#terrystricklandart

Using a strip of scored white paper is one of the many tools I use to help students understand how light behaves on form. I love seeing light bulbs go off in their eyes as a concept becomes clear. #light #shadow #drawing #painting #terrystricklandart #knowledge #tricksofthetrade
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Thanks @fineartconnoisseurmagazine for sharing my painting currently on exhibition at @customshousemuseum in TN #womenshistorymonth #artcollector #artistsoninstagram #terrystricklandart
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I’m so excited to get a copy of Artists And Illustrators Magazine, Dec 2018 issue! In it is a how-to article I wrote about the creation of my painting “Scarlet in Winter.” The magazine is published in the UK. Thank you for inviting me to share my process! @aandimagazine #howtopaint #terrystricklandart #lovemyjob #artistsandillustratorsmagazine
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Beginning of my workshop yesterday at @forstallart. Thank you Forstall for for the warm welcomeI have a bunch of great students and a fantastic model. Today it’s on to color! #oilpainting
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https://www.instagram.com/p/BtYXkmPgere/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=13zwyq71ndgww

Painting the edge of the cradled panel black. I always do that so when it’s placed in it’s shadow box frame the sides fall away into darkness. It effectively creates a 1/4” black pinstripe between painting and frame. I’m so excited to have this new piece almost ready for the frame. #beautyinthedetails
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#oilpainting #createdwithlove #catsofinstagram #deet #rembrandtoils #rembrandtoilpaint #silverbrushlimited #terrystrickland #terrystricklandart
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The Ascent II. #oilpainting #detail #terrystricklandart

Oil painting detail, my handsome son. I’m enjoying working toward more juicy color and looser brushwork in my more recent paintings. Interesting how looser mark making can look more like flesh that very smooth, which can look too stiff and like marble. Playing with reflected color as well as temperature shift. These are some concepts I’ll be teaching at my portrait workshop @theflorencestudio Oct 1-5, 2018.
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#terrystrickland #oilpainting #deet #browneyes #juicypaint #artistsoninstagram #workshop #portraitworkshop #theflorencestudio #florenceitaly #terrystricklandart #beautifulsoul #beautifulman #realism #contemporaryart #faces #womenartists #artistslife #lookslikelove #

Terry Strickland’s Thoughts on Artists’ Solvents & Mediums

Signals Through the Noise series statement: There is a dark noise that pollutes our daily lives and bombards our senses. Negativity and divisiveness are growing. With the proliferation of social media, hate and darkness are mindlessly or malevolently shared with one click, thus amplified and spread with lightning speed.

When journaling concepts for new paintings I noticed a few ideas recurring. Could I make work about love over hate; peace instead of conflict; empathy and understanding over fear and judgment? How to do that visually and without sentimentality?

In observational painting, there is a light phenomenon that a strong spotlight will overpower the ambient light in the same space. I wanted to paint a positive light so strong that it could overpower the negative ambient light pollution we are experiencing in society.

I went about making the paintings and realized in doing so that the series Signals Through the Noise was born. Amid the noise, signals of light are to be found. My favorite quote from Martin Luther King, Jr says it well, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

I’ve made this work with the meager tools I have and in the painted visual language I know best. They are tiny bits of light and love hurled into the world as an act of rebellion.

See the work at @grandbohemianmountainbrook, AL Through Oct 5. Seven new works and others not previously shown in B'ham. All the work was done using #rembrandtoils #silverbrushlimited @silverbrushltd @royaltalensna
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##contemporaryfigurativeart #realism #artcollector #creativeuprising #narrativeart #artistsofinstagram #love #amplifylove #drawing #painting #fineart #birminghamartist #royaltalensna #royaltalens @silver_brush_limited #terrystricklandart #terrystrickland
#womenpaintingwomen #africanamericanmodel #latinoamericano #light #shadow #juicypaint
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3M-C3PnBIA/?igshid=p9mpf0nmeqdf

Signals Through the Noise Series. This is She is Fearless in Her Love, 24x24, oil on canvas over panel. Opening Sept 5, 5-7 pm @grandbohemianmountainbrook
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Finishing touches today on this beautiful face.
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#terrystricklandart #terrystrickland #oilpainting #portrait #narrativeart #contemporaryrealism #bluegels #creative_uprising #intsaart #artistsoninstagram #rembrandtoils @royaltalensna #silverbrushlimited @silver_brush_limited
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz_24z5Hw7B/?igshid=18emnarqlu01x

Happy Birthday to my son who is also a favorite muse! #terrystricklandart
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A crop of one of my Hamlet paintings from a few years back. #danishprince #grief #mortality
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.#handsomeguy #blueeyes #rembrandtoils #royaltalensna #royaltalens #hamlet #terrystrickland #terrystricklandart #silverbrushlimited @silverbrushltd @royaltalensna #narrativeart #shakespeare #iknewhimwell #skull #malemodel #contemporaryrealism #beautifulhands
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz0saJ-HrZb/?igshid=l1wuhue1tlqz

I’m so happy to have another work of my wonderful model @goodluckcleo on the easel. #wip
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#terrystricklandart #terrystrickland #juicycolor #rembrandtoils #royaltalensna #silverbrushlimited #realism #contemporaryart #creative_uprising #artistsofinstagram #contemporaryrealism #birminghamartist #narrativeart
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bzg5gawHhiE/?igshid=5z0b3dimyoin

Well, hey there Karletta. Sometimes I just have to start with an eye. #dessertfirst #oilpainting
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#artistsofinstagram #contemporaryrealism #rembrandtoils #royaltalensna #silverbrushlimited #scarletred #africanamericanmodel #womenpaintingwomen #wip #detail #narrativepainting #terrystrickland #terrystricklandart
https://www.instagram.com/p/BzEyZwVHg47/?igshid=1wt5rpyg0d750

Thank you artist @curlystrickland for modeling for my class on Tues @forstallart! I did a demo/ paint along for my students. I always debate with myself how much time to spend demonstrating but I’ve decided it’s really import to let them see me paint. Students get valuable info watching problem solving, color mixing, brush handling. -
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https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw9n-_HHAAq/?igshid=61gsoihoydrx

Thank you artist @curlystrickland for modeling for my class on Tues @forstallart! I did a demo/ paint along for my students. I always debate with myself how much time to spend demonstrating but I’ve desired it’s really import to let them see me paint. Students get valuable info watching problem solving, color mixing, brush handling.
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#terrystricklandart #oilpainting #oilportrait #womenpaintingwomen #paintingfromlife #sketching #model #realism #silverbrushlimited #rembrandtoils @royaltalensna #royaltalens @silverbrushltd #forstallartcenter #birminghamartist
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw9nn4BnBbr/?igshid=1o2mhtpnwr9uv

Excited to see my painting on the Silver Brush display here in Atlanta @the_portrait_society @silver_brush_limited #terrystricklandart
https://www.instagram.com/p/BwxfI4BASLd/?igshid=1ba8bgvlfd7mb

*Some Like It Hot* outside the box oil portrait, 36x36, #tbt to a commissioned I did a few years ago.
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#oilpainting #portrait #womenpaintingwomen #contemporaryart #terrystricklandart #instaart #realism #contemporaryrealism
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