Comments on: Krueger Farm - Sauvie Island

By: Bill Sharp

Bill Sharp — Wed, 21 May 2008 13:51:30 +0000

Diana - I appreciate your letting me know you visited and your kind words. I’ve enjoyed visiting your blog.

By: Diana Moses Botkin

Diana Moses Botkin — Tue, 20 May 2008 03:57:04 +0000

I found you through Silvina’s blog and enjoyed dropping by. This study is lovely.

By: ambera

ambera — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:33:01 +0000

LOL hang in there! I’m going on my first plein air venture this week. I always have these visions of miraculous improvement without ever having had any practice. I actually really like htis painting. It’s charming!

By: Bill Sharp

Bill Sharp — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:40:56 +0000

Kathy, Thanks for the smack up side the head. The impact also cleared my head and made me realize my mistake about the Frank Gardners. I was referring to Frank Gardner in Mexico http://frankgardner.blogspot.com/ and Frank Edwards in Canada http://fedwards.blogspot.com/

Hi Bonnie. I appreciate your words of wisdom and encouragement. Good luck with your workshop. I look forward to seeing what you come up with. I will say that, no matter how dissatisfied I’ve been with the PA work I’ve done. I’ve enjoyed the experience of being outside and the camaraderie of other painters.

By: bonnieluria

bonnieluria — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:11:11 +0000

Silvina - I’m with you! I laughed at the familiar sound of self-contempt when work doesn’t come out the way I see it in my minds’ eye.
Bill, your colors are just wonderful and unexpected.
Two recent sayings given to me:
1. Every day is a good day for fishing, not every day is a good day for catching. ( I suppose we have to read into the meaning of that when applied to our work)
2. It’s about the process and not the progress.
Not every piece is for a collector. Maybe we learn from what we do.

True confession- I’m doing my very first plein air workshop next week and I’ve NEVER painted outside, in front of other artists and NEVER painted a landscape.
So your work is an inspiration to ME!
And you do not suck. I second that.

By: Kathy Law

Kathy Law — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:36:30 +0000

Okay two things. First, you do not suck! I love the treatment of the fields in the middle-ground, and the color is radiant. The sky is great! The trees, not so much.
Second, there are TWO Frank Gardners?? :O

By: Bill Sharp

Bill Sharp — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:37:09 +0000

Kristin, Thanks for your vote of confidence. I recently discovered you great blog and you’re on my favorites list. We seem to share a fondness for chain link

Martin, Thanks for letting me know you visited. Both Frank Gardeners are amazing plein air painters. And, as I said on one of their blogs, nothing makes you appreciate plein air like trying it.

Frank, thanks for the encouragement. I know I can count on you for an honest assessment

Robin, you’re a very nice man. You’re paintings have really been an inspiration and thanks for the well wishes.

Silvina, Your PA work is really good. I’m not giving up, but I do wish it would stop raining so I could get out there again.

By: silvina

silvina — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:22:27 +0000

It feels a little weird visiting someone else’s blog and hearing my tone in their writing. I thought I was the reigning queen of self-deprecation. You don’t suck! I love the color of the sky. Just once I’d like to paint a believable pinkish sky. I’ll keep trying P.A. painting if you will… deal? And Kristin is right, your industrial landscapes are cool.

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:21:45 +0000

Bill , this is a respectable little study….honest painting and honest sentiment….I feel your pain man…..reading over your blog, glad to see you came through a tough scare with your humor intact…Best wishes to your wife..

By: Frank Gardner

Frank Gardner — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:18:00 +0000

Well, you may not like it, the trees could use a little help, but at least you had the guts to put it up here.
I wiped yesterday’s and I’d do the same today if it did not have a bunch of dried layers of crap underneath.
Keep at it.