Phil Starke Studio Newsletter - October 2022
Phil Starke is a professional fine artist with prestigious gallery representation, participates in national museum exhibitions, and teaches workshops and online fine art courses.
PHIL STARKE STUDIO NEWSLETTER
October 2022
October starts the greatest of all seasons. The start of autumn, fall, autumnal equinox, harvest time, and football season. The temperature is perfect, the color is optimal and summer is over.
I haven’t been out painting yet. I've just been too busy. I taught a workshop in South Carolina at Holly Glasscocks Studio, near Rock Hill, South Carolina. Thanks to Holly and everyone who turned out. It was a great atmosphere and a beautiful place to paint.
I spent this past weekend at the Booth Museum. Plein Air Painters of America has a show: "Plein Air Painters of America: 35 Years Outdoors". As a member of the Plein Air Painters of America, I was asked to give a talk and lecture on the show and the art of painting outside. Mitch Baird, Roger Dale Brown, and John Taft also gave talks and lectures.
I’m having a one-man show at Artzline Online Gallery, Oct 14 - 30. It’s an online show titled Sunlight and Moon Shadows, a collection of 20 paintings completed from recent painting trips through the west and southwest, 10 sunlit paintings and 10 moonlit paintings. Here is the link to the show: https://artzline.com/shows/
Some of the show images are in the section below.
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I also have 2 paintings for the Great American West Show, November 19th at the Settlers West Gallery in Tucson, AZ. The first is "Abundance", 24 x 30. Also a 20 x 24 painting "Early Snow Near Steamboat Springs".
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"Abundance", 24 x 30 - oil
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"Early Snow Near Steamboat Springs", 20 x 24 - oil
Fall Tutorials Available
Direct Painting - Downloadable Tutorial
Direct painting is more one brush stroke at a time, each brush stroke is a finished brushstroke. That doesn't mean you can't go back and correct things, but you scrape off a brush stroke that's wrong and go back and redo it. This helps you make definite decisions about color, value, and it also helps you simplify. A photo reference is included.
Painting With Secondary Colors - Downloadable Tutorial
This lesson teaches how to use secondary colors. Using these colors helps you get away from copying the photo so much. It's a good way to simplify your color thinking process. A photo reference is included.
ARTIST AT A GLANCE
Elizabeth Nourse 1859 - 1938
Elizabeth Nourse, 1859-1938, was born in Mt Healthy, Ohio. She was a realist artist, painting genre, portrait and landscape. She was the youngest of 10 children and attended the McMicken School of Design in Cincinnati (now the Art Academy of Cincinnati) at the age of 15. She studied there for 7 years and was offered a teaching position but she declined in order to focus on painting.
In 1882 both of her parents died and with some assistance from a patron she went to New York to study at the Art Students League. It was during this time that she met William Merritt Chase. She returned home and made her living decorating home interiors and painting portraits.
In 1887 she moved to Paris along with her sister Louise who was to become her life long companion as well as business manager, housekeeper and hostess. She attended Academie Julian, studying with Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre. She continued to live in Paris but she did travel and paint in Russia and North Africa.
During WWI Nourse worked to assist the war’s refugees in France and solicited donations from the US and Canada to help the displaced. In 1921 she was awarded the Laetare Medal for distinguished service to humanity from Notre Dame University. Elizabeth died of breast cancer on October 8 1938
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NEW SECTION ADDED TO MY WEBSITE
Available Plein Air Paintings & Studies
Boats in Oriental, NC
La Salle & Broadway
Morningside Drive, Manhattan
New York Vendor
I have had a few people ask me if the paintings I post in Facebook and Instagram are available for sale. Some are and some aren't. Some of my plein air and studies that have been posted are available, but some of the plein air pieces are headed to shows, galleries or competitions.
I've posted a few of the available paintings on my website. So, if you're interested, you can check it all out by looking at the top of this page and clicking on the menu link, or you can just click this link: PLEIN AIR & STUDIES
In the not-too-distant future, I plan on adding a section of AVAILABLE PAINTINGS, which will display the work that's available through galleries.
You can always email me if you have questions about anything on the website.
ARTIST TIP
Blocking-In With Large Shadow Shapes
Landscapes are full of minute detail, tiny leaves, blades of grass, a billion pebbles in a stream or thousands of trees in a forest. Our default mode as painters is to paint or render everything we see. Detail is what destroys a painting. What makes a painting work is the large masses or shapes and pulling together those large shapes makes it easier to ignore the details and see the painting as a whole.
That's not to say details don’t have a place in painting but it shouldn’t be in the block-in . And we should be selective as to where we add details, like around the focal point or in the foreground to make it come forward.
Finding and simplifying the shadow pattern holds the painting together. At times you will find you don’t need any detail and the painting becomes more about design, then you’re on to something.
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I enjoyed the newsletter immensely!!!! I always learn something new and amazing! Will you and Sherri be here on Nov 19th for The Great America West show?
God Bless Phil!
Thanks Mary! I wish I could go to the Great American West show, but I just spent 10 days in Utah painting with the Plein Air Painters of America, so I can’t fit in another trip just now. I hope things are going well for you. Nice to hear from you.