I have an ad in the September issue of American Art Collector magazine, along with more images and a short article in their special landscape feature. As usual, I’m pleased and impressed with the color quality of my images as well as the rest of the magazine. Each month I look forward to the new issue because it always stimulates my creativity with the top quality artists it features, and those who advertise.
I always look for at least four aspects of each piece of art, whether it is in others’ works or my own. They are IMPACT, TECHNIQUE, MOOD, and IMAGE. The first three are the most important for me and the image can be anything. In fact, even though I am basically a landscape painter, the artists who consistently excite me the most are all working in other genres.
FIGURE PAINTERS
Mary Whyte always pleases me with her sensitive watercolors of often older people in everyday situations. Her watercolor technique is fresh and exceptional.
Andrea Kowch does exquisitely mystical acrylic paintings of women in unusual situations. Her ability to render the smallest details of hair and clothing are impressive and the mood intriguing.
Ali Cavanaugh poses her teenage daughter and her friends with unusual arm positions, usually wearing colorful striped long stockings on their arms. Her loving treatment of these young women is very appealing and her use of watercolor on clayboard is technically brilliant.
Alysa Monks also paints women, but mostly with a very large scale head in a shower with steam and water drops rendered beautifully in oils.
STILL LIFES AND WILD LIFES
Yana Movchan paints spectacular oil still lifes with such exquisite detail that you want to just keep looking to see what more surprises you can find.
Dennis Wojtkiewicz paints large scale slices of citrus fruits and melons that take up the entire, enormous canvas. His use of oils to render the transparency of each slice is incredible.
Craig Kosak combines abstraction and realism to portray his animals, mostly horses and birds, with an occasional buffalo. His work is both spiritual and mythical and he uses a limited palette of oils to create stunning paintings.
Frank Gonzales paints birds and plants in a colorful and appealing acrylic technique. They are always cheerful and uplifting.
Below is my own painting which appears in the ad. It is a 40″ x 60″ watercolor entitled “Autumn Spectrum”. I was aiming for “impact” and hope I also captured the “mood”, as well as the “image” in my watercolor “technique”
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