Autumn Musings: Sketching Variations

Above is a September plein air work now hanging in its new Orleans, MA home.  It's an example of me using my full palette of 8 colors plus a neutral gray and a neutral buff. Here's the view of my setup and the painting block-in.  I was on-site for four days and developed several works.  Each day the weather and the skies were different!  An artist's dream (or nightmare).  

Right now, I'm working on several commissions and one in particular has been great fun. The final work will be a 40"x40" oil painting of a sailboat race that was fogged in, creating a wonderful mood and memory for the clients. We talked about the neutral aspect of fog and how it might be represented in various tonal palettes, since color or tone each create different effects. 

These are sketches and I was more interested in the palette combinations than real draftsmanship at this stage.   Here are results of the studies which are each about 5"x5".

7 colors plus neutral gray and buff titanium

7 Colors plus thalo green, neutral gray & neutral buff titanium

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Burnt sienna & chromatic black plus white on yellow ochre

  

Golden ochre, burnt sienna & chromatic black plus white

 Here's a closer look at my 2 preferred images!

We'll see what the client selects!  What would you pick?

The only-grays palette: tube to the left, mixed to the right

Completely tonalist using 3 tube grays and 3 mixed grays

Painting At The Old Lyme Mid-Summer Festival

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Spring/Summer 2011

"Sailors Waiting For The Tide"

Here come the new works for the Spring and Summer art season.  You can find these works at:

•  my web sites
• at Lemon 'N Lyme, 19 Halls Road, Old Lyme, CT 06371
•  or at the Chatham Arts & Crafts Fairs held July 22-24 and August 13-14 at 702 Main Street, Chatham, MA.

Some of my field studies and miscellaneous experiments can be found at the Creative Arts Center in Chatham, MA on July 2, 2011 between 9AM and 12PM.  It's a scramble, so be there as the door opens as I will have about 12 works, all priced to sell!

You can follow my work on this blog, including my field painting notes and videos that I upload.  In addition, you can see my full range of work at my Fine Art America website:  This site allows you to (1) contact me directly to purchase the original: OR (2) purchase prints that you select, in frames and matting that you select, delivered where you specify; OR (3) purchase greeting cards.

Some of my recently completed, original works can be had directly from Lemon ' N Lyme   and include these:

" Blue on Blue"

 "Carefree Summer Days"

 Waiting For the Tide at Dawn (sold)

"Snapper Blue or Sea Robin?"

"Waiting For the Tide"

Notes from my easel – July 30, 2010


By Barbara DuBois Hageman

"Hot Dinghy" (Sold)

Many thanks to the 7 new owners of painting acquired at the fair last weekend! I hope they keep you thinking of the Chatham side of Cape Cod each time you look at them!

Meanwhile, see Barbara's Original Art Website  for other seaside works as I finish them and post them.

The next Chatham Days art fair will be Wednesday & Thursday, August 4-5, from 9AM-5PM in front of the Chatham Community Center at 702 Main Street where this is ample parking. We will be in the same location, #11. Then, on Saturday & Sunday, August 14-15th we will return again


This week I’m all about boats and dinghies. Here are some that are just off the easel. Each is 4”x6” and is framed in a 3” wide gold-tone metal leaf plein air frame. They hang well together as a “Dinghy Quartet” but are also available individually for $125 each. This size, nicely framed, is a good special occasion, hostess, or memory gift.

“Blue Boy”

"Red"

"A Little Tabasco"

"Blue Belle"

If you are a sailor, you might like my boats at low tide series, and the next one, “Golden Days,” a 12”x24” oil-on-canvas, for $675, will be at the booth on August 4-5th .

If you are a collector and purchase, or have purchased several of my works, you will enjoy a 10% discount off the listed price!


See you at the August 4-5th Fair!


702 Main Street, Chatham, MA

(set your GPS!)

How to Choose the Right Hanging Hardware

How to Choose the Right Hanging Hardware You bought a new painting or print, or hand-crafted mirror or wall sculpture at a summer art fair and you're wondering about the best hardware to use to hang it? Well, it depends on your wall. Here's how to decide!