tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2066011796531612708.post8901972197941803247..comments2024-02-27T08:19:05.264-05:00Comments on Daily Painters of Pennsylvania: Smoke and Dust, 9 x 12, oil on panel, by Ron DonougheMary Beth Brathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14783321150498875601noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2066011796531612708.post-87158233614079995532010-10-28T08:16:40.292-04:002010-10-28T08:16:40.292-04:00Beautiful use of gestured brushwork and a tertiary...Beautiful use of gestured brushwork and a tertiary palette, Ron. Your grit and glow mingle in the best of the Ash Can School tradition and your Western Pa roots add ironic monument & vigor to the subject.Bottini - Classic Realist Landscapehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15965007126306660631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2066011796531612708.post-7251313732181944402010-10-26T07:49:38.751-04:002010-10-26T07:49:38.751-04:00I feel the same way about my smaller plein air pai...I feel the same way about my smaller plein air paintings...the larger ones painted in the studio don't have the same fresh quality. Maybe it is because we treat the small works as "sketches" and with the larger pieces there is more pressure to create a masterpiece? <br />I love this little panel. I love the spontaneous strokes you use to capture the smoke. I can see how that would be difficult to repeat on a larger scale.Julie Rikerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06257218578401919276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2066011796531612708.post-80224835364366436242010-10-26T06:47:18.732-04:002010-10-26T06:47:18.732-04:00Love this. Something different. Caught my eye as s...Love this. Something different. Caught my eye as soon as I came on the blog!blahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00871057490276686676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2066011796531612708.post-47824883530341291052010-10-25T20:00:10.894-04:002010-10-25T20:00:10.894-04:00What can I say? You have turned a sooty, grimy pie...What can I say? You have turned a sooty, grimy piece of real estate into a beautiful work of art. Honestly, Monet's railroad station masterpieces, are no better, bigger, maybe, but no better.Cecelia Lydenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01511916199701606388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2066011796531612708.post-54257805047144543602010-10-25T19:46:46.201-04:002010-10-25T19:46:46.201-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Cecelia Lydenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01511916199701606388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2066011796531612708.post-38964302178033583742010-10-25T17:51:54.085-04:002010-10-25T17:51:54.085-04:00This sure works for me - it has a wonderful, subtl...This sure works for me - it has a wonderful, subtle strength to it, Ron. I always wish that I could retain the looseness of my underpainting in the final painting...still working on it!Claire Beadon Carnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15601511184498614133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2066011796531612708.post-23104252443610968692010-10-25T16:42:53.860-04:002010-10-25T16:42:53.860-04:00Ron, this is really nice. They say that about Con...Ron, this is really nice. They say that about Constable's plein air studies...now being considered better than the large studio pieces he did. They are looser and more painterly. Larger paintings are harder to do, though. I once asked an instructor how to achieve a larger painting much like my smaller paintings...he said, "use larger brushes". However, not quite that simple. LOLPat Koscienskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08336904454074569104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2066011796531612708.post-2603688758482733242010-10-25T14:41:18.405-04:002010-10-25T14:41:18.405-04:00I don't think I ever seen an industrial painti...I don't think I ever seen an industrial painting, very good work great detailIsland Galhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07188248836965912667noreply@blogger.com