Daniel Leary: The Hudson at Fort Miller, 2008, graphite pencil and white conte crayon on toned paper, 4” x 8 ¼”
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Friday, June 27, 2008 The Hudson at Fort Miller This is a view looking north up the Hudson River toward Fort Miller from the shore in Greenwich.
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| Daniel Leary: Mound of Earth, 1998, monotype, 9 5/8" x 6 1/2" |
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Mound of Earth
Hudson Falls is a village in the township of Kingsbury. Depicted above is a view from Kingsbury looking east toward the Hartford hills with the moon rising. Water is there in the form of snow and ice.
Many of the landscape paintings which captivate my interest most are reflections upon the elemental relationships of earth, sky and water. In my heart, I find them to be meditations upon the loving relationships within the Holy Trinity. |
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| Daniel Leary: After Albert Lebourg, Tug Boats at Rouen, 1998, monotype, 5" x 6 1/2" |
Tuesday, May 6, 2008 After Albert Lebourg In 1998, I went into the studio to study the luminosity of landscapes from books. In the medium of monotype, I copied paintings from reproductions of works by Il Guercino and Diego Valazquez from Paintings in the Louvre by Lawrence Gowing, and from paintings by Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Jules Dupre, and Albert Lebourg from Paintings in the Musee D'Orsay by Robert Rosenblum. Depicted above is my copy in monotype of Tug Boats at Rouen by Albert Lebourg. Copying these paintings unlocked many of the mysteries of adding plate oil to the etching inks---which made them translucent; the white of the white Plexiglas plate shown through. When it was printed, the white of the paper boosted the transparent color like light pouring through a stained glass window. |
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Daniel Leary: Geese on the Hudson , 1998, monotype, 9 5/8" x 7 3/4" |
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
The First Day
Today is April 23, 2008, the first day of The Landscape Journal. I invite you, dear viewer, to accompany me on this exploration and celebration of God's Creation. Featured on this home page today is a monotype I made in 1998 entitled, Geese on the Hudson, which I painted in etching ink on a white Plexiglas plate on-site, outdoors. The "geese," I have come to learn, are Ring-necked Ducks; they swam through the picture plane as I painted. The plate was then brought back to my studio in Hudson Falls and printed on to Arches Cover White paper using an intaglio press.
In the studio today, I am refitting my wooden outdoor monotype easel with a Manfrotto quick-release tripod head which will allow me to quickly attach, align into position, and release a set of plates---with precision, efficiency, and ease---during a working day outdoors. |
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The artwork of Daniel Leary is represented by Printworks Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, printworkschicago.com, and by Sharon Campbell Fine Art, Greenville, South Carolina, email: info@sharoncampbellfineart.com.
Contact: dan@danielleary.com.
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