by Rich Brimer | Jun 15, 2009 | beauty, General, Painting, quotes |
So, on Friday (June 19th) I will be leaving the daily grind to be a gypsy artist for a week. I will take my newly gesso-ed birch panels with me to San Onofre Beach where it will be my outpost for the week. San Clemente hosts a week long Plein Air competition and I...
by Rich Brimer | Oct 24, 2008 | beauty, memior |
On another website that I often read, the question was asked… “When did you forget how to draw? – How can we reconnect with our playful, creative, expressive element of our humanity?” I stopped actually drawing twenty years ago, when I got...
by Rich Brimer | Sep 24, 2008 | beauty, face of love, memior |
We should never mistake glamor for beauty. All that glitters is not gold. Some of the most beautiful moments in life can be the most difficult to look at. Think of the messiness of birth… the broken water, the blood, the crying, the after-birth, but all is...
by Rich Brimer | Aug 16, 2008 | beauty, Painting |
I have added a glaze to the sky and painted a second layer over the landscape, wiping away some of the bits to let the underpainting show through. Next, I will go back into the clouds to bring back some highlights and deepen the shadows. Getting close…
by Rich Brimer | Aug 1, 2008 | beauty, Painting |
So I now have the second draft of this painting. I worked the background sufficiently enough that it matches “Threshold” now much better. I think I will have one more go at the background tomorrow after this dries. Then – when side by side, I will do...
by Rich Brimer | Jun 19, 2008 | beauty, memior, Painting, quotes |
John O’donohue tells us about “thresholds”… “thresholds which comes from “thrashing” – which is to separate the grain from the husk. So, the threshold is a place – you move into a more critical, challenging...
