tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21750301702648146382024-03-18T22:45:46.681-07:00Blog from The Studios of Garin BakerNarratives, Studio Works, Workshops Announcements, Exhibits
by Fine Artist and Muralist Garin Baker.
Garin Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471030499344761095noreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175030170264814638.post-25251777653910684232016-03-04T10:36:00.000-08:002016-03-04T10:45:03.991-08:00<h2>
<b>Workshop Announcement!</b></h2>
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<b>Garin Baker</b> through his <b>Visiting Artist Series</b> at his <b>Carriage House Art Studios </b><br />
<b>located in New York's beautiful Hudson Valley</b> is proud to<br />
announce and taking registration <b>Now </b>for:<br />
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with Jeff Hein</h2>
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3 Day Portrait Painting Workshop</h3>
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June, 9th 10th & 11th, 2016.</h3>
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Workshop Cost $485.00</h3>
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On site Accommodations available! </h3>
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For 2 nights, (add $85. per night from the drop down menu below)</div>
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3 Day Workshop includes: Model fees, Light Breakfast and lunch each day and </div>
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Saturday evening Group Dinner.</div>
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Workshop Space is limited to 10 Students.</div>
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On Site Accommodations is Limited to 4 Students.</div>
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<b>Workshop description from Jeff Hein,</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"There are many criteria that go into creating a
successful portrait. While capturing a good likeness of the sitter is very
important, it’s not enough. A great portrait feels alive, evokes emotion, and
captures the viewer through the beauty of its maker’s compositional and
aesthetic choices. In this portrait
painting workshop Jeff Hein will discuss what he believes to be the key
elements of creating a great portrait.
He will discuss creating a concept, formulating good composition and
designing of marks, strokes and color. Jeff will also break down the formal process
of painting a head into its most basic parts; drawing, value and color. As Jeff
Demonstrates daily he will show his techniques and discuss key principles
associated with these three areas. As students paint from a live model each
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<b>Jeff Hein </b>was born in New Winsdor, New York in 1974. He
began studying drawing at Ricks College in 1992 under Gerald Griffin. In 1997,
After a 4 year sabbatical to serve a mission and battle cancer, Hein resumed
his studies in painting and drawing at Salt Lake Community College under Rick
Graham and Rob Adamson. From 1998-2002
Jeff attended the University of Utah where he studied fine art. Hein began a
fulltime painting career in 2002. From 2008 to late 2010 Hein took a 2.5 year
sabbatical to devote to personal study and exploration of naturalist painting
techniques. Hein has also taken workshops from Steven Assael and Brian Mark
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Hein has been written up in numerous magazines and
newspapers including “American Art collector”, “Fine Art Connoisseur”, “Arts
and Antiques” and “Jetset Magazine”. His work has appeared on the covers of
“American Art collector”, “Art Calendar” and two years of the annual Spring
Salon Catalog of the Springville Museum of Art (SMOA). His work has also been
shown in prestigious locations such as the Utah Museum of Fine Art, The SMOA
and the Salmagundi Club in NY. It has been included in many prestigious collections
including that of the SMOA, John Huntsman Sr., Mitt and Ann Romney, Senator
Gordon Smith and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Jeff has won numerous awards including, most
recently, 2<sup>nd</sup> place in the National Portrait society’s 2014 portrait
competition, and 2<sup>nd</sup> place in the figurative category of the Art
Renewal Center’s 2014 salon. Jeff served as a faculty artist in the 2013 and
2014 Portrait Society of America Portrait conference. In 2007 Hein founded the
Hein Academy of Art in Salt Lake City, where he takes on up to 16 apprentices
who he trains in the naturalist tradition of Painting. Hein is known for his
portraits, multi-figure narrative and scriptural paintings. His work also
includes complex large scale still-life works and sculpture.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Hein strongly values handmade things, in other words, thing
made without the aid of machines. He feels that art can tell a story about the
life of its creator especially if that artist intimately experiences his
subject matter. This is why Hein is
passionate about working only from life or imagination in his work. He sees
each painting as a personal record of his experience with that person, animal,
landscape and even with his thoughts alone. To him a painting/sculpture is about
more than the finished product but about the journey through its creation. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<u>Winter 2016 Workshop</u></h2>
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2 Day Figure Drawing Intensive #1 with Garin Baker. </h3>
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February 20th-21st 2016</h3>
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<u>Cost $350.00 </u></h3>
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This workshop will explore the nagging issues of accurate proportions, gestural and underlying structural form. This weekend intensive will consist of 2 morning and 2 afternoon sessions over the course of 2 days. Daily demonstrations by Garin Baker in addition to one on one instruction through out.</h4>
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<span class="Apple-style-span">Meeting at predetermined locations through out NYC artists and students will paint in plein air the most dynamic and iconic scenes New York City has to offer. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">What seems like a lifetime ago I began this large scale Public Art Mural project for the New Ballou High School in Washington, DC. It started back in February of 2014 with open "Call for Entries", initiated by the Department of General Services, (DGS). They build, manages and maintain many of the public buildings for The District of Columbia in Washington, DC. This 160 million dollar construction project is DC's Brand New, Flagship High School and would be DGS's first foray into the Public Art Realm.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">I was selected to create 6 murals. 3 for the Performance Arts Wing of the school, one for the Library entrance, one for the cafeteria area and another that would celebrate the "Ballou Marching Knights".</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Over many months of preliminary renderings, approvals and administrative hiccups, I was finally set to begin painting in my NY studios the final Murals in multiple sections. All are painted in alkyd oils on canvas and measure between 8 ft. high x 10 ft long. The 3 Performing Arts Murals shown above were each done in 3 sections totaling 30 ft. long (each). Titled "Crescendo", they depict a progression of young artists performing in local neighborhood clubs on the bottom tier, the collaborative performing arts in the middle tier, and on the top, the pinnacle of the ones craft, entertaining stadium capacity crowds, but never forgetting the roots and struggles of the journey. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Like many small cities through out the country, industrial contraction and the loss of major manufacturing caused commercial and economic decline but with Joplin, tenacity and self reliance, the people have always taken the blows and come back swinging. Adding to all of this, 3 years ago, practically 1/3 of Joplin was obliterated by one of the largest tornados ever recorded in human history. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"> A mile wide by 13 miles long, (that's roughly the size of the island of Manhattan), </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">over 150 lives were lost, 500 business, a major regional hospital, schools, churches,..... all ripped an blown apart in a matter of minutes. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Back in 2012 and the early spring 2013 I was invited</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"> by The Joplin Area Chamber of Commerce </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">to begin working on a large scale Public Art Mural located in the middle of downtown</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">. When I first arrived I was amazed, never experiencing what I was about to see. Looking out as far as the horizon there was complete devastation. Yes I was in lower Manhattan after 9/11 but this went on for miles. I was awestruck and thought how could one possibly tell this story with just one wall of art. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">What surprised me more than anything was the desire not to dwell on the devastation and heartache but to reach back to their past and with all its spirit, begin again, building their future. This truly profound message was a lesson taught to me so poignantly by so many I spoke with personally, quietly yet passionately demonstrating what I can only express as the "mid western character'. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Plans for a new performing arts center and what we all could do together celebrating Joplin's future. So after much discussion and revising of preconceived notions I set about the task of researching all the grand and spectacular performing arts venues that had existed in Joplin's past. The long gone and demolished Club Theater, its rowdy entertainment during the 1900s and how it stood as a beacon on bustling East 4th Street a block west of City Hall. Crowds would make their way there on a Friday and Saturday evening after a long week working in the mines. The Fox Theater with its classical interior filled with wonderful marble statues and decretive motifs would entertain social elites and theater goes until the 1970's. And now symbolically looking past the twisting of tumultuous times of the past, the beautiful faces of youthful dancers, stretching, rehearsing, and expressing the simple joy and optimism about Joplin's collective future.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">During all of next week we'll be installing on site with an unavailing and dedication ceremony scheduled for Sunday, May 4th 2014. If your any where near Joplin, MO on May 4th, come on by and join us for the culmination of this wonderful project. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">In my last post I began to reminisce, going back to my roots attempting to gather some clues as to what motivates the creative process and the choices an artist makes toward methods, means and subjects. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Through out the history of art, artist have been moved to create works of personal, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">financial, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">social, or cathartic reasons. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">So much of todays attempts at rekindling representational art and the contemporary art audience renewed interest in craft and skill based work has allot to do with what has come before and the seemingly disingenuous art market that hoisted so much work that lacked credibility promoted as "new, ground-breaking or cutting edge". </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">I remember while in college at Pratt Institute during the early 1980's as a fine art major being criticized constantly as being "too academic" and that my choice to paint the figure representationally had already been done by better artist than I. So why waste my time?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Paul has since past away tragically, way too soon and I can still hear his jokes and clever Bay Ridge, Brooklyn challenge to, "never forget who you are, where you come from and creating from an inner voice about your life with honesty and authenticity".</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Continuing from my first post on this subject, I thought I would try and express the long view, now that I'm a couple years over fifty, on where I've been thru-out my 30 years now as a "professional artist". By that I mean creating art for a living. Paying the bills primarily with what I can create from my mind on canvas, paper, board or someone's wall. I guess that's a loose definition of what a professional visual artist is,... but who cares, Right?...... And maybe nobody should, and if you don't, click away now, since this post might be a bit egotistical and self indulgent or a clue for someone embarking on this journey to be a professional artist themselves and the sheer madness, desperate courage and faith it takes to be driven to communicate a personal and human story through their work.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Growing up both my parents were something of beatniks and hippies and each had careers in the arts. My dad as a filmmaker and my mother a designer. So at an early age I was always surrounded by crazy creative types hanging out in our way too small 2 bedroom apt. where me </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">and my twin sisters all </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">lived. T</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">he Upper West Side of NYC circa 1960's- 1980's,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"> was to say the least, at that time, a broken down neighborhood. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Trust me, nothing like it is today. It was basically </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">West Side Story", but the Jets and the Sharks were primarily Blacks and Puerto Ricans. When I was a kid dodging around the neighborhood I thought my name was "yo, white boy", No Joke! Through sheer luck, I gaining respect. Shooting hoops, sketching my buddies or befriending the baddest motherfuckers in the neighborhood, I was able to avoid the real desperate life altering experiences of some of my closest and earliest friends, many of whom fell victim, choosing serious drug addiction, hard core criminal behavior and self destruction. But as a miracle and in retrospect what this all taught me was a tremendous sense of place and pride towards all the characters and simple human stories that filled this 5-10 block radius. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">So check back, if you desire and follow along or add a story or two in the comment box below as I attempt to discover in this series, where my motivations begin and the paths, twist, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">avoidance and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">distractions, I've takin in life and this thing we call "Art". </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Busy, busy bees, we all are. So for just a moment I stopped on this second to last day of 2013 to glance around and see.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">I'm not coming from a place of stature, success or lack there of,... or where one fits in the scheme of things, since in many cases these are the sad benchmarks we judge ourselves by.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">As "artists" we all toil away along a path, hopefully filled with passion and commitment towards one's vision and work, asking questions as to the relevance of it all. For love, money, "likes", simple nutrients of the soul, an attempt to express something awe inspiring or a quiet </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">whispering </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">voice in the back of our minds.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">In the next several posts I plan on going inward towards discovering what truly is meaningful toward my own pursuits in the hopes of reaching out to others, artist and creative thinkers alike, hopefully shedding some light along the path. The drawings I plan on posting are reminders of what I use on a regular basis, going to a calming place in my mind that allows me to stumble upon the purest of form, using the simplest of means towards straightening my path, discovering...... thereby choosing what might be ahead.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">In the old days we called it "painting out doors" and it was primarily an exercise towards a greater understanding and study of light, color and atmosphere. Many of these studies upon returning to my studio were strewn on the floor to be swept up, tossed away or painted over. So it wasn't until a close friend of mine invited me a few years back to a plein air event he was organizing as a fundraiser for a local arts organization, that I began to learn more about "The Plein Air Movement", which has become quite popular over the last decade or so. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">Known by many as the premier </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">Plein air</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Event, </span><a href="http://pleinaireaston.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cfe2f3;">Plein Air Easton</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">, in Maryland is heralded as the best. Now in its tenth year, I entered in the prior 3 years and was rejected each time. It's ferociously competitive. Only fifty artists are selected each year and a number of the slots are taken by the previous year's award recipients. The fortunate ones</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"> make there way to Easton, Maryland during the searing heat of July, to paint along the shores of the Chesapeake Bay in one of Washington, DC's most affluent suburbs. This amazing event is sponsored by </span><a href="http://www.theavalonfoundation.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cfe2f3;">The Avalon Foundation</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"> and is recognized by art collectors and plein air connoisseurs as the best invitational, boasting record breaking sales, year after year. Each artist is offered housing in the most amazing properties and homes in the area and treated to an array of gracious invites and wonderful activities. This past year I was fortunate to be juried in and invited to stay at a magnificent property with a fabulous guest house. Upon arrival I met all the other artist. A bit intimidating, I must say. A cornucopia of talent, having seen many of these artist's works from past years as I sat on the sidelines. </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">My first day there I felt like a lost puppy driving around trying to find something to paint. </span><a href="http://www.eleinne.com/index.php" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cfe2f3;">Eleinne Basa</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">, a wonderful artist and friend, in addition to </span><a href="http://www.pleinairmagazine.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cfe2f3;">Plein Air Magazines</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">, 2012, 1st place prize winner, </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">toured me around showing me some</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"> amazing vistas and harbor scenes, worthy of starts . And that's just what I did,....starts. The first couple of days I began several paintings and wiped them all out. Watching artist like</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cfe2f3;"> <a href="http://www.kendewaard.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cfe2f3;">Ken Dewaard</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"> attack the landscape with bold confidence, devouring rich colors off his, trademark, hand held palate, was inspiring. I came across </span><a href="http://www.mcbridegallery.com/griffin.html" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cfe2f3;">Steven Griffin</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"> one afternoon, with cigarette ash dangling, he painted bold compositions with energy and purpose, using pure rich colors that I would never dream could work as harmony. He glanced over as I watched, basically saying without words, what are you doing watching me?, go paint!. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">In my head I was saying, what am I doing here", these artists are in their element, I'm just practicing.</span></div>
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Helsingor Mural to scale<br />
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30 ft. high x 25 ft. wide. Helsingor, Denmark, 2013</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span">I think it was late December of 2012 I received an e-mail from </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Elisabetta Saiu, artistic coordinator</span><span class="Apple-style-span"> for the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Kunst og Byrum, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"Helsingør commune", </span>in Denmark about creating a mural celebrating the Shipping Industry of this amazing small town about 60 miles north of Copenhagen. I thought wow, what a great subject, but knowing practically nothing about this area and its history, I was about to embark on quite a journey.<br />
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At first when Elisabetta's contacted me with her enthusiastic accent, being from Sardinia, Italy, it threw me off a bit. I thought she was saying "chipping industry" during our initial conversations. What I was about to learn was that The Ministry of Culture in Denmark creates a wide array of Cultural Arts Festivals every year inviting artists from all over the world to come and create works of visual and performance arts in their small country of a population of 5.5 million.<br />
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At first I would be required to create using some amazing historical source material, provided by Elisabetta a rendering and design for the eventual 30 ft. high X 25 ft. wide Mural that would be installed in the center of Helsingor directly across from what once was a huge ship building factory that has now and is presently being transformed into a Museum, Cultural Center as well as a Business Incubator project. Also very cool!<br />
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I was amazed to learn that as a working factory for over 100 years, employing at it's hight, more than 20 thousand men and women building the worlds most celebrated freighters and luxury yachts. Also these workers had an amazing heritage and history of ship building stretching back several hundred years to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikings" target="_blank">Viking Age</a>. I also learned that these Viking ship builders were well advanced of their European neighbors and for a time dominated and perfected global navigation with their light weight wooden <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longship" target="_blank">longships</a>.<br />
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In relationship to the Mural which would feature recent history of the Helsingr Ship Yards, here are a just few of literally hundreds of amazing reference shots I was provided by the Museum through Elisabetta.<br />
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I then set about developing my rough design and wanted to create from a human point of view a heroic sense of these laborers combined with the monumental task of building huge vessels larger than human scale. This would prove quite challenging. Having been familiar with some imagery available and with the help of a fellow artist Kevin Ferrara, (who has a treasure trove of reference material on great artists their artworks) he enlightened me and sent me great works done by Thornton Oakley and others. With this reference, combined with many other sources, like the inspirational work of Muralist Frank Brangwyn and Joseph Sert, I was able to decipher through tons of reference material and boil things down to a composition I felt was quite strong given all the parameters. What was also quite important to me was to show the faces of the workers, which I notices in many other renditions on this subject matter is avoided in order to demonstrate the scale of the work being accomplished. So I altered the composition several times in order to create a point of view and composition from eye level. </div>
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Here are some of my initial rough sketches for the project.</div>
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At this point I felt the composition taking shape and the strength of the design and compelling power of my intentions coming through. I begin to work it out in two different directions. Both rough sketches were presented to the Cultural Organization and Committee Members back in the Early Spring of 2013.</div>
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Feed Back from the Committee was quite positive and I was secretly hoping they would select sketch #1, but you never know. So in this case I boldly said to Elisabetta that sketch #1 is the one I wanted to paint. Luckily that's the one the Committee had shown a liking to anyway. They just wanted to make sure I included the amazing and world famous Kronborg /Helsingor Castle.</div>
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I worked it up on several joined together sheets of (felt gray) Canson Paper using black and White Generals Charcoal Pencils. This is the most crucial stage in large scale Traditional Mural Painting. All your proportions and design elements must be placed just right since things don't get better when you go large. The incorrect aspects and miss alignments in the drawing tend to incorrectly multiply and look quite out of place when done without compositional planning and accurate draftsmanship. I also wanted to create a design and composition that included the interior and exterior aspects of the shipyard. This proved an interesting design problem. So I decided that a literal depiction of space would be sacrificed in order to create a montage of elements but combined them in a way so they could be seen a one scene without being a typically dated montage composition. </div>
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Here's the finished Rendering.</div>
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Helsingor Mural Rendering, 48 "x 64", black and white charcoal on Canson paper.</div>
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With the Rendering now approved in the later part of the Spring 2013, it was time to begin the Mural painting execution stage in my studio in New Windsor NY. Quite a bit of planning and Skyping was needed since my only trip to Denmark would be to install the painted Mural. The exterior side of this 4 story building, which would receive the Mural had to be measured critically in order to decide it's final size and dimensions. We decided that a symmetrical placement under the building's existing architecture would work well, so the final dimensions of the painted Mural would be 25 ft. wide x 30 ft. high. This would also allow me to work on (parachute cloth). A cotton woven light weight fabric that can be purchased in 5 ft wide rolls. Simple math calculations would determine that 15 sections would be needed, each 5 ft wide by 10 ft. high. The paint I used is manufactured by <a href="http://www.novacolorpaint.com/" target="_blank">Nova Colors</a> in California, and is a light fast heavily pigmented acrylic paint made specifically for muralist and other artist paintings. It works incredibly well on 2-3 coated gessoed (parachute) cloth. Over the years I have set up my studio to complete this process as I have done several projects using this method as well as oil paints on gessoed canvas for primarily interior mural projects. Working in sections is very similar to the way many Traditional Murals were done even though many believe and they look as if they were painted directly on the wall.</div>
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Here are a few shots of me working on several of the sections in my studio. </div>
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Mural section laid on the floor to double check, making sure all the seems line up just right.</div>
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After 5-6 weeks of climbing, mixing, panting and organizing the process, all the 15 sections, (each 5 ft. x 10 ft. sections) were completed. All the sections were rolled into 3 tubes containing 5 sections each and along with a small amount of touch up paint and brushes all was shipped to Elisabetta in Helsingor, Denmark in mid July 2013. </div>
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Arriving In Denmark in late July of 2013 I was greeted at the Copenhagen Airport by an enthusiastic and completely welcoming Elisabetta. I asked if I could rent a car to get around and with a puzzled look on her face she said, "no car, we take train" OK? A quick and short connection to the train and a pleasant and smooth 40 min ride followed. We arrived in Helsingor. Wow, incredibly easy!</div>
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My hotel was within walking distance to the Mural site and the small town of Helsingor was as quaint, well maintained and laid out as one would expect of a well managed European small city to be. Beautiful and very,very sweet!</div>
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The Site where the mural would be installed is quite wonderful. A large faced stuccoed building standing 4 stories tall with a large parking area in front. It faces a main road just across the street and commuter rail line from the huge shipyard and factory where thousands worked over many generations building the worlds most amazing ships. On the other end of the courtyard/parking area is another building where two other artist, one from Spain and another from Italy had been working on scaffolding doing a large mural for the past several weeks on site. </div>
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Prior to my arrival Elisabetta had made arrangement to have all the lift equipment and two wonderful assistants made available to the project. Jasper and Simon were both young men in their early twenties, very well versed in arts and music in addition to many other interesting subjects. They spoke multiple languages and even tried to help me with my crude attempts at danish. Both struck me as extremely mature for their age and were completely motivated to help me in this process. I was utterly impressed. Having trained several young artist in US and not that Mural installations are rocket science, these two young men were incredibly fast on the uptake. So much so, that on day one, we were able to, with a small amount of tutelage, adhere a good portion of the Mural to the wall. </div>
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Using an Acrylic palmar glue similar to Gel Medium, applying it to the face of the wall and the back of the parachute cloth sections, starting with a level line across the top, we started glueing the section to the wall.</div>
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Day two of the instal was a continuation of the first but I knew once the figures started to appear on the wall, passers by would become more interested and slow our progress with questions about the project. Almost all were quite pleasant and enthusiastic about what we were doing and thought a fine addition to the side of this blank wall in their town. Some were very curious about the project having had several generation and family members whom worked at the shipyards and on a few occasions thought they had recognized some of the workers in the foreground. Very Cool!</div>
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On one occasion a local resident found his grandfather in the Mural and the media followed up with several stories about "Who are the workers in the Mural?"</div>
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As an artist bringing these images back from generations long gone by it was an amazing feeling. Back to life, these stories of workers and simple folk having spent their lives toiling away at the Shipyards. Now a new generation of readers and viewers would know from what and how this town sustained itself for hundreds of years. In one way shape or form it's a great success when art can initiate timeless human stories from one generation to the next through expressed experiences and imagery.</div>
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With day two completed were had accomplish quite a bit. All the sections of the mural were installed and only remaining were some minor touch ups. This was completed on day three and the following day four we were able to apply 2 rolled coats of a protective clear gloss acrylic varnish. A few days later it was dedicated and a huge crowd attended, including dignitaries, speeches and beer. </div>
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We're in Denmark, Of Course!</div>
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Very, very cool and thrilled to have completed such a wonderful Project!</div>
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Images below of the completed installed Mural including a hi res image.</div>
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Sorry for this long post, but it was a great project that I hope brings much enjoyment to the people of Helsingor for many years to come. </div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Thank you Elizabetta and </span>Helingør municipality,"Helsingør commune" and The Culture Chef for the Helsingør Municipality <span style="color: white; line-height: 20px;">Jørgen Sprogøe Petersen</span> in Denmark for making and enabling me towards creating this project and making it such a wonderful reality!</span></div>
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Thank you for taking the time hope you enjoyed your visit.</div>
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Yes, I'm sure many have taken the pilgrimage and seen the amazing "Visions of Spain" Murals done by Joaquim Sorolla and other works in the main building at the Hispanic Society of America located on Broadway and 155th Street in New York City. </div>
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But a surprise to me are the countless works by Sorolla and several other 19th and early 20th spanish artists hidden out of view and practically kept as secret treasures to behold any dedicated and possessed "Art Hunter". </div>
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Privileged as I am to know <a href="http://www.andrewlattimore.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Andrew Lattimore</span></a>, an avid and dedicated hunter himself, was able to secure a private viewing for a group of his wonderful students and I from his saturday drawing class at his fabulous studios in Cornwall, NY. <span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span><a href="http://lattimoreatelier.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cccccc;">http://lattimoreatelier.blogspot.com/ </span></a></div>
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In darkened, locked rooms kept out of sight The hispanic Societies, Andrea M Ortuno explained due to lack of funding, many areas of this large beautifully constructed Museum are closed till further notice. The un-renovated library sits, almost as a storage space including maybe, 15-20 portraits done by Sorolla. A large unframed canvas propped up on 2x4s looks as if an unfinished formal portrait done of Spanish dignitaries. Including in this large 9 ft high by possibly 14 ft long painting is the King of Spain seated at a table with others, including Sorolla self portrait seated to his left. Amazing!</div>
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The entire North building houses a collection of probably 40-50 works by Sorolla as well as several other artist from Spain of amazing power and presence. </div>
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<b>Below</b> <b>are</b> <b>more examples and close up details </b>, imaged by my iphone camera, as best I could. </div>
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We're making arrangements to visit again soon to spend more time with these amazing artists and works, to examine more closely, photograph and possibly do a study or two.</div>
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Thank you to Andrea Ortuno, Coordinator of Education & Public Programs for the tour as well as Marcus Burke, Ph.D., Senior Curator, for his in depth, expert colorful descriptions and stories of the "Visions of Spain" Murals in all their glory and restorations. </div>
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And so grateful for Andrew, arranging this all. His deep and warm friendship toward our mutual artistic passions as well as his generosity and impeccable knowledge is a living treasure to us all. </div>
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"The Civil War and America Art",<br />
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Carriage House Art Studios<br />
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A powerfully amazing and wonderfully exhibition is now on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC. I was lucky to catch a Cspan broadcast of the Curator, Eleanor Harvey highlighting and discussing this Exhibit. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>"The Civil War and American Art examines how America’s artists represented the impact of the Civil War and its aftermath. Winslow Homer, Eastman Johnson, Frederic Church, and Sanford Gifford—four of America’s finest artists of the era—anchor the exhibition. The exhibition follows the conflict from palpable unease on the eve of war, to heady optimism that it would be over with a single battle, to a growing realization that this conflict would not end quickly and a deepening awareness of issues surrounding emancipation and the need for reconciliation. Genre and landscape painting captured the transformative impact of the war, not traditional history painting".</i></span></div>
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Harvey went on to explain in beautiful depth and detail the human stories and conflicts ongoing as these creative visionaries responding to and anticipated the power of current events with "real" symbolic human narratives of poetry and truth. The exhibition communicates human stories through landscapes, genre scenes and photography, purposefully telling of their times, as they attempted to make sense of a world in complete upheaval and bloody strife.</div>
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In one example, I was struck by the power and purpose of Eastman Jonhson's <i style="text-align: center;">Negro Life at the South</i><span style="text-align: center;">, 1859 </span><span style="text-align: center;">oil on linen, 37 x 46 in.</span><br />
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Obviously done just prior to the War's beginning, this painting poignantly shows a simple scene of life on the plantation from the slave's quarters. Johnson portrayal is layered and powerfully meaningful. Not lost and clearly painted are the multiethnic and varied skin tones of the characters depicted. Also if one looks closely and follows the transverse and paths taken, you can see through open windows, ladder leaning on the main house and open doors, Johnson use of clever symbolism and human narratives, the mixed race and relationships of a usury family heritage explicit yet hidden on Southern plantations. At the time this painting was exhibited, it must have been quite unsettling, as one unravels the painting's seemingly normal and tranquil moment. </div>
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As an artist inspired by these works it is clear to me that our times are filled with much of what existed then. Yes bloody wars are now fought far away only to be witnessed on smart phone through real time technology. But all around us our everyday lives are filled with powerful stories of human relevance left untold. Works by representational artists inspired to do more, could go far beyond the "beautiful", escapism, entertainment, personal skill promotions, contrived and phony symbolism used as vehicles towards "success" ultimately irrelevant in time. </div>
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Hopefully inspiring us all to create works that reach to a human place, expressing an honest portrayal of our current personal or collective existence. </div>
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This amazing painting by Tatyana Yablonskaya "Sacking Grain" 1949, showing a faithful rendition of the heroism of Russian Women during World War II. This painting composed during the hight of the USSR Social Realist Movement bolsters the staunch adherence to a political point of view. Yablonskaya portrays in grand style the devotion and conviction of this movement in rich color and human narrative. Agree or not about the politics or historical categorizations, this work of art created for whatever reasons stands out in my opinion as one of the finest large works of the 20th century. </div>
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This work is so naturally composed, without contrivances or forced over the top emotions. The harmonious placement and arrangement of figures and forms, quite difficult to do from life, drawings or reference material, and pull it off in such a convincing manner. Even the huge smile on the girls face as she relishes in her labor as a completely fulfilled proletariat. It's done in such an uplifting and humble propagandist way, almost spiritual. This painting for me transcends it's momentary time and place and creates a universal story of women's' humanity and hard work. </div>
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Maybe in light of yesterdays historic moment in the halls of the United States Capitol seeing so many of our elected representative being women, assembled for their first day of the peoples work. That alone could be enough to make this painting resonate, symbolically. </div>
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There's much discussion as of late about what the purpose of painting is other than in a stylistically pleasing and clever ways towards creating works that are simply beautiful. For so long, countless works heralded as "modern" masterworks of ugliness and human strife or conceptual "riddles" for intellectual superior audiences to commodify and appreciate, have held the stage. But now all around us were seeing the technical mastery of painting realistic imagery once again. Countless artist today are amazingly handling paint in a virtuosity of color and "Real"form. Yes, a thrill to see, and I'll be first one on line at MoMa for the "New Modern Art, Representational Exhibition".......... </div>
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No matter how one might want to dispel and marginalize Yoblonskaya on political and social dogma or the countless realist artist and their attempts with ambitious, difficult compositions, telling a human story and personal vision of or a collective truth, while using a multiplicity of skills, figurative, landscape, atmospheric and narrative, .....speak to more. </div>
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<b>Hibbard</b> was born in Falmouth, MA and died in Rockport, MA. Along with Anthony Thieme, </div>
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Hibbard studied art in Massachusetts with contemporaries Edmund Tarbell and Frank Benson. </div>
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but the sentiment, the poetry is there also. Others paint snow </div>
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more subtle and more penetrating in his observation of delicate </div>
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<b>Frederick Judd Waugh</b> was born in Bordentown, New Jersey on September 13, 1861. He was the youngest of five children. His father, Samuel Bell Waugh, was an accomplished portrait painter.</div>
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In 1892, Waugh married Clara Eugenie Bunn, a fellow art student from the Pennsylvania Academy. In 1893, the couple moved to the Island of Sark in the English Channel where they stayed for two years. It was on this island Waugh began his study of the sea. According to the artist, the island was a model for most of the conditions the marine painter needed to study.</div>
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In 1910, Waugh won the Thomas B. Clark Prize at the National Academy of Design show. Over the next seven years, he established himself as the most popular marine painter in the country. Waugh was elected a full member of the National Academy of Design. He continued to paint the sea in all its moods and glory, winning many awards in his lifetime.</div>
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T.M. studied under John Charles Terelak at the Gloucester Academy of Fine Arts. He also studied under Boston area artist George Gabin at Monserrat School of Art, with emphasis on realistic painting and drawing. T.M. is a member of Rockport Art Association, Guild of Boston Artists, Whisky Painters of America, Hudson Valley Artists, Allied Artists of America, Academic Artists, Artists Professional League, New England Watercolor Society, and The North Shore Arts Association.</div>
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"I was born in 1952 in Rochester, Minnesota. Even as a child art came naturally to me. I loved the paintings in my mother's antiques magazines.</div>
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In school, all day long, I drew behind my books, creating thousands of drawings and earning dreadful grades. Some years later after several years of art school, where the approach was typically more modern than I desired, I moved to Boston and was taught at the Fenway studios by R.H. Ives Gammell. Ives Gammell was an elderly painter who had studied with the famous American impressionist William Paxton. Ives taught in the classical manner of the nineteenth century. We drew plaster casts in charcoal for months before moving on to study the figure. He stood next to us and corrected our drawings, teaching us to 'SEE.'Some time has past since then, now I'm nearly thirty two feet tall and weigh over 1900 pounds. I tell people if I'm awake, then I'm painting."</div>
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Stapleton Kearns is an elected member of the Guild of Boston Artists. For five years he served as president of the Rockport Art Association. Twice his paintings have been included in the Biannual Show at the National Academy of Design in New York City. He is a member of the New England Plein Aire Painters. </div>
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Stapleton's paintings are dynamic and imbued with rich, poetic, emotion. In their dramatic beauty we see a reflection of his training, his character and the depth of his artistic creativity.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">It was my distinct pleasure to have hosted Mr Kearns this past weekend at my Carriage House Art Studios for 3 days painting the Hudson River Valley. The amount of instruction during 3 full days of painting out doors along the River with Stapleton and the participants was truly wonderful and amazing. He did a demo every morning and then visited each student at their easels with in-depth advise and guidance towards better understanding and methods of direct observation, composition, materials, palette organization..... I could go on and on.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">After diner we were treated with slide shows and lively discussions of great artists and their works and stories of their lives, told by only in the way Stapleton can, that he's accumulated along his most amazing journey of his life as an Artist, teacher and internet blog, tour de force.</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://stapletonkearns.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #ead1dc;">http://stapletonkearns.blogspot.com/</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">In the works are several trips being planned this winter to the same painting grounds and locations traveled by Hibbard, Waugh and many other great New Englanders.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"> contact me at: <span style="color: #ead1dc;"><a href="mailto:gb@carriageart.com">gb@carriageart.com</a> .</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"> I'll keep you abreast of the dates, times and places in New England we plan on painting this Winter! </span></span></div>
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Garin Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471030499344761095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175030170264814638.post-19646402008496284882012-10-05T08:03:00.000-07:002012-10-05T10:31:49.019-07:00<span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 18px;">Workshop Announcement!</span><br />
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I'm thrilled to have invited the always engaging and incredibly knowledgeable Stapleton Kearns</div>
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to visit the magnificent beauty and majestic surroundings that is the Lower Hudson Valley of New York State. I've been painting this area for more than 20 years and it's never more amazing and worthy of inspiring works than during the peak of the fall season.</div>
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As a trubadour of paint Stapleton Kearns has traveled across the United States painting and teaching. His work holds a fond kinship and linage to Great American Artists like, Edgar Payne, Frederick Waugh, and Emile Gruppe, and his knowledge about the craft is expressed in a direct, honest, no nonsense approach, demonstrated by his extremely popular art blog, one of the best on the net! <a href="http://stapletonkearns.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://stapletonkearns.blogspot.com/ </a></div>
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Stapleton outlines his workshop as follows:</div>
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The workshop will start on Saturday, October 13 and run three days through Monday the 15th. It will be held at the Carriage House Art Studios in Newburgh, New York. Well known and highly skilled artist Garin Baker will be our host and special guest star. If you live in the city or Westchester or maybe New Jersey this workshop should be within easy striking distance for you</div>
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A demo every morning, on the first day I explain the palette and the various pigments.</div>
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In the afternoon the students paint and I run from easel to easel doing individual instruction and try to diagnose each students particular barriers to better painting.</div>
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after the demo each day I run a series of exercises teaching root skills like creating vibrating color and the parts of the light (that is what you need to know to establish light in a painting) I am going to add a new exercise this time on color mixing.</div>
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I do a presentation before dinner with images from my laptop. One is unpacking the design ideas in the works of great landscape painters, particularly Edward Seago and Aldro Hibbard, two favorite artists of mine. I will also do a little presentation on the Hudson River school and their techniques.</div>
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I promise I will work you like a borrowed mule. </div>
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I can save you years of screwing around</div>
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There should be some autumn color by this time. This is getting into the best time of the year to paint outside. This is sacred ground to American landscape painting. The early history of American landscape painting was written on this ground by the Hudson River School.. I will talk a little about their working methods and show some examples of this art as well. ( from S. Kerns Blog dated 9/28/12)</div>
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For easy sign up and securing your spot go to: <a href="http://www.carriageartatelier.com/visiting-artist-series" target="_blank">http://www.carriageartatelier.com/visiting-artist-series</a></div>
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Again let me express my thrill and excitement and look forward to a fully engaging 3 days filled with great stories, intensive instruction while painting and absorbing this beautiful landscape that is the Lower Hudson Valley with Stapleton Kearns.</div>
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<span style="color: #d0e0e3; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"> Bennington, VT Weekend </span></span><br style="background-color: #222222; color: #eeeeee; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: #222222; color: #d0e0e3; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #222222; color: #eeeeee; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="background-color: #222222; color: #d0e0e3; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">From the Studios of Garin Baker</span><br style="background-color: #222222; color: #eeeeee; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: #222222; color: #d0e0e3; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Carriage House Art Studios </span><br style="background-color: #222222; color: #eeeeee; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="color: #d0e0e3; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">October 1st 2012</span></span><br />
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This past weekend Clara and I travelled to Bennington, Vermont for the <a href="http://www.oilpaintersofamerica.com/" target="_blank">Oil painters of America's </a>Eastern Regional <a href="http://www.oilpaintersofamerica.com/awardees.cfm?year=2011#top" target="_blank">Competition and Exhibition</a> marvelously and stunningly displayed at the <a href="http://www.thebennington.org/" target="_blank">Bennington Center for the Arts</a>. I can't express enough how well organized and arranged the entire weekend was. </div>
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This amazingly designed and beautiful exhibition space is situated just north of the majestic Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts in the lower corner of South Western Vermont. </div>
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The Bennington Center for the Arts is in becoming the premier arts exhibition venue on the east coast for Representational Art. </div>
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Shirley Hutchins, curator and director of the Art Center, Kathryn Beligratis, Executive Director of OPA and Ken Cadwallader, Vice President couldn't have selected and organized more perfect weekend event, full of an engaging lists of things to do for the entire 3 days.</div>
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This area is spattered with wonderful art & cultural sites including The Clark Museum, Norman Rockwell Museum, Williams College Museum of Art and The Bennington Art Museum, worthy any weekend get away trip for painting the iconic New England landscape, combined with museum visits including some of the most important and celebrated works of of Art through out history.</div>
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The Event started on Friday with a paint out during the day in charming Bemnnington, the original surroundings of Norman Rockwell's home and studio. Later that evening a diner was organized for many of the Artists included in the exhibition. Saturday was filled with invites to many of the exhibits at the Art Center as well as a painting demonstration by juror and premier contemporary American Landscape Artist and OPA Master Signature Member <a href="http://kennbackhaus.com/" target="_blank">Kenn Backus</a>, </div>
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Following Kenn's demo was a slide preview and talk from the director of the <a href="http://www.clarkart.edu/" target="_blank">Clark Museum</a>. He brought only a small highlighted presentation of the works by Sargent, Homer, and Remington on view at the Museum. The following day we would be given a personal tour in Williamstown, MA only a short drive south from Bennington after a warm and delightful breakfast served by Shirley and her mom at the Art Center. </div>
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Not only were there more Sargents, but significant and truly amazing paintings by Alma Tedema, Winslow Homer, Remington and countless other stand out works from this incredible collection.</div>
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I'm going again as soon as possible and on the way stopping to paint this beautifully preserved New England Landscape. </div>
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Next time a weekend just won't do it.</div>
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Started out early leaving my studio in New Windsor, NY at 2AM for the drive to Philadelphia to pick up my artist/assistant Bryan Guglielmi and on to the Airport for our 7AM flight to Los Angeles. </div>
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Landing at LA X at 9:40 AM in Souther California. Picked up our rental Car and on to Santa Clarita, CA.</div>
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Arranging for our materials on site and unrolling the previously shipped mural to acclimate it for it's new home and in general gaining our bearings to begin installing.</div>
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Arriving on site early at 7:30 AM to meet the delivery of our (rolling tower) scaffolding, assembling and laying out the Mural sections on plastic face down. We also begin masking off and covering the floor as well as the side walls to protect and keep the work space clean for easy cleanup when done.</div>
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Here's Bryan sweeping all the dust and debris off the back of the canvas on section 1. We chose to work from right to left since the smallest section was on the far left fitted around an existing cabinet wall. After applying heavy duty wall paper paste to the wall section and to the back of section 1 we fold up leaving the top portion of the back of the mural exposed with paste. Then we lift and carry carefully the section as not creese it unnecessarily. Then positioning it to a level line we had previously put along the top of the wall to make sure all hangs level. With water and plastic squeegees we apply the full section to the wall pushing gently all the air bubbles out. If you've ever hung wall paper it very much like that. </div>
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On to section 2. This hanging process is very quick. A 28 ft. by 10 ft. high mural should go up in just a few hours if your prep is handled in an organized and workman like manner.</div>
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After hanging section 2 Bryan works expertly at cutting the French seem. A "French Cut" seem is achieved by over painting both edges basically repeating the image on each canvas edge by no less than 2 inches and no more than 6 inches. When hung over each other's edge you cut with a very sharp blade through both sections of the canvas. Then removing both cut portions revealing a perfect match. Be careful when hanging to match up any horizontal lines or diagonal shapes as to avoid extensive touch up areas when things don't match up visual and pictorially. As you can see practice makes better since we've done this a few times before.</div>
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I spent the last couple of days visiting and enjoying the amazing beaches and play spots along the California Coast line, Malibu to Laguna Beach. Great fun and awesome California people, meeting and watching!</div>
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What a great trip and can't wait to get out to California again.</div>
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I'l be "California Dreamin".</div>
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<span style="color: #d0e0e3; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">The LA County Arts Commission worked tirelessly over several years to bring the project to completion. Through tough economic budget cuts, long construction delays, they never lost heart. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d0e0e3;">I am thrilled that </span><a href="http://www.maxginsburg.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Max Ginsburg</span></a> <span style="color: #d0e0e3;">will be teaching a three day workshop at my <a href="http://www.carriageartatelier.com/" target="_blank">Carriage House Art Studio's</a></span> <span style="color: #d0e0e3;">"</span><a href="http://www.carriageartatelier.com/visiting-artist-series" target="_blank"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Visiting Artist Series</span></a><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">' From September 7th thru till September 9th 2012.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #d0e0e3;">Located in the Lower Hudson Valley, 60 miles north of NYC.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #d0e0e3;">This workshop will concentrate on a deeper and traditional understanding of light, form and color towards painting and composing multiple figures. Individual critiques and concentrated studio time with live models will be offered for the entire 3 day Workshop. Additionally interactive breaks as well as all meals, included in the price, will be served on site, so the focus and social camaraderie of the workshop will be unbroken.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #d0e0e3;">Space is limited to 15 participants. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #d0e0e3;">The price for the </span><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">Workshop, </span><span style="color: #d0e0e3;">"Painting a Two Figure Composition" with Max Ginsburg, is </span></div>
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<span style="color: #d0e0e3;">by going to: </span><a href="http://www.carriageartatelier.com/visiting-artist-series"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">http://www.carriageartatelier.com/visiting-artist-series</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #d0e0e3;">A limited number of accommodations are available on site at a modest additional cost in addition to area B&B's and national chains, within a few miles.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #d0e0e3;">After signing up please contact: </span><a href="mailto:gb@carriageart.com"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">gb@carriageart.com</span></a><span style="color: #d0e0e3;"> to request a room on site. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #d0e0e3;">(limited to 6 on a first come first serve basis. Single room/ $120. per night (2 nights) or double room/ ($60. per night (2 nights). </span></div>
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<span style="color: #d0e0e3;">Looking forward to a great group of Artists and Students, whom through collective focus, amazing nourishment and fun will combine with Max Ginsburg's warmth and generosity, making this workshop a transformative, memorable and exciting Creative Experience!</span></div>
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So thrilled and grateful to be selected for the cover and inside interview about my Mural work in The Public Art Realm for the new and soon to be on the stands of next American Artist Workshop Magazine/ Special Issue/ Professional Practices.</div>
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Many thanks to the Editor, Michael Gormley and Assistant Editor and Writer Austin Williams and all the other writers and staff for doing an amazing job. </div>
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Included are additional wonderful articles, and in depth discussions and demos by Steve Assael & David Kasen, Instructional workshops offered by Bob Bartlet and Donald Demers. </div>
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Aslo amazing information on Richard Schmid & Nancy Guzik and their Putney Painters. </div>
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I could go on and on but this issue in particular is so chock full of engaging information that any budding artist or art aficionado would want to have and read. </div>
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</h2>Garin Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471030499344761095noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175030170264814638.post-86757222738837142532012-06-12T08:10:00.000-07:002012-06-12T08:10:02.066-07:00<div style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d0e0e3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Cranford Paint Out 2012</span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d0e0e3;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">From the Studios of Garin Baker</span></span></div></div></div></div></div><div style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Carriage House Art Studios</span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">June 12th 2012</span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuqCagskwYC0-neRtJnUk8qNMIt0ln7_zklY2JRDan6sTxa3FG5pG78Stjo4l1aVEdki-Q7Jlqiuuji582xpnNPjvxqFs_GNg2Z8de_VMoIpe4m_l7l6UHeTkfsVF9g4mjRa2aEn1KFJc/s1600/Late+Night+in+Cranford.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuqCagskwYC0-neRtJnUk8qNMIt0ln7_zklY2JRDan6sTxa3FG5pG78Stjo4l1aVEdki-Q7Jlqiuuji582xpnNPjvxqFs_GNg2Z8de_VMoIpe4m_l7l6UHeTkfsVF9g4mjRa2aEn1KFJc/s320/Late+Night+in+Cranford.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">"Late Nite In Cranford" by Garin Baker, Oil on Linen, 9" x 12"</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I recently completed a Plein Air Event in Cranford , NJ run by the </span><a href="http://www.jcas.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Jersey Central Artist Studios</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">These folks did great job of blending a local feel with wonderful side painting trips to NYC and the Jersey Shore. Many wonderfully talented artist participated from primarily the east coast regions of Vermont New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey as well as Maryland, Virginia and Georgia. The finale exhibition and sale was judged by renowned artist</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"> </span></span></span><a href="http://www.jcas.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">Joseph McGurl</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">who selected a diverse group of winners celebrating a diversity of styles and approaches. I was fortunate to win second place overall and the respect of many of the artist participating who selected my painting below as the "Artist's Choice Award".</span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu7VKPkusYoEguL0F0xnuHiym-42ziyJk7fk8LTVEM6TiA0zid6kcS7g46l2xOr6g9C6n7L-PEh7QhsWdgq3KoKVkxQcDh2JYBcFfjj1DD3YxyYly53I7OmMQQWlXIELkIIMKfdwOaSYo/s1600/389+Reg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><img border="0" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu7VKPkusYoEguL0F0xnuHiym-42ziyJk7fk8LTVEM6TiA0zid6kcS7g46l2xOr6g9C6n7L-PEh7QhsWdgq3KoKVkxQcDh2JYBcFfjj1DD3YxyYly53I7OmMQQWlXIELkIIMKfdwOaSYo/s320/389+Reg.jpg" width="320" /></span></span></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">"385 Reg', by Garin Baker, Oil on linen, 11" x 14'</span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">The title supplied by </span></span></span><a href="http://stapletonkearns.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">Stapleton Kerns</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">, the first place winner and author of one of the best art blogs on the net.</span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjCfH8GXLUJ469AQ8uO8PB0vh3O3gWJsMzlnfgkqpf42ICDNvMt8H81NADmAAtTLT_JBXdXoJeKfxdfS5cZUZBstMS78XbmeySTlLNoNfmaZSI2QvsVRaZzwyku8veQsFfUHOTPjPoLbU/s1600/detail,+389+Reg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;"><img border="0" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjCfH8GXLUJ469AQ8uO8PB0vh3O3gWJsMzlnfgkqpf42ICDNvMt8H81NADmAAtTLT_JBXdXoJeKfxdfS5cZUZBstMS78XbmeySTlLNoNfmaZSI2QvsVRaZzwyku8veQsFfUHOTPjPoLbU/s320/detail,+389+Reg.jpg" width="320" /></span></span></span></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: black;">detail, "385 Reg" </span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Hosting me was my life long comrade in art and amazing artist </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><a href="http://casalefineart.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Paul Casale</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> and his wife Andrea who are the most wonderful of friends and he even, as a change of pace coaxed his beautiful daughter Jessica to pose for us one afternoon in their back yard.</span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho77L644BkgQVAbh4aFN3BUUkE6uK32ynUP3-6PfkXtBx1Q4Ph-2oceL5G7nuaKwmY-munLlmu58F7Uhi1sCXuFx6b8LFwVKprDUs9mGHTcJ-xmwrZD0Ysturz11fbNPPhf3I2BwGTq5Y/s1600/Jessica.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho77L644BkgQVAbh4aFN3BUUkE6uK32ynUP3-6PfkXtBx1Q4Ph-2oceL5G7nuaKwmY-munLlmu58F7Uhi1sCXuFx6b8LFwVKprDUs9mGHTcJ-xmwrZD0Ysturz11fbNPPhf3I2BwGTq5Y/s320/Jessica.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"Jessica", by Garin Baker, Oil on linen, 14" x 17" </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">My first day out painting, <a href="http://laurinart.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">Lili Anne Lauren</span></a> and I took a trip into Brooklyn to paint the skyline of NYC. I've been eying this site for a few months to do a series of studies for a new larger studio painting of the new lower Manhattan skyline with the Freedom Tower rising from the old WTC site. My first study below and Lili's shot of me on site.</span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgJVP7QlE-B4kIOxYBOjtKGHyPcX5uqdHuEunJ2iDcTY-BzPBfl6oYpU5mWG84SNZ6CDbB_ZNcDvRRYgkKkGTvf-CaPy_QyckHcFs3kZYWi0sUqHSRJSsmW_9Tkk2o8YxR6dgclFXCQNQ/s1600/Study+%231+Freedom+Rising.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="127" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgJVP7QlE-B4kIOxYBOjtKGHyPcX5uqdHuEunJ2iDcTY-BzPBfl6oYpU5mWG84SNZ6CDbB_ZNcDvRRYgkKkGTvf-CaPy_QyckHcFs3kZYWi0sUqHSRJSsmW_9Tkk2o8YxR6dgclFXCQNQ/s320/Study+%231+Freedom+Rising.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> Study, Freedom Rising #1, by Garin Baker, Oil on linen, 16' x 40"</span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">All in all a great time was had by all at the Cranford Paint Out 2012, and not only was it wonderful event run by the Jersey Central Artist Studio organizers , volunteers and sponsors, their was great camaraderie and heart felt spirit from the invited artists who brought their very best painting for 5 days and nights this June. .</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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</span></span></span></span></div></div></div>Garin Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471030499344761095noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175030170264814638.post-6418799855960578582012-03-05T07:14:00.000-08:002012-03-05T07:14:23.925-08:00<div style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d0e0e3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Head Study</span></span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">From the Studios of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Garin Baker</span></span></div></div></div></div></div><div style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">Carriage House Art Studios</span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">March 5th 2012</span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ7u21v3h4qlBvQX-YhfZ5BLWpa9L2_ui2JwAJOs4zbFBbER0rtU0o9gv_C7QyBqib0Jo2jPtguE0TwuYe1kJvCHKqnBQmXbozYs-MVrUVc9SbljnxxNmjzd1o_10MTedZvGtLc92vcxU/s1600/Head+Study1load.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ7u21v3h4qlBvQX-YhfZ5BLWpa9L2_ui2JwAJOs4zbFBbER0rtU0o9gv_C7QyBqib0Jo2jPtguE0TwuYe1kJvCHKqnBQmXbozYs-MVrUVc9SbljnxxNmjzd1o_10MTedZvGtLc92vcxU/s320/Head+Study1load.jpg" width="254" /></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">A quick head study can make clear many concepts and ideas about methods and approach.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I on many occasions have walked a slippery tight rope going that one step to far, rendering a good block in, ultimately loosing the freshness and spontaneity of form that for me communicates a genuine statement of truth and purpose.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-uR_E2CneNzXpiO548zqEf5FfR8aZErBu0ij-md1hFlSEZxqi-ZFJ0VA1BqW7ka9cI3Yn61C8I9xJFAQqyYXbXeAP8Qm75gg0qNY0VaIRn5Z3mgc-KwmRJek6AffF-CRSjzWllTnSgMU/s1600/Head+Study+2load.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-uR_E2CneNzXpiO548zqEf5FfR8aZErBu0ij-md1hFlSEZxqi-ZFJ0VA1BqW7ka9cI3Yn61C8I9xJFAQqyYXbXeAP8Qm75gg0qNY0VaIRn5Z3mgc-KwmRJek6AffF-CRSjzWllTnSgMU/s320/Head+Study+2load.jpg" width="263" /></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">At times I move from conductor to to passenger as a work develops. The tracks have been laid and especially in the cases of larger works of more involved compositions with multiple figures, if not careful, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-size: small;">keeping all the elements in check and reevaluating the original intent, I find myself holding on to the back rail of the caboose as this train/work of art, hurdles to completion.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI2cMa3w-J5XBbsmva5lWJhO1wZX9n1kc7V7FmoHJy6OZ5MX7_pWvSH8oV7B_W-d4f5iRNnNnJJkUZLDbjJmn5y0M10IAaAWnrUbcq0T4Ge6q_n7UukOZ2dG5jVQdejfbrOnOwzZR7aqM/s1600/Head+Study+3load.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI2cMa3w-J5XBbsmva5lWJhO1wZX9n1kc7V7FmoHJy6OZ5MX7_pWvSH8oV7B_W-d4f5iRNnNnJJkUZLDbjJmn5y0M10IAaAWnrUbcq0T4Ge6q_n7UukOZ2dG5jVQdejfbrOnOwzZR7aqM/s320/Head+Study+3load.jpg" width="261" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">In the simplest way a quick head study can reaffirm what I already know, but forget from time to time what ultimately works for me and my own sensibilities. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><br />
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</span></span></div></div></div>Garin Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471030499344761095noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175030170264814638.post-116204505184701202012-01-30T09:41:00.000-08:002012-01-30T09:41:21.607-08:00<div style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d0e0e3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">LA County Firemen's Mural </span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d0e0e3;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Completed in Studio</span></span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">From the Studios of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Garin Baker</span></span></div></div></div></div></div><div style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">Carriage House Art Studios</span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">January 30th 2012</span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9BFRY17rCn0MAh5HEY4gUoYFPqqdw-mFAs_W66Y2np4CK_7dzz8UiXh0uD-amwcXJI-rTTyNva3CUqiy0k6hcISSzFDWhmlHUuYSriBhhcDJ9vcKZSX_3wVCxy35MTq58FfbXnEf5nMA/s1600/GB-LA+Fireman+Mural2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9BFRY17rCn0MAh5HEY4gUoYFPqqdw-mFAs_W66Y2np4CK_7dzz8UiXh0uD-amwcXJI-rTTyNva3CUqiy0k6hcISSzFDWhmlHUuYSriBhhcDJ9vcKZSX_3wVCxy35MTq58FfbXnEf5nMA/s320/GB-LA+Fireman+Mural2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">Mural on studio floor completing seemed transitions</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">After long last I've finally completed painting the </span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">25 ft. long </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Mural for the LA County Fire Department commissioned through the LA County Arts Commission. A long project that started a couple of years back in 2009 when I visited LA, doing my initial research with the Firemen and Paramedics of Fire Station 170. </span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Subsequently in 2010, I completed all the preliminary renderings </span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">in my studio in New York, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">which were all approved in early 2011. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">(see my previous post <a href="http://garinbakerart.blogspot.com/2011/08/la-county-fire-dept.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #d0e0e3;">http://garinbakerart.blogspot.co m/2011/08/la-county-fire-dept.html</span></a>) </span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">After construction delays, the new Fire Station 150 in Santa Clarita, CA will be completed </span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">very soon </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">and the scheduling for the instillation of the Mural will take place to coincide with the last of the many finishing details. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">The Final Mural as seen above with all the seems painted to match up perfectly upon instillation. Although in the back of my mind you never know for sure until the sections are pasted to the wall, how well it will all come together. Hopefully only minor touch ups will be required on site.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Below are some detailed areas.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Stay tuned for a future post showing the installation process and full view of the 10 ft. X 25 ft. Mural without perspective distortion, in it's new home celebrating and acknowledging the work of the LA County Fire Department. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><br />
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