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.
Flowers from my daughter Samantha.
What a surprisingly nice Mother's Day.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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)
I've discovered a new online frame company called WebPictureFrames.com. It's a frame outlet and gallery located in Eugene, Oregon. I've learned from their website they've been around a while. I purchased this floating frame for my new painting and it came today. Perfectly packed and beautifully made. I recommend them and the price was really reasonable, so I feel compelled to highlight them. Here are some images.
July has been a hectic month. I'm working on a larger still life painting 28" x 20". It's almost done, but I'm not ready to reveal it. Above is the parrot cigar box I painted in May and decided to paint and stencil the sides. It's fun, and I like it. I may play around with stencils for a while.
The biggest issue this past month keeping me from painting was that my husband fell and broke his elbow. He had a plate and screws put in. I'm amazed how fast he's healing. I'm also happy for him!
This painting sold at the Beekman Street Art Fair. It was a fun day and I thank the woman who bought my painting and emailed me to say it looks great in her place.
Here's the quote I originally posted with the painting. Not much has changed.
There is a quote by Henry Miller that a writer takes a path in order to become the path. It is the same with painters. To paint often and freely is to open oneself to all that we are and hope to become and in so doing fearlessly share ourselves with others.
I'm excited to be participating in this year's art fair. I'll be showing ~ 20 paintings ranging in sizes 6 x 6 in. to 24 x 24 in. Most have not been shown before. There will be 60 artists showing their works. My booth will be located in section block 1 from Grand to Oak Streets. Maps will be available.
