www.artistsmagazine.com ■ November 2008
■ Rembrandt titanium white or Permalba white
■ Rembrandt Naples yellow light, cadmium yellow light and deep, cadmium red light, transparent oxide red, permanent rose madder medium or deep or alizarin crimson, ultramarine blue deep, ivory black
Barter also keeps on hand Rembrandt manganese blue phthalo, cobalt blue light and viridian.
Great painters are expert at simplifying and putting down only the essential information that best describes their subject,” says Stacy Barter, who credits a Gregg Kreutz workshop demonstration as impetus for her transition from commercial to fine art. Mesmerized, as Kreutz used minimal brushstrokes to create a beautiful painting, Barter realized her calling, and oil painting became her consuming passion.
“Brushstrokes are what really make a painting sing,” continues the artist, who works with juicy paint and bold brushwork. “ I can spend weeks on a painting, always trying to find that one stroke that will best describe a particular passage with color, value and edges.”
Barter says of her award-winning My Grandmother Dreams in Peonies (above), “I wanted to paint a piece dramatically showcasing the peonies and the shawl.”
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