{"id":4479,"date":"2017-10-26T14:55:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T20:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/?p=4479"},"modified":"2018-12-19T11:00:57","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T17:00:57","slug":"a-revolutionary-new-painting-technique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/a-revolutionary-new-painting-technique\/","title":{"rendered":"A Revolutionary New Painting Technique"},"content":{"rendered":"

AKA How Not to Transport a Painting
\nAKA A New Type of Street Art
\nAKA Society of Western Artists Demo<\/h4>\n

The story starts at a demo I did for the Society of Western Artists<\/a> in San Bruno, CA, last Saturday.  I never thought in a few hours I would discover a new painting technique not heard of before.<\/p>\n

Four years ago I did a demo for them of a snow scene along the Truckee River and they wanted me to do another snow scene.  I had recently been doing a number of miniature paintings for the holiday season, and a number of misty mini’s<\/em> of moody, misty, seascape, landscape and Sierra scenes<\/a>, so decided to do a larger, 16×20 misty Yosemite<\/em> scene of Sentinel Rock in Yosemite Valley, CA<\/a>. <\/p>\n

It was a great two hours of demoing, technique, and jokes with a lively crowd constantly peppering me with questions. Here’s a few pictures during the demo– Click on the thumbnails for a larger picture<\/em><\/p>\n

\"SWA <\/a>
SWA Demo <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"SWA <\/a>
SWA Demo <\/div> <\/div>
\"SWA <\/a>
SWA Demo <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n
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I am usually not crazy about my demo paintings, but this one was turning out well, even though it was only half done, so I was anxious to complete it back in the studio. Here is a picture of the piece as I was nearing the end of the demo–<\/p>\n

\"Original<\/a>
Original painting near end of the demo (courtesy John Barrow)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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After loading up, and heading out for the hour drive home, as soon as I entered the freeway, realized I had left the wet demo painting on top of the car!  I pulled over, and it was gone!  So, I turned around, went back, and found the painting face down in the middle of El Camino Real, the busy main boulevard.  It was in the middle of the lane and didn’t look run over, but one corner was damaged. Here is a recreation of the scene with the painting in the road.<\/p>\n

\"Recreation<\/a>
Recreation of my painting face down on El Camino Real<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

…and the painting now looked like this:<\/p>\n

\"My<\/a>
My demo painting was now a snowstorm!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The asphalt had gouged out spots all over the surface and my misty Yosemite painting had turned into a snowstorm!  I just accidentally discovered a new way to paint snowstorms!  What a great new technique! Just do your painting, then go out and rub it on the road! Asphalt probably works best, but maybe I can try cement streets also!<\/p>\n

To top it off, a copy of a Neff original, even though half done, is now in the asphalt of San Bruno, albeit a reverse image.  Maybe I should charge them?!?<\/p>\n

All tongue in cheek of course, and I actually don’t recommend you transport paintings this way!<\/p>\n

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So now, the decision is: 1) pick out a few pieces of asphalt, trim the bad corner off, leave it as is and finish it; 2) paint back over it; or 3) start a new painting.  The corner was damaged enough I started a new painting since at most a couple hours painting time was lost during the demo.  Here is the new painting at about the same development as the demo was before the snowstorm–<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The new painting at about the same completion as the demo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I spent the next few days finishing the painting —<\/p>\n

\"Misty<\/a>
Misty Sentinel,16×20,oil on board<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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So now, what do I do with the original snow storm painting? Any suggestions?<\/p>\n

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BTW, we are planning on producing a short video of the demo as SWA videoed much of it, so stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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