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06-05-2002, 11:15 AM
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NAPPAP Acceptance
I am happy to announce I have been accepted into NAPPAP as an apprentice member. I have been on the NAPPAP plein air list, reading and contributing to it, since it's inception, but it was just this spring that I got serious about plein air.
This is the same terrific group that Larry will be showing his wonderful paintings with, at the National Art Gallery, NYC.
Proud to be a new member of the group.
Renee
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06-05-2002, 12:31 PM
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Hurray For You
Goddie Goodie you got a good thing .. Congratulations!
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06-05-2002, 12:38 PM
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Outstanding, Renee! Calls for fireworks, I think...
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06-05-2002, 12:59 PM
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Well done!
Thrilled for you, Renee!!!!! That's wonderful news! Wooohoo!
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06-05-2002, 01:25 PM
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Wayne, Rose Queen and Cathleen, Thanks so much!
Rose Queen, I Love your fireworks! That's how I feel today-
all " sparkly "!
Renee
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06-05-2002, 01:52 PM
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Renee! Congratulations!! I checked out the site and its very impressive! Your work looks wonderful and you're an asset to the group!
carly
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06-05-2002, 07:46 PM
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Carly,
It is an excellent group of artists. I have gotten a lot out of being on the NAPPAP list. I was probably influenced in a good way by reading and responding to the plein air information exchanged on it. I contributed what I could in terms of computer , digital camera and image file skills, etc..
When I finally got my plein air act together it seemed like a good idea to try to reach this goal.
Thanks so much.
Renee
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06-06-2002, 08:11 AM
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Congrats!!!!
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06-06-2002, 08:50 AM
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Linda and Larry, Thanks so much. Yes, I was kind of on a high all day yesterday, just thinking about it.
I sure am glad Deb let me hang out on the list, till I got the hang of plein air.
I should update that bio. It's so weird to see your life flash before your eyes! That Mattingly event was back in '97. It was Don Mattingly's retirement dinner at the Sheraton in NYC. The tables cost $10,000. each for the Yankee Foundation ( benefitting inner NYC kids) and I was "discovered"  in a routine Barnes and Noble portrait exhibit out here in Commack, Long Island, by a rep from the Yankee organization.
My husband and son also attended the presentation and dinner with me and they met all their Yankee idols. It was my son's birthday- big thrill- and he has never forgotten it.
Since it was for charity, anyone there ( we were guests because of the portrait. Everyone else had paid big bucks to be there), the players had to sign anything people brought with them to the cocktail hour. I, thinking ahead, brought four small pastel portraits with me of Boggs, Jeter, Rivera and Gooden and had them sign them. Sold them later. 
Linda, Btw, thanks to your guidance, the "New York State Plein Air" website ( that's our new name) is underway:
http://NYSpleinairpainters.homestead.com/pleinair.html
I am in a search for founders right now. We are taking our time with this and want to get the foundation down solid before publicizing for members. NYFA has a seminar and guidance for non-profit art orgs and we are hashing out all possibilities. I am already getting a good response from the Woodstock school of Art on paintouts.
We have decided, like Florida, to make this an all inclusive group. All levels of skill will be included.
Any New Yorkers ( hello, Dana!) who might be interested in doing some ( not a lot) of work founding this group, please contact me at: impressionist2@hotmail.com
Renee
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06-06-2002, 09:35 AM
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06-06-2002, 08:20 PM
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Lisa, Thank you.
I just got a new founder for New York State Plein Air tonight. The wonderful Oil Pleinairist, Howard Rose. I placed his beautiful plein air landscape on the website. This has been a really good week.
Plus Linda Blondheim has been extemely helpful. I am starting to see the possibility of the birth of this "baby" now.
http://NYSpleinairpainters.homestead.com/pleinair.html
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06-06-2002, 10:51 PM
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After months of searching for an established plein air group here in Georgia...I finally found one!....but, its a limited membership of 21 artists and admittance to the group is by invitation only. They jury new prospective members when someone drops out of the group. It's a very professional group of artists and they have a show three times a year. That's how I found them....just happened to see their summer show today! Some wonderful art!!! and many of the artists, I know from another art group that I belong to. I was surprised I'd never heard of their plein air group before.
They meet once a month and paint together....set up their schedule of where to paint six months or more in advance so everyone knows where and when to meet and paint.
Guess I'll just keep painting and inviting folks to join me! or I can be a group of one!...Hey, that's not a bad name...."Group of One Painting On Location"
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06-07-2002, 07:22 AM
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Carly, There's nothing wrong with exclusive groups like PAPA. It must be a major thrill to be accepted into a group that is by invitation only. We all try to achieve excellence in our work. I love to visit PAPA's site and look at their stable of artists . They're wonderful. My old instructor, Charles Sovek is one of them.
There was a plein air group about eight years ago here on Long Island that tried the "by invitation only" approach. They dissolved.
I actually have a Vision. I never understood that term before. I see the whole thing in my head. Plein air painters from all over New York state, painting together in Central park, or upstate in the Hudson valley ( New York is gorgeous upstate) or out here on Long Island where William Merritt Chase painted the Hamptons.
Hundreds of artists that never could find each other scheduling paintouts. Prizes and excellence can be awarded during those paintouts so that the stars can still shine. I have respected artists interested in this and I think the group will be able to have a good standard and still be inclusive.
I also want it to be like the plein air forum in Wet Canvas. It is no small thing that everyday we manage to treat each other with courtesy and respect. We laugh and share our newest paintings. We encourage our talented beginners and applaud our advanced artists. I want the spirit of NYSPA to echo what we have in our plein air forum.
Here's Howard Rose's painting, our newest founder. The funny thing is he has taught at our art league and I have always wanted to take lessons from him. I will be at the opening of his three man show in the Hamptons next week.
Also, and anyone can challenge this if you think I am wrong, the very nature of plein air painting is a weeding process. Only the heartiest and the most dedicated would strap their packs over their back and drag their paints, brushes and knives outside in the heat and the chill month after month, year after year. A so-so painter would finally say, "enough, back to the comfort of the studio". I mean if you are not advancing , why suffer? Also, the very nature of plein air painting is the most marvelous teacher. There you are surrounded with the 'real thing". Tough to avoid the correct color and value when it's in your face. Another thing I have found, is that after being on location for two or three hours, the memory of it is so vivid, that you can paint from it if you need to.
Renee
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06-07-2002, 08:02 AM
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Quote:
Originally posted by impressionist2
Tough to avoid the correct color and value when it's in your face. Another thing I have found, is that after being on location for two or three hours, the memory of it is so vivid, that you can paint from it if you need to.
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Well...it can go one step further too Renee...and that is, as your eyes as receptors become sensitive to what you see, you become aware of a mind's eye that becomes sensitive to seeing into your emotional state.
You realize after awhile....that if it were only as simple as squirting out some pigment that when mixed in any ingenious method of formula...that anything seen could be matched and painted, that would be the equivalent of painting what you see.
Unfortunately, nature provides a display of light that pigments all too often prove themselves only close proximities at best.
The artist can either sigh and relent to such closeness, or try to understand more of how the scene affects him or her. So "another" way of seeing is slowly introduced thru this path of frustration and working thru it. You eventually realize that certain symbols of color, certain shapes that imitate nature, particular patterns of contrasts evoke particular emotions.
So...you stand there before the scene and ask not only what do I see, but how is it affecting me? You learn the viewer that truly appreciates painting knows a camera has no feelings. The art is valued in transferring such feeling the artist has to the viewer. Truth is...people hardly are aware that many photos that truly move us have been manipulated by filters, darkroom practices, and composition. The image borrowed from an artist's understanding of how to enhance the image's mood to say what he felt nature revealing.
You can mix a color and value as nearly as possible as pigments allow...and yet have this gut disappointment that it still does not say what you have really seen...and that is because your emotions as an artist have responded to the aesthetics present. There is a mood present. Some life that is woven as a thread throughout it all.
Thus...you might paint next to another plein airist both doing the same scene. S/he might be using other colors entirely...and at first you question if the person is seeing the same thing as you are seeing.
Its not until you both get home...later pull the works out that you realize this other person tapped into some life. This person had some unique "insight" or mind's eye that saw something you didn't. His/her painting gives you the emotional sense of experiencing the scene and being there....and leaves your own suddenly feeling more lifeless.
This seeing business is really something else, as I am learning.
Larry
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