It has the look of Richard Schmid landscapes.

Thanks for introducing us……very nice.

Not sure how he did it. But that’s a terrific painting.

It appears that he worked on a dark ground, which leads me to suspect that he used white chalk or something similar to draw in the basic forms. I further suspect that much of the “drawing” was done with a brush.

Here are the only words I can find about Arkhipov’s practice:

“Around 1910 Arkhipov started painting a series of portraits of peasant women from his hometown region. In these paintings the figures are dressed in bright national costumes and painted with broad decisive strokes. From here forward the theme of peasant life would dominate his work for the rest of his life. His painting style began to change from his earlier detailed work to a more expressive and passionate style. As a fellow teacher I can almost picture Arkhipov’s life by reading his paintings. I can see him rushing from the classroom to his studio, making the most with his time, he had already thought out each brushstroke before arriving to his studio. When you look at his work you can feel his confidence with each stroke. Arkhipov painted with thick paint letting colors from underneath come through. He used a strong value pattern to lead the viewer’s eye around the picture plane. Unlike Grabar Arkhipov’s technique is not soft and sensitive, but bold and assertive. Also, unlike Grabar’s cold aloof work, Arkhipov’s work is filled with the heart and soul of the Russian people. The Moscow branch of Russian Impressionism became known for its warm ochre colors, which I am sure came from Arkhipov’s delicious warm palette.”

I would prefer more detail, but we must take what we can get. If further “suspicions” are permissible, I would guess that he worked from dark to light. Obviously, his strokes were thick and heavy. Incidentally, his other works showed that he had a fondness for thick vermilion and extremely high contrast. This guy was one HELL of a painter!

Jose Villegas: The slipper Merchant

Beautiful paintings!

These are the kind of style of realism with abstracted brushwork up close. One of my favourite styles. I think David Leffel refers to it as Abstract Realism

Nice one Raff.

[URL=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3hhCH2g04g]Here[/URL] is a video showing how to scumble wet on wet, and what a scumble actually is. That said, this is what we see present in Arkhipov’s work above, lighter opaque paints used over more darkly painted areas. It can be done wet in wet, but it may have been done over several sessions, all done plein air (at the site location). Plein Air does not need to be finished in a single session.

Thank you, Delo. That is a good, clear video.

You can learn the gist of this “technique” if you spend some time watching the free and short instructional videos of Mark Carder available on his web site, DrawMixPaint. His main instruction sounds simple because it is, but it works: PAINT UGLY . . . DON’T BLEND. It is very hard to do this, but after awhile, the reason for it comes clear.