Today's painting is the fog one I worked a little more .Plus the write up for the Book of Washington State Park that my two paintings will be apart of.
ANY TIME Fog Over Georgia Pacific 9x12 oil by Joy Olney
PAWA
State Park Centennial
Exhibition
Our ninth grade art teacher, Mr. Rainy, would send us out
side behind our school to paint the seasons in watercolor. I enjoyed the quiet
breaks from the hectic, noisy school day.
At the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts,
where I studied for 5 years, Morris Blackburn would take his student on field
trips to a fishing village. His serious love of out door painting was
contagious. Blackburn studied from a student
of William Merritt Chase. I learned so much from this instructor after he upset
me by getting angry at me for not having three distinct values in a print I
made for him when I was 18. The next 4 years he was my mentor and taught me to
paint and draw from my center and not with my head. I learned so many valuable
lessons from him.
I focus mainly on figure drawing and painting in the east
coast but still went out to paint with friends in small parks, the seashore and
cityscapes. When we moved to the northwest, I found myself painting outdoors
more and more, adding figures of my family and friend to the paintings.
Painting with other has it advantages in that you can get up
from your supplies and walk off if you need to know your things are safe.
Flexibility and compromise is important when painting with other for they may
not like a spot you are excited about and prefer another place to paint. When I paint with other artist, I often find
my style is to paint faster then they do, so I take extra canvases of different
sizes. I try to capture the essence of a place with as little painting as
possible.
Then I paint landscapes in my studio I use a combination of
photos and my oil sketches. The camera doesn’t always capture the colors as I
see them.
Each State Park has its own character. In my paintings of Bowman State
Park I wanted to convey the peace and tranquility
I feel in that park. It’s a place I’ve been to many times, in many seasons and
I always feel at peace there. Outside, I often paint alone. I enjoy being alone
but welcome the comments of people walking by who stop to chat, especially the
children, who are so candid. A couple of times the painting I was working on
sold to the person who stopped to watch me paint. One person asked me to take
out the dog in the painting because she wanted to give it to someone who didn’t
like dogs. I did a second painting for her with out a dog. The women cried when
she was presented my painting by the women who bought it from me.
If I can paint a painting that captures something of a place
and affects someone else in a positive way I’m happy.
