James Hartman

Beach Scene

2018

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This imagined landscape captures the drama of crashing waves, or a desert rock face against a cloudy sky. I worked with a seascape ...

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In this mixed media painting, Tara combined gestural brushstrokes with patterned collage paper to convey the drama of waves crashing on the California coast. ...

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James created this painting in his studio from a plein air sketch he did on location in Berkeley. At the beginning of his career, James spent over a decade painting outdoors with his mentors. They revealed to him all of the spots in the area that were passed on to them through Louis Siegriest, the last surviving member of the famed Society of Six. This path along the marina is an example of one of these locations. James returned to this spot with his group of two or three other artists multiple times to capture the nuances.

About the Artist
When James Hartman was in art school, he became fascinated with the Society of Six, a group of artists who painted en plein air (outdoors) and exhibited together in the San Francisco Bay...

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This is a California impressionist oil painting of Mulholland Ridge Open Space. This is in the San Fran...

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I always liked Pablo Picasso's quote Bad artists copy. Good artists steal. says Kent Sullivan. The difference is that copying is ...

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"Take an evening walk on the beach through a palette of midnight blues and deep plums," invites artist Mandy Main. Light from beachside restaurants illuminates the sand and casts a greenish glow in the ocean, while coastal homes twinkle in the distance. Behind this, the distant big city radiates a glowing focal point at the horizon. "I created the underpainting with black to set the nocturnal mood. I then built up the luminous effects by glazing with layers of pigment. The surf and sand drifts guide the eye."

About the Artist
Mandy Main is an art historian and landscape painter based in the Southern California desert. She has long been passionate about 19th Century American landscape paintings, which has been influential in her artistic practice. Mandy works in series, generally three paintings at a time. Her process begins with a vision of a place she has been, but she takes creative liberties with the aesthetic details. The artist is captivated by light and shadow, and strives to instill her work with moody drama through the representation of these elements. Using layers of paint and glazes, Mandy achieves mesmerizing atmospheric depth, encouraging the viewer to gaze and be still.

Words that describe this painting: seascape, ocean, beach, night, sky, clouds, impressionism, shore, sand, evening, village, town, monochrome, small, impressionism, seascape, travel, oil painting, grey

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