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by Brian Kliewer on 3/26/2012 10:30:17 PM
Schoodic Point - One of My Favorite Places, Downeast
"Gulls at Schoodic Point" 24" x 30" oil on canvas © 2011 Brian Kliewer
The composition in this painting is quite different from what you see in a lot of my paintings. The gulls were more or less in the positions you see them in here...with minor changes. I really wanted to show the depth of the scene. But without a horizon line, that's not easily done. A couple of pairs of the gulls overlap, which helps. But mostly they exist alone. This is why I introduced the couple in the upper left. Yes, they were there but I hadn't decided for certain I wanted people in this painting until I had it well laid out.
The painting isn't about "people" so I had to watch how I handled things. It really is about the gulls. But the couple balanced out the dark blue tide pools in the lower part of the painting, and helped balance the composition as well. I wanted something there that wouldn't "compete" with the birds. I think I got it.
As you can see by the picture below, I "warmed" things up quite a bit in my painting.
I took this picture several years ago. Gulls are really quite interesting. Bold and cautious and not unwilling to land on your head! Yes, this one did land on this woman's head. The photo isn't retouched. But gulls will be bold like this if they think food is nearby. I remember one showing up at a picnic. It swooped in and grabbed a hotdog right off the picnic table. Then a couple of minutes later, it came back and stole a hamburger patty! Plenty of people around. It didn't matter; it wasn't "phased" at all.
Schoodic Point is a lovely place on the coast of Maine. It's one of my favorite spots, "Downeast." Another location right nearby is Grindstone Neck. Check both out if you get a chance.
by Brian Kliewer on 3/23/2012 12:34:33 PM
"The Isaac H. Evans" 6"x8" oil on linen © 2012 Brian Kliewer SOLD
"The Isaac H. Evans" detail © 2012 Brian Kliewer
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About the painting...
This is another view of the "Evans." The first painting I posted featured the ship in a backlit setting. Here she's on display in full sunlight. The Evans is sort of an elusive schooner to me. It often looks like a work horse when compared to the other schooners in the fleet, but it also looks very lovely under sail. It has a two-tone hull...light gray on the lower portion and bright white on the upper. This adds to the elusiveness. Oftentimes under full light, as you see it here, it looks like an entirely white ship.
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by Brian Kliewer on 3/22/2012 10:12:23 AM
"Harbor Traffic" 6"x8" oil on linen © 2012 Brian Kliewer SOLD
"Harbor Traffic" detail © 2012 Brian Kliewer
About the painting...
This lobster boat is actually one of the smaller ones I've seen. I adjusted its size for the painting because the look with the lobsterman at the helm was unnatural. To me he looked like a giant. I also adjusted the angle of the boat. Instead of coming toward the viewer, in the actual scene it was veering toward the left. I liked this composition better. In this particular painting, the schooner acts more as a foil than subject. I thought about leaving the building in the background out but it became an important element, helping to show distance.
Everything about this composition works for me. The wake from the lobster boat leads you to the schooner. The sparkling water itself tends to pull you to the schooner also. The passengers and crew onboard lead the eye up to the sail. And the sail and boom together drop you off back at the lobster boat.
Even more? In the detail picture, notice how the schooner's stern and sail boom work together with the lobster boat antenna to nearly form a frame around the lobster boat. Then there's even a "frame within a frame" as you see the lobsterman peering through the frame of the window. It's these sorts of little nuances in a painting that spark my imagination and keep me going .
This study has all the feel of becoming a larger painting.
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by Brian Kliewer on 3/21/2012 11:45:46 AM
"Catching the Wind" 6"x8" oil on linen © 2012 Brian Kliewer SOLD
"Catching the Wind" (detail)
About the painting...
If you look closely, you can see a figure standing high up in the "crosstree" of the closest schooner. It always amazes me to watch these young people "perform" in this kind of "aerial display." The term "trapeze artist" quickly comes to mind.
The detail image was photographed under different lighting to give a better view of the brushwork.
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by Brian Kliewer on 3/20/2012 9:05:09 AM
"Maine Windjammers" (study) 6"x8" oil on linen © 2012 Brian Kliewer SOLD
"Maine Windjammers" (detail) © 2012 Brian Kliewer
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About the painting...
My barque is wafted to the strand
By breath Divine;
And on the helm there rests a hand
Other than mine.
Henry Alford
I like these words by Henry Alford and thought they fit this painting particularly well.
I hope to do a larger verison of the painting at some point. In fact, many of these small paintings are meant as studies for larger works. Sometimes those develop and sometimes they don't. I often don't know which ones will work best or move me to do a larger piece. On other occasions it's immediately known and from the very start the small piece truly is a study for a larger work. The nature of the ships themselves in this series leads me to believe many of these studeis would work well on a larger scale.
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by Brian Kliewer on 3/19/2012 9:29:49 AM
"The Isaac H. Evans, Heading Home" 6"x8" oil on linen © 2012 Brian Kliewer SOLD
"The Isaac H. Evans, Heading Home" (detail) © 2012 Brian Kliewer
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About the painting...
I was on the Rockland breakwater when I saw this. While lowering its sails and silhouetted against the sparkling waters of Penobscot Bay, this view of the "Evans" struck me immediately as something I wanted to paint.
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by Brian Kliewer on 2/21/2012 4:12:05 PM
"Early Spring" 6"x8" oil on linen © 2011 Brian Kliewer SOLD
"Early Spring" detail © 2011 Brian Kliewer
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About the painting...
With spring approaching, I decided to put this painting up for bid. We've had a"mild" winter here in Maine...I've only seen "sea smoke" a couple of times and we've had almost no snowfall to speak of. But that doesn't change my desire to see spring come! I'm looking forward to it. Much of my work has a more "finished" style to it. I do enjoy the loose, painterly look I'm getting with these small paintings, however. I did this one last year. I'm currently working on other larger things but expect to post new small paintings soon.
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by Brian Kliewer on 2/10/2012 11:54:46 PM
"Promontory, Bass Harbor Light" 24"x36" oil on canvas © Brian Kliewer
In my previous post I might have sounded like I was 'going after' other atsists for the way they portray our grand old State of Maine. Nothing like that was meant. A lot of the work I see does pretty well depict Maine, even if typical. And if I were an artist from out of state with only a few days to get what I could on canvas, I'd probably go for that look as well. It is a beautiful place! Sometimes I do go for that look. Sometimes it's just the thing to do.
But like any place it has its own 'character' that isn't typically seen. This is what I was getting at. Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse (above) is often portrayed in both photographs and paintings in full sunlight. Sometimes you see it in fog. I liked this view. The day I was there it was overcast as I've painted it. It has to be one of the most photographed lighthouses of all them in the state. In my 'not so typical' view, I elected to go with almost no water in sight. Sometimes it just gets too pretty here. This is one reason I like to look for a different approach.
"Off Season" 24"x36" oil on canvas © Brian Kliewer
"Off Season" was done with this in mind. However, I'm constantly aware that I can also become cliche even in my own work. This is something I try to avoid. But I don't necessarily try to buck trends just to be different. It's really about what best expresses both my mood and the scene itself. While I want to have my own signature style, I would never want to be a 'if you've seen one, you've seen 'em all' kind of painter.
Being aware of these things can hold you back. No...being an artist isn't "easy"...anywhere!
by Brian Kliewer on 2/6/2012 3:44:44 AM
A better title for this post might have been "Artist Or Travel Agent?" Being an artist in Maine isn't easy. I know many think it is. Being an artist isn't really "easy" anywhere but I've often heard, "How lucky you are to live in such a beautfiul place!" Well, that's true but I don't really want to work for the Maine Department of Tourism. That's not what painting is about to me. There's a 'truth of life' that I'm after even if the scene is "pretty," and much of that scenery here in Maine is. It's a constant struggle. I've seen many, many landscapes and seascapes depicting the postcard nature of the state in idealized splendor. A great many artists come here from other locales just to capture beauteous snapshots. But I live here and have all my life. So I know there is much, much more to it than just that. This is what I try to put in my artwork. The "romanticized" view isn't for me. Even if it is a "pretty" scene, I prefer a harder edge and strive for that.
Have you ever stopped and looked at a scene, I mean really looked at it? Watching a sloop pass by a pretty cove is one thing. But what of the clammer who had been there at low tide in the hot noonday sun, breaking his back to dig those clams? He was there before everything got all nice and cozy with the setting sun. No, not a "pretty" scene but one I've come to know well over the years.
Or what about the beauty one sees while looking through a frost covered window?
"Ten Degrees" 4"x4" oil on linen © 2008 Brian Kliewer
The harsh, cold reality of winter doesn't always bring with it beautiful, sweeping, blue shadows over a field of sparkling snow. But the "beauty" is still there...if you want to look. Beauty is where you find it. You just have to look!
Well that's my "artful thought" for the day.
Keep painting!
by Brian Kliewer on 1/28/2012 9:26:57 AM
"The Stephen Taber Passing The Rockland Breakwater"
24"x36" oil on canvas © 2011 Brian Kliewer
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It is a small world, and the Internet makes it even smaller. I was recently contacted by a mutual fan of the schooner Stephen Taber after he saw my painting online. I liked his comment...
"I enjoyed seeing your charming painting of the Taber passing the Rockland Breakwater light....she shows best with a bone in her teeth rather than pushing along with the yawl boat in little or no breeze, however it doesn't always blow a gale."
No, it doesn't...and I probably wouldn't have been on the breakwater if it had been. But I agree that a strong wind would have given a stunning view. However, I love the golden backlit view of the sails in the sunlight here and for me, this worked fine. The Taber's elegant lines are prominently on display here and that was the most important thing. I think it's a beautiful ship. Perhaps future paintings will have more "action" but this day on the breakwater was a very calm, pretty kind of day and I didn't want to change anything.
This reminds me of a walk I took out to the lighthouse once. It was a fine morning, though kind of chilly. The breakwater is nearly a mile long and you really don't want to be on it in any kind of "bad" weather.
When I got out to the lighthouse I decided to take a break and sat down for a few minutes. I was on the sheltered side of the lighthouse. When I got up and looked back toward the shore, the wind had picked up and waves were crashing over the top. I still had that long walk back to take! It wasn't quite as bad as it looked but I was dodging spray most of the time. When I'd see a particularly large wave coming I'd try to time my steps to miss the worst of it. I got back fine, just a little wet and with nerves mostly intact.
The building you see in the distance is the Samoset Resort.
It is kind of a long walk. About halfway out you'll see this granite slab (middle of photo) that spans the breakwater from one side to the other. It's the only piece of granite on the entire breakwater that stretches across its width and it's easy to walk right past without even noticing it.
I love walking out to the lighthouse. You can see so much you'd otherwise miss onshore. It's almost like being aboard a boat without actually being "on the water."
by Brian Kliewer on 12/12/2011 5:14:50 PM
"Snow Day" 6"x8" oil on linen © 2011 Brian Kliewer SOLD
"Snow Day" detail © 2011 Brian Kliewer
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About the painting...
A black cat is particularly conspicuous on a day such as this. We've yet to see much of the "white stuff" here in Maine, but I expect we'll know it very well soon enough.
Giving a painting like this interest is a challenge; there's so little overall contrast and color to work with. The shapes become very important. This composition worked well for my tastes. Two possibilities for larger paintings appear. In the past a scene like this would have gotten heavy detail. But these days, "wisps" of suggested detail seem to work for me. It depends on my mood, the painting itself and the setting. Just as long as I can keep things interesting...that's the ultimate goal.
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by Brian Kliewer on 11/28/2011 6:04:44 PM
"School Days" 8"x6" oil on linen © 2011 Brian Kliewer SOLD
"School Days" detail © 2011 Brian Kliewer
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About The Painting...
This is kind of a special painting to me. This is the street I grew up on. And by the looks of things, I'd say it's about 1973. I called it "School Days" because I initially thought of adding a figure of a small boy, which would have served as sort of a self portrait. But the painting does that for me anyway because there are so many memories associated with this scene. One not-so-good memory is being stuck in the hospital for a week with pneumonia. Ahh, but the reason... I was riding my bike up and down the street over and over again with my jacket wide open, showing off for the new girl in the neighborhood. She was so cute! And it was about this time of year on a day that looked much like this one.
As I was working on this, I got my Schoolhouse Rock DVD out and listened to "Conjunction Junction." Remember that one? "Conjunction Junction, what's your function?" I was singing that tune all afternoon. Now if I can only find "Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here"!
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by Brian Kliewer on 11/21/2011 5:55:35 PM
"Sunset At Bass Harbor" 6"x8" oil on linen © 2011 Brian Kliewer SOLD
Bass Harbor Head Light is one of Maine's more "famous" lighthouses. I've seen it in many local and national ads on television and in magazine articles over the years. I don't often paint "iconic" Maine scenes, but this would definitely qualify as one. This is the third time I've painted Bass Harbor Head Light...there seems to be something about that glowing "red" lamp that just strikes a nerve.
"Sunset At Bass Harbor" detail © 2011 Brian Kliewer
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by Brian Kliewer on 11/14/2011 5:54:33 PM
"Cat Crossing" 8"x6" oil on linen panel SOLD
© 2011 Brian Kliewer
 "Cat Crossing" detail © 2011 Brian Kliewer
This is a view in the south end of Rockland, not far from where I grew up. The cat was an "afterthought" in the development of the composition. I wasn't sure where I wanted to locate it...or if I even wanted to add it at all. Then this prominent location hit me and then the title. In the end, I think both of these views work well and either could work as a larger painting.
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by Brian Kliewer on 6/20/2011 9:19:16 AM
"Winter Storm" 30"x24" oil on canvas © 2011 Brian Kliewer
I'd like to discuss some of the techniques I use in my work. Though I do paint realistically, I like to add "texture" to my paintings when possible. This is a relatively new approach for me. An artist friend suggested adding texture a couple of years ago and I had been thinking that way. But the one thing I didn't want to do was make the paint look like paint simply because it is paint. I'm not an impressionist painter, so that didn't seem like an approach I wanted to take. So how do you add "texture" to a very realistic painting and make it "work"?
Brush and Knife?
There are "purists" who would never introduce a palette knife to a painting that is mainly done with a brush. That's fine, but I have seen some beautiful paintings that incorporate both knife and brush techniques very well. The full online image doesn't really show it well, but in "Winter Storm" I have relied on both quite heavily. First the brush was used to lay the ground work and then I brought the knife in to "finish" it off.
If you have a snow covered road, you're going to have "ruts," right? I applied paint in the road quite heavily to simulate the tracks in the snow. The car in the upper left of the painting was parked at a gas station and the tracks in the snow lead to it.
Some of the snow ruts in the road were first painted with a brush but then enhanced by heavier applications with a palette knife. I also built up texture quite heavily in the snow bank.
I also added heavy texture where the snow is churning from the snow plow.
A note about the headlights...
Yes, they do appear to be turned on (illuminated) when the painting is viewed in person. I discovered a trick many years ago that I still use today. I washed in the entire painting when I started it but I left the headlight area of the canvas bare. Then I built up my middle tones, etc., all around, and at the very end, added my yellowish washes to the bare white canvas. I feel I get a greater inetnsity this way. There are other ways to paint "illuminated" lights, but this is my preferred method for depicting bright "white" light. The orange lights are an example of another way as they were painted with mostly pure, undilluted, "unmixed" color. I mixed very little color here while the rest of the painting is toned down with a mixed, almost "monochromatic" color scheme. This makes these painted lights appear more "luminous" as their intense orange color is worked against the painting's more subdued arrangement. So without working overly "dark" in the painting, I was able to get this kind of "illuminated" look. Adding to all of this is the fact that, compositionally, the headlights are the only part of the painting that carries this kind of intensity. If I had lights all over the place, they could appear to be quite "luminous," yes... but the impact would be lessened.
The "icing" on the cake...
After I felt the rest of the painting was more or less "finished," I came back to the road and laid in some very smooth strokes of fresh paint with the palette knife. As you walk around the "dried" painting, you can see what's going on and why the knife worked so well here as it gives the paint application on the road surface the shiny appearance of "ice."
Is this the only way one should paint? No, I wouldn't say that. But I've discovered some fun and interesting tricks by adding texture. I've been able to make paint's inherent qualities stand out and work to my advantage. In the end, I feel I've brought more of my own personality to the work. Perhaps someday I will work in an even more "painterly" fashion, I don't know. I expect that I will. But for now, I'm satisifed to add some texture in selective measure to highlight the nature of certain aspects of the scene I'm working on.
Keep painting!
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by Brian Kliewer on 6/2/2011 7:41:40 AM
"From the Stern" 30"x48" oil on canvas © 2011 Brian Kliewer
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Over the years I've struggled with the idea of subject matter and the notion of being a "landscape artist." I much prefer the thought of just being an artist as opposed to being locked in to any one specific genre. To me, it's more important to paint what you know and feel or experience. This is what I want to do most and have often tried to add that "flavor" to my work, no matter what the subject. If I can somehow include what I was feeling at the time, then I feel I've created a successful painting. That's what I tried to do with this painting...to push myself to a different level...a different view...and get that feeling into the work, if possible.
This is the Maine Windjammer, "Heritage," as she's passing the Rockland Breakwater. Another can be seen in the distance. I had a good reference photo of the schooners on hand for a while (minus the gulls) and I knew I wanted to paint it, but wasn't sure how to approach things. One thing I did know, the feeling it gave me was not one of being on the breakwater but more like being on a boat myself. However, as I was working on it, I kept thinking it looked more like a background than a finished painting. I wasn't sure I wanted to do anything to it, or how it would work as a "background." I just knew it felt like one.
Pushing things...
The more the painting developed, the more everything was weighted to the left. I needed something for the rght side and then it hit me to add the gulls. I've thought of "overlaying" a subject in the past but had never tried it before...at least not to this extent. It was risky. I resisted doing it for a few days. Compositionally it was a challenge anyway, and then coming back and adding seagulls in a painting where they were not originally planned really turned up the heat at the easel! Then I thought to myself..."how can I tell others to do something bold if I wasn't willing to try it myself?" So I did..
Viewer as subject...
The seagulls "smell" food. They aren't interested in the schooners but are swarming around YOU, the viewer. As I worked on the painting, I kept thinking of a "sternman" on a lobster/fishing boat. This would be his view. The schooners are passing by as the gulls go into a frenzy behind the boat, which is out of view here. I did it this way because I wanted to put the vewer into the boat....to bring the viewer into the painting. So in that sense, the viewer is the subject!
An "orchestrated chaos"
Working out the composition, deciding where to place the gulls became sort of a game...a chess match. It was challenging and I was constantly concerned about overdoing it. But at the same time, I knew that's what the gulls would do as they flew about, overlapping each other and obliterating views...
So I wanted at least some of that in the painting, though not a complete "visual cacophony". Instead, I opted for more of a ballet or dance structure in the compositional rythm. I tried to set up a rhythm...thinking of a pattern that might resemble notes on a sheet of music. From that approach, I got this "waltz in the air" effect...
(Also in this view you can see the schooner crew - and some of its passengers, I believe - hoisting the "pushboat" into its storage position behind the ship. And... yes, that wing on the right was in this upright position. So I chose to place this particular gull here to keep the action onboard the schooner unobstructed.)
But one of the things I love most about this kind of action is the view, the "window" the gulls often create with their wings, legs and feet. There's almost a perfectly framed window that you see the distant schooner through...
How did I get the gulls to pose?
After coming up with the idea to add seagulls to the painting, I searched for images on the web. I knew that this was indeed the direction I wanted to go... the painting just needed direction and the seagulls added that. So I went to the beach and took a couple of loaves of bread with me. After about 10-15 minutes, I had over 100 photos. But that wasn't enough since I still wasn't getting the views I wanted. The winds the first day were quite strong, and the gulls were positioned mostly at angles that didn't work for me. So I went again the following day. Two more loaves were gone in about 10 minutes. So they devoured four loaves of bread in a total of about 30 minutes. But for those four loaves, I had about 50-60 models posing in all sorts of positions. I got the "frenzy" I was looking for. It was a great experience and I hope to do it again someday...
In the end, I didn't really paint one of those seagull "frenzies" but perhaps the beginning of one. The gulls are coming toegther rather than obliterating the view. If you've ever seen a lobster boat under "attack," then you know what I mean. As I was tossing those pieces of bread into the air, I got that experience in a nearly full blown level...I was able to"re-create" it. The gulls were going crazy. It was more of a melee than a "waltz." Hmm, do I see another "envelope" to push?
Keep painting!
Bye!
by Brian Kliewer on 2/27/2011 9:41:42 AM
"American Eagle, Leaving Rockland Harbor" 4"x6" oil on linen © 2011 Brian Kliewer
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During the summer months I often walk out to the Rockland Lighthouse as I did this past June. I had been planning to do so on a Monday or Saturday morning since this is the time the schooners are either leaving or coming in. The walk out can be fun, though long...the breakwater stretches nearly a mile into Rockland Harbor. By the way, the view in the painting is from the end of the breakwater as the ship was sailing past the lighthouse.
One morning as I sat out beyond the lighthouse, I saw a pod of Harbor Porpoises swimming by. For a few minutes, I thought my eyes were deceiving me as this shadowy mass kept approaching. Then as they got closer, I counted about eight of them. I wish I'd had my camera with me then!
I saw these guys hauling lobster traps on another recent walk out (last summer) to the lighthouse...
I've been working on several winter scenes but I just had to give it a break and visit summer again. So, my next few blog updates will involve summer scenes. Knowing me, I'll probably be painting winter scenes this summer...when the temperatures are in the 90's!
Up next... a new full sized painting!
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