Grant Gilsdorf More Art

A serene plein air painting from Nelson White, featuring his recognizable impasto whitecaps. A deep blue sea meets a lilac-brown horizon, and ascends back into the blue sky, adorned ...

White's recognizable orange umbrella's are featured in this picturesque beach scene. The textures and impasto that White always masterfully applies with his palette knife are present...

encaustic on panel b. 1954, Reno Nevada Michael David is best known for his use of encaustic on large abstract paintings. A practitioner of Abstract Expressionism, David layers bees...

"Mandarins" is a realistic oil painting on panel of a bouquet of mandarin branches and fruit, connected with twine, resting on a rustic blue wall. Details in the light blue table bac...

Dalessio makes the sea sparkle in this plein air depiction of the coast of Portugal. Framed dimensions: 13.5 x 17.5 inches Artist Bio: Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angele...

"Succession Study" is a hyperrealist seascape of Atlantic Ocean breaking on the beach. Frame Dimensions 15.5 x 18.5in Edward Minoff Graduated with honors from NYU's Tisch School o...

"Emeralds" is a photorealist contemporary seascape of waves crashing on the Northeastern U.S. coast Frame Dimensions 15.75 x 23.75in Edward Minoff Graduated with honors from NYU's...

Lifelong painter Nelson H. White (b. 1932, Connecticut) is widely appreciated for his loyalty to natural landscapes and intimate impressionism. His loose brushstrokes are skillfully ...

A plein air painting. An impressionistic view of a street in Tribeca. The setting sun illuminates the skyscraper in the distance. Artist Bio: Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los ...

"Pony and Groom" is an unframed, oil on wood panel, contemporary impressionist painting. Painted during the 2014 Wellington Winter Equestrian Festival. Center stage, stands a fit, br...

"Descending Towards Now," oil on wood painting by artist Todd Carpenter depicts a remote landscape of leafless trees being nourished by a running stream. Imagine this is a past route...

"The Factory Builds Eternally East" depicts a open skies and city lights. This scene is of no particular place, but rather Carpenter's interpretation and compilation of various places he has visited. As a painter, I examine how the depiction of light contributes to our experience of paintings. The portrayal of light helps a painting to convey the atmosphere and mood of a scene, and is much of what enables a painting to convey depth and realism. Our perception of lighting features occurs largely through pathways in the brain that carry only black and white information, pathways which are distinct from areas that encode the colors and details we use to delineate specific objects. By painting in grayscale, I try to interact specifically with this region of our visual system, with the hope of conveying some of the spaciousness and emotional significance that light can imbue on scenes. Light, whether as the crisp contrast of a back-lit forest or the gray haze of an industrial landscape, is what defines a scene. Its power to communicate the feel of a place is the principle subject of my paintings. The Blue Azul...