What Would It Look Like If Van Gogh Could Paint A Sedona Az Landscape

Message from the Artist

I create vivid, impressionistic oil paintings that capture the feeling of being outdoors. All my paintings are inspired past backpacking and hiking trips I have done across the Western states. My technique is executed with expressive color and loose castor strokes, in a wet-on-wet style known as alla prima.Alla prima comes from Italian, literally meaning "at first attempt" and is loosely applied to any painting that is done in a direct, expressive fashion.

I extensively plan out my paintings before I start painting with a castor, working out compositions and color combinations that will most finer capture the drama of the mural. I work with a limited palette of 4-5 colors, which I mix into a wide diversity of hues and values appropriate to the scene I am creating. When it comes time to paint, I try to get the painting "right the starting time time," using as few castor strokes as possible to capture the immediacy and emotional movement of a landscape. The French term for this application is premier coup. Yous tin encounter the texture of every brush stroke in my paintings, since I practice not layer or sparse my pigment with turpentine. The result is an impasto oil painting that has additional depth and movement from the thick texture of the paint.

Hanging Your Painting:
My paintings are created on dissimilar types of canvases, depending on the size of the finished painting. The small "petite" works are done on 3/4" canvas or stiff canvas lath. Medium-sized paintings are done on 1-1/ii" deep sheet, with the painting continued around the edge of the canvas. This type of canvas can be hung without a frame, for a contemporary look in your habitation. My actress-large pieces are done on ii" or 3" deep canvas, which gives the big paintings more stability.

All my canvases are pre-wired and make it ready to hang. To assist keep your painting level, I recommend hanging your painting from a pair of Ook picture hanging hooks spaced apart on the wall. Yous tin also use a small brawl of museum wax at the corners to keep your painting firmly fixed in place on the wall.

Framing:

My oil paintings are offered both framed and un-framed. We are happy to assistance you detect the perfect frame for your new painting. Smaller paintings on three/4" canvas can be framed in any type of standard frame or in a plein-air fashion frame. The larger paintings, which are washed on 1-1/2" canvas, are all-time framed in floater frames, or left to hang unframed on the wall. Floater frames are designed to cradle deep canvases: the frame screws into the back of the canvas, which allows the canvas to "float" in the frame, leaving a small gap effectually the painting. Floater frames can be made in a variety of finishes, including gilt, silver, black, white, and in any type of hardwood and stain finish.

I offer a special type of floater frame, available exlusively from The Erin Hanson Gallery, which I designed myself to complement my contemporary impressionism paintings. These frames were inspired past the classic American impressionism frames, which accept beautifully carved corners and clean lines. My Open Impressionist frames are adapated as floater frames, and then they stand away from the sides of the canvas and let y'all experience every brush stroke in the painting. Each frame is custom-made for a specific painting, mitt-carved and golden in 18-carat gilded leaf, and made here in the United States. Delight contact my gallery to get a quote for an Open Impressionist frame for your Hanson original.

A Word on Lighting:
Your painting will look dissimilar depending on the changing quality of the surrounding calorie-free. Natural ambient low-cal will create a nice feel for your painting during daylight hours, the colors subtly irresolute as the sun rises and sets throughout the day. At night, however, you volition be fully reliant on artificial light to illuminate your artwork. Have you ever noticed how swell paintings look in a gallery setting? Art galleries utilize warm or cool-toned spot lighting to accentuate the colors in the painting, and they usually intensify the light on the painting's middle of attention.

Y'all tin imitate this effect in your ain home by installing halogen or LED directional spot lighting in the ceiling above your painting. These lights are surprisingly inexpensive to install (an electrician can install them in a few hours), and if you lot wish you can purchase the fixtures and bulbs yourself online. As a general dominion, use cool lighting to illuminate a painting that has predominately cool colors, and apply warm lighting on a painting with more often than not warm colors (the wrong color bulb tin can crusade your painting to await "muddy.")

Many houses are already fitted with some sort of recessed ceiling fixtures. These can be adapted to directional spot lighting with minor handyman piece of work. Even without direct lighting on your painting, however, the artwork will still present well with nearby incandescent lighting. One matter to avoid is hanging your painting behind a hanging chandelier, which volition cast a direct glare spot in the eye of the painting, without highlighting the natural colors and texture of the painting. A low-cal that is angled from in a higher place, or even from the side, volition allow you to see the thick brushwork, see each subtle variation in color, and truly enjoy your painting in a whole new light.

I promise you savour the art!

Erin Hanson, Artist

Commitment of Your Painting:

• We offer gratuitous shipping for paintings shipped within the United States. Delight contact us for a quote for international aircraft.

• Shortly after yous have completed checking out on the website we will provide you with a aircraft engagement and tracking number.

• We use UPS every bit our aircraft carrier. Nosotros have 10 years of experience aircraft hundreds of Erin Hanson's oil paintings across the globe, and we accept non damaged a unmarried painting in shipping.

• Your painting will exist safely shipped with full insurance. For paintings nether 40x60 inches, nosotros utilise special artwork shippers that are lined with puncture-proof Tyvek plastic (pictured above). Larger paintings volition exist carefully shipped in a wooden crate.

"Merely a word of thanks. I am getting loads of compliments. I had it behind my desk but decided information technology was more inspiring in the front part of the office where I tin view information technology on a consequent basis!! Some may call it daydreaming I call it inspirational!"
M.S., MONTREAL QC

"Your paintings concord and so much life inside of them. They seem to explode with brilliance. Centuries from now your name and your art should be talked about in the same mode Van Gogh's piece of work is talked about, or Picasso, or Monet... Or Rembrandt for that affair. Throw some Andy Warhol in their too, while we're at it."
D.R., MILWAUKEE, WI

"I can't say enough nigh Erin Hanson's skills as an creative person... her piece of work is and so vibrant, expressive and beautifully composed, at that place is no wonder that she is garnering much involvement, and that her pictures are in museum collections. There is something truly special about her piece of work. Erin's paintings embody the New West. Her painting of California and the desert Southwest resonate with human being warmth, vitality and honesty, and are infused with technical brilliance as well. In all my years as a curator and collector, I have rarely come across an artist of her quotient."
K.R., NEW YORK, NY

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