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Sunday, September 5th, 2010
Most people paint objects or places that evoke their emotion. Sadly, the things that they choose to portray do not always captivate the masses. For the people who enjoy painting as a hobby, the mass appeal of their work is not that important, but the professional painters cannot afford to not sell their pieces.
At our last garden painting, we finished, as always, with a group critique. This session led us to a discussion about creating art that sells. First, we only concluded the obvious: painters need to have a strong artistic foundation to create sought-after pieces. But after further discussion, we realized that for a painting to sell, the painter must exude professionalism.
Art is an over-saturated field, which makes it hard for a painterâs work to stand out. To buy a fine art piece with a high price tag, someone must either love the painting, or see it as an investment opportunity. To do this, an artist must present their pieces as cultural artifacts. Showing their work in this vein convinces buyers that their work is of value while simultaneously stirring up their emotions.
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American Oil Painter Daryl Urig is a member of The Portrait Society of America, Oil Painters of America and Cincinnati Art Club. He has taught at the University of Cincinnati for over 8 years and is president of Total Media Source Inc.
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Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
The runnerâs high is an oft discussed athletic phenomenon. This term describes the moment a runner reaches a euphoric state in which they feel they can run forever. What most people donât know, however, is artists can achieve a similar euphoria through their work. In this moment, the artist becomes lost in his thought, his brushâs motions and his observations, and the artwork seemingly creates itself.
I often wonder if it is this high that motivates artists to create. Every painter I know must paint, for if they donât create something, they feel unfulfilled. I think this lack of fulfillment stems from their inability to achieve happiness when not creating.
I often use painting to relieve my own deep feelings and concerns. Using my art as therapy, Iâm able to better understand my emotions. Painting allows me to achieve a state of euphoria that I am incapable of reaching from regular, daily activities.
© 2010 Daryl Urig, All Rights Reserved
To view more paintings:
Recent work: http://www.darylurig.com/2010-paintings.aspx
Blog:Â http://DarylUrig.com/blog
Website: http://DarylUrig.com
Enlist Urig for your next Historic Event Painting: http://www.darylurig.com/historic-event-oil-painting.aspx
More on Daryl Urig:
Interview & Bio: http://www.darylurig.com/about-daryl-urig.aspx
Purchase:
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Price: Contact: Robyn@DarylUrig.com
American Oil Painter Daryl Urig is a member of The Portrait Society of America, Oil Painters of America and Cincinnati Art Club. He has taught at the University of Cincinnati for over 8 years and is president of Total Media Source Inc.
View his Exhibit and Awards by clicking here.
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
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Woman Waiting in Garden
Oil on Canvas - 24 x 20 inches
For this session, we chose to position the model completely in shadow. After positioning her, it seemed her head and face fell into a deeper shadow, which caused grays, teal grays and brown earthy colors to fill the scene.
My challenge with this piece was to match the deep tones of the scene. I wanted the painting to emerge from the background with somber, bluish-gray tones.
In retrospect, I could have taken a more direct approach to this piece. But I was initially unsure of how dark the tones had to be to hold the figure. Thus, I started painting lighter and continued to paint the piece until I acquired the deep tones. At the end of my painting session, I used Liquin glaze to deepen areas of the painting while allowing the color changes I had previously created to stand.
See the beginning of this story and how this painting started
© 2010 Daryl Urig, All Rights Reserved
To view more paintings:
Recent work: http://www.darylurig.com/2010-paintings.aspx
Blog:Â http://DarylUrig.com/blog
Website: http://DarylUrig.com
Enlist Urig for your next Historic Event Painting: http://www.darylurig.com/historic-event-oil-painting.aspx
More on Daryl Urig:
Interview & Bio: http://www.darylurig.com/about-daryl-urig.aspx
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Price: Contact: Robyn@DarylUrig.com
American Oil Painter Daryl Urig is a member of The Portrait Society of America, Oil Painters of America and Cincinnati Art Club. He has taught at the University of Cincinnati for over 8 years and is president of Total Media Source Inc.
View his Exhibit and Awards by clicking here.
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Monday, August 16th, 2010
Lately, this seems like the best advice I can give myself. The fear of ruining my paintings through small alterations often keeps me from changing my works. But what I forget in these moments of worry is that sometimes the most minuscule changes can greatly enhance my pieces. What we need to remember while painting is that Art is an adventure. We must take risks in order to produce great work.
If upon completion of your painting, thereâs something you donât like, then change it. By taking this risk, you may paint the greatest piece of your life, or you may destroy your creation. But the results are unimportant. Regardless of them, you will learn something new about yourself and your work, and thatâs what is important, as painting is a never-ending journey.
So, do me a favor, and take my advice: push on, take a risk and paint your hearts out!
© 2010 Daryl Urig, All Rights Reserved
To view more paintings:
Recent work: http://www.darylurig.com/2010-paintings.aspx
Blog:Â http://DarylUrig.com/blog
Website: http://DarylUrig.com
Enlist Urig for your next Historic Event Painting: http://www.darylurig.com/historic-event-oil-painting.aspx
More on Daryl Urig:
Interview & Bio: http://www.darylurig.com/about-daryl-urig.aspx
Purchase:
Price: Contact: Robyn@DarylUrig.com
American Oil Painter Daryl Urig is a member of The Portrait Society of America, Oil Painters of America and Cincinnati Art Club. He has taught at the University of Cincinnati for over 8 years and is president of Total Media Source Inc.
View his Exhibit and Awards by clicking here.
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Sunday, August 8th, 2010
An accomplished painter once told me a painter needs to paint their fixation. He explained that painting our neuroses provides us with the most in-depth, emotional pieces we will ever complete.
Taking his advice, I coined a simple phrase: Artistic Neurosis. It describes something we obsess over that appears subconsciously in our art. After some thought, I decided to use my neurosis to direct decisions in my artwork. Doing this quickly satiated my need to paint and produced great work.
I would urge all artists to use their Artistic Neurosis in their work. I donât think you necessarily need to paint your neurotic subject matter, as I did, to achieve great results, see here. But it should be included in a part of your painting composition, like tones, canvas and pattern choices.
Please try this out in your artwork, and let me know what you think about the results!
© 2010 Daryl Urig, All Rights Reserved
To view more paintings:
Recent work: http://www.darylurig.com/2010-paintings.aspx
Blog:Â http://DarylUrig.com/blog
Website: http://DarylUrig.com
Enlist Urig for your next Historic Event Painting: http://www.darylurig.com/historic-event-oil-painting.aspx
More on Daryl Urig:
Interview & Bio: http://www.darylurig.com/about-daryl-urig.aspx
Purchase:
Store: http://www.darylurig.com/store.html
Price: Contact: Robyn@DarylUrig.com
American Oil Painter Daryl Urig is a member of The Portrait Society of America, Oil Painters of America and Cincinnati Art Club. He has taught at the University of Cincinnati for over 8 years and is president of Total Media Source Inc.
View his Exhibit and Awards by clicking here.
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Thursday, August 5th, 2010
I sometimes wonder what we, as artists, can do to breathe life into our oil paintings. We can always add colors, change textures, or alter our brushstrokes. But I find that even doing all of this is not enough. To make our paintings remarkable, we must look past our sociological ideals and morals to create our own artistic reality.
These ideals block us from seeing the world in a fresh light. These social mores tell us how to look, perceive, understand and communicate. They also allow us to coexist on Earth, providing us with the means to communicate with each other.
Unfortunately, these mores counter the artistâs goal to create and experience something new. To be a true artist, we must look beyond our social mores and invent new ideological associations. These will alter both the artistâs and viewerâs reality.
When a true artist creates a piece, a painting becomes a discovery and conversation, carried out in a language of color, spirits and oil.
© 2010 Daryl Urig, All Rights Reserved
To view more paintings:
Recent work: http://www.darylurig.com/2010-paintings.aspx
Blog:Â http://DarylUrig.com/blog
Website: http://DarylUrig.com
Enlist Urig for your next Historic Event Painting: http://www.darylurig.com/historic-event-oil-painting.aspx
More on Daryl Urig:
Interview & Bio: http://www.darylurig.com/about-daryl-urig.aspx
Purchase:
Store: http://www.darylurig.com/store.html
Price: Contact: Robyn@DarylUrig.com
American Oil Painter Daryl Urig is a member of The Portrait Society of America, Oil Painters of America and Cincinnati Art Club. He has taught at the University of Cincinnati for over 8 years and is president of Total Media Source Inc.
View his Exhibit and Awards by clicking here.
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Monday, August 2nd, 2010
An associate of mine, Joe Bowler, an accomplished portrait painter, once told me, âyou never figure out art because itâs a lifetime study.â Joe owns an immense library of books, detailing various paintersâ works. He constantly pores over the artwork and re-reads the accompanying text. Itâs a hobby of which he never tires, as each time he reviews these texts, he learns something new about his art form.
I feel the same as Joe did about painting; itâs a lifetime study. Your quest to be a painter is a continual uphill climb of learning and experiences. For some, this journey is frustrating, but for me, itâs a constant source of excitement.
With painting, you never accomplish your task, as thereâs always something new to discover. But this does not mean painting is not useful. As the experience of painting brings personal fulfillment, as the painter is able to express them selves, their thoughts and their emotions on the canvas.
As a painter, you never arrive at your destination; instead, you enjoy a journey of experiences, all in paint.
To view more paintings
Recent work: http://www.darylurig.com/2010-paintings.aspx
Blog:Â http://DarylUrig.com/blog
Website: http://DarylUrig.com
Purchase:
Price: Contact: Robyn@DarylUrig.com
American Oil Painter Daryl Urig is a member of The Portrait Society of America, Oil Painters of America and Cincinnati Art Club. He has taught at the University of Cincinnati for over 8 years and is president of Total Media Source Inc.
View his Exhibit and Awards by clicking here.
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Monday, August 2nd, 2010
The reality of todayâs world is not kind or wonderful.
I believe God wants us to live in the alternate realities we create. The world is harsh and not conducive to faith. Faith means believing in the unseen and translating it into the present, both physically and emotionally.
For me, painting is my escape from the harsh reality of today. When I paint, I use my imagination to create my own world. I try to convey belief, goodness and hope in my work. I want my viewers to understand my constructed reality when they look at my work.
The Bible says that when God returns, will he find faith on Earth? Iâm not sure that he will find faith when he returns. I think that instead of true faith, he will find people behaving in a manner of perceived faith. He will find people like the servant, who buried his talent in the ground because he feared his master to be a harsh person. But people living by the mores of perceived faith are not what God wants to find.
I hope my painted reality is better than the world today. I want to imagine and paint the world, as it can be, like the original Garden of Eden, the perfect place for mankind. My goal is to paint beyond my visual reality and to depict my inner truth. I will paint by faith!
To view more paintings
Recent work: http://www.darylurig.com/2010-paintings.aspx
Blog:Â http://DarylUrig.com/blog
Website: http://DarylUrig.com
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Price: Contact: Robyn@DarylUrig.com
American Oil Painter Daryl Urig is a member of The Portrait Society of America, Oil Painters of America and Cincinnati Art Club. He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Cincinnati for over 9 years and is president of Total Media Source Inc.
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Sunday, July 25th, 2010
I recently found a model in the most unlikely place: our bank. She had perfect features for painting, similar to those you see in Baroque Art. Even greater, she was a still model whom everyone enjoyed painting.
During my first session, I painted her in the shadow, quite similar to a Jeremy Lipking piece. For this painting, I allowed my emotional senses to guide me. I was quite pleased with the composition after our 3-hour painting session and critique, even though my piece did not have a completed background.
Luckily, I took pictures of the model in the same position in which I painted her during our first session. The next evening, I printed the images on a 8 œ x 11 inch sheet and took them to the garden location, set up my paints and worked on the background of the piece. Going back and forth between the photographs and the garden, I painted as much of the background as I could within 3 hours.
 20 x 24 - painting in progress
During my second session, I struggled to complete the background. In my work, I had never been forced to choose between the real landscape and a photograph. Thus, it took me much longer to complete this piece. One thing I learned from the photo was that I hadnât added enough medium tone to the heart of the painting. Adding this tone (being mindful to not destroy the pieceâs coloration) unified the piece.
Overall, Iâm learning from the other painters in my group. Theyâve pushed and encouraged me. I would suggest that other artists form their own groups to paint.
More on Daryl Urig:
Interview & Bio: http://www.darylurig.com/about-daryl-urig.aspx
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Price: Contact: Robyn@DarylUrig.com
American Oil Painter Daryl Urig is a member of The Portrait Society of America, Oil Painters of America and Cincinnati Art Club. He has taught at the University of Cincinnati for over 8 years and is president of Total Media Source Inc.
View his Exhibit and Awards by clicking here.
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Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
Why do men have to look or think about things like everything is cement and can somehow be understood ? Canât they feel in themselves all of the emotions, misunderstood feelings, questions, worries, empathy, sympathy, visions, dreams, memories, bad feelings, hatred and love? Art forces us to get in touch with our emotions, bringing an honest sense of reality back to our lives.
I have read so many books by experts and artists that really just donât seem to add any understanding to art. They err by trying to explain or put visual art into words. What they donât understand is that art, in itself, is a language. It may not be a written or spoken form of communication, but it conveys thoughts and feelings, like other mediums of expression.
Each can see something different in a painting, but art provides freedom of expression. It allows the eyes, senses, emotions, subconscious, spirit, past thoughts and future all ring out at once. Words are so removed from painting. They are cold letters shaped with serifs or san serifs that speak to the cognitive mind and the senses. Art is for the eyes and soul. Allow these underused parts to play with art for a long time, as its visual language conjures up emotions in the soul and thoughts in the subconscious mind.
Art is life; it transforms, and speaks out visually. It asks us to enjoy so many things, appreciate what you may have not noticed and bring forward the obvious. Some look at a naked body and see nudity and horrid lust due to its connotations in the English language. But the true artist can see beauty in Godâs form and Godly desire.
When I die, will you do me a favor and stand before my paintings and say nothing, then take it all in with your eyes and spirit?
More on Daryl Urig:
Interview & Bio: http://www.darylurig.com/about-daryl-urig.aspx
Purchase:
Store: http://www.darylurig.com/store.html
Price: Contact: Robyn@DarylUrig.com
American Oil Painter Daryl Urig is a member of The Portrait Society of America, Oil Painters of America and Cincinnati Art Club. He has taught at the University of Cincinnati for over 8 years and is president of Total Media Source Inc.
View his Exhibit and Awards by clicking here.
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