California Scene Painting
California Scene Painting captures the regional spirit of the Golden State by illustrating epic landscapes and expressive genre scenes, which depict narratives of everyday life. It went through a golden age in the 1930s, when it documented the catalysts of cultural change of the time: industrial development stemming from the aftermath of the Great Depression. Born out of a larger national movement called the American Scene style, California Scene painters sought to create representational art based on what they saw and felt. Their movement developed with changes in the American way of life, and documented the expansion of the agricultural, railway, and automotive industries.
Artists
Nov 19
Interview
Watercolor Artist John Salminen: Art & Advice
Vesta Kirby (1936-2016)
Vesta Ann Kirby, age 80, long time resident of San Francisco, passed away on November 14th, 2016. She was born on January 28th, 1936 in Hillsdale, Michigan to Roscoe and Pauline Kirby. Vesta Kirby grew up in Michigan and Ohio. She began her studies in Fine Arts at Ohio State University and completed her BFA at The New School, Parsons School of Design, New York City. During her employment at Skidmore Owings & Merrill Architects, Vesta became primarily responsible for the color and designing of corporate interiors. She lived, worked, and painted in Europe: including, Paris, Bern, and various locations in Greece. She traveled to study the art, culture, and architecture in the Middle East, India, and the Far East. In Japan, she studied sumi'e ink painting and calligraphy brush painting with Japanese Masters in Kyoto. In 1970, Vesta chose to make San Francisco her home, where she continued to paint, design interiors, and teach art. After considerable traveling and working with other architectural firms, she completed her MFA at John F. Kennedy University, Arts & Consciousness in Studio Arts, Berkeley, CA. She was later invited to participate in the Djerassi Resident Artists Program for one month where she exhibited her completed paintings.
Vesta was preceded in death by her father, Roscoe Ives Kirby; mother, Pauline Ida Aiello; step-father, Albert Aiello; brother, William Mills Kirby; brother-in-law, Cornel Mentler Jr.; and niece, Vesta Elizabeth Mentler.
Vesta is survived by her sisters, Susan Elizabeth Pullman and Paulette Edyth Walters; brothers-in-law, Howard Wayne Pullman and Robert Dennis Walters; sister-in-law, Carol Kirby; nephews, Erik Ross Pullman, Brian Keith Pullman, Cornel Mentler III, and Ethan Patrick Pullman; and nieces, Teresa Ann Kirby and Karen Mae Story.
Family requests that donations be made to Next Village San Francisco (www.nextvillagesf.org/next-village-documentary/) or Friends of the Sharon Art Studio (www.sharonartstudio.org).
Memorial arrangements to be announced at a later date.
Watercolor Artist John Salminen: Art & Advice
Vesta Kirby (1936-2016)
Vesta Ann Kirby, age 80, long time resident of San Francisco, passed away on November 14th, 2016. She was born on January 28th, 1936 in Hillsdale, Michigan to Roscoe and Pauline Kirby. Vesta Kirby grew up in Michigan and Ohio. She began her studies in Fine Arts at Ohio State University and completed her BFA at The New School, Parsons School of Design, New York City. During her employment at Skidmore Owings & Merrill Architects, Vesta became primarily responsible for the color and designing of corporate interiors. She lived, worked, and painted in Europe: including, Paris, Bern, and various locations in Greece. She traveled to study the art, culture, and architecture in the Middle East, India, and the Far East. In Japan, she studied sumi'e ink painting and calligraphy brush painting with Japanese Masters in Kyoto. In 1970, Vesta chose to make San Francisco her home, where she continued to paint, design interiors, and teach art. After considerable traveling and working with other architectural firms, she completed her MFA at John F. Kennedy University, Arts & Consciousness in Studio Arts, Berkeley, CA. She was later invited to participate in the Djerassi Resident Artists Program for one month where she exhibited her completed paintings.
Vesta was preceded in death by her father, Roscoe Ives Kirby; mother, Pauline Ida Aiello; step-father, Albert Aiello; brother, William Mills Kirby; brother-in-law, Cornel Mentler Jr.; and niece, Vesta Elizabeth Mentler.
Vesta is survived by her sisters, Susan Elizabeth Pullman and Paulette Edyth Walters; brothers-in-law, Howard Wayne Pullman and Robert Dennis Walters; sister-in-law, Carol Kirby; nephews, Erik Ross Pullman, Brian Keith Pullman, Cornel Mentler III, and Ethan Patrick Pullman; and nieces, Teresa Ann Kirby and Karen Mae Story.
Family requests that donations be made to Next Village San Francisco (www.nextvillagesf.org/next-village-documentary/) or Friends of the Sharon Art Studio (www.sharonartstudio.org).
Memorial arrangements to be announced at a later date.
Nov 12
Christoph Niemann
One of my favorite illustrators/graphic designers put out a list of the fears he faces as an artist. Here are some of them:
Fear of comfort - When you’re too comfortable, you don’t have to analyze your work. Why push yourself in a new direction if the one you’re on is just fine?
Fear of likes - Too many approvals can keep us from risking something new
Fear of personal projects - Ideas without outside pressure or time constraints can easily disperse and disappear.
Fear of not being good enough
Fear of creating irrelevant work and going broke - if you depend on your art for your income
Fear of being out of ideas
I can think of many more, just thought he summarized our discomforts in a new way.
Loosen Up Your Watercolors
There are so many discussions about wanting to create looser, freer, more spontaneous, pieces, that I am finding articles and videos to share.
Go (a Little) Wild!—How to Loosen Up (Just a Bit) in Watercolor
1. Choose 3 colors at random and do the entire painting with only those colors.
2. Start with a wild underpainting.
3. Work wet-in-wet within shapes.
4. Connect as many shapes as possible into one big wet area, and “separate” them by lifting and glazing small areas later.
5. Whenever possible, draw with the brush.
6. Touch a wet edge in a few places as you lay in an adjacent wash and let the color run.
7. Use a spray bottle to soften and make color run, especially around the edges.
Here is the full article, with examples: Go (a Little) Wild
Heather Solway @ Gallery Sanchez
Fear of comfort - When you’re too comfortable, you don’t have to analyze your work. Why push yourself in a new direction if the one you’re on is just fine?
Fear of likes - Too many approvals can keep us from risking something new
Fear of personal projects - Ideas without outside pressure or time constraints can easily disperse and disappear.
Fear of not being good enough
Fear of creating irrelevant work and going broke - if you depend on your art for your income
Fear of being out of ideas
I can think of many more, just thought he summarized our discomforts in a new way.
Loosen Up Your Watercolors
There are so many discussions about wanting to create looser, freer, more spontaneous, pieces, that I am finding articles and videos to share.
Go (a Little) Wild!—How to Loosen Up (Just a Bit) in Watercolor
1. Choose 3 colors at random and do the entire painting with only those colors.
2. Start with a wild underpainting.
3. Work wet-in-wet within shapes.
4. Connect as many shapes as possible into one big wet area, and “separate” them by lifting and glazing small areas later.
5. Whenever possible, draw with the brush.
6. Touch a wet edge in a few places as you lay in an adjacent wash and let the color run.
7. Use a spray bottle to soften and make color run, especially around the edges.
Here is the full article, with examples: Go (a Little) Wild
Heather Solway @ Gallery Sanchez
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