Marc Dalessio

Post-Modern Times

Marc — Wed, 22 May 2013 08:04:40 +0000

While I was back in the States last week I picked up a copy of the Post-Modern Times. There is a short article about me as well as a number of other contemporary realist painters. It’s an interesting publication; their focus is on presenting images of the artist’s work, with articles written by the artists [...]

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Carmel Plein Air Paintings

Marc — Sat, 18 May 2013 18:13:17 +0000

Here are some of my small sketches from this week in Carmel, California. I am participating in the Carmel Art Festival, a plein air painting contest. I first studied landscape painting at the University of California at Santa Cruz an hour north of here, and I’ve been painting in the area for the last 25 [...]

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Izložba u Zagrebu

Marc — Wed, 08 May 2013 13:56:11 +0000

My exhibition of Zagreb plein air sketches will open tomorrow evening at the Laval Nugent gallery in the Upper Town in Zagreb. Here are all the Zagreb posts -though not all of the paintings are in the show. Click here to download a PDF of the catalog (in Croatian).

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Spring in Zagreb

Marc — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:39:32 +0000

Below are a few plein air cityscapes from the last week in and around Zagreb. Here in Croatia Spring has finally started in all it’s glory. I have a show of Zagreb cityscapes on May 9th here in the Upper Town at the Laval Nugent gallery so I’ve been in the city finishing everything up in [...]

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Recent Studio Landscapes

Marc — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 09:12:08 +0000

Here are a few recent studio landscapes from this winter. They will be going to the Grenning Gallery for my solo show this August (hence the sizes in inches).

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Portrait Painting from Video

Marc — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:04:16 +0000

I dislike working from photographs. I was trained over many years working exclusively from life and my work from photos is often weak. I find there is too little information in a photograph compared to life, and I can’t trust a photo for values, shapes or colors. While I have pulled out a decent painting [...]

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Plein Air Alpine Sketches

Marc — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:13:02 +0000

Plein air landscape painting in the Alps can be some of the most rewarding art creation anywhere. When the weather is good, the majesty of the mountains is just stunning. The Swiss have also done a good job of keeping their (rather unfortunate) modern architecture concentrated in pockets, usually in the valleys. Below are my [...]

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Swiss Plein Air Workshop

Marc — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 08:41:37 +0000

Here are a few photos from my week of teaching plein air landscape painting in the valley around Les Plans in Switzerland. I was working for the Alpine Atelier based in Gryon. They are very unrepresentative photos as we only had a few hours of sun all week. Most of the time it was low clouds [...]

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Alpine Inspiration

Marc — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 17:47:16 +0000

At the end of March I’ll be teaching a plein air landscape painting course in the Swiss Alps. The class is organized by the Alpine Atelier in Gryon, Switzerland. I’ve always loved the views in Switzerland and this particular area has been one of my favorite places to paint. Here are a few of my favorite Alpine landscape [...]

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Minute Painting Video #6: Grinding Lead White

Marc — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 11:04:10 +0000

Here is the sixth installment of my Minute Painting Videos. It’s about how to grind your own lead white. Hand-ground lead white handles differently than tube paints, much more so than any other color. It’s the only color I still grind myself as I find there are many impasto effects a painter can not achieve [...]

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