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03-20-2004, 11:49 AM
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Associate Member
Joined: Jun 2002
Location: Rochester, NY
Posts: 38
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Garth -cool stereo trick. I can't imagine painting like that for too long though! I like your 3 non-commission paintings very much. They each have interesting compositions and points of view.
Reading about your Philadelphia location awoke me from my usual lurking status. I am wondering: have you studied with Nelson Shanks at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts or at Incaminati? If so, how was the experience?
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03-20-2004, 12:43 PM
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SOG Member FT Professional '09 Honors, Finalist, PSOA '07 Cert of Excel PSOA '06 Cert of Excel PSOA '06 Semifinalist, Smithsonian OBPC '05 Finalist, PSOA
Joined: Mar 2004
Location: Philadelphia, PA
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Hi Chris: No, I have not studied with Nelson Shanks, but he has had a couple of free demontrations over the years that I was able to see with the crowds of admirers. One was at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts about 6 years ago.
He is worth watching, but a man of few words, so during the demo some other portrait painters and I got bored and looked at the museum galleries, and returned just in time for the last strokes of the eye lashes! It was interesing how he can make a commanding alla-prima portrait so clean and direct in just a couple of hours in front of six hundred people. His direct approach mostly began with two values in the face: a shadow mass tone and a light mass worked up aganst it. He kept the colors fairly warm and rich, and the nose began as a red triangle that was later worked into. Every feature was masterfully reduced to a couple of very deft strokes. He managed to keep all parts of the painting developing simultaneously, which I suppose is one of his secrets of success.
I visited his Studio Incamminati during an open-house, and it is a beehive of amazing talent and student productivity. Everybody uses exactly the same prescribed pallette, and most of the paintings are vibrant technicolor figure studies.
I was fortunate to be a guest of Nelson Shanks at his fabulous riverside villa, one evening in 1990 as I tagged along with Capt. Dent of Leonardo da Vinci's Horse. Shanks invited us to see his latest 15th century limewood sculpture aquisition. He has a collection of art to die for!
I am pretty sure Nelson Shanks does not remember me, but we both have mayor's portraits hanging together in City Hall.
Garth
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03-22-2004, 03:34 AM
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Associate Member
Joined: Sep 2002
Location: Madison, WI
Posts: 1,567
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Hi Garth,
Another belated welcome from Wisconsin. I'm glad to see you here, I feel that you willl have much to offer. Your work is wonderful.
Jean
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03-25-2004, 01:38 PM
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Juried Member Portrait Painter & Firefighter
Joined: Mar 2003
Location: Seattle 98 & Paris
Posts: 206
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Hello Garth,
Quite amazed by the diversity of the mediums
and originality of the compositions you use.
Is there a website of your work somewhere?
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04-10-2004, 06:01 PM
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Approved Member
Joined: Sep 2002
Posts: 1,730
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Have you been sitting under a bodhi tree or something? Your humility is amazing!
I have been trying to work with the figure in a naturalistic way but in more contemporary presentations as I have seen you have done.
I am inspired by your work and will post a few as soon as I can get some decent shots.
Actually, I like your Apothoun? better than the tryptich, less pretentious.
Why are not you doing more painting?
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