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4 Editors Note
6 Letters
6 Whats New atforums.myAmericanArtist.com
7 Art Mart
8 Quick Sketches
Plein Air Painting to Help Special-
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Program Accepting Entries...
Brooklyn Museum Launches
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CONTENTSN O V E M B E R 2 0 0 9
EASY REFERENCE
Oil: 12, 30, 38, 44, 58, 66, 67, 68, 70, 72
Watercolor: 52
AMERICAN
ARTISTCOVERSelf-Portrait (detail)
by Lea Colie Wight, 2008, oil, 24 x 18.Collection the
artist.
12 The Arrival of French
Impressionism in America:Californias Golden Years
BY JEAN STERN
Around the turn of the 20thcentury, Impressionism had
become the style of choice amongmost American painters.
Turningfrom academic modes and styles,
the public slowly embraced thesebright, colorful paintings
and
looked to the California artists toadapt the French-inspired way
of
painting light in the landscape.
30 Paint What You See at a Glance
BY M. STEPHEN DOHERTY
Lea Colie Wight spent yearslearning to paint fleeting imagesthat
captivated her attention.
Im now helping studentsunderstand what took me years to
learnthat painting is aboutrecording what you see and feel
at a moment in time, she says.
38 Capturing Atmosphere in Oil
Landscapes
BY M. STEPHEN DOHERTY
Maryland artist Gavin Brooksinstills landscape paintings
with
a sense of air, saturated light, time,and distance. She
accomplishes
that by managing the subtlety ofvalues, establishing hard and
soft
edges, controlling the intensity ofcolor, and creating a
layering ofpaint qualities.
44 Portrait Sketches That Guide
Artists and Their Clients
BY M. STEPHEN DOHERTY
Brian Neher paints two small oil
sketches of his portrait subjectsto help set a direction for
the
finished portrait that satisfies himand his clients.
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There are times when picking the cover image for American Artist
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represent the contentsof the issue, it must fit into the
rectangular space in such a way that the sub-
ject of the artwork is immediately recognizable, the text must
be able to floatover the image and appear legible, and the finished
cover design must be dis-
tinguishable from those of the most recent issues. Sometimes we
have three orfour outstanding works of art to choose from that fit
all those criteria, andsometimes we struggle to find just one.
No matter how difficult or easy the selection process might be,
we always won-der if we came up with a cover you thought was
appealing enough to buy the
issue, subscribe to the publication, or renew your subscription.
We dont know theanswers to those questions until six or eight
months after the magazine is printed
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All that is about to change, because we are establishing a
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option over another.
In the meantime, I would appreciate it if you would think about
your level of
interest in the articles included in this issue. Did you find
Jean Sterns articleabout the history of California plein air
painting to be helpful in understanding
how the great artists of the past helped shape your current work
(page 12)? Andwas David R. Daniels article on determining values in
watercolor relevant to
the challenges you face when painting (page 52)?Ill look forward
to reading your comments on the RAP group surveys, in
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