Birge Harrison Quote 04
From the book “Landscape Painting.” Thoughts on how to capture fleeting moments in landscape painting: “…covered when I was quite a youngster that all of the really beautiful effects, the things which I particularly wished to paint, would not wait my pleasure. They were often evanescent moods that lasted but ten minutes at most,-or they […]
Birge Harrison Quote 03
From the book “Landscape Painting.” A concise and inciteful point on values vs colour: “The explanation of this is very simple-nature deals in broken color everywhere, but she never deals in broken values. The color dances, but the values “stay put.”.“
Birge Harrison Quote 02
From the book “Landscape Painting.” In discussion on painting methodologies: “The last of the four systems mentioned and one which has gradually come to be adopted by the vast majority of our best landscape painters is one in which vibration is obtained by means of a cool overtone painted freshly into a warm undertone, care […]
Birge Harrison Quote
From the book “Landscape Painting” by Birge Harrison. A comparison between art and science. Outlining what a painting/ art should be. “Here then clearly lies the division line between science and art-the one gives us actual truths, the other visual truths; the one facts, the other moods, impressions, visions; each in its place admirable, each […]
My Conversations with Cezanne
Watercolour landscape painting by Cezanne
Colour Control on the Artists Palette
Colour palette setup by Morley Fletcher
Cascade Ponds
Cascade Ponds, Banff
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03 Emily Carr
“Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of an Artist”
02 Emily Carr
“Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of an Artist”
01 Emily Carr
“Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of an Artist”
What is a Painting?
What we are up against in trying to paint a natural scene.
Bears
Bear grazing along side of road
Corot
“A man should not embrace the profession of an artist before having discovered inside of himself a passionate love of nature and willingness to follow it with unfailing perseverance. He should not seek approval or money. Nor should he be put off by the objections his works might arouse: let him barricade himself behind the […]
Equipment
The equipment I use for painting outside.
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About the Work
On Scene
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Painting a scene in Kananaskis, Alberta.