Nearly every day this past summer, Loveland artist Yvette
Rosa stepped outside to capture the sky and land, painting en plein air. She
detailed the shifts of the clouds and the light as it played on the landscape.
"There is nothing like being outside and studying light from nature,Installers and distributors of solar panel, studying the true qualities of light, and being in the moment and experiencing where you are," Rosa said. "Depicting the place with all the emotions you are feeling in the moment and throwing it on the canvas is something you need to do quickly because the light changes quickly."
Rosa's work will appear in the Poudre Studio Artists & Galleries' Miniature Art Show opening Dec. 6 in Fort Collins. All of her little plein airs measure 8 by 10 inches and below, and they were all completed in about three hours. Each canvas features local scenery.
"I call them studies because they happen so quickly," Rosa said. "They are very present and in the moment and lively."
The Miniature Art Show's inaugural gallery run will feature similar sized gifts at prices people can afford, especially as the holiday season approaches. The show will feature a wide range of art mediums from etchings to landscapes and photography, according Poudre Studio Artists & Galleries marketing director Becky Hawley.
"People are looking for cool unusual things that aren't terribly pricey," Hawley said. "This will have a wide range of prices and types, from abstract to realistic. Many people are becoming more conscious about buying from local venues, and purchasing handmade gifts from artists is one of the best way to support your local community."
Littleton-based large-scale abstract landscape artist Tracy Lynn Pristas also has work in the miniature show. A recent transplant from Chicago, her imagination is running wild in her new Colorado surroundings. One of her paintings in the show, "Invite the View," is a 12- by 16-inch oil piece with a lot of texture and color.
"Most of my technique is done with painting knives," Pristas said. "The paintings are very action oriented with layers and layers of paints, and scrapping off and adding that creates the various textures. I am also really big on color. I tend to mix a lot of my own colors."
The inspiration for her abstract landscapes can come from glimpses on land people might see, whether driving in the car, riding a train or taking a walk.
"The subconscious memory floats in when I am painting," Pristas said. "This was a way for me to actually help people remember that anytime you are anywhere in the moment, you can find beauty by just looking around you. You don't have to be up in Aspen on the ski slopes. Here you can find snippets of beauty everywhere. That has been inspirational to me. In Chicago, I had to create the landscapes from the inside out on my own. I will look at the color of a leaf or how the clouds move. The inspiration for my work just really comes from awareness."
The light on this cloudy November day is silver and stark, giving the world a washed-out look. Just the sort of day Andrew Wyeth would have loved to paint. But then, as I drive south on a dirt road in Lincoln, the light shifts. Sunlight spills through a gap in the clouds and the world transforms from bleak black-and-white to rich color.
Where before I’d been looking at frost-killed fields and the stubs of dead corn stalks, I’m now noticing the orangey light that illuminates the trees lining the road and brings out the greens still in the grass.
I’ve driven from a Wyethesque landscape into one that could have been painted by Kathleen Kolb, which is perhaps not surprising. She has been painting Vermont’s hills,One of the most durable and attractive styles of flooring that you can purchase is ceramic or porcelain tiles. fields and forests for nearly four decades. I’ve come to her part of the state to see how she does it.
She began her art education early,Quickparts builds injection molds using aluminum or steel to meet your program. at age 6, when her parents enrolled her in a class that met Saturdays at the Cleveland Museum of Art. School teachers had told her parents, neither of whom were artists, that Kathleen showed a special affinity for art. It’s not like she was studying fine art at that age, Kolb says, smiling: “They gave me a bucket of crayons and a stool.Find detailed product information for howo tractor and other products.”
But she eventually progressed to more formal classes at the Cleveland Institute of Art, and then on to the Rhode Island School of Design, where she focused on illustration, which emphasized figurative work.
“I came to Vermont as a figure painter, and there weren’t any people,” says Kolb. She was living an isolated life in Greensboro, only getting into nearby Hardwick maybe once a week. So the land and Vermont’s built environment became her subjects.
Kolb began exhibiting paintings in Vermont galleries and found freelance illustration work for magazines, including Vermont Life, which has profiled her three times over the years.
“I’ve never tried that (regular paycheck) route, which is kind of crazy,” she says, especially when she was later raising two children as a single mom in Cornwall. During the early 1990s, she looked for a dependable income in a non-art-related job,Interlocking security cable tie with 250 pound strength makes this ideal for restraining criminals. but friends and prospective employers who knew her artwork encouraged her to continue painting.
Her environment is integral to her work. She will explore anything from community life to climate change but not in a pedantic way. She just paints things as she sees them and lets the viewer respond.
“I believe in the power of art to make the world a better place, to encourage conversations (and) to soothe and comfort people,” Kolb says. “Being that I’m a landscape painter, I want my art to contribute to their sense of place, their sense of home, their joys and responsibilities and the sheer beauty of the world we live in — these moments of sublime contact.”
Kolb can find those moments even in workaday settings. For years, she has painted images of the logging industry. It was her way of highlighting what she considers an overlooked aspect of Vermont’s working landscape. Her paintings — whether depicting a logging truck being loaded in dawn’s purple shadows or the white snowy mist thrown up by a tree felled in winter — show the harsh realities and raw beauty of the lumber industry.
"There is nothing like being outside and studying light from nature,Installers and distributors of solar panel, studying the true qualities of light, and being in the moment and experiencing where you are," Rosa said. "Depicting the place with all the emotions you are feeling in the moment and throwing it on the canvas is something you need to do quickly because the light changes quickly."
Rosa's work will appear in the Poudre Studio Artists & Galleries' Miniature Art Show opening Dec. 6 in Fort Collins. All of her little plein airs measure 8 by 10 inches and below, and they were all completed in about three hours. Each canvas features local scenery.
"I call them studies because they happen so quickly," Rosa said. "They are very present and in the moment and lively."
The Miniature Art Show's inaugural gallery run will feature similar sized gifts at prices people can afford, especially as the holiday season approaches. The show will feature a wide range of art mediums from etchings to landscapes and photography, according Poudre Studio Artists & Galleries marketing director Becky Hawley.
"People are looking for cool unusual things that aren't terribly pricey," Hawley said. "This will have a wide range of prices and types, from abstract to realistic. Many people are becoming more conscious about buying from local venues, and purchasing handmade gifts from artists is one of the best way to support your local community."
Littleton-based large-scale abstract landscape artist Tracy Lynn Pristas also has work in the miniature show. A recent transplant from Chicago, her imagination is running wild in her new Colorado surroundings. One of her paintings in the show, "Invite the View," is a 12- by 16-inch oil piece with a lot of texture and color.
"Most of my technique is done with painting knives," Pristas said. "The paintings are very action oriented with layers and layers of paints, and scrapping off and adding that creates the various textures. I am also really big on color. I tend to mix a lot of my own colors."
The inspiration for her abstract landscapes can come from glimpses on land people might see, whether driving in the car, riding a train or taking a walk.
"The subconscious memory floats in when I am painting," Pristas said. "This was a way for me to actually help people remember that anytime you are anywhere in the moment, you can find beauty by just looking around you. You don't have to be up in Aspen on the ski slopes. Here you can find snippets of beauty everywhere. That has been inspirational to me. In Chicago, I had to create the landscapes from the inside out on my own. I will look at the color of a leaf or how the clouds move. The inspiration for my work just really comes from awareness."
The light on this cloudy November day is silver and stark, giving the world a washed-out look. Just the sort of day Andrew Wyeth would have loved to paint. But then, as I drive south on a dirt road in Lincoln, the light shifts. Sunlight spills through a gap in the clouds and the world transforms from bleak black-and-white to rich color.
Where before I’d been looking at frost-killed fields and the stubs of dead corn stalks, I’m now noticing the orangey light that illuminates the trees lining the road and brings out the greens still in the grass.
I’ve driven from a Wyethesque landscape into one that could have been painted by Kathleen Kolb, which is perhaps not surprising. She has been painting Vermont’s hills,One of the most durable and attractive styles of flooring that you can purchase is ceramic or porcelain tiles. fields and forests for nearly four decades. I’ve come to her part of the state to see how she does it.
She began her art education early,Quickparts builds injection molds using aluminum or steel to meet your program. at age 6, when her parents enrolled her in a class that met Saturdays at the Cleveland Museum of Art. School teachers had told her parents, neither of whom were artists, that Kathleen showed a special affinity for art. It’s not like she was studying fine art at that age, Kolb says, smiling: “They gave me a bucket of crayons and a stool.Find detailed product information for howo tractor and other products.”
But she eventually progressed to more formal classes at the Cleveland Institute of Art, and then on to the Rhode Island School of Design, where she focused on illustration, which emphasized figurative work.
“I came to Vermont as a figure painter, and there weren’t any people,” says Kolb. She was living an isolated life in Greensboro, only getting into nearby Hardwick maybe once a week. So the land and Vermont’s built environment became her subjects.
Kolb began exhibiting paintings in Vermont galleries and found freelance illustration work for magazines, including Vermont Life, which has profiled her three times over the years.
“I’ve never tried that (regular paycheck) route, which is kind of crazy,” she says, especially when she was later raising two children as a single mom in Cornwall. During the early 1990s, she looked for a dependable income in a non-art-related job,Interlocking security cable tie with 250 pound strength makes this ideal for restraining criminals. but friends and prospective employers who knew her artwork encouraged her to continue painting.
Her environment is integral to her work. She will explore anything from community life to climate change but not in a pedantic way. She just paints things as she sees them and lets the viewer respond.
“I believe in the power of art to make the world a better place, to encourage conversations (and) to soothe and comfort people,” Kolb says. “Being that I’m a landscape painter, I want my art to contribute to their sense of place, their sense of home, their joys and responsibilities and the sheer beauty of the world we live in — these moments of sublime contact.”
Kolb can find those moments even in workaday settings. For years, she has painted images of the logging industry. It was her way of highlighting what she considers an overlooked aspect of Vermont’s working landscape. Her paintings — whether depicting a logging truck being loaded in dawn’s purple shadows or the white snowy mist thrown up by a tree felled in winter — show the harsh realities and raw beauty of the lumber industry.
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