Its been a great week!
Wyoming Summer
Wyoming Summer
I was very much honored to get "Best in Show" with my painting "Wyoming
Summer" at our Plein Air Washington Artists annual "Little Gems"
exhibition opening this last Friday night! The painting is only 6"x8",
but as the judge Mitch Baird said "it is not the size, but the quality
of the work that makes a great work of Art. Mitch also gave me a "Best
in Show" in our annual landscape exhibition last Fall..and so I am
hoping they invite him to judge all of the rest of our exhibitions!
Kino Bay 3
Kino Bay 3
This is the painting I am working on right now. This is pretty much my
block in with some added work to it. The block in is really the most
critical part of my process..I need to get all of the larger color
relationships to harmonize and it is the most fun of the painting
process for me. Like most artists I pretty much work from large to
small..trying to get the large relationships of value, color and edges
to work. I will explain more of my process in the newsletter below.
To continue on a little more on my process for a "Studio" painting: I
will usually do some value studies in conte or paint to work my design
out...maybe more than one or two if it is more of a complicated multi
figure composition. I then will often do a color study to work out all
the larger color relationships and sometimes even carry them to a more
finished painting if I feel the need. By the time you have done all of
this..one usually has most of the major problems worked out and can
just freely execute those results onto a larger studio painting. The
only problem with this is that after doing two or three value and color
studies, one has played the game twice already and can easily lose the
"edge" one needs to produce a fine work of art! So I will usually do
either just a value or color study..usually just a color study and get
on with the studio painting if I am pleased with the study. As I
usually am not able to do larger paintings I will just complete my
color study to a more finished painting. Sometimes I have a pretty good
idea what I want and will forgo any studies and just dive into a
painting and still come up with some decent results...painting is not
an exact science by far..and we probably have more failures than
successes..particularly for those of us with such high standards! I
love to create new work and have hundreds of ideas for new paintings
and so working small enables me to do more paintings! I am alway
willing to answer any questions you may have and you can just email me
at nedmueller06@comcast.net I love to teach and have been teaching
classes and workshops for over 55 years! I don't teach as many
workshops as I use to, but still will do about 4 or 5 a year now. I
will have my workshops listed on my website at www.nedmueller.com
I have quite a busy schedule this Summer and Fall. Will be going back
to Wexford, Ireland to be with Karen most of July and August and doing
a workshop or two while there. Also getting out to paint as much as we
can and also participating in their annual "Art in the Open" plein air
event the end of July and first part of August. It is the largest Plein
Air event in the world and this year they have over 200 artists
participating. I will also teach two "mini workshops" during the week
long event as I have done the last several years. Kevin Macpherson, Ray
and Peggy Roberts, Dave West and Thomas KItts are some of the other
great painters doing mini workshops. It is a great event..a lot of fun
and we get a lot of great painting time with all of the great "Irish"
subjects! I will also probably be doing my annual Plein Air Workshop
the end of August here in the Seattle area. I have been invited to do
the "Yellowstone Forever" plein air exhibition in Yellowstone Park for
the second year now the end of September and also the "Cape Ann" plein
air exhibiton for the second year the first part of October. In between
all of that I will get out to paint as often as I can, have some great
portrait models in the studio to work from and just keep doing ongoing
works in the studio. You may be getting a bit bored by now and I need
to save some of my very best travel adventure stories for later so that
I don't lose my wonderful audience! Do let me know if you want me to
talk about anything in particular..I have been around for almost 79
years now and so have acquired a lot of good and bad knowledge that I
am more than willing to pass on...as my good friends will tell you,
that I don't need too much encouragement to do that! Thanks so much for
getting this far..let me know one way or another how I am doing so that
I might be able to improve my ramblings! Should get another one of
these out in a month or so...unless I get another award or two and it
may be sooner! All my best, Ned
Conte Portrait 1
Conte Portrait 1
Gold Creek Winter
Gold Creek Winter
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