Like Gustave Courbet’s “Seascape,” painted in 1874.
Here’s a watercolor I derived from his painting.
Day 17 – Honoring Antoine Chintreuil
Have you ever heard of impressionist painter, Antoine Chintreuil, born in 1814 in Paris, France?
I thought I’d paint a quick semi-abstract landscape today. Here’s a watercolor I derived from Chintreuil’s “The Coast,” which he painted from about 1850 to 1857.
For this sickly, solitary, poor painter, a former pupil of Corot, the Ile-de-France was the occasion of delicate poems in which Redon rightly distinguished “that tender and gentle genius which reveals itself in a simple manner and in such a discreet form and whose profound and passionate reserve is echoed only in a number of select souls.”
(Impressionism, 1973, published by Chartwell Books, Inc., p. 45).
Day 2 of 30 Days of Painting
Imagine you’re on a boat that’s near the shore, gliding through tall blades of grass… here’s my second day’s painting.
Checking on Abbey Ryan’s blog I read about the Painting-a-Day “PAD” phenomenon. Apparently if began back in 2007 or earlier and Duane Keiser had a lot to do with the movement.
It impresses me as the visual artist’s equal to writer’s morning pages (a la The Artist’s Way).
So I still write every day but added to it producing at least one painting a day.
For several months I was doing one to three iPhone drawings a day using the apps “Harmonious” and “Aeolian Harp.”
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3 Examples of Fingerpainting without Paint
You can make art wherever you are with a drawing application called Harmonious, created by the Angry Robot Zombie Factory.
Even if you are on a desktop, you can create drawings on your computer by going to the
Here’s a few drawings I created. For more examples check out the Harmonious gallery of creations.
Enjoy the 11 different line types and unlimited color choices. I like the undo that goes back at least 7 steps.
I hope you’ll give Harmonious a try if you haven’t already found it.
Do you have a favorite drawing app you’d like to tell us about?
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