Takeyce Walter is an American artist who publishes her work online on her website and blog. She paints mostly landscapes, working on a variety of themes: rural and farming environment, seasonal changes and water surfaces (sea, rivers, lakes) under varying conditions. The paintings of rivers are the subject of today’s review. It is difficult to [...]
I was putting off a more detailed discussion about Frank Gardner’s light technique mainly because I couldn’t quite get my head around it. I haven’t yet seen such light in contemporary work published on the Internet, but it did remind me of some works by a known Armenian painter, Martiros Saryan . Starting from there, [...]
The first thing I noticed when browsing through Frank Gardner’s marine paintings was the recurrence of the wall motif. In towns — on terra firma — it was people against the walls; here, at sea, it is the boats. But perhaps the artist takes the contrast up a notch, to a level where it mutates [...]
Frank Gardner is an American painter (and art instructor) currently residing and working in Mexico. Oil is his medium; he applies it to cotton and linen canvases to create outdoor scenes and landscapes involving farm, urban and marine subject-matter. Frank Gardner publishes his work online on his blog and on his website. Many of his [...]
As I already mentioned in the first review, Deborah Paris aims at completeness of the viewing experience. Her marine scenes offer exactly that: the artist employs the relatively limited genre inventory to the fullest. Her template of sea paintings consists of a three leveled composition, with some loud action occurring on the forefront, the sea [...]
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