2/8/2021 1:32:25 PM
To be clear: THIS PAINTING IS NOT FOR SALE. It was a previous commission that I did for a client. That client took the painting to Holton Framemakers.
I do think that Tim Holton's process is fascinating, and, since it was a frame made for a painting I did, it would be interesting to folks!
A client who had commissioned a particular piece had a custom carved frame made for it at Tim Holton's unparalleled San Francisco shop. I have not personally had Tim make a frame for me, but this is too fabulous not to share! He also talks a bit about the painting itself.
https://www.holtonframes.com/blog/framing-jan-schmuckals-art-of-protection-and-prospect/
11/26/2013 1:45:44 PM
I recieved an email from a blogger who wrote up a very nice and considered review of my work - you can see it here:
http://artblot.wordpress.com/2013/11/15/jan-schmuckal/
12/21/2011 11:30:38 PM
Fresh from the easel: A lovely 24" x 36" x 3/4" Gallerywrap unframed tonalist landscape!
A stunning addition to an Arts & Crafts or Contemporary decor.
Clicking the "Buy Now" button will take you to a secure paypal transaction, and your painting will then be on it's way! I ship paintings all over the country regularly.
My work is a labor of love and it is my sole means of livelihood. I share this love with you for a humble living. My sole interest is painting work that you will want to live with in your own home and that reminds you of a place and time in your own life.
Title: "The Windbreak"
One of my "landscapes from my imagination". This original impressionist/tonalist painting would make a great addition to your art collection in your home or office. Signed lower right.
If I am not listing the type or subject matter of painting you are looking for, PLEASE let me know what you want to see.... I want to paint what you folks want for your home! Too big, too small, too dark, too light, sunsets, clouds, mountains, ponds, creeks, paths, too much green, red, blue....etc. let me know!
Tonalism, according to the Taft Museum:
"19th and 20th Century American Artists who developed a style known as tonalism used broad areas of tone, simplified compositions, blurred forms, and a limited range of colors in order to suggest a harmony between figures and landscape. Their goal was often to express a belief in humankind's essential spiritual connection with nature, an idea introduced into 19th-century American culture by the writers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. "
Here's a quote from a turn-of-the-century Tonalist painter about Tonalism - This is how I feel about the technique:
“The Tonalist catches the laughter of shimmering light, and transmutes it into pictorial joy; he speaks admirably the old mother-tongue of cloud, tree, pool, and stone; he interprets the spring; he is summer’s scribe, page to the majesty of autumn, and priest to the whole round year. With a simple palette, and as if by magic, he expresses breadth, teasing transparency, mysterious distances, the illusion of luminosity—in a word, the drama of air, light, and colour.”
~ Henry Ward Ranger, 1914
Details: 24" high x 36" wide x 3/4" deep Original Oil painting by Jan Schmuckal (check out the "Me" page!) I have sold many paintings to people all over the US, and my work has been shown and collected nationally. You can rest assured that what you are buying from me is 100% original, and painted either from my own references or an imagined composition. I only use archival quality paints and substrates and finish all paintings with an archival varnish for protection and durability. Each painting is titled and dated on the reverse. I paint on heavy-duty stock-size gallerywrap canvas that has been archivally primed, and a stock size frame will be easy to find. I normally sell my larger paintings only through my art gallery in Geneva, IL, called Gallery 28. Visit us on the web, or if you are visiting Geneva, please stop in!
I will ship this painting Fedex Ground, uninsured.
