Tag: Robert Henri

• Insist on the Beauty of Form

  Insist on the beauty of form and color to be obtained from the composition of the largest masses, the four or five large masses which cover your canvas. Let these things above all things have fine shapes…Let them be as meaningful of your subject as they possibly can be. ..Remember that the greatest beauty can…

  Sharon Leah

  April 26, 2018

  Creative’s Playbook

  advice, composition, landscape, landscape painting, notan, Robert Henri, strategy, The Art Spirit

• Fields and Clouds

  Don’t try to paint good landscapes. Try to paint canvases that will show how interesting landscapes look to you — your pleasure in the thing. ~ Robert Henri in The Art Spirit When I passed by this Wisconsin farmstead on a summer day in 2015, I had to stop the car and just take it in.…

  Sharon Leah

  April 24, 2018

  Creative Practice

  Artwork, clouds, inspiration, landscape, motivation, oil painging, red barn, Robert Henri, silo, student of painting, summer, Wisconsin farm