More PA in Burbank/ Southwest Art
This is just half a block from the back of Nickelodeon. I'm trying for more stark views based simply on a strong composition. I'd hoped to post a new big painting but it's still at Artworks being shot. Next week. I'll post a favorite artist later today.
Got some watercolors from China. they inspired me to try one of my own 6x8 I'm rusty ,but it was fun.
I'm in the current issue Of Southwest Art please run down and buy copies and distribute them to collectors for me thanks!.
in progress:
artist I like Frank Tenney Johnson:
Labels: Frank Tenney Johnson
posted by william wray at 9:49 AM
21 Comments:
I like these little PAs you're doing--composition and light.
I hallucinate seeing since(as,like) there does a picture of things that happen(pass) unnoticed for the majority of mortal
cool in process images.
Search for an artist called Frank Brangwyn, I think you will like his work
Hey Luis, you might want to vist my influnces page on the websight.
hehe, it's true! you got him!
I discover his work two or three years ago, while I was in Bruges. There was a big expo of Brangwyn with a lot of designs, drawings, lithographies, paintings (some very big paintings)
I found very similar some work periods of Brangwyn and Dean Cornwell (so similar they could be the same person)
Dean was his assistant, lifted everything he could of Brangwyn's style.
oh, I should read better Brangwyn's catalogue, but pictures bewitch me, hehe
Thanks for the info, now I'm looking Fechin and Gruppe works, which I didn't know
(ah, I recently get my copy of Sparrow!)
Congratulations on the Southwest Art article! I've visited often and always enjoy your work.
They did a great job of presenting your luscious paintings.
p. s. May I also suggest Joan Brown and Susan Rothenburg as two of just a few worthy influences?
Melinda-- thanks for the shout out. while I like the colors used by JB, I didn't care for the drawing level of both of them. They have that childlike quality that comes from a weak drawing background. Their work does have charm though. thanks for sharing.
Great paintings, i recognize the Nickelodeon location!!
Congrats on the SWA article!!
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Really enjoy your paintings, Bill.
Dig the new paintings, it's nice to see your experiment in watercolor.
Congrats on your SWA article, I always liked that blimp painting. And that photo of you is.... interesting:) You've got that ex-con look going for ya!
Thanks for your compliments William! I'm liking your new paintings and congrats on the SWA magazine profile!
thanks Vivki!, Vicente, Alina, Leslie and John.
Hey William- way to go on the article in SWA. I hope you are happy with the way your images reproduced; I thought the work looked great. Especially love the Lincoln Heights nocturne. Cheers.
Is it possible to use photo gallery in this blog??? Thanks
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William,
I'm a big fan of Frank Tenney Johnson. My buddy Tim painted in his studio on Champion Place for many years. It has great north light.His nocturnes are his true signature. Sam Hyde Harris, my mentor, had his studio next door. It was a great artists alley in Alhambra.
Reading your blog - after googling Dean Cornwell and Frank Brangwyn. Do you know what? I have an old (1926) head study done by Dean Cornwell. Want to market it and decided to reframe. Took it apart today and guess what it says on the back: "Studies for the carrying out from sketch by F.B. of four panels for Skinner's Hall LONDON 1926". Interesting?
DC worked for FB as an assistant and sucked up his style like a sponge...
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