 11" x 14"
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"Pineapple Fountain" 11" x 14"
I love traveling  to different areas across  the country. I call the series of paintings I do at any particular location, "Portraits of a Place." The more I paint a location, the better I understand it. Charleston was new to me and was very inspiring.
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"East Bay Street Morning" 11" x 14"
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"St Johns Island Morning" 9" x 12"
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"St Johns Island Afternoon: 11"x 14"
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