tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77089800003217536582024-02-07T23:36:34.293-05:00 Barbara NussA journey to quiet placesBarbara Nusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03024527485172938422noreply@blogger.comBlogger220125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708980000321753658.post-61339898107816432522020-11-04T10:36:00.000-05:002020-11-04T10:36:01.166-05:00<p><span style="font-size: medium;">"Heading South," (Lucas Cross Farm), p. 2</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikshgMUkmYAs1Iu2hxAa-8Bb6G8DX28FRY-wBHNp6H8ZTKvUwHCOdL_sMMK3Nb8Qexgz0uux7NQyEuqXPQkEatmbhLveP7m68v5M2_-goTop2J_CgUIycD5VIYTJqgPxPuIWuH_lWH670/s2048/2020-11-04_10-25-42.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1523" data-original-width="2048" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikshgMUkmYAs1Iu2hxAa-8Bb6G8DX28FRY-wBHNp6H8ZTKvUwHCOdL_sMMK3Nb8Qexgz0uux7NQyEuqXPQkEatmbhLveP7m68v5M2_-goTop2J_CgUIycD5VIYTJqgPxPuIWuH_lWH670/w400-h297/2020-11-04_10-25-42.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">First I painted the whites, so I could make some value judgements. It's a good idea to paint your lightest lights early on. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Then I looked at dozens of my photos of cloudy skies, and finally decided to do it this way. Most of my photos showed horizontal streaks of gray, but I found that if I varied the streaks, it was more interesting. Remember I'm going to add a flock of geese. I worked on the middle ground trees, the cornfield, the grass, and a bit on the road. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I need to finish the foreground, especially the big tree on the left, before I can go back and refine the rest. </div><br /><br /></span><p></p>Barbara Nusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03024527485172938422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708980000321753658.post-17688338799323119312020-11-03T10:45:00.002-05:002020-11-03T10:52:57.976-05:00<p><span style="font-size: large;"> Lucas Cross Farm </span></p><p>I took these photos nearly 10 years ago and I have wanted to paint these barn buildings since then. I think it will be a good demonstration of the planning and execution from a photo to a painting. I'm attracted to the simple palette and the contrast of the barn against the dark sky. </p><p>First, here are a few pictures of the original scene: </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGARtqTbICXxBCXc4SRS-5oRRz4KYgmUUZ34foWfm2Np_Htc4ZlE0IS_pxhkO14FkgtNNTEhxxBQw99ftaFOldoQ1mRl3JlcabRGvUPkKwK7_i-_KzsEKFqkrxDZskEW3gj-dOILIujxY/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGARtqTbICXxBCXc4SRS-5oRRz4KYgmUUZ34foWfm2Np_Htc4ZlE0IS_pxhkO14FkgtNNTEhxxBQw99ftaFOldoQ1mRl3JlcabRGvUPkKwK7_i-_KzsEKFqkrxDZskEW3gj-dOILIujxY/w200-h150/DSCN4478.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><img alt="" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFw0IEgQGjHuj883_jz0N8UE-NB5GFGgnQDROmwcqTar67eVJAmIV79pMPvWeahYwgUElm09M68AVB6hkCm5gobWqkLzUeLcREHvyQBAYk0NXJaZQda3CheFHebQfi6RjobaZG0A-vPyw/w200-h150/DSCN4482.JPG" width="200" /><div class="separator" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC4ctcnmKfLn6WFCRqs-Um2dLUTpLyZNj0O2lQ-j5kcqqRZB7lUffyFk0X5QVCLMtYqG0cnPMbPghQ6hD3ymGTQNiVutUTs0Zu30Hgigt_dJUnIgtAllaB8tPMvqMfkPMIEm0kOqklems/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC4ctcnmKfLn6WFCRqs-Um2dLUTpLyZNj0O2lQ-j5kcqqRZB7lUffyFk0X5QVCLMtYqG0cnPMbPghQ6hD3ymGTQNiVutUTs0Zu30Hgigt_dJUnIgtAllaB8tPMvqMfkPMIEm0kOqklems/" width="200" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFw0IEgQGjHuj883_jz0N8UE-NB5GFGgnQDROmwcqTar67eVJAmIV79pMPvWeahYwgUElm09M68AVB6hkCm5gobWqkLzUeLcREHvyQBAYk0NXJaZQda3CheFHebQfi6RjobaZG0A-vPyw/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div><br /></div>I will be using the center one as my basic design, with some changes of course. <p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Step 1. PRINTING</span></p><p>I cut a piece of the Strathmore Canvas Paper to 8 1/2 x 11 and put it in my printer, with my fingers crossed that it wouldn't ruin the printer. It went through just fine, and this is the image. The paper didn't take the ink too well, but it saved me a lot of drawing.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3n4-kFxQl5L2sr8OLM-vF_kCmvHxoRxUak1NkQ2rsgWD4_n4PqvPbHDYplh3UFrXNpwRtgMbv5wXoHOqsshE0NJc0ufmdDLpaW9tsMNlOKHGmW9nT2sPQbuWVd4fMhP2sDlakeGJGSsg/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1575" data-original-width="2048" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3n4-kFxQl5L2sr8OLM-vF_kCmvHxoRxUak1NkQ2rsgWD4_n4PqvPbHDYplh3UFrXNpwRtgMbv5wXoHOqsshE0NJc0ufmdDLpaW9tsMNlOKHGmW9nT2sPQbuWVd4fMhP2sDlakeGJGSsg/w400-h308/Barn1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Step 2. DECIDING ON A SIZE</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">I waffled for a while between 9x12 and 12x16, and finally decided on the former. So then with the proportion wheel, ruler, and white masking tape in hand, I decided where it needed cropping. Then I started to apply paint to the canvas paper print.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8Qnxk-Ur2wTk5D_VesoI3QWAhMDiAmnshQYgjBJyQXaOVWS8fPmKoW3_hNjgG2aDWOBzk2Pv8vNIfe7dhDSbCVloy9ORBbFd5ozTqavGtUJe4Advt0JjIIzfAirUMVBke5i9l_Mgtee4/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1577" data-original-width="2048" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8Qnxk-Ur2wTk5D_VesoI3QWAhMDiAmnshQYgjBJyQXaOVWS8fPmKoW3_hNjgG2aDWOBzk2Pv8vNIfe7dhDSbCVloy9ORBbFd5ozTqavGtUJe4Advt0JjIIzfAirUMVBke5i9l_Mgtee4/w400-h308/2964.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>Step 3. ADJUSTING THE DESIGN</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">I asked myself what I didn't like about the painting...the major thing was the silo was too tall. So I shortened it, made the right hand tree more interesting, and developed the gray thing on the right into a house. I made the center tree larger. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA5yld8bmxEbeYuarKv6ZiAq_jsifBkqDnym4GGvYKI6rKopGwHK7ntA_kXlngmHLXJ6GUcvl4h6i_CmUjfPX9sOvA60DYCLfW5-2GKlstSaAsja0XY_YD0d8XZVuWuxCxW7oGorsb3YQ/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1579" data-original-width="2048" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA5yld8bmxEbeYuarKv6ZiAq_jsifBkqDnym4GGvYKI6rKopGwHK7ntA_kXlngmHLXJ6GUcvl4h6i_CmUjfPX9sOvA60DYCLfW5-2GKlstSaAsja0XY_YD0d8XZVuWuxCxW7oGorsb3YQ/w400-h309/2965.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div></div></span></div></div><div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Step 4. MORE DEVELOPMENTS</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I tried some blue in the sky and made notes on the canvas. I plan to add a flight of geese and will call the painting "Heading South."</div></div></span></div></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHmH1WjVxp0hoYIhNfbdbGNCKfL00rt1Jcz24nOL0uXCpA2wrUTAaOuzv1Lci6pnt_m4uu-lWDwgrfmrXwvsGxdF9uuS73V6qkfobaZNzivNf9pGarv2MnQvICI-ExKpQqN5S5_2F7LuE/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1569" data-original-width="2048" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHmH1WjVxp0hoYIhNfbdbGNCKfL00rt1Jcz24nOL0uXCpA2wrUTAaOuzv1Lci6pnt_m4uu-lWDwgrfmrXwvsGxdF9uuS73V6qkfobaZNzivNf9pGarv2MnQvICI-ExKpQqN5S5_2F7LuE/w400-h307/2967+copy.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Step 5. THE GRIDDED CANVAS</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I marked off the canvas with soft vine charcoal into one inch squares and numbered them accordingly.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRY3SNymYA4qeac_2b-SDdZTBOdEVSn95fTTKlwHU8KYgUfSQsAuta5QQoy8Was-0U9ISluApWGK7sMAJeLXIlg4l0npFywcqdvTiE-cJwo079deccFvvwfxUBvH9CM8aZhQitcjz39FI/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1530" data-original-width="2048" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRY3SNymYA4qeac_2b-SDdZTBOdEVSn95fTTKlwHU8KYgUfSQsAuta5QQoy8Was-0U9ISluApWGK7sMAJeLXIlg4l0npFywcqdvTiE-cJwo079deccFvvwfxUBvH9CM8aZhQitcjz39FI/" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Step 6. GRIDDING THE PRINT</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I taped Saran Wrap over the print and used my ruler to divide the space into 9 equal sections vertically and 12 equal sections horizontally. Note my ruler is not in the corners. The actual size of the print was around 5 1/4" horizontally and I wanted to divide it into 12 parts. I angled the ruler until the 6" mark was on the right side of the print. I then put a tick mark every 1/2 inch. Then did the same vertically, and numbered the squares accordingly.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0UQ4s9HGc3Db9OtHVFyy-2tksFmqcejOjQ432Xtr40Z4QwfwmZd_QwNK0ltpo4pwdQmrkDA2L-WyzrMv4EfhjoPTQuqu2iKZ6zR5U8J4pO-rNGmjBfMy4xLvWDTddrwo3IYi4u3WnItU/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1369" data-original-width="2048" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0UQ4s9HGc3Db9OtHVFyy-2tksFmqcejOjQ432Xtr40Z4QwfwmZd_QwNK0ltpo4pwdQmrkDA2L-WyzrMv4EfhjoPTQuqu2iKZ6zR5U8J4pO-rNGmjBfMy4xLvWDTddrwo3IYi4u3WnItU/w400-h268/2970.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivZaP3kL4pRqD5QkkDNF4hwOuQPlIZsldEVurLOLfCGDL3oHTb0OzUB21m4BQmMjk9aCT7-FZQDNT1X9MWNWAMd6n0hSsooSgSNXTDBvfLxnAVOVX_vkZ1r8J5D2Pa_zJbB1qMkRQSjiI/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1552" data-original-width="2048" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivZaP3kL4pRqD5QkkDNF4hwOuQPlIZsldEVurLOLfCGDL3oHTb0OzUB21m4BQmMjk9aCT7-FZQDNT1X9MWNWAMd6n0hSsooSgSNXTDBvfLxnAVOVX_vkZ1r8J5D2Pa_zJbB1qMkRQSjiI/w400-h303/_2971.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Step 7. THE CHARCOAL DRAWING</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Following the grid on the print, I carefully drew in the basics of the composition.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidqKz8BtZ1RWaI4rfedpm0IfDTGt-5u9PjNF9Y5Ff57Y3uqdosE45hYQqCeevVhW4YUJSYKFAGQ-Mc7dvJFPcV39ywWAP8xfCExLuCN2MB47llL2yENVkOUDxUoiR9FfaXfPpC_uHQZbg/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1530" data-original-width="2048" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidqKz8BtZ1RWaI4rfedpm0IfDTGt-5u9PjNF9Y5Ff57Y3uqdosE45hYQqCeevVhW4YUJSYKFAGQ-Mc7dvJFPcV39ywWAP8xfCExLuCN2MB47llL2yENVkOUDxUoiR9FfaXfPpC_uHQZbg/w400-h299/2972.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Step 8. THE COLOR DRAWING</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Carefully wiping out the charcoal as I went along, I painted where the charcoal lines had been. I used a darkish blue-gray. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi1PtHdtZanWkxajv-n8cJczBvVOnhDQHtvOMYJigd0TW9w4nkQbAsn_bUWFHXPvJQhJO4iibkfDVZoT9NbTOYIwzOL3A1tXPtGhZOWkS3QokV8T3XHKsFiKS0fgIuicvwO6xyaIhJErk/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1539" data-original-width="2048" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi1PtHdtZanWkxajv-n8cJczBvVOnhDQHtvOMYJigd0TW9w4nkQbAsn_bUWFHXPvJQhJO4iibkfDVZoT9NbTOYIwzOL3A1tXPtGhZOWkS3QokV8T3XHKsFiKS0fgIuicvwO6xyaIhJErk/w400-h301/2973.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Step 9. THE UGLY COLOR UNDERPAINTING</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">You can see I'm still undecided about the sky. I do want to keep it on the dark side so it will contrast with the white barn. The geese will go somewhere in the left side. That's a detail which I will paint last. I made one major change...rather than have the road make two turns (which confuses the eye), I eliminated the right hand turn which keeps the eye in the picture. The eye then goes back to the tree and up into the rest of the painting. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKmxV1Ntq44xpGzPZ2UBK6xTKK4VnQ_RTjvZR6o4dzE1aisWvsIDKBL1iVJbFvm4ajo672Lf_Co3js-01FOp6rmaowAAKVqaeEmemlmTBaWL_AngmSacWZzDJ48-9nvOTVSdP_Pww-Myg/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1531" data-original-width="2048" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKmxV1Ntq44xpGzPZ2UBK6xTKK4VnQ_RTjvZR6o4dzE1aisWvsIDKBL1iVJbFvm4ajo672Lf_Co3js-01FOp6rmaowAAKVqaeEmemlmTBaWL_AngmSacWZzDJ48-9nvOTVSdP_Pww-Myg/w400-h299/2020-11-03_10-37-26.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></span></div></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div></div><br /><br /></span><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /><br /><br /></p></div>Barbara Nusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03024527485172938422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708980000321753658.post-18805552039231484512020-01-27T11:15:00.000-05:002020-01-27T11:53:13.169-05:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #202020; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 10.5pt;"> After walking around forever looking for an exciting scene at a "Paint Annapolis" plein air event, I finally found this historic street which beckoned me with its luscious lights and shadow patterns where I happily settled in to paint </span><i style="color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;">Pinkney Street Shadows</i><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 10.5pt;">.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #202020; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px;"> At the time, I was unfamiliar with all the history, and so I had no clue that the red clapboard house that I included on the right had any particular significance. Boy, was I wrong.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #202020; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 10.5pt;"> I have since learned that it is the Shiplap House, built by Edward Smith about 1715, and is one of the oldest surviving houses in Annapolis. It is downtown at 18 Pinkney Street, just blocks from the Maryland State House and the US Naval Academy. During the eighteenth century, it served as a tavern and an inn, run by Mr. Smith and his wife. The word shiplap comes from overlapping, random-width flush siding on two sides of the building. It is painted this lush barn red color and the widths of the boards are unusually wide, indicating that were made from old mature trees in the early 1700s. Currently the Shiplap House is home to the Historic Annapolis Foundation.<br /><br />Below are some pictures of the Shiplap House:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #202020; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px;"><br />Kauffman’s Mill was built around 1775 on the banks of the Shenandoah River near Luray, Virginia by David Kauffman, son of one of the original settlers in the Shenandoah Valley. The original structure stood for nearly a century before being burned by Union forces during the Civil War. A second mill was built at the same site after the war in 1866, only to be destroyed four years later by the Great Flood of 1870 that washed away every mill from the headsprings of the Shenandoah River to Harper’s Ferry, Maryland. Undaunted, a third mill was erected in 1871 and stood until 1972 when the ravages of time required its removal. The eighth generation of Kauffmans still reside at the mill site.<br /><br />Earlier this year I connected with a descendant of the Kauffman's who commissioned me to do a painting of the mill and the surrounding area as it appeared around 1910. He had done extensive research and taken hundreds of photographs. In the family archives he located many photographs from that time period and before. <br /><br />We worked closely together to establish the parameters. He wanted the scene to depict the grist mill, saw mill, and milldam as they looked circa 1910. The mills, milldam, and even the mill pond no longer exist. Dozens of old photographs and recent aerial photography were used to recreate the scene. The people canoeing on the mill pond are his grandparents and are shown exactly as they appeared in a 1912 photograph. The reflection of the Massanutten Mountain on the mill pond creates an image resembling a bottle laying on its side. The Kauffman family always called this the “Massanutten Bottleneck.” <br /><br />Below are a some of the source materials I used. I thoroughly enjoyed this project. My collector was a stickler for detail and an absolute joy to work with. I learned more about grist mills, lumber mills, mill dams, and mill ponds than I'll ever need to know again. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<em><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 9pt;">My collector took this photo from the site where the mill originally stood. It shows the blues of the Massanutten bottleneck contrasting with the warm gold fall colors along the Shenandoah River. </span></em><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<em><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 9pt;">This picture shows the mill with the lumber mill to the right. Later an awning was added as you can see in the next photo.</span></em><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"> Most of my landscape paintings begin with a plein air sketch at a park or some other favorite location. On this fall day, I and other members of the Washington Society of Landscape Painters met at the historic Fletcher's Boathouse, known for fishing, rowing, and canoeing on the Potomac River near Georgetown in DC. <br /> I have a long history with Fletcher's. When I was growing up in the Maryland suburbs, my father owned an outboard motor and occasionally would load it into the old Chevy along with my mother, me, and a picnic lunch and head down to Fletcher's Boathouse, where we would rent a rowboat and navigate up the Potomac. We usually discovered a spot on the Virginia side, where we could pull the boat up onto the shore, climb up the river's edge a bit, and have our picnic lunch. Lots of good memories.<br /> Over the years, I have painted many times at Fletcher's. This particular day I wanted to paint the scene down river from the boathouse. <br /> </td></tr>
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Barbara Nusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03024527485172938422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708980000321753658.post-88806085755653032952019-07-22T14:00:00.000-04:002019-07-29T08:48:57.333-04:00Twilight Time, Finished!<b>The Finished Painting</b><br />
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I have really struggled with this painting, getting it to a point where I liked it. I have now added the flowers and details to make this an inviting scene. I'm very happy with it now. It makes a big difference to have the houses of a different size. I've put some lights in the windows so you know that someone is home.<br />
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<br />Barbara Nusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03024527485172938422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708980000321753658.post-79434635360650642682019-07-15T14:00:00.000-04:002019-07-29T08:49:14.619-04:00Twilight Time, Step 7<b>Drastic Changes</b><br />
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After much deliberation and trial and error, I finally decided that I would feature the large house, so I made the one to its right a bit smaller to look more like a guest house. I deleted the little cabin replacing it with a small rowboat in the reeds, so I still have the balance of the steelyard composition. I like the feeling of this so much better, as I have implied a story which anyone can read something into it.<br />
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Barbara Nusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03024527485172938422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708980000321753658.post-88205576216838123932019-07-08T14:00:00.000-04:002019-07-09T01:51:09.462-04:00Twilight Time, Step 7Here I have developed the trees a little more, bringing them into focus. Unfortunately the more I develop them, the less I like the whole composition. The buildings are competing with each other. I need to decide which one is more important so that my eye doesn't keep jumping around.<br />
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<br />Barbara Nusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03024527485172938422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708980000321753658.post-18136719328313059402019-03-12T19:02:00.003-04:002019-03-12T19:02:52.636-04:00Twilight Time, Step 6Here I have developed the cabin a bit more, still trying to figure out if this works or not. It's the classical "steelyard" composition where something small on one side balances a larger mass toward<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I have developed the trees and the cabin more, still trying to decided if it's going to survive its audition. I'm not totally in love with it yet, because it takes away the elegance of the home. It makes it more of a farm. </td></tr>
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I continue to paint working from top to bottom and from back to front, roughing in approximate colors as a foundation. I'm careful to preserve my drawing and the values of the burnt umber underpainting. These new colors should be a tad darker than were I ultimately one to end up.</div>
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<br />Barbara Nusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03024527485172938422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708980000321753658.post-88226776424588589232018-04-09T11:25:00.000-04:002018-04-09T11:25:18.685-04:00Twilight Time, Step 4<b>The burnt umber underpainting</b><br />
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After the line drawing, I then proceeded to do a value painting in burnt umber to use as a basis for my painting. This helps me a lot because at this point I can see the values and the composition of the painting without investing a whole lot of time. It tells me everything I need to know. </div>
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Then I roughed in the sky following the previous sky photo. I avoided the reflections from the trees and buildings as I will painting them last...after everything else is in it's place and I know what needs reflections and where. </div>
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I am using one of the canvasses that I have prepared using Belgian linen on commercial stretcher bars. After the application of rabbit skin glue and several coats of gesso, I then tone the canvas with a neutral color in a middle value. Shown here I the canvas gridded every inch with a light touch of soft vine charcoal. I have numbered the squares 1-24 across top and 1-14 down the left side.<br />
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Then using the gridded and edited photograph, I carefully follow the lines to enlarge the drawing to the final size. I try to be as accurate as possible.</div>
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On regular bond paper I printed the jpg with the houses and pond. I mounted it on a scrap of foam core and then with my oils, I painted in the sunset from the other photo. I added a little out-building on the left to balance the large shape of the houses. It's the steelyard composition format where a small item toward the edge of a canvas can balance a much larger similar shape nearer to the center. Think see-saw.</div>
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Somewhere along the way I decided to make it a 14 x 24, so I could use a custom-made frame that I had bought years ago and was just sitting around collecting dust.</div>
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I decided the scene needed more foliage and so I added trees behind the house and reshaped others to give it a feeling that it had been in that location nearly forever. Aesthetically, the softer shapes of the trees offset the harsh straight lines of the buildings. Of course, all that meant that I had to change the reflections too.</div>
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Several years ago I visited friends in Germany and we went to a Marriott Resort outside of Paris for a week. This resort was fashioned after Claude Monet's home in Giverny. I took many photos and finally got around to painting from one, or actually from several. Click here to see the final <a href="http://barbaranuss.faso.com/workszoom/2658291">Twilight Time</a> on my website.<br />
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Below are several photographs that inspired me...the sunset behind these wonderful buildings and the reflections in the pond. So I set out to combine the two. The second photo shows how I lightened the darks in Photoshop. Now you can see my friend in the garden photographing the flowers.<br />
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I have glazed the shadows of the quilt with a thin coat of ivory black to add drama. I have finished the scissors, added pins to the pin cushion and the sewing basket lid, added some pins to the chair seat along with adding some more ageing effects to the edge. The big thing is I signed my name in the lower left hand corner. </div>
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<br />Barbara Nusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03024527485172938422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708980000321753658.post-51007952685829513792017-10-24T09:47:00.000-04:002017-10-24T09:47:06.790-04:00Great-Grandma's Chair, Step 10<b>More finishing</b><br />
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I'm making these pictures larger so you can see the details as I do them. I have refined the edging around the sewing box lid, added the cords to keep the lid from falling over, moved the emery "strawberry" because I thought it was too centered, and reworked the railing cast shadow. Though you can't see it, I've added "New Testament" to the cover of the black bible. <br />
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Here I have developed the basket a little more, painted the tape measure with its numbers, refined the pin cushion, removed the sewing machine bobbin that I didn't like because it was too much the same size as the thimble. I have added wear and tear on the edge of the chair, which is starting to make it a real antique. <br />
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I have developed most of the items in the basket, just about finished the satin back, begun to develop the design on the chair back, and refined the drawing of the chair legs, which are about to drive me nuts. <br />
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At this point, it's just bringing things closer to the finish. I have to weave the basket, do the measuring tape, and the tomato pin cushion. Lots of fun. <br />
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Now that I see a photo of the painting, the three stones to the right of the basket are too symmetrical and are lined up. That bothers me and I will have to change that. <br />
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Once I was happy with the corrected drawing, I painted a little on the sewing basket. The next thing is to arrange all the items in the basket and on the chair seat. Then I will tidy up the whole painting. At this point, there is no part that is finished. In fact, there's a lot of it that's pretty messy, but I'm <br />
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I continued on up the side of the quilt, carefully following my initial coding of the squares. Again, that was a good decision on my part. When I got all finished, I stood back and much to my horror, I saw that the chair was wonky. It took me a while to figure out how that happened, but I think my original photo was a tad crooked. Bummer!</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">As I said previously, I coded the patches in the quilt, which is one of the smartest things I've done. I would be totally lost, if I hadn't. I started in the shadow area, and worked my way down and then back up the far side. Almost all the patches are different and in different colors, so I spent a lot of time mixing paint and cleaning brushes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">As I said in the previous post, I didn't think I needed to draw it in burnt umber, so I just put out my paints and drew the stone and painted it all at the same time. </span></div>
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I tried to follow the shapes and colors the best I could. This picture shows the stone wall a bit cooler than I actually painted it, but that's easy to fix when I'm done with a glaze of a warm color. You can probably pick out which stones I used...mostly the ones on the left. <br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The next step was to get rid of the charcoal and make the drawing permanent with burnt umber. So with a rag in my left hand and the brush in my right, I very carefully wipe off the charcoal, just a little bit at a time, and then paint in the lines. Getting charcoal into the paint is a big no-no. Then I added some values following the original photo. I now have a good sense of where I am going.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I decided to deal with the stone fireplace later with paint. </span><br />
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</span></b><i></i>Barbara Nusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03024527485172938422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708980000321753658.post-89383474807159708582017-09-14T08:00:00.000-04:002017-09-14T08:00:10.831-04:00Great-Grandma's Chair, Step 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I printed out the picture onto plain bond paper, painted in a suggestion of the stone fireplace background and the floor. Then I taped a piece of Saran wrap across it, and very carefully made a grid with 20 equal sections across the top and 28 down the side to correspond to my 20 x 28 inch canvas. I used a fine black permanent marker for the lines, and marked the columns accordingly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 20 x 28 canvas is not a standard size, so I made one by stretching Belgium linen onto stretcher bars, adding two coats of rabbit skin glue, followed by three coats of acrylic gesso. (I'm making that sound a lot simpler than it is.) Then I toned the canvas with burnt sienna, and with soft charcoal, gridded the canvas. Now it corresponds with the gridded sketch above. </span></div>
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<i>The toned and gridded linen</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then square by square, I transferred the image from the gridded sketch to the gridded canvas, again using soft vine charcoal. Since the quilt is so complicated, you can see where I put some letters in to identify the quilt patches: P for pink, G for green, B for blue, and so on. I was bound to get totally lost if I didn't do that. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A collector has commissioned me to do a painting of her great-grandmother's chair, including her grandmother's sewing box and a quilt she had made. In our preliminary meeting, we decided to use the stone wall around the fireplace as the background. I took many pictures, but ultimately I knew I had to bring the chair, the sewing box, and the quilt home with me so I could set it up in my studio. We decided that the painting would be a vertical 28 x 20, and we will put a 2" black frame around it. It already has a special corner in her house waiting for the painting.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Usually the set-up takes the most time, with a lot of rearranging and positioning the props just so. In any painting, the composition is the most important thing, so I wanted everything to flow well, with the light that I had available to me. In a corner of my studio, I placed the chair on a still life box balanced on an old TV table so I could get it at the right height, then draped the quilt over one corner of it. I arranged the sewing basket two ways, as you can see below. The customer chose the second one which is the one that worked better.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The items in the sewing box will be rearranged many times, until I get them exactly the way I want them My customer is adding her grandmother's New Testament bible as well. Right now my focus is on the overall composition, and I will deal with the details later. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">This option doesn't work too well, as both the chair and the sewing basket face to the right, and there's no way for the viewer's eye to get back into the painting.</span></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">This one works better since the sewing basket faces back into the painting and helps redirect the viewer's eye</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;">.</span></i></td></tr>
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