Robin Rosenthal Art
Monday, October 21, 2024
Friday, October 18, 2024
Box Top Landscape
Every time I paint this landscape I learn new things. It's the color temperatures and values that create depth, and I love clouds.
Saturday, October 12, 2024
The Future Looks Bright
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Arlene's Artist Materials SOS
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Friday, October 4, 2024
Edgar Payne's Composition of Outdoor Painting
Edgar Payne's Composition of Outdoor Painting. This book has been recommended in artists' blogs I've been reading. It comes highly recommended, is beautifully bound and has lots of helpful illustrations. My goal is to read it this winter and feel more comfortable with landscape painting. Below this is my first attempt at a forest scene.
Thursday, September 19, 2024
Evening Sailors Study
Happy Cows Cigar Box
So much fun painting on cigar box lids. I've learned a lot about shapes and colors of varied skies, clouds and colors of simplified backgrounds and foregrounds.
Sunday, September 8, 2024
Clouds and Lake
I've been working on painting clouds within a landscape. Previously clouds were just a slash of white across the sky. I'm getting the hang of large cumulus clouds. I'm happy with this composition. According to John Carlson, the sky is the key to the landscape and it's the most fun for me. An object helps draw the eye into the scene. Today it's a canoe with a sail.
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Large Still Life on Yellow Cloth
Monday, July 29, 2024
Cloudscape
Monday, July 1, 2024
The Landscape Painter's Workbook
Looking for an interesting book to read this summer, then I suggest The Landscape Painter's Workbook by Mitchell Albala. I'm a still life painter, but I like reading about all types of art. This book explains some art terms that always interested me. Albala added beautiful paintings that demonstrate those terms. This is a book I'm happy to add to my book collection.
Friday, June 14, 2024
Who painted this portrait?
I'm not a portrait painter, but I'm lucky to know one. Who painted this portrait? It's Trudi Smith and what a nice surprise to have been presented with this. Trudi is a wonderful portrait painter, but you won't find her work online. Nowadays, she keeps to herself.
Sunday, June 9, 2024
Art for the Win
Thursday, May 16, 2024
Amber Vase on Blue Plate with Three Lemons
HOURS TUESDAY - SATURDAY 11AM - 4PM
Sunday, May 12, 2024
Mother's Day 2024
This image was created using AI by my son James and daughter-in-law Shu-Ying Chung. I'm here in my studio with their cat Mikko during a painting session. What a fun Mother's Day gift.
Flowers from my daughter Samantha.
What a surprisingly nice Mother's Day.
Friday, April 19, 2024
Partly Overcast Sky
Saturday, April 13, 2024
Oakroom Artist show at the Cooperstown Art Association Gallery
Thank you Oakroom Artists and the Cooperstown Art Association for putting together a beautiful Show. Everyone's work looked great and we had a large turnout at the opening reception. This event is free and open to the public.
The show runs April 12th - May 8th
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11am to 4 pm
The show is located in the Town Hall - 22 Main St. Cooperstown, NY
Monday, April 1, 2024
The Oakroom Artists & Meet Me In My Flower Garden Show at the Cooperstown Art Association Gallery
I'm pleased to announce I'll be participating in this prestigious Cooperstown Art Show featuring approximately 28 Oakroom Artists. I'll be contributing four art works to this large show.
Opening Reception: Friday, April 12, from 5-7pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday from 11am-4pm
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Windy Day Landscape
I've always been fascinated by landscapes, especially skies. I like those artists who simplify their compositions and create gradations of blues in the skies from dark blue higher up and lighter blue near the horizon, and also many values of grays in the clouds. I hope to find a sense of spontaneity in my landscape and a feeling of wanting to take a deep breath when viewing at my painting.
Saturday, February 10, 2024
Blue Orchids, Green Vase and Silver Tray
I wasn't sure I'd post it since it seemed a little busy to me, but I said what the heck, I'll do it and move on.
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Rubber Plant in Clear Glass with Plates, Yellow Pitcher and Silver Bowl
Rubber Plant in Clear Glass with Plates, Pitcher and Silver Bowl 10 x 10 in. oil on gessoed panel #oil#oilpainting#brushstrokes #painting #still life #allaprima #colorful #paintingfromlife#impressionistic#rubberplant#yellowpitcher #silverbowl#orangecloth #contemporaryart#robinrosenthalart
Friday, January 5, 2024
Violet Vase on Blue Plate and Silver Bowl
I recently purchased this cut glass violet flower vase at the thrift and wondered why someone would get rid of it. It was so pretty in the light. It was fun to paint and lovely to look at. I'm happy with the outcome.
Monday, January 1, 2024
Most Viewed 2023
Tuesday, December 26, 2023
Working on Wet-into-Wet Painting Techniques
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Green Glass, Silver Bowl and Plum
Monday, October 16, 2023
Getting back into the swing - Study in Pink
On the heels of a success like winning the 1st place award at the Stockade Art Show, a period of good productivity and a busy life, I almost fell into a painting funk! At times like these, I like to try something new like warm-up exercises. The goal isn't to produce a great painting or to change my style, but it's to help get back into the swing of things.
This time I reread Sarah Sedwick's book Dynamic Still Life for Artists. I really enjoyed it and many of her explanations applied true. So after putting together a still life, I did a drawing, a value study in black and white oils with 5 values plus white, and then did her alla prima technique in three steps, an underpainting, pre-mixing my colors and lastly applying the paint. I changed a couple of things, I'm not one for creating an underpainting but I liked to premix my colors.
My goal was to create momentum, to get started painting, relax and have fun.
Gallery 5 Pop-Up Art Show in downtown Schenectady
I'm excited to announce I'll be participating in the 2nd Gallery 5 Show, Fall For Art, in downtown Schenectady from Oct. 27 through 29th. I hope you can come and check it out.
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
A Great Day at the 72nd Annual Stockade Villagers' Outdoor Art Show 2023
The weather turned out sunny and warm for the 72nd Stockade Villagers' Outdoor Art Show. My full display and the 1st Place Award for my painting Focal Point. It couldn't have been a nicer day! Thank you to my husband for all his help, Gary for co-judging the Oakroom Artist award and my friend Gail for stopping by to support me.
Sunday, September 3, 2023
72nd Annual Stockade Villagers' Outdoor Art Show 2023
A great outdoor art show and sale in Schenectady’s Historic Stockade neighborhood.
Saturday September 9th 2023 10am-4pm (rain date Sunday Sept 10th noon-4pm)