WaSnwday. March 5.1980

Hie Herald and The Lantern

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These scattered balmy days, whetting the appetite for Spring and fooling some fresh green to expose itself, call to the landscape artist, cooped up all winter. Enough of painting tables, eggs, apples, walls, windows! Hopefully the lessons learned in the controlled atmosphere of the studio will work as reinforcement when facing the vast exterior. One way of making the transition to the outdoors is simply to settle down in the first appealing spot and begin to paint. By plunging in and working your way out. you deal with each demon as it appears, setting you up for the next one and so on until the painting is finished or ruined. This direct approach is stimulating to that part of us which act^ and reacts spontaneously. Intuition picks the spot; it grasps the compatible overview immediately and then you set out to paint it. stroke by stroke. BUT WHAT is the first stroke and where should it be placed? Each artist has a preference for the size, shape, color and placement of that first mark. The first mark commits the artist to a direction and sets up an attitude for the ones to follow. Since the first stroke is so important, the artist may not want to make it too hastily but rather warm up to the subject with sketches. A sketch might be considered notes by the artist for the artist. It might stress a certain aspect of the subject such as the composition, arrangement of forms, distribution of lights and darks,etc.

WITH A sketch, you can anticipate problems on affordable paper Note that no mention of the camera has been made, for this not the passing involvement of: jump out of the car and take a snap to be used at a later time in a different setting. I find that even a quick sketch is more useful than a photograph for it has the same pictorial language that will he used later in the painting. A photograph (useful for capturing some detail) wilt show merely an assemblage of shapes and a false indication of color which might interfere with the artist's recall. A good sketch will extract the essential stuff on which to build a picture. Clarity of a few lines, well placed, is the key. Armed with this attitude, a bold-line rapidograph. and a stack of 25 percent cotton typing paper, this artist set out looking for spots between Eldora and Upper Township with three working restrictions: the sketches would mark the briefest of compositions of five different spots, and the expanse must be traveled in two hours. AT THE other end of the jaunt a painting class was scheduled, and one of the sketches would -be developed into a demonstration piece. The time limit forced me to act immediately in choosing a spot, to seize the essence, and then to leave before too many details crept in. The spots ^chosen included varieties of topography; the differences helped for a better, seeing of each one. Though each sketch was a few inches in size I was seeking a panorama, and

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COURT HOUSE - The Cape-Atlantic Soil Conservation District is again sponsoring its Annual Tree Seedling Sale. Last date to order is March 21. Order forms are available bv calling 465-5115. Offered are one-year female holly trees at $3 each. 2nd tree seedlings in a variety of species in two packets—Coastal and Mainland Each costs $5 50 The Coastal Packet (shoreline communities) consists of 25 seedlings. 5 of each specie of the following: White Spruce. Japanese Black Pine. Austrian Pine. Colorado Blue Spruce and Douglas Fir—all chosen because of their salt tolerance The Mainland Packet

also consists of 25 seedlings, 5 of each of the following: Scotch Pine. White Pine. Norway Spruce. Blue Spruce, and Douglas Fir. The one-year old female holly trees average 10 to 12 inches in heights Varieties available in larger bundles are Japanese Black Pine or White Spruce in bundles of 50 at $10 per bundle bundles of 100 are $20 Scotch Pine. Douglas Fir, Norway Spruce. Colorado Blue Spruce. White Pine and Austrian Pine are also available in bundles of 30 for $11 per bundle and •bundles of 100 for $22 All seedlings must be picked up in April at the Cape May County Extension Service Office.

since the marks were .minimal I was forced to work broadly . The range of subjects within this brief mileage is startling. The spots which appeared before my eyes are "Bohm's Sod Farm with a Piece of the Woods,” "Looking Down on Dennis

Creek Winding out to the Bay," "Groups of Trees. Foreground, Middle ground, distance in the Flatlands," "Farmhouse Beyond Field of Random Cedars," and "Woodbine Orchard Among the Pines."

Paddy’s Party CAPE MAY - The Cape May Senior Citizens Club will have a St. Paddy's Day Party during its 7:30 p.m. meeting/March 11 in Victorian * Towers Everybody wear green.

Coin club Sun. WILDWOOD - The public meeting of the Cape Coin Club begin* at 2 p.m March 9 at the Rec. Center (second floor). Doors open at 12:30; refreshments are served

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