Morning

"Morning"
by
Jack Providenti
8"x10"
oil on canvas

The mood of the early morning is what captured & inspired me to paint this. In order to communicate what I observed, as well as my emotional response to it, I applied a technique known as"tonalism" (an artistic style that emerged in the 1880s when landscapes were painted with an overall tone of colored atmosphere or mist). Because of my strong affinity for color, I put sort of an "impressionistic" twist on it, rather than portraying it subdued & shadowy the way a true tonalist would.

A Mountain Schoolhouse by Jack Providenti

"A Mountain Schoolhouse"
impressionism
by
Jack Providenti
6 x8 inches, oil on canvas

"When I was your age, I had to walk 10 miles to school in the snow!" Any parents or grandparents ever say that to you? Well, this is probably what the schoolhouse looked like! I actually painted this today ( 6" x 8"oil on canvas), and it's Mojave Academy....the school here in the mountains. No...you don't have to walk 10 miles to get to it as long as you live here.

Early Evening, Box Canyon

"Early Evening, Box Canyon"

Plein-air painting

 by

 Jack Providenti

oil on board

8 x 10 inches

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I guess I can't stay away from this canyon. It's about an hour from my home, but worth the drive. I painted this at around 7PM, and it was still hot...eighty five degrees. The sun was beginning to set, and that made the shadows darker which created more contrast.

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Study Of Prairie Before Sunset

Study Of Prairie Before Sunset

Impressionism

by 

Jack Providenti

Oil On Canvas

18 x 24 inches

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Although the sun was in it's earliest stages of setting, the prairie and brush were alive with cool blues and warm reds and orange.

This is what I would call pure impressionism. It is a "wash"  done in oils, and was done in about 30 minutes. Some would say that a painting done quickly is not as valuable as one that takes several steps done over a period of days, weeks, or even months. All I can say to that is that the very first "Impressionistic " painting, done by Claude Monet, was completed in minutes. Today that painting is valued in the millions of dollars. Now, I'm certainly not Monet, but then my paintings go for somewhat less than a million dollars.

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