Hope Gangloff is an American painter living and working in New York City. Born 1974, she is one year older than me. The picture of her painting in her studio, black overalls and climbing on a ladder, my mother mistook for me in my studio, black overalls, climbing on a ladder. The patterns in these paintings remind me of the French fauvists. The figures, Egon Schiele. Their poses, Diebenkorn. Add a dash of modern hipster and you’re there. [image_with_animation image_url=”5273″ alignment=”” animation=”None
I have a new little studio to fix up. It’s a mess of a space; low ceilings, filthy and rough, but full of potential. I thought I’d let you know how I make decisions about fixing up a studio space. Today, I’ll talk about the paint. Painting an empty room is such a simple thing, and …
I overheard some League painters talking about dumb shit they do when they paint: simple things that are easy to solve, but cause us extended frustration. I laughed, listening to all the things we share in common. If you’re painting and it’s not going well, here are some fixable things you can check for: Are …
Pierre Bonnard was an avid sketcher, filling countless sketchbooks and scraps of paper with drawings he would later peruse for painting inspiration when in his studio. From a previous V. Note: Bonnard did not paint from direct observation. He said he felt ‘weak in front of nature. …The presence of the object, the motif, is …
‘Let it be felt that the painter was there; consciously looking at the objects in their light already conceived from the beginning.’Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) Pierre Bonnard drew obsessively, on his daily walks in the country before breakfast, at breakfast, at lunch, at dinner, loafing around the house and garden, in cafés, in the streets, out of …
Hope Gangloff
Hope Gangloff is an American painter living and working in New York City. Born 1974, she is one year older than me. The picture of her painting in her studio, black overalls and climbing on a ladder, my mother mistook for me in my studio, black overalls, climbing on a ladder. The patterns in these paintings remind me of the French fauvists. The figures, Egon Schiele. Their poses, Diebenkorn. Add a dash of modern hipster and you’re there. [image_with_animation image_url=”5273″ alignment=”” animation=”None
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