DEAR BLOG FRIENDS

Thank you for visiting and following me!
Am pretty sure I will be done with this artblog, since moved to HERE  (main page) 

to present my art in a more organized fashion - one medium per page!  Still in a similar style -my painting with artnotes

On the main page there, you can click on the right sidebar for each medium.

Each has a different URL though.
Click HERE for pastels
Click HERE for landscapes in oil
Click HERE for watercolor


You will like it! Jesh St. G.

STORMY SKY IN THE GRAPEVINE

Pastel,  11 1/2 x 19 3/4 inch, St Germain

Notes

Didn't have enough pastel paper left for the whole scene,
so I focused on the sky in this painting
with a late aftenoon sun and long shadows
When I paint a scene like this,
I'm there on the top of these hills,
and in the shadow s of these trees


a landscape or city scape
without getting the exact feeling/mood,
is a shell without a soul. 

BEFORE FALL APPEARS

© Sunstruck, Oil, 24 x 32 inch, St. Germain

NOTES

Before Fall appears I lke to post this, because

it's hard to get the "feel" of a blazing desert sun burning on one's skin, plants are dried up, hardly any shade, or water to be found, when things are cooling down around you, and at dawn a veil of fog and clouds covers the landscape.

Because I know a little about drought, having lived in California for 20+ years, I started with this painting in April 2010 after the eruption of the volcano in Iceland. dealing with weather disasters. It belongs in the middle of a series of 13-15 paintings.
So this painting is not about a nice desert landscape,
it is such a serious drought, that people start digging for water.

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SANDY BEACH

© Symbiotic Trees, 9 x 12 inch, Oil, St Germain

NOTES

late afternoon discovery of

-flowers on the river shore

- symbiotic spindly tree trunks

- late afternoon reflections in the water

At the last minute went to the art store in Yosemite Nat. Park to get a smaller canvas.

Perfect size for this little pretty scene in oil.

Except for the little spindly tree trunks. 

They would have come out more natural on a bigger size canvas. 

Considerable tweaking of background tree mass, 
as well as flower bush.
These colors look good in a pic, but not in a painting!
Started late afternoon on painting, so choose a purplish mood.

A lasting plein air impression of my vacation this year.

STUDY OF AUBURN HILL

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ART NOTES 

Usually I do watercolors in the summer

in my vacation,

but this view was too tempting to pass up this Spring

Done in my Arches sketchbook I recently found

it's my favorite paper cold pressed 140 lb.

this is a side view of this hill,

planning to paint a top view in pastel

My watercolor interpretation above

is of this hill 

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IRIS

 NOTES

Always loved the deep blue, leaning against purple of the iris.
Yet it seemed a difficult flower to paint. Vincent v. Gogh changed my mind. 
If I recall correctly, he has at least three paintings with irises in them. 

The blue-purple combined with green is not much see in paintings in general.
A good reason for an artist to dare commonality!

But how does one fill a square canvas with a mainly vertical shape? It looked kind of bare and stilted. Then I got an idea to put in the background 
as if it was wind moving the petals...and the rest is history. .





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FOR EASTER

Fragrant Gardenia 24 x 24 inch Oil, St.Germain

Notes

Gardenia is one of my favorite flowers because of its fragrance. 
Sometimes I wish that the flower would be bigger.
I got my wish in my painting (24 inches big!)
As you can see, I layered the colors around its edges, 
so it would not look like a cut-out.

Wish for you a great Easter with nice weather:)