New Paintings 2022

 

Transitioning into Springtime

As I opened the door this morning, a springtime feeling came over me. It is the first day where the temperature felt warm, and there were dark stormclouds overhead which will bring showers throughout the day. 

Natured is waking up, and I am here for it. 

We get all 4 seasons here in Wisconsin, and I enjoy painting them all. 

However, only Springtime brings that fresh emotion and feeling of renewal.

During the winter, I changed my painting hours and tactics. I was at the easel most days from 9am-Noon, working mainly in the studio at a pace that I told myself was a slow burn. It was more important to me, this time around, to work at a turtles pace and to stay consitant with my hours.

Now that it is springtime, I will leave the winter studio behind and nature will dictate my painting schedule.

I am looking forward to this.

These paintings are some from last winter, 2020-2021 that were on the desktop of my computer here at school. I'll have to photograph my winter paintings and get them posted here. Most of these are spoken for, but the images are good to see a year later.

Thanks for checking in,

Kyle

 

Please Join us for the Fall Art Tour

 

Hello,

Autumn is here, and that means it is time for the Fall Art Tour! The 2021 tour is taking place on October 15, 16 and 17 from 10am - 6pm daily.

This week I am framing paintings and hanging them on the walls of the Chicken Coop Studio. It is nice to be framing and hanging paintings in the cozy studio with a fire burning in the stove. In addition to the paintings, I have a couple of new surprises that I will announce later in the week through this newsletter!

I always hear that our tour guests love seeing our spaces - and it's true - the tour artists have re-purposed and inhabited some very interesting buildings. I am in an old chicken coop, Carol Naughton creates in a remodeled stone granary and Diana and Tom Johnston are in a historic limestone brewery. Everyone's studio is uniquely designed around their art practice and this is your chance to get a behind the scenes look at our spaces and to see how we create in them.

This year, I will have 140 framed paintings on display. If you are interested in any of the paintings shown, please drop me a message.

Please plan to join me, and the 45 other artists on the Fall Art Tour. You can plan your Fall Art Tour weekend by visiting www.fallarttour.com

Thank You,

Kyle Martin

3 Day Plein Air and Studio Painting Workshop - April 30, May 1, May 2 2021

This is an example of the still life we will complete on the first day of class. 

To register, please email me at kylemartinfineart@gmail.com 

The hours are:

Friday and Saturday 10am-4pm

Sunday 10am-3pm

The 3 day class costs $300. I am limiting the class size to 6 students to respect the need for social distancing. Once you are registered, I will send out a supplies list.

If you would like to join us for dinner on Saturday evening, we will go out to Cancun Bay restaurant in Reedsburg around 6:30.

Thanks for looking!

Kyle

Are you interested in becoming a colorist? In this class, I will present everything that I know working with color!

Color is the element of art that I am most interested in, and I am happy to share what I have learned with you in this three day workshop! The class curriculum is designed to take the mystery out of observing and mixing the colors that you see in the landscape. You will learn how different lighting situations effect the mood of nature in this class.

On Friday we will be working in the studio. We will start with a discussion of the tube colors that we will use, and different palette arrangements such as a limited-palette vs a split-complimentary palette vs a spectral-palette. These different palettes can all achieve different results and we will discuss each.

I will present the concept of color space and we will then have a mini project that will get you observing and mixing colors right away. You will get a lot of practice with mixing color during the first exercise.

Also on Friday we will work in the studio on a still life color study.

The landscape looks different at noon than it did at sunrise. The color of the light illuminating the subject effects the local color of every object, this is known as the light key.

By understanding light key you can create a mood in your paintings.

To get experience with this concept, we will paint a simple still life twice, once illuminated by a warm lightbulb, and once illuminated under a cool lightbulb. The local colors of your still life will be transformed in a similar way that the landscape is transformed at different times of day.

On the second day, we will be painting the landscape on location. I will demonstrate my full color seeing and painting technique that I use when painting en plein air. After my demonstration, you will set up your easel outdoors and and paint your own en plein air color study. We will build on the concepts from the first day, and you will gain even more mileage in observing the light key and mixing color while painting in the landscape.

On the third day, I will give a short demo, recapping all of the concepts from the first two days of class. You will have a large chunk of time to paint on the third day. At the end of the painting day, we will have a critique of all of our paintings, and some time to close up the class.

Frosty Vehicles and a couple Sunsets

We are in the middle of the Polar Vortex, this morning the temperatures were -20 and the school that I work at had a two hour delay. 

The paintings below were all painted this winter, but on warmer days. It is crazy to think that tomorrow's weather will bring temperatures nearly 40 degrees warmer than today, and it will still be below freezing.

I have always enjoyed those days, after the snowfall, when everything is covered in a fresh layer of snow. These paintings are all 6x8" (or 8x6" if vertical format) and I offered them as a part of my Valentines Box promotion. If you would like to check out my valentines boxes, you can check in at:

https://sellfy.com/kylemartinpaintings/

 and if you would like to be added to my email list, please send me a message at: kylemartinfineart@gmail.com

Have a great day!

Kyle