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  Kisha Unregistered guest |
I have been discussing with you out of a mutual love of O'Hara and a genuine desire to be helpful. I don't think you get how confused/confusing you have been. That said---life's too short to devote time to unraveling such stuff. Adios. | ||
Rekha Senior Member Username: Rekha Post Number: 311 Registered: 8-2006 |
Kisha, it was not a verbal quote from O'Hara; he's not alive - it was from his book. At the time I quoted it I did not know the existence of the illustration else the question would not have been posed. It is upto you whether you respond or not, but when you do make statements like "Much better O'Hara than these very old books by O'Hara you are reading" I begin to wonder whether you did have sight of any of O'Hara's books. | ||
Kisha Unregistered guest |
Rekha --my comment was based solely on your parameters. Let me refresh your memory (paraphrased): 1.You quoted a verbal statement from O'Hara and asked our take on what it meant. 2. I tried my best to explain what I thought the words you quoted meant--because that is what you asked for, 3. You then came back and said you couldn't visualize the words. 4. I responded that that is the problem with descriptive art words that don't have accompanying pictures. Now why would i assume you had no helpful pictures? Because you said you couldn't visualize the words! 5. Then you responded "You are not totally accurate, Kisha, and you should qualify your very emphatic statements you make from time to time. " And showed pictures that allowed you to visualize the inital words. My questions to you are a. Why did you ask in the first place if you already had a visual aid? b. Why should I respond to you in the future in you are going to turn things around so nonsensically. I'm done. (In all senses ) | ||
Rekha Senior Member Username: Rekha Post Number: 309 Registered: 8-2006 |
You are not totally accurate, Kisha, and you should qualify your very emphatic statements you make from time to time. I have been reading several books concurrently and found an illustration in making the brush behave by the very same author which makes it quite easy to understand. Here it is  | ||
kisha Unregistered guest |
That's the problem with art books that don't illustrate everything with a picture. | ||
Rekha Senior Member Username: Rekha Post Number: 308 Registered: 8-2006 |
I do have a copy of Carl Schmalz's Watercolor Lessons from Eliot O'Hara. It is good but I also like O'Hara's book. Have you read any of O'Hara's books? I understand what was written but cannot visualise how it would appear | ||
Kisha Unregistered guest |
I highly suggst you purchase watercolor Lessons from Eliot O'Hara by Charles Schmaltz. Much better O'Hara than these very old books by O'Hara you are reading. You won't believe how good this book is. Re. you question--it sounds as if he is saying that the objects midway between foreground and horizon are made to look as if they are receding toward the horizon. | ||
Rekha Senior Member Username: Rekha Post Number: 307 Registered: 8-2006 |
Another question, this time from O'Hara's Art Teacher's primer. Can someone illustrate what he means "...Both pictures are to be done as if they were in cubes and had fixed limits of distance - just as a frame imposes limits of width and height. The first side should be painted as nearly as possible in the values and colors seen. The second, while having the same limit of distance and nearness as the first, should show all the intermediate objects thrust back toward the limit of distance but, naturally, not beyond it I cannot visualise how the second painting would appear | ||
Rekha Senior Member Username: Rekha Post Number: 257 Registered: 8-2006 |
OOH, what a dumb person I am. Thank you Garydoc | ||
Garydoc Advanced Member Username: Garydoc Post Number: 113 Registered: 8-2006 |
Rekha, what part don't you understand? Is it the pin the tail part? (a kids game done blindfolded) Gary | ||
Rekha Senior Member Username: Rekha Post Number: 256 Registered: 8-2006 |
I am reading Eliot O'Hara's Making Watercolor Behave. Can anyone please translate this passage he has written __Many watercolorists have the knack of placing a dark accent - a window, boat or figure - in exactly the right spot. This often evokes the comment: "He does it by instinct, something subconscious, casual, but unerring". Those who have overheard such flattering remarks and know them to be undeserved may smile. Here is my best method for putting a figure on the spot. First make the figure or several figures in slightly different sizes on another piece of paper. Cut them out roughly with scissors and tack up the picture across the room, then "pin the tail on the donkey" in various places and with various-sized figures or groups of figures until they cannot be more satisfying as to size or position. Leave them over night if you are not sure, then either mark around them or paint them in from head and foot marks | ||
Rekha Senior Member Username: Rekha Post Number: 229 Registered: 8-2006 |
My take of O'Hara's Death Valley I did early last year, but of course not comparable to O'Hara  | ||
Kisha Unregistered guest |
I just noticed it's been already linked--oops. | ||
Kisha Unregistered guest |
You might find interesting this recent item with O'Hara painting: http://www.washingtonpavilion.org/VisualArtsCenter/exhibitions/ohara.cfm | ||
George Unregistered guest |
http://cgi.ebay.com/RARE-Original-Watercolor-Eliot-OHara-1945_W0QQitemZ260050393091QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting | ||
George Unregistered guest |
http://www.harmonmeekgallery.com/artists/ohara.html | ||
George Unregistered guest |
http://www.telfair.org/ec/collections/collection/prints/gasunset.html | ||
George Unregistered guest |
http://www.washingtonpavilion.org/VisualArtsCenter/Exhibitions/OHara.cfm | ||
George Unregistered guest |
http://www.askart.com/AskART/artists/search/Search_Repeat.aspx?searchtype=IMAGES&artist=24595 | ||
Eugene Senior Member Username: Eugene Post Number: 210 Registered: 8-2006 |
Anyone know where I can find (see) published work of Eliot O'Hara? His books are so old that they have only a few color illustrations. |
