Seeing Clean Color by Armand Cabrera

When most people first attempt to paint in oils, they see gray and brown everywhere and they paint shadows black and lifeless.

To keep your paintings from being dull,
forget about grays, browns and blacks.

Get in the habit of thinking of color in terms of primary colors: yellow, red, and blue. All other colors are simply combinations of these primary colors. By staying with primary colors, you have a clear color choice from which to relate. It is a subtle difference, but an important one. Once a color choice is decided upon, you can determine its value, saturation and temperature relative to the colors around it. Mixing clean color comes from understanding which primaries are needed in its creation.
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Water, Land and Sky : Rediscovering A.T. DeRome”
at the Hearst Art Gallery, Moraga, California

The Hearst Art Gallery of Saint Mary's College attracts visitors from around the world. Just a short distance from San Francisco, The Hearst Art Gallery was built with the aid of a grant from the William Randolph Hearst Foundation as the only accredited art museum in Contra Costa County. Besides the William Keith Collection and other landscape art, the Hearst Art Gallery is now featuring a special collection of Albert Thomas DeRome. (1885-1959) The Exhibition runs through August 8th.

Of the nearly 100 paintings in the retrospective exhibition, most are characteristically tiny, jewel like scenes of the places in California DeRome loved best. Inspired by changes in the sea and the sky, his coastal paintings are of particularly note, depicting lush foreground carpets of colorful vegetation, with the majestic crystal blue and glass green colors of the Pacific peaking out beyond pristine sand dunes under light feathery skies. His favorite subjects were Point Lobos, the sand dunes in Carmel, rural Monterey County and the Missions. Many DeRome paintings, including a number of exquisite early watercolors, were lost in the 1991 Oakland Hills fire. This is the first comprehensive exhibition of his remaining works. Also on view are his art materials, letters, and the photographs he used as part of his painting process.
more on the Website: www.stmarys-ca.edu/arts/art_gallery/

Master Outdoor Painters

Dennis Miller Bunker
By Armand Cabrera

A student of Jean Léon Gérôme and William Merritt Chase, Dennis Miller Bunker was equally adept at academic portraits and open-air landscape paintings. By his death, Bunker had already established a mastery and sensitivity unmatched by most of his peers.

Born in 1861 in New York, Bunker grew up in Long Island as one of four children. At the age of fifteen, he enrolled in the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design where he studied for four years. Like most young, American artists, Bunker longed for European instruction, so in 1882 he left for the École des Beaux-Arts in France with a letter of introduction. Bunker studied at the École for two years under Jean Léon Gérôme.

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Quote of the Month

“It is so easy to be smart in Art, so easy to catch this and that quality of the time or the taste, the frightful smug taste of the public-so easy to do all manner of tricks of sentiment- of lies that people love and hug and live with and praise .”

-Dennis Miller Bunker

Discover the secrets of outdoor painting and learn from plein air masters, Stefan Baumann and Armand Cabrera, on location.

The techniques acquired in these dynamic classes will broaden your skill and teach you timeless secrets of the craft. Learn More...

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