mediums used: acrylics, graphite, watercolor, oil
surfaces used: paper, panel, linen
On line and land based gallery: Clark Gallery in Lincoln, MA. http://www.clarkgallery.com/artists/andrew-haines
The artist was born in 1961 in Woodbury, New Jersey.
Today’s artist, Andrew Haines, is known for painting city scenes mainly of the northeast U.S.A. such as Boston and New York.
Attended college at the University of Fine Art School in Tyler, Pennsylvania.
Has sold works to public collections including the Boston Museum of the Art and Yosemite Art Collection.
I enjoy the artist for his ability to make the mundane and boring a true work of art. If you like his art you might enjoy Rackstraw Downes, another painter of ordinary and boring objects. A shopping cart, a run down grocery store, a smog sunlit afternoon, a rusty but still functioning train, the artist truly captures the smells and colors found in large cities, especially on the east coast. The vastness he portrays is another fantastic quality of his work. He can make a small panel seem large and full of spatial depth.
Another lesson we can learn from the artist is to vary straight lines. Houses are full of straight lines but do some studies of Sargent, Ed Hopper, and this artist and see how a straight line often has very thick and thin lines giving added motion and variety to the building.
Started working in the early 2000s from photographs as opposed to working from life. He loved the aspect of being able to work regardless of the weather conditions outside.
Try a painting of your favorite house in the neighborhood!
In April we will start looking at the many great painters of food, the delicious painters if you will!
Happy painting!
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