Monday, December 27, 2010
Sunday, December 26, 2010
How to Become an Artist
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How to Become an Artist
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Art is all around you. It is not only in the ability to paint, sketch and draw, but in other media as well. Creating a sculpture takes the skill of an artist. Abstract painting, or creating clay models is a form of art. Art is actually all around you, in every shape and form. Take the time to look at your surroundings in a different manner. Look at a tree, it is not even, it is not straight, it is not brown. It has texture, and shading. Most importantly: no two objects are alike.
editSteps
- 1Buy a sketchbook and sketching pencil. Buy an easel and paints. Go to the stores. Draw things you see. Go to the park, and sit on a bench and just look around you. Art is everywhere. The pool is oval, the sun is round, the trees are all different shades, and no two leaves are the same. No two flowers are the same, or of the same shape or size. If you look at all this and find you are interested in learning more, then you have an artistic nature. You can easily become an artist.
- 2Look at a tree in the sun. Notice that the leaves have varying colors. See which side the sun shines on and how it looks. Look at the same tree an hour later and notice how it looks now that the sun has or is setting. Study the grass, and its shadows. Look at a sunset, the shading and the colors. Actually 'look' at things intently, and mark it all down in your sketchbook.
- 3Develop more of an artistic nature. Learn about colors, shades, and how to use them. Buy a color wheel and try to change colors. Decide what type of art you are interested in. There are hundreds of art techniques that you can learn from.try to learn from everything around you, Lamps, posters, trees, anything!
- 4Train your eyes to focus on structure, color, and value. Do not paint or draw as to how the object "should" look, rather than how it does look. Nothing is really what it looks like. Whites have other shades in it, reds are of varying degrees of red. The skin is not black, and a white person is not really white but varying shades of pinks, yellows,blues all mixed in.
- 5Buy books on art education, Recommended is "Drawing From The Right Side of The Brain". This is a great book to learn from. It is easy to read, and interesting, and you will amaze yourself at how fast you will be actually drawing.
- 6Find Internet sites about artists, art methods, drawing, and painting. Becoming an artist is not difficult once you realize what type of art you are interested in. Read up on artists and visit art shows.
- 7Understand that no one has to be born with a talent. Those that are, are lucky. Art can be developed with interest. Most art need not be painted like a picture. One can use a camera for exactness. Paintings develop from the artists feel of the subject, interpretation and varying colors. No two people are exactly alike. No two artists paint the same way, and no two see things in the exact colors. Art can be learned, discovered and can develop with the proper exposure. Just remember being an artist is not how well you can draw, but the emotion that comes out of it.
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Sunday, December 19, 2010
I wish all of you a very Merry Christmas !!
I wish a VERY Merry Christmas to all of you !!
I will do more work in the way of art after the first of the year and hope to be more creative !!
Lots of ideas float around in my little brain and I will never be able to get to them all but I will give it a good ole fashioned try!!
MERRY CHRISTMAS !!!
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Lewiston woman modeled for painter 100 years ago
Lewiston woman modeled for painter 100 years ago
Published Nov 11, 2010 12:00 am | Last updated Nov 11, 2010 12:00 am
100-year-old Doris Bryant Makas of Lewiston, pictured with her daughter Elaine Makas, holds a page from a photo album with photographs of her and her father, mother and grandmother. Doris Makas and her mother, Mary Ann Bryant, are believed to be the models in Charles Hawthorne's painting "Motherhood Triumphant" circa 1911.
- Jose Leiva/Sun Journal
Doris Makas, 100, of Lewiston, believes Charles Webster Hawthorne's "Motherhood Triumphant" is a painting of her and her mother.
- Provincetown Banner Photo
AUBURN — Family stories: Everyone has them.
Anecdotes that become tall tales and eventually, myths. For Elaine Makas of Lewiston, one such family story involving renowned American artist Charles Webster Hawthorne has moved from family legend to family fact.
Last week, Makas and her mother, Doris Bryant Makas, traveled to New York City to view a Hawthorne painting which many believe shows a 15-month-old Doris sitting on her mother's lap. The work is undated, but according to Smithsonian records it was painted prior to 1915.
Elaine Makas puts that estimate closer to 1911 or 1912, or about nine months after her grandmother, Mary Anne Bryant, took her two children and "moved, penniless, from Everett (Mass.) to Provincetown" to escape an alcoholic husband.
It was in Provincetown that Bryant came in contact with Charles Webster Hawthorne, who was at that time already highly regarded for his innovative genre painting. "He had his studio there, and he was working with a lot of other artists," Makas said.
Bryant worked odd jobs in Provincetown to support her two children. Makas recalled hearing stories about her grandmother, and was touched by "the courage it must have taken to pack up and leave for a better life." And Hawthorne also must have recognized this maternal courage, she speculated, looking over a miniature print of Hawthorne's painting. He titled the piece "Motherhood Triumphant."
But that was nearly 100 years ago. And although Makas heard stories throughout her childhood about her mother modeling for Hawthorne, it was not until a few years ago that she began actively searching through images of his work to determine whether the stories were true. Among his paintings, Makas found two that seemed to match accounts given by her mother.
Another of Hawthorne's paintings could also be of her mother, Makas said. "My mom said she was asked to sit on a nail keg, on a beach," when she was 6 or 7 years old, to model for one of Hawthorne's art classes. "She remembered how uncomfortable the nail keg was to sit on," as well as the white dress and bonnet she wore, Makas said.
Last week, Makas and her mother, Doris Bryant Makas, traveled to New York City to view a Hawthorne painting which many believe shows a 15-month-old Doris sitting on her mother's lap. The work is undated, but according to Smithsonian records it was painted prior to 1915.
Elaine Makas puts that estimate closer to 1911 or 1912, or about nine months after her grandmother, Mary Anne Bryant, took her two children and "moved, penniless, from Everett (Mass.) to Provincetown" to escape an alcoholic husband.
It was in Provincetown that Bryant came in contact with Charles Webster Hawthorne, who was at that time already highly regarded for his innovative genre painting. "He had his studio there, and he was working with a lot of other artists," Makas said.
Bryant worked odd jobs in Provincetown to support her two children. Makas recalled hearing stories about her grandmother, and was touched by "the courage it must have taken to pack up and leave for a better life." And Hawthorne also must have recognized this maternal courage, she speculated, looking over a miniature print of Hawthorne's painting. He titled the piece "Motherhood Triumphant."
But that was nearly 100 years ago. And although Makas heard stories throughout her childhood about her mother modeling for Hawthorne, it was not until a few years ago that she began actively searching through images of his work to determine whether the stories were true. Among his paintings, Makas found two that seemed to match accounts given by her mother.
Another of Hawthorne's paintings could also be of her mother, Makas said. "My mom said she was asked to sit on a nail keg, on a beach," when she was 6 or 7 years old, to model for one of Hawthorne's art classes. "She remembered how uncomfortable the nail keg was to sit on," as well as the white dress and bonnet she wore, Makas said.
Searching Hawthorne's works, Makas found one, untitled, showing a young girl in a white hat and bonnet sitting on a squarish, brown object.
But the main interest has centered around "Motherhood Triumphant," a 5- by 7-foot piece painted in high light, showing a young mother seated before a washed-out seascape, her child stretched out on her lap. The painting was sold to an unknown buyer in 1918, and then resold at auction by Christie's in 1999. The painting was bought by Michael and Marjorie Loeb of New York for $60,000.
This year, through chance meetings, the Loebs discovered that the little girl in their treasured painting was still alive and living in Maine. Last week, they invited Doris and Elaine Makas to their six-story mansion on the Upper East Side, where "Motherhood Triumphant" has a place of honor beneath a large stained-glass window on the highest floor.
But the main interest has centered around "Motherhood Triumphant," a 5- by 7-foot piece painted in high light, showing a young mother seated before a washed-out seascape, her child stretched out on her lap. The painting was sold to an unknown buyer in 1918, and then resold at auction by Christie's in 1999. The painting was bought by Michael and Marjorie Loeb of New York for $60,000.
This year, through chance meetings, the Loebs discovered that the little girl in their treasured painting was still alive and living in Maine. Last week, they invited Doris and Elaine Makas to their six-story mansion on the Upper East Side, where "Motherhood Triumphant" has a place of honor beneath a large stained-glass window on the highest floor.
"'That's me,'" Makas said her mother responded when seeing the work.
Beyond its history, "Motherhood Triumphant" possesses something intangibly valuable to the women whose lives it has touched. The Loebs acquired the painting just after Marjorie delivered triplets. In a New York Times interview published Wednesday, Marjorie Loeb said, “I loved the title and I said, ‘I just had three babies — I’m motherhood triumphant.’”
Beyond its history, "Motherhood Triumphant" possesses something intangibly valuable to the women whose lives it has touched. The Loebs acquired the painting just after Marjorie delivered triplets. In a New York Times interview published Wednesday, Marjorie Loeb said, “I loved the title and I said, ‘I just had three babies — I’m motherhood triumphant.’”
Elaine Makas has also been touched by the work, which she sees as symbolic of her grandmother's love, courage and maternal power.
"Margie," said Elaine Makas, speaking of Marjorie Loeb, "said she visualized it as a painting of a woman whose husband had gone off fishing, maybe to return, maybe not, and her face says, 'I'm determined to take care of my baby.'" She paused for a moment. "It's incredible how close our perception is to the truth."
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