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Watercolor landscape paintings.

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Does anyone know of any? Thanks so much in advance.

I would say that these three are the greatest landscape artists ever :

John Constable, English (1776-1837) – Link 1
Jacob van Ruisdael, Dutch (1628-1682) – Link 2
Claude Lorrain, French (1602-1682) – Link 3

but my most favourite ever ever landscape painting is "The Avenue at Middelharnis" by Meindert Hobbema (1638-1709) – Link 4

Thanks for the question – its been a pleasure looking at some my favourite paintings again.

Hi, I picked this up at a second hand store because I really liked it and it was not expensive. I can see a signature that says Ward, and on the back edge it is written "Ward" in pen and there are some numbers. I can get those if it matters, I have the painting on the wall and will have to take it down. I saw that there is an artist named Harold Morse Ward, who was a landscape painter. I saw an example of his work and it looks similar. I posted some pictures at the url below, with a close up of the signature. Although I can make out Ward, it doesn’t appear to be an H or M in front of it, but looks more like a P or an R. Thanks
http://www.blu-raydvd.com/wardpainting.htm

Judging by the subject matter and style, I’m afraid it might just be one of thousands of mass-produced paintings that are produced in art factories in countries like China, mainly for the Western market. The furniture stores here in Italy are full of them, for people who want to have paintings to hang without spending a whole lot. It’s called "decoration art".

As someone over here explained it to me, sometimes these paintings are even done in an assembly-line type system, with more than one artist working on them. For example, one does the wash-like underpainting that will become the sky and the stream, another does the landscape parts, another does the tree shapes, and another does the final foliage, greenery, and/or snow. Each has his or her own specialization. Other times artists will do whole paintings and, here too, each artist is more or less specialized in a certain style, or reproduction of certain artists’ works. Often they use fake, Western-sounding names to sign the works with.

Typical features of these paintings are woodland scenery, snowy peaks in the background, and a shimmering lake or stream. The ways in which the water in your painting is rendered and the vegetation is applied are giveaways of this style and manner of production.

Here is a very interesting slide show, with info and pictures, illustrating the system (in China):
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2005/07/14/business/20050715_PAINT_SLIDESHOW_1.html

And here is a company in Hong Kong:
http://www.theasiaco.com/
Note that they refer to their products as "decoration art" and their featured artists as "local" artists. Definitely mass-produced, in any case.

Another possibility: it may have been done by someone who likes to paint with the Bob Ross method.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Ross
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&q=%22Bob+Ross%22+landscape&btnG=Search+Images
http://dlucas84.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/bob_ross_csg033_mountain_splender.jpg

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It is a landscape of alaska with the norhern lights and a little log cabbin. I love it! It is all blue and wonderfull. It is signed
MORASVIA or
YORASVIA or
MORASVIN
YORASVIN
it could also be that he V is a U or the I is a L. I am not sure. I really LOVE the work and I want to get another.
It was bought in Alaska in the mid 70’s and has been in the family since. We no longer talk to the family that gave it to us and have no way of finding out who this wonderful artist is.
I hope some one out there can help me.
Thank you
No thats not it! It is and original and it is hanging on my wall as I type this. I have tried to google the artist and I found nothing.

i think you mean northern lights with sydney lawrence? here is a link to what i’m talking about.

Watch landscape artist, Peter Fiore, paint a study of a winter field from his Landscape a Day series. Edited by Sam Mordenga and accompanied by Johannes Brahms “Hungarian Dance No. 5″. Short Version.

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I have seen wonderful landscapes painted by artists in the 1700’s. Why isn’t anyone painting like this anymore? Is it because no one knows how ? It’s out of style? I have searched online and can not find any current artist that create equal paintings.
WOW great input everyone Im glad to hear from you all.

i would imagine its easier’ not’ to make the bed. modern art is just by way of excusing your self for having no talent. …….that’s what i think any way……I’l very likely get death threats now. (or told that I’m a trogladite or something)

i don’t think he’s English, he may be Swiss but not sure, I think his surname began with S, something like Sacha or Sacla but despite many searches can’t find him. He also had his own website selling his various artwork. The painting in particular I remember was a track going up to a farmhouse made of cheese on a hill, a cart was at the foreground on the left hand side made of cheese and nuts, nuts represented gravel on the ground, condiments made up the fields, trees, etc. There was also a blue sky with clouds but can’t remember what they were made of. It was absolutely brilliant. Everything, and I mean everything, was made out of general foods you find in most good kitchens.

you say landscapes…
i know you’re correct, not found at this time ..

http://www.pbase.com/jeffdownunder/image/55273496
http://www.axisweb.org/ofSARF.aspx?SELECTIONID=92
http://www.fulcrumgallery.com/print_36339.aspx
http://www.dinaburgarts.com/prints/images/masback02.jpg

food portrait
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Arcimboldo
http://www.abcgallery.com/A/arcimboldo/arcimboldo.html
http://www.rit.edu/~ksh8863/arcimboldo.html
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Let’s look at our color wheel. During our last segment we discussed our warm and cool colors. The next step is to take a look at complimentary colors. These are the colors that are complete opposites of each other on the wheel.

We use these compliments a lot to create three-dimensional paintings.

One of the prime techniques or principles of landscape art is to start in the distance and work toward the foreground. If you think about it, there are things which visually overlap.

If I have trees in the foreground that overlap my view of a meadow in the background, I don’t want to do the trees first and then try to realistically render the meadow in between the boughs of the tree.

Think of how something comes from the distance to the foreground. I started with the sky – my most distant feature, the distant mountains, and then on up to the closer features.

Sometimes people agonize about working on evergreens. Evergreens in the distance are remarkably simple. If you choose a good shade of green – it can be Pine Green or a Juniper Green and you can just make your strokes so that they imitate the evergreen.

They don’t have to be perfect. Notice my strokes here. See how it’s not going to be perfect – I have a gap here, a fly away branch here, and some kind of scraggly top to it because that makes it more believable. You don’t want picture perfect because it won’t be as appealing.

There’s a term in drawing and it’s called scumbling. This art term is related to scribbling but it’s an educated scribbling.

Now getting back to the color wheel, the compliment of green is red. I’m not going to use a poppy red for this, but I do have a darker burgundy red. Notice I’ve done some of the shadows already in this red – just sort of scumbled them in.

It looks kind of strange at this point, but watch when I add the green over it and scumble in some greens. The red gives depth to those evergreens and they start to look more three dimensional. This underpainting of a complimentary color can add a lot to this 3-d effect, even in the distance.

It doesn’t have to be precise, but it sure helps if it’s believable, especially if you’re aspiring to do something that’s recognizable and realistic.

I can always tweak and readjust my colors as I go on.

With the bare rocky side of the mountain I’ve already laid in a grayish green. I’d like you to think in terms of something other than just a flat gray. So often when we think of rocks and those types of features, we think in terms of a flat cool gray.

Something like this shouldn’t be rendered in just gray. Here I have a shade of light powder blue. Where it’s more heavily shadowed I’m going to use this Iron Blue. I may not leave this as it is – I will layer over it with another grayish green, but see how lively that is? It adds so much more personality than if I had rendered that in just a flat gray.

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This painting was very popular about twenty+ years age. I believe he painted other still life scenes but they almost always had bluebonnets in them.. I tend to think his last name was Bernstein or something like that. I would appreciate any information you can provide

Hironimus Merkin Bernstein II.