tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77695575444670836732024-03-20T16:23:03.380-06:00james bason studioContemporary Landscape Paintingsjames bason studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08263753100605222780noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769557544467083673.post-74888045156384092102020-04-15T17:21:00.003-06:002020-04-15T17:21:58.968-06:00April Showers Bring ... New Paintings!<div style="text-align: center;">
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james bason studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08263753100605222780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769557544467083673.post-57780836201194018242017-09-29T00:35:00.000-06:002017-09-29T00:35:17.708-06:00Serial Abstracts<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td>I can definitely see all these abstracts I've been painting as a collective or series<br />- the main theme being the earthy browns and golds with a touch of bluish-greens.</td></tr>
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So lately I've been getting back to the basics of painting - you know: line, form, color, texture. I'm making marks so to speak without trying to represent a specific place or landscape and I must say that I am really enjoying it! And I'm using a whole different set of tools and materials too - instead of brushes I'm using putty knives and scrapers, wall-papering tools anything that makes a mark or scratches and scrapes - also I'm experimenting with cold wax medium with the oil paint and glazing medium with the acrylics. It's a bit challenging to not think of creating a typical landscape I'm used to but its very freeing once I do.</div>
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james bason studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08263753100605222780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769557544467083673.post-20758246119591643032017-03-13T13:57:00.001-06:002017-03-13T14:04:41.286-06:00Western Art Week New PaintingsSome new paintings I will have displayed at <a href="http://outwestartshow.com/profile/Altamira/">Altamira Fine Art's - Alberta Room</a> during Western Art Week here in Great Falls. Go check it out!<br />
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Those wondrous clouds amidst the blue.<br />
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Some new oils from the easel - they're getting close.<br />
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The dog's leg and a blue flower.<br />
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<br />james bason studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08263753100605222780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769557544467083673.post-58513803666315063902016-03-13T19:46:00.003-06:002016-03-14T09:28:38.960-06:00New Painting<br />
A new painting that will be shown this week for the first time in Altamira Gallery's "Alberta Room" at the Heritage Inn during Western Art Week. This was a scene from a trip to Lewistown, MT a few months ago - pretty happy with the outcome.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">(Australian name meaning "a cloud")</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">and here's another one reminiscent of the short winter we had this year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">(Latin name meaning "dawn")</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.altamiraart.com/"><b>Altamira Fine Art</b></a> in Jackson Hole, Wyoming once again has kindly asked if I would exhibit some paintings in their gallery room at the <a href="http://outwestartshow.com/about-out-west-art-show/">Out West Show & Sale</a> - and I will be! They'll show in the <a href="http://outwestartshow.com/profile/Altamira/"><b>Alberta Room</b></a> at the Best
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<b>Araceli</b> 10" x 10" oil, 2016 </div>
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Through the month of December my new works will be shown in the <a href="http://www.lewistownartcenter.org/index.php/the-wilkins-gallery">Wilkins Gallery</a> at the Lewistown Art Center in Lewistown, Montana from December 1st through the 31st.</div>
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Thank you Linda for the great opportunity!! Thank you Greg and Frank for sponsoring the show!!</div>
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(Native American name meaning “grove of cottonwood”)</div>
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Loorea 8” x 10” 2015</div>
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(Austrailian name meaning “the moon”)</div>
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(Basque name meaning “snow”)</div>
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Been outside the last few days with the nice warmer weather and getting some plein air painting in.</div>
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james bason studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08263753100605222780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769557544467083673.post-44687405972712354712015-03-04T10:14:00.004-07:002015-03-04T10:14:59.818-07:00Western Art Week Fast ApproachingWestern Art Week in Great Falls is fast approaching and I'm sure artists everywhere are scurrying about getting ready for it - and actually I am too, kind of, after taking a break from it last year. I do have a painting juried into <a href="https://www.cmrussell.org/2015-catalog/The-Russell-2015-catalogue.html#p=60">The Russell Museum's First Strike Friday Auction - Lot #84</a> so I'm pretty happy with that.<br />
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james bason studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08263753100605222780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769557544467083673.post-8046756618694998262014-11-18T10:05:00.000-07:002014-11-24T10:20:58.639-07:00Russell Painting Accepted!Here is my painting juried into "The Russell" Art Auction coming up in March 2015<br />
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<br />james bason studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08263753100605222780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769557544467083673.post-32267341764617762202014-10-28T14:03:00.002-06:002014-11-23T19:07:10.238-07:00Jackson Bound - Altamira<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"Holiday Look Book" exhibition on December 15, 2014 - January 2, 2015.</div>
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Its quite an honor for me to be included in such a fine gallery's exhibition - thanks guys!!</div>
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Check out the Guest Artists <a href="http://www.altamiraart.com/artists/categories/2/">here.</a></div>
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<br />james bason studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08263753100605222780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769557544467083673.post-67089767907634299342014-04-12T01:21:00.001-06:002014-04-12T01:21:37.166-06:00Art Show, Deadlines, Paintings, Clocks & Spring Western Art Week has come and gone - the first time in 10 years I did not show at some venue - other than the Russell auction. In a way I missed it - seeing and talking with people I only see that one time a year. In other ways I did not miss it - like the stress of it all - it was in a way freeing to have not done it. <div>
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I do apologize to anyone who was expecting to see my new work this March - I had posted in previous posts I would still be painting and listing them here on my website and this blog. I did begin a number of pieces as pictured on previous posts but have not completed many as yet - but I will, I will and I will post them here. Yes I did come down with a cold that week but I think foremost it had a lot to do with the deadline - or lack thereof. I tend to live by the deadline. My calendar is deadlines and due dates - it seems to be my motivator ...... shhhh! I'm not proud of that fact but it has been true.</div>
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Anyways I haven't been finishing paintings as of late also because I have been busy helping my wife Laura get ready for her first showing of her colorful upcycled clock creations - <a href="http://envisionartwork.blogspot.com/">see here</a>. </div>
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She'll be showing them at the UC Art Fair at the University of Montana in Missoula April 17th - April 19th. After all these years she supported me at my art shows we are now reversing roles for a change - its taking a bit of getting used to for me but kind of nice not being in the drivers seat. I think it will be great for her - she has had good success since getting started in October - getting into some galleries/gift shops and selling on Etsy - and in the wings a possible featured listing in a national magazine - so that is all good for her.<br />
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After next week I look forward to getting some painting time in and finishing up the paintings I started and with spring finally arriving I want to get outside and do some plein air painting as well - its been a long winter and its so good to see flowers popping up, grass turning green and the birds chirping - I saw my first robin - I think its really here!<br />
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I had the strangest experience - I was rising amidst the clouds going ever higher and higher. "Oh God - its time!"I thought I had died and was on my way to heaven. But no such luck because just then I came to a sudden halt. You know just like in the cartoons there is that 2 or 3 second delay when they know they are going to fall - then they do? That's what happened to me!<br />
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So I rapidly descended - screaming the whole way down then screamed even more because the next thing I knew was that I was about to plunge into the ocean - and I can't swim!</div>
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I sank pretty quickly - straight to the bottom. And there on the ocean floor were thousands of crabs and lobsters opening and closing their claws just waiting to pinch me like they do - and they did - and I screamed and screamed just like a kid getting his lollipop taken away. I screamed so much I began to see spots. Lots of spots. All colors of spots. They were everywhere and that's all there was - </div>
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The spots began to multiply and merge together getting muddier and muddier by the minute - kind of like some of my paintings now that I think of it. But it wasn't the same as paint mud it was more like marshmallow whip mud because I started to stick to it - I was immobilized in the sticky stuff so much so I could not breath and I began to panic. Some got in my mouth and it tasted like coffee - "agghhh, I loath coffee!" I thought - it makes me jittery. I could see where the marshmallow was coming from - atop a rocky cliff cascading hundreds of feet down creating a river of marshmallow mud.</div>
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Although I am painting and will have a number of brand new pieces which I will post here and on my website, I just won't be rapidly knocking years off my life with mega doses of caffeine and self-imposed sleep deprivation.<br />
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Its been ten years of doing that now and you would think it would get easier with each year but I have not found it so - the stress level seems to be rising for me and maybe because I'm in my fifties now, who knows? And isn't that the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over, year after year expecting different/better results with each time? Stop the madness already!<br />
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So I'm stepping away from the Western Week of Madness for this year at least - and in the meantime I do wish all those brave artists who are participating in it much success - lots of sales, gobs of exposure and as little art gossip as they can tolerate - you deserve it!<br />
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By the way if you are out and about during Western Art Week be sure to check out the auction pieces at the C.M. Russell Museum at 400 13th Street North in Great Falls, Montana. Quite the impressive show there and I feel rather honored to have had a piece juried into their Silent Auction - which will be on Thursday March 20th between 6pm and 9pm. So I'll see you there - if you're there!<br />
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james bason studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08263753100605222780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769557544467083673.post-25244035671683614942014-03-01T13:18:00.001-07:002014-03-02T07:41:30.957-07:00Way Too Cold!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Minus 15 below right now and minus 36 below wind chill - thank God one car out of two started for us today because its pretty darn cold out there! Not nearly as cold as this place near Roger's Pass was back in 1954 - which was not too far away - maybe 60 or so miles from here. That's one claim to fame I wouldn't want to have - so they can keep that record to themselves. </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9bWKs0sD_6doAF64GVLJdkuo0vCJUO1Ka4VPmhQLrCnllokGeeEllJ5zEPEEEuTca5F1UG1ICGCKDTdUedMZ-2MPNOvBufW-4_DN8myC-p8autxOv9UsOL0OyN51pjzltwyAnWv46TtNE/s1600/IMG_0167.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9bWKs0sD_6doAF64GVLJdkuo0vCJUO1Ka4VPmhQLrCnllokGeeEllJ5zEPEEEuTca5F1UG1ICGCKDTdUedMZ-2MPNOvBufW-4_DN8myC-p8autxOv9UsOL0OyN51pjzltwyAnWv46TtNE/s1600/IMG_0167.JPG" height="476" width="640" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Highwoods have been looking rather cold of late as well - they are my favorite mountains, I guess I have known them the longest and the familiarity with them has made me rather fond of them. I have painted them a number of times but want to paint a whole series sometime - maybe 20 to 30. They just have a lot of character - every day they are ever-changing yet still so much the same. They are a comfort to have - a nice strong presence to have nearby.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">look at all that thick atmosphere - now that's what I like to paint!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's some more atmosphere swirling around the highest peaks of the Highwood Mountains.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Lots of atmosphere here looking east over the partly frozen/open waters of the Missouri River to the 10th Street Bridge - </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">in progress winter painting 16 "x 20" oil on panel(after first session).</span></div>
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james bason studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08263753100605222780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769557544467083673.post-82950511714002300892014-02-28T09:28:00.001-07:002014-03-02T07:38:36.410-07:00YAM Auction 2014Tomorrow night is the 46th Annual Yellowstone Art Museum Auction in Billings, Montana. I have never been in the times I have been juried in but have heard its a great evening. Lots of nice works - check out the online catalog link here: <a href="http://www.artmuseum.org/special-events/art-auction-4/">YAM Auction</a><br />
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This is my entry #25 in the live auction:<br />
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<br />james bason studiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08263753100605222780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7769557544467083673.post-22339938740359890762014-02-27T09:59:00.001-07:002014-02-27T09:59:14.802-07:00Paintings in Progress<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here are some new paintings I'm currently working on - feeling pretty good about them so far. Most of them are 8x10's, 10x10's, 16x20's. But I've got a couple of 30x30's I am itching to get started on - and that's the very best part of a painting - the beginning, the roughing in, the underpainting - when its a blank canvas and the possibilities are endless, the potential to be a masterpiece is within grasp and I don't have to be careful and not mess up that beautiful foreground I worked over and over 'til I finally got right. </div>
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To freely paint with big brushes and big bold strokes washing in the color and letting it drip where it wants - now that's the fun part of painting!</div>
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