Comments on: Artist Spotlite – James Gerity http://www.artinstructionblog.com/artist-spotlite-james-gerity Free art lessons & tips on a variety of different mediums including oil painting,watercolor,acrylics and more! Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:28:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: carolyn Bishop http://www.artinstructionblog.com/artist-spotlite-james-gerity/comment-page-1#comment-4380 carolyn Bishop Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:18:29 +0000 http://www.artinstructionblog.com/?p=618#comment-4380 It's a beautiful painting, James! Thanks for sharing! It’s a beautiful painting, James! Thanks for sharing!

]]> By: Ingrid http://www.artinstructionblog.com/artist-spotlite-james-gerity/comment-page-1#comment-4346 Ingrid Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:23:17 +0000 http://www.artinstructionblog.com/?p=618#comment-4346 Hi James, Thank you for your nice comments on my "nit pickiness"! ;-) I can only say that I stand on the shoulders of those GREAT art instructors that have gone before me from the American Academy of Art. Irv Shapiro, AWS, a great Chicago watercolorist, who is no longer with us, would really "pick my work a part" during our weekly critiques and I would always be so nervous of what he would say! But how I learned from him! He did this to PUSH me to another level!!! Bill Parks, my life drawing instructor, really taught me to SEE......and this is so very important for an artist. He would have us sculpt an object in a paper bag, so that we could not visually see what we were doing, but had to rely on our visual memory or our mind's eye of that object! These and other instructors have helped me develop my "artistic eye" that is continually developing as I critique my students' work, and now the work on this wonderful educational blog. It is this layering process of growth that allows you to become a better artist as you grow older! How wonderful for us as artists! The digital pictures do leave something to be desired and I have often wondered about that when I critique the paintings. Thank you for mentioning this to me. I am amazed by how much we can do electronically that opens the door to so many opportunities! This blog is an example of that. One final suggestion about your painting procedure: If you could prepare a value sketch of what you want to paint BEFORE you paint, then you would have "road map" or plan of what you want to put into your painting and HOW you want to paint it. Then work all over your painting together, not just concentrating in some sections. This I have learned after many failures and it seems to help UNIFY the end results. THANK YOU, James, for giving me the opportunity to practice my "seeing" ability! HAPPY PAINTING! Ingrid ;-) Hi James,

Thank you for your nice comments on my “nit pickiness”! ;-) I can only say that I stand on the shoulders of those GREAT art instructors that have gone before me from the American Academy of Art. Irv Shapiro, AWS, a great Chicago watercolorist, who is no longer with us, would really “pick my work a part” during our weekly critiques and I would always be so nervous of what he would say! But how I learned from him! He did this to PUSH me to another level!!! Bill Parks, my life drawing instructor, really taught me to SEE……and this is so very important for an artist. He would have us sculpt an object in a paper bag, so that we could not visually see what we were doing, but had to rely on our visual memory or our mind’s eye of that object! These and other instructors have helped me develop my “artistic eye” that is continually developing as I critique my students’ work, and now the work on this wonderful educational blog. It is this layering process of growth that allows you to become a better artist as you grow older! How wonderful for us as artists!

The digital pictures do leave something to be desired and I have often wondered about that when I critique the paintings. Thank you for mentioning this to me. I am amazed by how much we can do electronically that opens the door to so many opportunities! This blog is an example of that.

One final suggestion about your painting procedure: If you could prepare a value sketch of what you want to paint BEFORE you paint, then you would have “road map” or plan of what you want to put into your painting and HOW you want to paint it. Then work all over your painting together, not just concentrating in some sections. This I have learned after many failures and it seems to help UNIFY the end results.

THANK YOU, James, for giving me the opportunity to practice my “seeing” ability!

HAPPY PAINTING!

Ingrid ;-)

]]> By: John http://www.artinstructionblog.com/artist-spotlite-james-gerity/comment-page-1#comment-4321 John Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:14:04 +0000 http://www.artinstructionblog.com/?p=618#comment-4321 Great colors. Job well done. Great colors. Job well done.

]]> By: Soroya http://www.artinstructionblog.com/artist-spotlite-james-gerity/comment-page-1#comment-4319 Soroya Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:03:41 +0000 http://www.artinstructionblog.com/?p=618#comment-4319 Well done James, The only area that was a bit of a distraction was the front left (as Ingrid noted). But I fully understand your wanting to add something there to add to the depth of the painting. I know that sometimes when I see fell that a painting needs something more I am a bit reluctant to add it in fear that once you put something in you can't remove it if it doesn't work. So I commend you for going for it. The Trees are my favorite as they look almost feathery, dream like. Art is such a heart felt thing to me and yours evokes a real feeling of peace. Thank you for sharing, Soroya Well done James,
The only area that was a bit of a distraction was the front left (as Ingrid noted). But I fully understand your wanting to add something there to add to the depth of the painting. I know that sometimes when I see fell that a painting needs something more I am a bit reluctant to add it in fear that once you put something in you can’t remove it if it doesn’t work. So I commend you for going for it.
The Trees are my favorite as they look almost feathery, dream like.
Art is such a heart felt thing to me and yours evokes a real feeling of peace. Thank you for sharing, Soroya

]]> By: Julie Blight http://www.artinstructionblog.com/artist-spotlite-james-gerity/comment-page-1#comment-4312 Julie Blight Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:30:05 +0000 http://www.artinstructionblog.com/?p=618#comment-4312 Hi James, Well said on Ingrid's comments, they are always so honest and constructive, and she gives credit where due, I always look forward to reading them, thank you Ingrid. James you are progressing well with your painting and I love your fall colours. Such a varst contrast to the country I live in. Thank you for showing and keep painting. Hi James,
Well said on Ingrid’s comments, they are always so honest and constructive, and she gives credit where due, I always look forward to reading them, thank you Ingrid.

James you are progressing well with your painting and I love your fall colours. Such a varst contrast to the country I live in.
Thank you for showing and keep painting.

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