If anyone is in the Boston area this weekend consider checking out this wonderful event! Enjoy fine food, delicious wine, festive music, and of course an array of historical and contemporary fine art.
My artwork will be included in the show represented by Hawthorne Fine Art.
November 15-18, 2012
The Cyclorama
At The Boston Center for The Arts, 539 Tremont Street, in the South End
New England’s Premier Show and Sale of Contemporary and Traditional Fine Art
40 Outstanding Galleries from the United States and Europe
Paintings • Works on Paper • Sculpture
Photography • Fine Prints • Mixed Media
Thank you to everyone who made it to the artist talk and demonstration! It was an honor to have the opportunity to discuss my process and show my work at such a prestigious venue. I would also like to send out a deep thank you to Fr. Ian MacLellan for making the whole exhibition possible, and Jennifer Krieger who represents my work at Hawthorne Fine Art for making this possible. I have decided to do a blog post illustrating the moon painting demo I did this past Thursday.
Underpainting:
Once the drawing is sketched in and I know where I want the moon to be placed, I start to paint the band of sky directly around the sphere of the moon. This color tends to be a light blue color with hints of red and orange. Once this band is complete. I build out with progressively darker and warmer bands until I feel the gradation of the sky is right in value and hue.
30 min. demo. of moon underpainting
Once the Underpainting is done I progress to the Glazing phase on a separate panel…
demo of underpainting brought through glazing
Here I am rubbing the tonal glaze over the whole picturecolor of tonal glaze
And just give you an idea here is an image of the glaze on a piece of clear plastic. look at it in comparison to the white panel!
the same underpainting with tonal glazeanother example of a moon underpainting
I had a wonderful time explaining the glazing process. It was a lovely event. Here are just some photos of the space and show…….
Thank you for reading! And if you would like to check out the show it will be up from now until early December.
This Thursday at 4pm at the Chapel Arts Center at Saint Anselm College. I will be discussing and demonstrating , the techniques of traditional landscape. I will walk through the process of transitioning from the Dead Color Under-painting to the final Glazing and Scumbling.
In this demo specifically I will be approaching “How to paint a Nocturnal Landscape- a Moon Scene”. It should be a wonderful event!
“Hawthorne Fine Art is pleased to announce an exhibition of Lauren Sansaricq’s landscape paintings at the Alva de Mars Megan Chapel Art Center at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire. The Glimmer of Light: Landscape Paintings by Lauren Sansaricq will run from September 28 to December 6, 2012, and an opening reception for the exhibition will be held on Thursday, September 27 from 6:00 to 8:00pm.
Lauren Sansaricq, Mt. Chocorua, 2012
The Chapel Art Center has recently featured examples of American landscape painting, as well as local and emerging artists. A native of Columbia County, New York, Lauren Sansaricq (b.1990) trained with Thomas Locker (1937–2012), a celebrated landscape painter and children’s book author/illustrator, in the traditional manner of the Hudson River School. Sansaricq’s work captures a similar sense of wonder experienced by the nineteenth century landscape painters working primarily in New York’s Catskill Mountain region. As Jennifer Krieger explains, “Lauren is a tireless technician who can hone in on the most subtle details of nature within its grandest views. She demonstrates an artistic prowess and commitment to faithful design which is not only rare for her age but also uncommon for the age in which we live.” Like the first generation of Hudson River School painters, Sansaricq has also proven herself to be a true artist-explorer. She has broadened the scope of her work to include locations outside the Hudson Valley, including the White Mountains of New Hampshire and locations in France and Italy.
In conjunction with this special exhibition, numerous special events have been planned. David Dearinger, Ph.D., Susan Morse Hilles Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at The Boston Athenaeum, will present “The Hudson River School: An Introduction” on Thursday, November 8 at 4:00pm. This lecture will provide a scholar’s insight into the significance of America’s first indigenous art movement, offering an important supplement to Ms. Sansaricq’s meditative and technically rigorous paintings.
Additionally, Fr. MacLellan will be leading a director’s tour of the exhibition at 1:00pm on Saturday, October 20. On Thursday, October 25 at 4:00pm, Ms. Sansaricq will discuss the subject matter and technical practice that ties her work to historic American landscape painting, yet offers a fresh look at our landscape today. Lastly, a special music performance will feature American Romantic compositions performed by acclaimed pianist Alpin Hong on Friday, November 30 at 7:30pm.
Since the opening of Nature’s Poetry, held at Hawthorne Fine Art last winter, Lauren has completed her training at the Grand Central Academy in NYC. We’re excited for this next step in Lauren’s career and will be producing an exhibition catalogue for The Glimmer of Light illustrating her paintings. A PDF of the Nature’s Poetry catalogue is available on our website.
For further information about this exhibition and the related special events, please visit www.anselm.edu/chapelart.”
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