Paul Wolber Art Studio

Green Pears (finished view)

Green Pears 6in. x 6in. acrylic on gessoed Masonite®
Commissioned painting not available for sale
collector comment:
I have to tell you. I took the two still life paintings to
the frame shop, and the ladies there were absolutely in awe
over your artwork. (peeled lemon and Pears) Just thought I
would share this with you. One lady said,"These are the best
art pieces I have seen for weeks"

This is the finished image posting of “Green Pears” created as a commission for a collector. You can see the process photos on my last posting below showing the progression of the work. It is often fun to see the first few brush strokes as the painting begins to come to life. The first photo in this series shows the front pear almost as a shell in three dimensions and it’s even interesting to me to go back and see how the forms were built up almost as a skeleton to give the final image. Often in the first few strokes, the design becomes apparent, and then it is just a matter of filling in the details while keeping the mood and motion of the design alive.

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Green Pears

Green Pears 6in. x 6in. acrylic on gessoed Masonite®
Commissioned painting not available for sale

This one was done as a commission. The photos above show the step by step process. The third photo shows the finished work but I'll post the full sized image tomorrow.

If you like what you see on this blog but don’t see the specific subject or color you would like, you may consider commissioning a work. To receive my suggestions for how a commission works you can send an email to:
wolberinchina@hotmail.com

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In Memory Of

5” x 7” (12.7cm x 17.8cm) acrylic on gessoed Masonite®
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SOLD

I can easily get carried away with detail, so I spent more time on this than anticipated, but at top is the finished version.

As you may have guessed this subject is based on the American Memorial Day theme, sometimes called Decoration Day, celebrated the last Monday of May. Everyone can name someone who is remembered on this day so you can fill in the name in the title of the painting.

In today’s world we usually send flowers or a card to remember someone, but in times past nobility or those who could afford to do so might commission a work of art such as a painting or sculpture to celebrate or remember someone. I thought it would be appropriate to do a painting to honor this kind of memory, once again returning to that long ago tradition.

Each painting can develop differently. In this case I’m working the painting from top to bottom rather than all over at once. Of course I will go back and sharpen up detail and clarify areas as I complete the painting. And this one is painted on a white gesso background rather than a colored ground. You can see this method in a number of contemporary artists work. One that comes to mind is the work of Neil Welliver who generally worked his paintings from top to bottom.

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Wild Violets in Full Bloom 5in. x 7in. acrylic on gessoed Masonite®
Commissioned Painting not available for sale

This painting was done as a commission for one of my art collectors based on the earlier Wild Violets painting. Since each painting I do is an original, the composition, arrangement and coloring is unique and not a copy of another painting, but rather can be viewed as one of a series of works. I've often preferred to do a series of three works in a grouping, but in this case I will stop with two, unless someone asks for a third in the series.

In music or in abstract painting such as the artwork done by Wassily Kandinsky, the idea of variation on a theme is often a part of the development of a composition and could be continued for an infinite number of works or studies. It helps the artist to understand the range and possibility of color and compositional ideas and also can be instructive to the layperson or viewer in helping to understand how the artist sees and works.

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Since the server was down on Thursday and a lot of you didn't get to see this one, I'm reposting it again here. I learned a lot while doing this painting. We usually don’t spray our apple tree for bugs so we only use the apples for apple pie by cutting out the bad spots and leave the rest for the deer to eat in the winter. While photographing the blossoms there was a constant buzz of bees seeking nectar so I had to be careful. Also I noticed that some buds were white or pink while others where a deep crimson red. I’m not sure of the reason for this. Maybe someone out there knows the answer.

There is so much delicate and sensual feeling in the buds and leaves at this time of year, and the painting has more of that in it than is possible to see in the computer image.

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Procession: Still Life with Pears 5" x 7" acrylic on gessoed board
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Since I have not finished the latest small painting I’m currently working on, this is a rework and update of an earlier painting from January 1. I reworked the background to give the foreground pears more focus. It will be posted here until the next painting is finished, then it will go away. I’m trying to make room for new works that I’m doing and some of these works will be held back for a future exhibition, unless they are purchased before.

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Finished painting posted for Tuesday, May 1
Dandelion Bouquet for Mother
This painting is sold

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I’m trying to do a painting each day, but more often it is every couple of days, since I want to enjoy what I’m doing and have the pleasure of sharing what I’m doing with those of you who visit this blog. Each of my paintings is prepared with a half-inch border to protect it and to allow it to be hung without a frame. When someone gets a painting, it is carefully packed to protect the artwork, then shipped by Priority Mail® 2-3 day delivery. So this blog is as much about sharing the process and enjoying art ideas as anything else.

It is my pleasure to have you visit this blog and share with me the ideas and creative process of doing artwork. Please feel free to stop by and let me know you are here.

Paul

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Dandelion Bouquet

5” x 7” (12.7cm x 17.8cm) acrylic on gessoed Masonite®
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Does anyone remember picking a bouquet of dandelion when you were a child? I remember living on a farm when I was a child, where my mother would pick a big bowl of dandelion leaves for a dinner salad. Of course, that was in a time before we poisoned our lawns with weed killer.

If a drawing is more detailed and complex, I will sometimes decide to do the drawing on tracing paper, and then transfer it to the board using white conte pencil. The problem with this is it’s more difficult to control the values when the drawing is transferred, so the line quality has less clarity. You can see the drawing on the board is harder to read. Of course, since I did the drawing, I pretty much know how to deal with the values, so it’s more of a problem for you as a viewer than for me as the artist.

I still need to do more modeling in the flowers on the left, so I will go back into those and do some more work before I decide if I'm ready to post the finished painting.

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