Colleen Howe's 4 Steps to Building Stronger Paintings
by Colleen Howe, as told to Collin Fry
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| Zion Overlook 2007, pastel, 30 x 24. All artwork this article collection the artist. |
Growing up on a ranch in the Big Hole Valley of Southwestern Montana, I developed an early appreciation for nature and a love of painting the great outdoors. Along the way, I have been inspired by several great artists—Degas, Andrew Wyeth, Clyde Aspevig, and Scott Christensen among them—and I continue to study the books of John F. Carlson, Edgar Payne, and Richard Schmid. These masters, so varied in style and technique, each present beautiful color relationships and truthful representations of nature in their work.
From years of studying these great artists and from my own experimentation, I have concluded that successful painting can be achieved by paying close attention to a few basic principles. Each one of these steps builds on the previous one, resulting in a system that virtually guarantees satisfactory results. With this approach, one establishes a solid foundation and mistakes are dealt with early, leaving one free to move into the final painting stages without later disappointment and frustration......
See this demonstration at http://www.myamericanartist.com/2008/05/colleen-howes-4.html
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